Wbasshat's The Weirdest Thing You've Ever Caught A Bass On?

[WVbassin87]

First, i'd like to apologize in advance if this has been posted before, but the responses should be interesting. we've almost surely all tried something just to see if it would work, or when we were kids or maybe just because someone told us it would. as a kid, gummy worms were one of the oddest things i ever used. i've also used beef jerky because of it's saltiness. how about y'all?

[WVbassin87]

Sorry about the title, my cellphones acting up.

[Catch and Grease]

I've caught a bass on a piece of bread and I've also caught a bass with a hotdog... Those aren't very weird I guess but my most unexpected catches lol both times I wasn't targeting bass.

[Paul Roberts]

Fun topic. I used to play around some just to see what fish, or fisherman, would do.

 

As a youngster I had access to an unfished pond that was chocked full of stunted bass. Every cast I'd catch one. One day I stopped counting at 130. At home I had a "Creepy Crawler" set (toy from the 60s and 70s with a little hot plate and molds to make plastic bugs and stuff). I had a "Tarzan" mold that made a little human Tarzan form. I melted some worn and broken plastic worms and made a little soft plastic human. I fished it as a topwater to the Jaws theme song. The limbs were fragile so it didn't last long. The torso worked just fine though. twitched.

 

A bare hook. Different, and much more normal pond in terms of fish numbers and catch-ability. I cast some bait on a #2 hook and the bait flew off. So I cranked that hook in really fast, and a small bass nailed it. So I fished that for some time, just for the heck of it and caught a couple more. Never did try a larger hook. So you don't need a lipless crank for "burnin'".

 

Which reminds me... A young kid invited me to fish a pond he knew. I said sure and brought several fine rods and an assortment of all the latest greatest bass lures. The kid had a cheapo rod and a band-aid box contained a snarl of snelled hooks, sinkers, a bobber, and ONE lure -a little chrome cheapo crankbait. He cast it out and just cranked it in as fast as he could and the little badly out of tune plug spun wild circles through the water. And he had 4 bass on the bank before I finished my first retrieve of my Purple Haze Red Glitter Gilraker worm, Mustad J-series gooseneck hook, fished on 12lb Trilene XT from my Shimano BMP250SXH and Skyline 6007 graphite rod!

 

Did a lot of steelheading at one time. Got pretty a bit smug about it. One day I'd been watching a fishing show and got to laughing about the TV fisherman applying some magic potion "liberally" on their lures on camera, trying to look nonchalant. I then hit the river and upon reaching a popular hole with a few too many guys on it, thought I'd do a little clowning. I worked in amongst the fishless crowd and announced  braggadociously that I was about to catch a steelhead. I pulled out a bottle of Dr Juice (which never seemed to make much difference before), loudly pronounced that it was indeed magic and must be "applied liberally". I then cleared my throat loudly and made my first cast. And darned if I didn't hook a good steelie!. I should've been beaten up. But I knew most of the guys there and we all laughed about it.

 

Another time some Snoopy bobber's came in at the tackle shop I worked at. "Perfect!" I cackled. I took Snoop steelheading. We had a fine day together, me and Snoop. I caught 7 nice steelies with him until the 8th took Snoopy with him under a boulder. At one point a guy had came up to me and asked what I was using and I showed him Snoopy. The guy said, in all seriousness, "I'll have to try one of those." When I realized he thought I was offering real advice I showed him my various steelhead floats and told him Snoopy was just for laughs.

 

 

Lessee ...

 

-Carp on bubble gum.

 

-Rock bass and smallmouth on the white tag from my shirt, dapped on the surface and vibrated to mimic emerging mayflies.

 

-I design and tie my own flies and have done some fun stuff. But the first fly I ever tied was when I was 8 or 9 was a rubber band crudely secured onto a #6 bait hook with gray thread. I had my Dad's old steel pole and winch with black nylon line and I threw the fly out into a canal and let it lay. After a little while I discovered a carp had discovered my rubber band.

[Oregon Native]

I remember many many years ago we used to use newts and a coastal lake in Oregon.  It was my first bass trip with my Dad and I cast in the tules and my newt hung about a foot above the water just wiggling.  Two pound bass jumped outa water and ate it!!  Was awesome

[webertime]

Bubble Gum Wrapper at a university extension pond.  A jighead shaped like "manly parts" fished on beds worked too. 

[merc1997]

a worm hook with a piece of shredded nylon line. we were fishing for gar, and i caught an 8lb. bass on it. go figure.

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[Hyrule Bass]

Fun topic. I used to play around some just to see what fish, or fisherman, would do.

