WD 40 makes it easier for the fish to swallow.:wink2:

BTW I do use hot dogs and I have read about WD 40 but never used it.

My wife is going to think I'm nuts the next time we go cat fishing and I load up on WD 40 and Ivory soap.

 

Based on what a Southern Outdoorsman told me
I tried it down South and had one heck of a hit using it on a piece of hot dog!

 

uncle buck this post and the one about the ivory soap were very interesting reading . I wonder if hot dogs would work for trout ,never fished for catfish trout only

 

You can catch dumpies on a cigarette butt so I'm sure a hot dog would work.

 

Velveeta cheese works great for trout, might be good for catfish too.

a guy around here that was known as catfish charlie would use spoiled shrimp and go at night. he would place the shrimp on a cookie sheet with screen over the top and lay them out in the sun for days. he would win every catfish contest i ever heard about around here.

 

a guy around here that was known as catfish charlie would use spoiled shrimp and go at night. he would place the shrimp on a cookie sheet with screen over the top and lay them out in the sun for days. he would win every catfish contest i ever heard about around here.

I used fresh shrimp for years for catfish. It was real cheap and a great bait. We bought it at the market and headed to the creek.

Now I wouldn't think about putting shrimp on anything but a plate. :smile2:

 

My wife caught several trout one day years ago on cheese curls. Pretty much anything that gives off an aroma will attract fish. As was said earlier, where I grew up, back when I was a kid and shrimp were so cheap drinking establishments would put them out on the bar for free, lots of people would use shrimp for catfish bait. As far as WD40 goes, it would be considered a pollutant so I would not use itl

 

WD-40 is an oil based lubricant.... though it does work on many species of fish: Bass, Catfish, Pike, even Walleye ( I know from experience )... It is also illegal to use in some states as it contaminates the water. I'd check regulations before getting caught using it !

 

fish oil to be exact... if you google the WD 40 story... it was marketed after a fail product for another use...

 

ever see the oil slick some of those "scented" baits give off ?

that cant be good.

 

Little pieces of raw shrimp work good for trout too!

 

When I had my petstore I sold a lot of freeze dried krill (Yes, the stuff whales eat) to fishermen. I stocked it for the aquarium fish, but once the fishing seasons opened I sold a lot more for bait.

 

How did they keep those tiny things on the hook?

You're probably confusing krill with plankton. Plankton can be microscopic, but I've also seen some that were half the dimensions of a book match. The krill I was getting was just slightly smaller than what supermarkets sell as "100 count Salad Shrimp" and suitable to fit onto a size 6 hook. the fishermen were reconstituting them by putting them in a container with some water for a few minutes so they wouldnt just crumble when they were threading them onto the hook.

 

How did they keep those tiny things on the hook?

 

Many years ago I was fishing for steelhead and browns at a popular NY tributary to Lake Ontario. This old guy was out catching everyone by a lot. I started watching him and noticed after every fish he would put on a new egg sac and spray it with WD40. I started talking to the guy and he told me he used it for all types of fishing. He let us use his WD40 and our catch rate increased. I've used it a lot since. Like spraying bucktails with it for fluke, stripers and blues.

 

GHH. how the fishing go down in Ross Run on Saturday. Good turnout for the kids.:turkey_track:

 

OK, I thought krill was very tiny like sea monkeys.

 

From WD-40 myths + legends page.

Myth: WD-40® contains fish oil.

Fact: Consumers have told us over the years that they have caught some of the biggest fish ever after protecting their fish hooks and lures with WD-40®. We believe this legend came from folks assuming that the product must contain fish oil since it appears to attract fish. Sorry Charlie®, it just ain’t so.

WD-40 Company has taken steps to respect and conserve the environment, and encourages its users to do the same. While WD-40® can be used to help protect fishing equipment from rust and corrosion, WD-40 Company does not recommend using WD-40® to attract fish

 

my grandmother used to tell me to use something she called Asphidity.

i have no idea what it is or how to spell it, but she said if you put that on your bait you will catch all kinds of fish.

 

Asphidity bags are part of Appalachian folk medicine. In the old days mountain folk would wear a pouch filled with ginseng and other roots hung from a string around their neck. It was thought to ward off colds and the flu. I don't know if this would have had any relation to your grandmother's asphidity reference.

 

There actually is an Indian spice that goes by the name Asafoetida, but until the recent building of new hospitals there probably werent enough Hindus in Appalachia to make it something anybody heard of.

 

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I'm no expert, but they look more like Pakistanipalachians to me. :grin2:

 

Should we call ICE or the Natural History Museum? :smile_big:

 

Many years ago, we used to catch bass out of the river using hot dogs for bait ... we found that the cheapest, highest fat content hot dogs worked the best. Before we left for the river - we'd microwave the wieners for a few seconds to get the juices flowing and increase the aroma & then would put them in a small cooler all by themselves. One summer we caught one particular large mouth several times around a boat club - the side of his mouth was quite chewed up from being caught so many times so we knew it was the same fish, but he couldn't stay away from those cheap hotdogs. We joked that he ate so many that summer that he had to have high blood pressure and cholesterol.

 

Good idea! My wife said that's the best thing she heard all day. Not. Me I think it's, awesome and worth a try. Thank you for posting.

 

We have a good friend who owns a bait shop. He sells a lot of blood worms and other bait for stripers.

My son was fishing for catfish in the river and was using microwaved hot dogs as mentioned above. He started to catch stripers. He mentioned it to my friend who told him to keep quiet about it.......it might put him out of business.:smile_big:

 

I saw on YouTube other day, you take chunked hot dogs and put them in ziploc bag with a box of jello powder and add garlic powder. Close bag and shake it all together and put in frig. overnight or until your ready to use. Said it works great for catfish..

 

When cattail turns to fiber! I think old sharp cheese cook it in a old sauce pan. Pour in a cooking flavor like cherry or oil of anise. Mix in cattail fiber. It works great on a treble hook. I do catch Channel Cats with it.

 

Um I bet a pack of jello would make the cattail fiber catch many a catfish. Make sure you still use the cheese with it too.

 

Blue fish best cat bait it’s so greasy looks like a oil spill in fresh water

 

Back in the late 80's through the mid-90's, when weakies were still big and plentiful in the Bay, we used to anchor up near Bug Light at night, fire up the lights, spray WD40 on 2oz bucktails and jig them by the cooler full...

Yeah, probably shouldn't do that now....