What's the weirdest thing you caught a fish on ?

capt.  Back in the day, we actually caught more than a few Kings & Browns in N.Y. on Green rubber skein. My weirdest, was once I caught a nice Walleye on a piece of sponge that was dipped In Cod Liver Oil. I was fishing 10 mile creek for Channels at the time. I got plenty of Catfish on that ,but only ever got 1 walleye on it.   sam

I take a razor blade and slice balloons into micro strips and put on micro ice jigs when things get tough. A size 16 Russian jig has caught several 12-14 inch crappie and 9 inch gills.  Many decades ago beef spleen soaked in red food dye caught many lunker pay lake trout along Velveeta cheese.lol
 
 
 

Velvetta cheese was the trout go to when we were kids. Would cut the whole block up into small squares the night before and put it into small ziplock bags and freeze it for the next day. Just put a piece on the hook and you were good to go. Also watched someone use red gum to catch trout.

I can remember fishing one very hot summer day with a buddy of mine at Shenango Reservoir.  Now, technically we WERE there to catch fish, but we also had a couple of bottles of Boones Farm Apple wine with us. (probably from the afore mentioned Milk Barn)    To carry out the premise of fishing while we imbibing we each threw a line out  Mine happened to have a purple rooster tail on it.  Nothing else, just a purple rooster tail.  After sitting on the bottom for probably an hour or so I decided to crank the rooster tail back in only to be met with a heavy weight and great resistance.  After an epic struggle, or perhaps the wine made it epic, I dragged in a carp that probably went around ten pounds.  The plain, purple, rooster tail, all the way down in it's gullet.  Now what would have made that carp eat the rooster tail and then just sit on the bottom of the lake til I picked up my pole only God knows.  But, it was, and still is one of the oddest catches I have ever made.

Ref, speaking of the old Velvetta Cheese days, I remember being on Shenango River for an opening day of Trout years ago. There were two younger guys fishing next to each other both probably around 12 years old.
The one kid that was a little on the chunky side says to his buddy " hey Jimmy you got any cheese left for bait" ?
His buddy says yea I do, what happened to all of yours ?
His friend says " I ate it all this morning " !   LMAO !

I've  slammed the Steelhead in past years on the white Trout worms! 
 
A buddy of mine caught a nice 10lb. N.Y. Brown on day, claimed he was using a single green pea on a float !
 

They work (rubber Trout worms ) just require some patience and practice.  

CAPTAIN HOOK
They work (rubber Trout worms ) just require some patience and practice.  

I felt so ridiculous the first time I used those things.  I bought them early in the AM at Poor Richards and was having an OK day with shiners and single eggs.  I busted out the pink ones in the late afternoon and had one of the best 3 hour stretches of steelhead fishing I've ever had.  

Just gonna say Flying Lure. Worked off a dock one day. Only time they worked.

JRSR, that's crazy!  Good reply Old Dog ! .. LOL
 
I totally believe it because I gutted a 15" stocked Rainbow one time and it had a white plastic cigar tip, a large wad of white chewing gum, and a white colored stone all inside of it's stomach!
 
I've gutted a number of stockies years ago that had the "gold swivels" only inside their belly !

I lived beside a Trout hatchery for 20+ years. If anyone came around smoking cigarettes the owner went into warning mode. He told every smoker that the buts killed his fish. They plugged the gut. He would dissect any fish found dead. Most killed by Herons and Kingfishers, however it sure irritated him when one died plugged up with a cigarette butt.

Captn. Great post,brings back a lot of good memories. My crew also used Velveeta cheese,spleen,Anise oil soaked corn & most others listed. I got Trout on cigarette filters Got many gills on a bare swivel on a hook after we ran out of bait also tried with some success, strips of Seal Skin on ice jigs, we also used house flys that we killed on the porch & then used the eyeballs of the gills we caught to catch Perch,which for some reason really liked them. The only time that I can remember falling for those T.V. wonders was over 50 yrs ago when we spent all of the money that my buddy got for his birthday for a guaranteed,super dooper can't miss 2 piece bucktail jig.Unfortunatly not only did we not get a fish & lost it the first time that he used it, we also got a whup'n when we were found out. Oh well at least I learned a lesson from that.  thanks again  sam

When i was very young. We lived down in Prosperity Pa. There was a small pond on the landlords property that my brother and I would fish in. Had an old bamboo pole and a Christmas tree hook. caught a few bluegill with that ornament hook!