Getting Bait For Fishing
Not so hard, eh? Most places you just dig for worms. In boreal forests, this isn't so easy. Many places there are no worms. So, I thought I'd share this method my grandfather used:
Shoot a red squirrel, tie it up in a birchbark tube. Tie the tube off with a length of line and throw it in the water in a low swampy area. By morning, it will be full of leeches. Great bait for walleyes.
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I have also just animal guts and placed them by the water and had crayfish come up then i used the crayfish for bait and cought some good size bass.
have you tried grubs? they can often be found during the warm months in rotted dead-fall
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Why not just eat the squirrel and use the waste to catch crawfish or even catfish?
I have super glued a hopper or cricket to a hook. The racket they make brings the big ones in. Never fails. A bobber for weight and or my fly rod.
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were do you get the supplies
How do you make a hook or get supper glue if you are stuck in the wilderness with nothing
Originally Posted by dilligaf2u2
Why not eat the squirrel, use leftovers to get crawfish, eat crawfish, no need for fish cause fish is nastyThen start over.
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Well thats one way of doing it but how do you get the squirrel
Why not eat the squirrel, use leftovers to get crawfish, eat crawfish, no need for fish cause fish is nasty
You can make a hook out of a twig or a thorn and use pine sap for glue if you really want to glue it. The smell might keep fish away so I would just tie the cricket to the hook using the fish line you made out of cattail fiber.
How do you make line out of cattail fiber? I mean I know its possible but does anybody know how to do it? And has anybody proven it to work?
I've never done it but you use the inner stalk of the plant stem not the cotton on the top. You then have to twist or braid it to add strength. You can also make string from animal tendons by pounding them with a round stone.
I would just use a paperclip as a hook. Far more reliable (I always carry around paperclips). or you could make one out of wood.
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Asassin pilot, how would sombody go about making a wooden hook? i've asked around and nobody seems to know exactly, step by step, how to make a wooden hook.
Well you could take a small stick, and make it sharp and thin. Then take another stick and make it thin while having a bulge at one end. Use twine or whatever string you are using for the fishing line to attach them in a way so it resembles a hook. I shall make a quick picture to illustrate it.
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hey flanders try this page off the website: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/food-4.php for some ideas. I think a gorge hook would be the best which is just a piece of wood (usually) that is covered in bait so when the fish swallows it it is stuck in the stomach or esophagus
Well I dont know about the super glue, but you can make hooks from old bone, are from the right type of bryer are hackberry thorns. And as far as the glue, never tryed it but maybe from some type of tree sap? Just a thought........And yes I agree eat the sqiurrel and use the left overs to catch fish..........
Well, red (pine) squirrel doesn't taste that great - unless you like the taste of turpentine. I eat them if there is nothing else, but as someone who was raised on jackfish, walleye, and trout - I'd have to disagree with you concerning fish. I maybe wouldn't eat them if I were down south, but coming out of our cold northern lakes - nothing better.Why not eat the squirrel, use leftovers to get crawfish, eat crawfish, no need for fish cause fish is nasty
As to hooks: You can make a straight hook, sharpen both ends of a piece of bone or something hard, whittle a little girdle in the center of the "hook," tie the line in the center and loop the line around one end. You have to wait (like you would with a bass using a frog for bait) until the fish swallows it deep - then just give your line a good yank.
Last edited by RBB; 02-18-2008 at 08:35 AM.
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great questions flandersander- keep them real.I always enjoy people who give advice w/o trying it first that can be dangerous.
good idea on fibres from cattails will have to try that one, if you are a fan of ray mears try to watch his shows he addresses this problem about hooks, i beleive he uses a thorn
Gorge hooks are the way I would go.
I have knapped hooks out of chert, takes too long and they never turn out just perfect.
Bait, I use to split reads, you will find white grubs that local panfish just want to eat. There are always crickets and grasshoppers if you can catch them, under rocks you will find all kinds of little critters that the fish will eat.
If by chance you have a can of sardines, eat the sardines but save the oil. Take a piece of fabric, hook on the hook, dip into the sardine oil and you will catch something. Make sure you use a small hook as you want to catch whatever ya can.
thanks eagle!
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