brim hot hotspot

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11-12-2006, 09:45 PM
willfish4food

brim hot hotspot

To make a brim hotspot, all you have to do is take a can of dog food and punch a bunch of holes in it ,then tie it to a limb hanging over the water. When the flies blow on the dogfood the maggots will drop in the water and you will have a great spot to take a kid fishing.
11-13-2006, 11:03 AM
flycaster

maggots for brim, crappie

Somewhere I read that the BEST way to get maggots for a HOT SPOT is to pick up some roadkill, take it to the lake and tie it up on a limb that hangs over the water. When the flies blow the roadkill the maggots will fall off of the kill and feed the fish for a while.
You may have to anchor your boat DOWN WIND to fish the spot, but you should not go away with an empty cooler.
I understank that some fishermen always have a bent wire coat hanger somewhere in their vehicle.

John
11-13-2006, 11:21 AM
willfish4food

I think I would rather handle the dog food instead of road kill.
11-13-2006, 01:17 PM
chaunc

The road kill works really good. I saw some hanging over a spot that i hadn't fished in months and decided to give it a try. Hammered the gills and crappies. But he's right about staying up wind.:eek: I had to move the boat a few times and a little farther away.:D
11-13-2006, 03:09 PM
deathb4disco

I'll just stick to ordering my maggots.:)
11-13-2006, 05:53 PM
flycaster

maggots

Quote:

Originally Posted by deathb4disco

I'll just stick to ordering my maggots.:)

If you just order the maggots then go fishing with them, you have not created a "feeding frenzy" location where you can go to for several days and be guaranteed to filling the cooler.

John
11-13-2006, 07:41 PM
John Brower

has anybody ever tried sinking or floating fish food to chum or
bait a bream hole with?
just wondering

john b.
11-13-2006, 09:55 PM
chaunc

I use bait cubes. They're freeze dried cubes made by Joe Kullis. www.kastaway.com is his website.
11-14-2006, 08:11 AM
deathb4disco

Quote:

Originally Posted by flycaster

If you just order the maggots then go fishing with them, you have not created a "feeding frenzy" location where you can go to for several days and be guaranteed to filling the cooler.

I chum with the maggots I buy and create a feeding frenzy any time or place I want.
11-14-2006, 12:51 PM
bpm2000

Quote:

Originally Posted by chaunc

I use bait cubes. They're freeze dried cubes made by Joe Kullis. www.kastaway.com is his website.

Have you found these to be very effective? Chumming is legal where I normally fish but since Im shorebound Ive been wondering what to use.

thx
11-14-2006, 01:16 PM
chaunc

Get the bait cubes. I use them in early spring and fall after i put my boat away and start fishing from shore. They work pretty fast too. I use the ice cubes while icefishing. They bring the fish right to you. Toss a couple near a downed tree or brushpile you can cast too. Give it about 30 minutes to bring em in, and they'll keep comin in for hours. I've noticed, over the years, that the smaller fish come first, but the bigger ones will be there a little after them. Been using them for about 5 or 6 years.
11-15-2006, 12:27 PM
bpm2000

ill give 'em a try when it warms up.

thx
11-15-2006, 10:20 PM
BlackWidow

raodkill

around these parts if you were to hang a dead critter right over the water, a gator would have it in a minute flat.
11-20-2006, 06:24 PM
willsjwills

hang'em high!!
11-21-2006, 10:23 AM
ShilohRed

Years ago My dad used to Sink sq bails of hay. And the Bream & crappie loved them.
Always in creeks.
I may need to look into that.
Then hang some road kill also.
Pete
11-22-2006, 04:35 PM
countrycat16

yea.....i think i would stick with the dog food
11-22-2006, 08:15 PM
dixieangler

Seal everything

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

around these parts if you were to hang a dead critter right over the water, a gator would have it in a minute flat.

Same here. Or a moccasin or an otter. No stringers either or open buckets or open live wells or open coolers and so on. Close and seal everything here in Florida or trouble will come knocking. I think they can smell fish like we can, only better :). Gar just love to eat stringers of fish also.
01-02-2007, 03:18 PM
DougBush

You gotta be sly too

Quote:

Originally Posted by willfish4food

To make a brim hotspot, all you have to do is take a can of dog food and punch a bunch of holes in it ,then tie it to a limb hanging over the water. When the flies blow on the dogfood the maggots will drop in the water and you will have a great spot to take a kid fishing.

Be sly and take no chances.....
Way before you go fishing, scrape the labels off the dogfood cans and wrap the cans with coathangers. Have one end of the coathanger for tying the can to a bush limb. Then, you spray paint the whole thing (including the coat hanger) a dark green. Let it dry for a few days.
Punch the holes in the cans when you're on the water and ready to hang them up of course. When you hang the can in a bush it will be invisble to other fishermen and it will reduce your chances of them hitting on your spots.
I have turned an entire stretch of shoreline into a fish factory by doing this and spotting the cans here and there.
Around this place, the "bass pros" are worse than the panfish guys. They will throw a GPS waypoint on your areas faster than you can blink an eye almost. Then they'll catch all the bluegill they can, all the time belittling "those brim fishermen" as being beneath them and "unworthy" etc etc etc.
Stay happy....
Regards,
Douglas