Secret bait for sunnies...

[Walleye_GFA]

Was out at Waconia, catching small sunnies with the boys... I look over and my fisherboy is putting HOTDOG on the hook...

We caught the biggest sunnies of the day on grilled hotdog !!!!! A mess of them....

Anyway, just thought I would share the story...

Wally

[Skeets]

Hehehehe!

Whatever works...eh!

[Guest]

Hey!....brings back memories!....years ago(many years ago) I ran out of bait for the sunny bite...walked around shore looking for some sort of etibles to try on that hook....only thing was a few patches of tiny wild strawberrys...picked a few and dropped em in front of those sunnies........."bingo"...one after another...lol!....actually ...I've caught sunnies on a bare hook...no bait....little critters will hit anything that hits the water at times......lol!

[RHW]

Wally, they don't have to be grilled either, trust me on this one. We too were messing around some years back and ran into a nice mess of sunnies with small chunks on small jigs. We just looked at each other and decided not to share the new bait discovery because we thought no one would ever believe us.

[Walleye_GFA]

Yea its really neat to see my kids doing the fishing stuff I did as a kid... sometimes I really long for the days that catching sunnies on hotdogs was my life (actually it was bullheads)... lol

Wally

[Jim W]

Not panfish related,but reminds me of Upper Ontario Walleye fishing.

We caught walleye on raisins and I caught one on a wet cigarette butt!

I've caught turtles and pannies on bubble gum!

Keep the rods bendin'!!!

Jim W

[Dynasty]

I was fishing in florida with hot dogs and we caught alot of real nice size sun fish, and blue gills. Also there were a few catfish coming up to the surface to grab some hotdog also.

[Duck-o-holic]

Hey Jim--

It would be hard to catch an eye on a "Dry" cigarette butt now, wouldn't it LOL!

Hope your getting a lot of SE MN smallies and trout bendin' your rod! Let me know if you're making the Green lake trip this summer!

Duck-o-holic