Craziest bait/setup catch

[crappieflopper90]

Today's fishing was so much fun. Traveled to a remote finger lake and fished in the middle of the afternoon. And let me tell you.

 

I fished for maybe 2 hours. Caught 30 bass at least. All of them were over a pound. 3 or 4 over 3 pounds. But this is where it gets fun:

 

(Now please keep in mind this lake has absolutely no fishing pressure. There was zero sign of any human EVER being there, which I'm sure there has been at some point.)

 

I took 4 different types of bait, all plastic. I took a dark green/chartreuse minnow on an 1/8 black jig head, one 7" red/creme worm, one watermelon with red flake dinger worm, and i also took a 3/8 white/chartreuse boo yah spinner bait. All pretty regular, except: i wasn't getting much on the spinner, so I took a 3" chartreuse pumpkin colored pack chunk craw, removed one of the claws and hooked it so the remaining claw was a tail. I caught d**n near every fish today on that setup. And I mean they destroyed it. I never would have thought.  Was it the set up or the spot? I guess we will never know. 

[Swamp Girl]

Well angled! I'm out of reactions, but I enjoyed your post.

[Pat Brown]

I got nothing to add really but yesterday I lost a frog in a laydown from the bank and it fell into the water when I snapped my line.  I tied on another Scum Frog and figured what the heck, better see if I can 'catch' my hollow belly frog that I snapped off and is now drifting out to the middle of the pond.

 

First cast I realize this is gonna be tough but I'm lazy and persistent.  Second cast I figure I better retie with treble hooks - this seems impossible - but laziness and convenience won the day and on my third cast, by some stroke of luck, I caught my frog - with a frog!

 

That's about all I got at 4:45 am on the way out the door to the pond!

 

My lucky scum frog IS tied on and WILL be getting tossed.  Let's hope the luck hasn't rubbed off of it yet!  🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

[VTFan]

I felt something in my shirt pocket the other day and it was half of two different colored stick worms. One a red shad and the other a baby bass so I thought, 'ok, let's see if the bass like both colors at once'. So I heated the ends where they had broken and melded them together and the bass love it.  I may have to make a couple more.

[Bankc]

I've had some good days on the water in the past where it seemed like you could still get bit throwing a bare hook. But the only waters I have access to now are highly pressured, public waters where you struggle for each bite.  And that's fine with me. 

 

It's hard to say what my weirdest bait setup would be.  But I do have a mold I made from a masonry drill bit that I've used to make soft plastic "worms" from, and I've caught quite a few with it.  I should try an auger bit next and see what happens, just for fun.