 

As a youngster I had access to an unfished pond that was chocked full of stunted bass. Every cast I'd catch one. One day I stopped counting at 130. At home I had a "Creepy Crawler" set (toy from the 60s and 70s with a little hot plate and molds to make plastic bugs and stuff). I had a "Tarzan" mold that made a little human Tarzan form. I melted some worn and broken plastic worms and made a little soft plastic human. I fished it as a topwater to the Jaws theme song. The limbs were fragile so it didn't last long. The torso worked just fine though. twitched.

 

A bare hook. Different, and much more normal pond in terms of fish numbers and catch-ability. I cast some bait on a #2 hook and the bait flew off. So I cranked that hook in really fast, and a small bass nailed it. So I fished that for some time, just for the heck of it and caught a couple more. Never did try a larger hook. So you don't need a lipless crank for "burnin'".

 

Which reminds me... A young kid invited me to fish a pond he knew. I said sure and brought several fine rods and an assortment of all the latest greatest bass lures. The kid had a cheapo rod and a band-aid box contained a snarl of snelled hooks, sinkers, a bobber, and ONE lure -a little chrome cheapo crankbait. He cast it out and just cranked it in as fast as he could and the little badly out of tune plug spun wild circles through the water. And he had 4 bass on the bank before I finished my first retrieve of my Purple Haze Red Glitter Gilraker worm, Mustad J-series gooseneck hook, fished on 12lb Trilene XT from my Shimano BMP250SXH and Skyline 6007 graphite rod!

 

Did a lot of steelheading at one time. Got pretty a bit smug about it. One day I'd been watching a fishing show and got to laughing about the TV fisherman applying some magic potion "liberally" on their lures on camera, trying to look nonchalant. I then hit the river and upon reaching a popular hole with a few too many guys on it, thought I'd do a little clowning. I worked in amongst the fishless crowd and announced  braggadociously that I was about to catch a steelhead. I pulled out a bottle of Dr Juice (which never seemed to make much difference before), loudly pronounced that it was indeed magic and must be "applied liberally". I then cleared my throat loudly and made my first cast. And darned if I didn't hook a good steelie!. I should've been beaten up. But I knew most of the guys there and we all laughed about it.

 

Another time some Snoopy bobber's came in at the tackle shop I worked at. "Perfect!" I cackled. I took Snoop steelheading. We had a fine day together, me and Snoop. I caught 7 nice steelies with him until the 8th took Snoopy with him under a boulder. At one point a guy had came up to me and asked what I was using and I showed him Snoopy. The guy said, in all seriousness, "I'll have to try one of those." When I realized he thought I was offering real advice I showed him my various steelhead floats and told him Snoopy was just for laughs.

 

 

Lessee ...

 

-Carp on bubble gum.

 

-Rock bass and smallmouth on the white tag from my shirt, dapped on the surface and vibrated to mimic emerging mayflies.

 

-I design and tie my own flies and have done some fun stuff. But the first fly I ever tied was when I was 8 or 9 was a rubber band crudely secured onto a #6 bait hook with gray thread. I had my Dad's old steel pole and winch with black nylon line and I threw the fly out into a canal and let it lay. After a little while I discovered a carp had discovered my rubber band.

 

you forgot the shoestring story you posted on here some time ago...

[rboat]

As a young kid I used to go to a pond and catch bluegills on one of those foam floating spiders with the rubber legs. Well the old zebco did not cast too well so I would put a red and white bobber about 15 inches up the line for casting weight. I would twitch this rig across the top and wait for the gills to attack that spider. One day while I was working this rig, about a five pound bass jumped up and crushed that bobber took it completely under. The loud splash alone scared the chiz out of me. I set the hook but the bobber just popped back to the surface. So technically I did not catch him, but I always wonder if I had attached a hook to that bobber,  maybe???

[flyfisher]

Ih ave caught bass on sunnies that ate my flies and while they weren't hooked, they didn't let go and i was able to land them.  Had the same thing happen with pickerel before too.

[AK-Jax86]

I haven't caught a bass on anything weird but I saw someone on Instagram who caught a bass on a home made lure...

The lure was a 5 hour energy bottle with treble hooks fished top water LMAO!!!

Found the pic gonna be hard for someone to top what this guy did lol

[Deleted account]

Bacon.

[YourBassIsGrass]

Bacon.

That's not weird, that's delicious. That bass knows whats up.

[Paul Roberts]

you forgot the shoestring story you posted on here some time ago...

AH1 That warn't me. That was the one and only Dr Reelgood:

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/70575-bass-on-a-shoestring-budget/

[Scott F]

McDonalds french fries.

[Comfortably Numb]

One of those Heddon  beer cans