Thought I'd share this trick that my Grandpa showed me years ago. I must warn you if you have a weak stomach don't try this!

My Grandpa was 1/2 Native American and could catch Crappie like nobody I've ever seen. I have some great memories of fishing trips that he & I went on when I was just a young boy.

One day while on the way to a local lake here in far western Ky. Grandpa stopped on the side of the road, got out and picked up a road kill coon! I said "we ain't gonna eat that thing are we?" He replied "Naw". "What you gonna do with it?" I said. "Fish" he replied. I was totally confused.

We got to the lake, some of you may know it; Swan Pond they called it. Put his old john boat in, coon and all! We motored across the lake and stopped under a huge cypress. Grandpa grabbed a piece of bailing wire & proceeded to tie the coon up in the tree, then we went on our way and fished.

A few days later we returned to the cypress tree and OH MY GOD! The smell would knock you down. The flies had blown the coon and it was raining maggots. Grandpa snipped the wire and said "what you wait'n on?" Bait that hook & let's catch some fish!

We sat there in that one spot all day & I bet we had over 100 of the biggest, blackest Bluegill I've ever seen and some nice Crappie too. Grandpa told me that that's the way his daddy (a full blooded Native American) used to bait up a fish'n hole.

Like I said, its not for the faint of heart but I will asure you it will bring in the bulls!

Good luck and good fish'n! :D