What's the most disgusting bait you've used??

[Grand_Marlin]

A mate of mine needed food for his fish in the fish tank at home, and he was hard up for cash and couldnt buy any.

He pulled up next to a roadkill kangaroo that had been there for at least a few days.

You could smell this thing from 500 yards in the hot summer sun ... the crows had eaten the ar$e out of it, and it was literally crawling / moving with maggots.

My mate drove his bare hand up the ar$e of this rancid kangaroo and pulled out a big handfull of a mixture of maggots and decomposing guts.

He took the rst of his pie he had for lunch out of the paper bag and put the maggots in it.

He then proceeded to finish eating his pie after wiping his hands on his shirt....

... lovely stuff

Cheers

Pete

[Poodroo]

A mate of mine needed food for his fish in the fish tank at home, and he was hard up for cash and couldnt buy any.

He pulled up next to a roadkill kangaroo that had been there for at least a few days.

You could smell this thing from 500 yards in the hot summer sun ... the crows had eaten the ar$e out of it, and it was literally crawling / moving with maggots.

My mate drove his bare hand up the ar$e of this rancid kangaroo and pulled out a big handfull of a mixture of maggots and decomposing guts.

He took the rst of his pie he had for lunch out of the paper bag and put the maggots in it.

He then proceeded to finish eating his pie after wiping his hands on his shirt....

... lovely stuff

Cheers

Pete

Pete you really had me going then. I really need to learn to stop getting on here when I am really tired because my translation of that was that your mate put the maggots in his pie and ate a maggot pie. After reading it again it made more sense but still.... eeeewwww bigtime.

Poodroo

[4x4frog]

Worst smelling...water rat in a crab pot up at Lake Cootharaba with my grand dad. The water rat got into the pot and died so we left it there and after a week inthe briny it was so bad you could smell it from under the water.

Best for fishing would have to be yesterdays prawns that have gone black 'cause you left them out on the back bench in the shed in stead of the freezer for later. I have had great success on Bream and catties with old prawns

[finga64]

I wonder if fish can smell??
The fish I watch in the aquarium (really sad, but sometimes this is more exciting then what's on telly) and the little buggers eat (or try too eat) anything that goes in the tank.
Are fish in the wide blue like this??

[bidkev]

Back in the UK I used to fish close up to a sewage outfall pipe as it was reknown for some good conger eels at the right time of the year. It was some years ago and waste disposal wasn't what it is now and there used to be a horrible brown scum near the end as they always discharged at High Tide.

I was using mackerel as bait which didn't last long as the area was also prolific for crabs. Anyway, got a thumper of a bite and pulled in an 18 kilo conger. After the fuss in the 16 foot boat quietened down and the conger had been hit multiple times on the tail with a lump of 4by2, I attempted to remove the hook. As the hook came out it had suspended from it, a loop of string to which was attached a large lump of cotton wool...........took some time for me to realise what it was and an even longer time debating whether to eat the congert or not

kev

[Poodroo]

Kev you'd be a gamer man than me to be eating a conger eel from there. Lol

Poodroo

[choppa]

new zealand eel on holiday kev?????????

i thought you said it was caught near a sewage outlet,,, not a farm,,,,

being raised on a farm in gippsland victoria,,, we kids,, (3 b/thers,,& sisters) were brought up around ""farm values"",, and truly some of the ""baits"" that were placed into the creeks and rivers around the area to catch blackfish,trout,eels,crays, may not have been catoragised as the ""worst"" bait,,, but christ they have never been repeated

roadside roo,,,been there,,(wasn't eating pies though)

sheep,,(insides,,outsides and all between)

remnants of cow

maggots,,

feral cat

neighbours cat

fox,,,,,,,,,,,now theres a smell you don't forget in a hurry,,

but the worse was ""porky"",,

i can still remember porky as a young 'un,, his mum died of old age,, and dad dragged this little weather beaten smelly thing into the kitchen,,still wrapped up in a briquette bag and dumped it next to the old wood stove to keep warm,,,,,us kids thought it was great,, something new to keep us amused,,, as grandma was wearing a it thin

we feed him him,, washed him and even trained him to follow us up the track to the bus stop each morning to see us off to school,, dad would follow later with corn cobs and chaff to get him back home

this went on for about a year and a half,,

and then porky was gone,,,,,,,,,,,,

we had a good xmas,,, bacon,,ham,,chops,,,dad bragging about the size of the crays he caught using some fresh bones and offal

still miss porky,,,,,,,,,,,,,great pet

[RCG008]

Went on a 7 day sailing trip in the whitsundays.

8 people went on a holiday while the remaining 2 (me and my best mate) thought their was too much fishing to pass by. So when we got the yahct we put a couple of kilo of pillys and squid on board.

These worked ok on days 1, 2 and 3. Forgot about that esky on the 4th day.

And on the 5ht night. Strong southerly blew the esky over loosing its contents all over the deck. At 2am in the morning 3 girls woke up very angry. The only fish we caught that night with the worst smelling bait ever, were the fish "Mate your never bringing bait on a yacht again fish". Not much is spoken about the incident since. Only time now is when me and my mate try to out do that one. Takes some beating!

[blaze]

not about bait used but more about forgotton bait, went beach fishing with a group of fellow fisho's and had the waders on. Now these waders had a little pocket on the inside of the bib and it turned out to be a good spot to put my packet of prawns. Had a good session, caught a few fish, had a few ales. On returning home all my gear was uncermously dumped in the shed. Never went near it for about 3 weeks and decided I was going to go spearing flounder. Goes to the shed to get the waders and from about 20 feet from the shed I could smell this terrible smell. You guessed, yep a stinking rotten mess of prawns (well they used to be prawns) still where I left them in the top pocket in the waders. I did clean them and 2 years later there is still a faint smell in the waders.
cheers
blaze