Thread: Old School tricks of the trade thread maybe ?

Fireflies are supposed to work good

Ole folks saying was if the cows were up and eating the fish were biting and if they the cows were lying down the fish were not biting.

Originally Posted by scrat

Ole folks saying was if the cows were up and eating the fish were biting and if they the cows were lying down the fish were not biting.

I'll vouch for that one.
When I was guiding 200+ day per year I started watching the cows as I went home.
Days where the fish were the cows were up, on slow days they were lying down chewing their cud.

When " perch fishing" and you run out of bait go to your stringer and use your hook to remove a perch eye. Panfish love eyes- ever notice how crappie peck out your minnows eyes even when they're not really hungry? I once used this trick in the Panama Canal turn around lake. About 15 of us were on a longboat for a " 5 hour guided peacock bass excursion". The guide brought enuf tiny minnows for about 2 hours and seemed to be looking forward to running out and heading in. Most of us were having a good time catching weird aquarium fish and little peacock bass so I taught the real men on the boat how to use fish eyes for bait ( from the fish our guide was keeping to eat or sell). For some reason he had no appreciation for American ingenuity and let me know about it but we squeezed another couple of hours of fishing out of those eyes. Once he caught on he stopped keeping our fish and we ran out of bait and headed back in. Half the people on that boat thought I was the beans and the other half hated me a little I think. Some Euros lack the pioneer spirit.

My grandpa was a commercial fishermen on Cumberland.
Told me catching was easy, put what they want to eat where they want to eat at and be patient.
You can catch big fish on little hooks but you can't catch little fish on big hooks.
I helped him for 10 yrs, that uneducated man taught me a lot about fishing and being a man

Originally Posted by Hanr3

Before sonar we would "mark" fish spots using the triangulation method. Most would carry a notebook and write it down. Some would just memorize it.

Once your on the spot, look to shore and pick two landmarks in a line, then look in another direction toward shore and find two more landmark in a line. Where those two lines intersect is your fishing spot. X marks the spot.

yes sir ...used that many moons ago on open water to finds humps .....works great ...taught to me by an older fella when I was younger

one older fella taught me about "feeling" the line as well .....instead of watching it ....of course that's all fine and dandy till you are using braid and set the hook without thinking about it .....LOL

Read to hook a crappie behind its dorsal fin with a small float and release it and follow it back to the school. Moving marker bouy. Never tried it but sounds like it would work.