Thread: Old Indian Trick

The dog food does work. I lived on lake Tuscaloosa a few years ago and did this every 4 days. Everyday I would catch 75 to 100 crappie from my boat dock. No one believed me. You can also put any meat or a combination in a burlap sack. Just get some meat from the grocery store that is going bad. Most of the time if you get to know the butcher they will just give it to you. I did this a lined it with cheese. After 3 or 4 good hot days drop it in the water and fish. After fishing, throw the bag away - Don't be a litter bug. That same day do it all over again. Drop a small concrete block weighted cedar tree under it and you got it made. Don't forget to drop a few deep lines with livers or such. Catfish are extremely attracted to this.

this is illegal in my state (California) but i think i'll try it. Ofcourse i wont eat these fish i catch.

All the lakes around here are developed for most of the shoreline:D . Imagine the doctor in his weekend home strolling down to his dock, as he ducks under the willow tree that hangs over the dock he comes face to face with a rotten coon hung from a string! I can't wait to try it:D !

This reminds me of another good larvae for bait: Bees. Here in the PNW, we get lots of paper wasps building nests under the eaves of the garage and house.
Just let them brood away until they have a good nest going, knock it down and use those larvae on a tiny fly hook. Fish can't resist em.

The stars were aligned this week to try out the old indian trick. The bank under the bridge at Lake Lewisville had a 15 pound rotting catfish filled w/ maggots that I pushed into the water with a stick. It must have been fate because I discovered this week that the chum bucket was growing some giant maggots (horse fly I guess?). Did well catching panfish with the maggots. Pulled in a crappie or two also. Fishing has not been that good on Lewisville lately so catching a lot of bluegill was fun. Being on the riprap in the shade close to a deep water channel helps too. The maggots that worked best are more advanced in their larval stage and are all black. They are a step or two away from pupae I guess. They are firm and hooking one through twice makes them stay on the hook well. We just let them crawl out of the container and clean themselves off a bit before hooking them on.

You can use a onion sack to place the dog food in also. That way it will hold more.
WE also used o use wasp nest. WE had a dock on the river. And there was a beer joint and a few barns on the top of the bank.
WE would get free cokes for getting rid of the wasp nest and then have free bait.
WE used a long cane pole with a rag wrapped around the end. Pour a little gas on the rag. And when you rag gets near the nest. They cover it up End of the wasp and free bait. But we did get stung a few times .
Pete

This is an interesting thread....Is there any other fishermen with "ole wives tales"???? I don't see how this could be illegal, hangin a coon in a tree over water...I guess when the maggots gets too fat to hold on, they drop in the water.....LC

I know an old river rat that takes old plastic soda bottles, cuts small holes in the knolls on the bottom, then stuffs his scrapes of chicken bones, steaks or whatever inside, then hangs them out over the water where the maggots will fall thru the holes and chum the area. What he targets is channels, but whatever the chum brings in it provides a good feeding area.