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Hey guys i was looking through some articles on trolling and came across one that said when you catch your first fish, stop the boat. Take about 10 feet of line with a bobber on one end and a hook on the other and hook that fish you just caught and throw the whole thing overboard, then follow that bobber and your "scout fish" will lead you right back where it cam from, and you'll know right where the crappie are schooling. Have any of you ever heard of that? Sounds iffy to me
Need to put a GoPro camera on him
Ha yeah, or tie a few rigs on that line and let him catch them for ya
Yea like those RC Fishing boats
I tried it and I kept gettin hung up on the scout fish. He wouldn't dodge them bandits, plus when I stopped, all my lines got clustered up. NOT!!! Just a plain ole lie on my part. Don't ya love fishermen?
me and dad have wanted to try it but never have
Try it sometime,you might be SURPRISED!!!!!!!
Man that sounds like a good tip, but when i stop think about it. If some one pulled my out of my living room by the mouth, made me hold my breath till I was about dead, then stuck me in the arse with another hook with this thing attached to me. I think i would be running and hiding in fear of an alien attack. LOL
Lol CrappiePro, thats what I was thinking. I thought, yeah right, he wouldn't lead me to a school, he'll probably swoop behind the first stump he sees and lay up and shiver awhile. My biggest problem about trying it is, I don't think I can make myself throw a landed crappie back in!
Yeah, you have to do it with a keeper too. I'd hate my dink scout fish heading back to more dinks. I doubt he would run to mama even if he did know her.Quote:
Originally Posted by JibJabber
The one sure fire way to get the scout fish to work for you, is by ataching a small stick of explosives to it, let me tell ya when the scout sounds off the whole school will come a floating . Rofl
I've heard of it, but I wouldn't do it. Form of unnecessary pain and suffering to me, unethical, whatever you want to call it. I would just feel funny about it. I don't like to see anything suffer needlessly. And yes, I hunt and fish, and have my whole life. Don't like to cripple and lose deer or ducks either. Makes me feel bad, and wish I would have never shot. I'm weird like that I guess.
But, as an afterthought, this was probably done back in the day when guys were actually HUNGRY and NEEDED something for supper. Maybe had a few kids to feed also. Then, all bets are off. Guys gotta do what he can to feed his family. I could do it in that case.
daddy did it years ago, but not trolling, find crappie tag it with line and bobber follow bobber,,,, Now In Missouri that practice is against the law, Why, well the rule reads release unharmed immedetaly if your not going to keep same,,, harm would be determined by the conservation agent, when you put the hook in the fish and let it go... so be carefull and check the regs in your state, but it did work
I never have tried that. Sounds like a good idea. I may have to give that a try in the fall
Sounds kinda goofy, just keep some marker bouys handy. Toss a marker out when you catch a fish and when you get out two or three markers ,circle or fish back and forth between them. We did that years ago with good results.
Years ago I read of an Arkansas bass pro that loved to crappie fish on the river. Whenever he caught a nice one out of the roving school he would quickly attach a swivel into the same hole made by the hook. Attached to this he had pre-rigged 10 feet of line and a small balloon. He would quickly release the fish while the school was still closeby. When the bite slowed down he would look for the balloon and it would be a hundred yards or so away. As he approached the balloon he would get back into the school. After fishing he would retrieve his fish.
i have see this work more than once !!!!!!!!!!!!! i also seen a man take a clear gallon jug placed a dozen minnows in it and tied a string to it and put holes in the lid and sank it in a tree top and went back later and caught fish , kinda like the lantern thing.