Weirdest baits?
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Re: Weirdest baits?
Chocolate buttons - glued to shank of hook. The only problem with this was me - very difficult to resist.
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Re: Weirdest baits?
So you were hooked ?
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Line and sinker............
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Re: Weirdest baits?
My Dad used to catch a lot of Chub trotting down the river with bits of silver paper from cigarettes' packets on the hook!
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It's rumoured that Jack the Ripper liked to wet a line.No prizes for what he used as bait!Duckett wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:17 pm In a book I have somewhere there is a tale of late 18th century London anglers using human fat as bait. The source was claimed as the corpses of executed felons once they had been dissected by surgeons. Sadly, the tale isn’t referenced and the cynic in me says it’s made up. However, given some of the referenced things I’ve read about 18th Century London, I have an uncomfortable feeling ............
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Re: Weirdest baits?
Yikes!Grumpy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:09 pmIt's rumoured that Jack the Ripper liked to wet a line.No prizes for what he used as bait!Duckett wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 6:17 pm In a book I have somewhere there is a tale of late 18th century London anglers using human fat as bait. The source was claimed as the corpses of executed felons once they had been dissected by surgeons. Sadly, the tale isn’t referenced and the cynic in me says it’s made up. However, given some of the referenced things I’ve read about 18th Century London, I have an uncomfortable feeling ............
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I have a sneaking suspicion that, for a very long time, we in the U.K. almost forgot that you can catch Chub on lures. I’ve had far more Chub on small plugs and soft plastics than I’ve ever caught by other methods.
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Great fun catching chub on small plugs. They hit them very hard so there's no mistaking them, and you have to hold the rod against little extra.
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"
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Agreed. I’d love to see film of a Chub taking a lure as they don’t feel like any other fish I’ve caught lure fishing in fresh or salt, the closest being Wrasse I think. I’ve managed to see takes by Perch, Pike, Bass, Gar, Mackerel, Coley, Pollock, and even Wrasse (back in the 1970s on the rocky reef along the inside of Holyhead breakwater) but never a Chub.
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