Post by Canada Bob on Oct 1, 2015 0:36:11 GMT
Here's a little tip that you might not have come across, an alternative to live bait, something that doesn't go rotten in your tackle box no matter how long you leave it in there, but first the "story" behind it...
I emigrated to Canada in 1982 {came back after 31 years there}, so I've done a fair bit of fishing and boating over there, from Great Slave Lake in NWT {it's 2000ft deep}, fished off the coast of Nova Scotia etc, but this bait thing came my way fishing off a rocky point in Lake Ontario. I'd tried different lures etc and never had even a nibble in over an hour, but this bloke fishing 50ft away was pulling fish in one after the other.
Turned out to be an old German guy who knew the lake and what the fish {think salmon} liked, he was using MARSHMALLOWS !!! not the chocolate covered tea cake things {I don't think fish have got that far up the evolutionary ladder yet}, the ones he had were those pink or white toffee things a bit smaller than say a golf ball.
He loaded one up on a treble hook for me and away I went, wasn't long before I'd caught a 23lb salmon, mind you it played me for over 30 minutes before I managed to land it, but the catch of the day was what I learned from the old guy and I've used marshmallows since no matter where I've fished from freshwater to saltwater, you name is they go for it, including a scabbard fish that took the marshmallow as it floated "on the top" and leapt 2ft in the air with it.
Seems that the marshmallows start to dissolve in the water putting out a fairly strong flavour into the water, something that the fish almost certainly haven't "tasted" before, my guess is they can pick up on it from 30ft to 50ft away, well before they can see it. They seem to follow the scent until they see the marshmallow then maybe thinking it's fish eggs or something they like the look of they go for it.
The only downside is you need a treble {through the center of the marshmallow as they come off a single hook} and they only last 15-20 minutes before they have melted in the water, so you have to keep checking them now and again, but on the up side a quids worth of these "toffee's" can be kept in your tackle box for years, you are never short of bait then, in fact the older they are the slower they seem to melt.
Yea, I know it sounds like a load of bollocks, but try it, it works, it was the best fishing tip that I've ever picked up, thanks to that old guy.
Here's a couple of links to kayak fishing sites in Atlantic Canada...
canadiankayakanglers.com/cka-blogs/
If it's shark fishing you like then Nova Scotia has it...
Blue Fin has them all beat though, but you don't want to hook one of them when you're in a kayak, not sure if they'll take marshmallows though
Canada Bob.
I emigrated to Canada in 1982 {came back after 31 years there}, so I've done a fair bit of fishing and boating over there, from Great Slave Lake in NWT {it's 2000ft deep}, fished off the coast of Nova Scotia etc, but this bait thing came my way fishing off a rocky point in Lake Ontario. I'd tried different lures etc and never had even a nibble in over an hour, but this bloke fishing 50ft away was pulling fish in one after the other.
Turned out to be an old German guy who knew the lake and what the fish {think salmon} liked, he was using MARSHMALLOWS !!! not the chocolate covered tea cake things {I don't think fish have got that far up the evolutionary ladder yet}, the ones he had were those pink or white toffee things a bit smaller than say a golf ball.
He loaded one up on a treble hook for me and away I went, wasn't long before I'd caught a 23lb salmon, mind you it played me for over 30 minutes before I managed to land it, but the catch of the day was what I learned from the old guy and I've used marshmallows since no matter where I've fished from freshwater to saltwater, you name is they go for it, including a scabbard fish that took the marshmallow as it floated "on the top" and leapt 2ft in the air with it.
Seems that the marshmallows start to dissolve in the water putting out a fairly strong flavour into the water, something that the fish almost certainly haven't "tasted" before, my guess is they can pick up on it from 30ft to 50ft away, well before they can see it. They seem to follow the scent until they see the marshmallow then maybe thinking it's fish eggs or something they like the look of they go for it.
The only downside is you need a treble {through the center of the marshmallow as they come off a single hook} and they only last 15-20 minutes before they have melted in the water, so you have to keep checking them now and again, but on the up side a quids worth of these "toffee's" can be kept in your tackle box for years, you are never short of bait then, in fact the older they are the slower they seem to melt.
Yea, I know it sounds like a load of bollocks, but try it, it works, it was the best fishing tip that I've ever picked up, thanks to that old guy.
Here's a couple of links to kayak fishing sites in Atlantic Canada...
canadiankayakanglers.com/cka-blogs/
If it's shark fishing you like then Nova Scotia has it...
Blue Fin has them all beat though, but you don't want to hook one of them when you're in a kayak, not sure if they'll take marshmallows though
Canada Bob.
