Hotdogs for ice pike?

[fishinaddict]

Has anybody here heard of using hotdogs for icing some northerns

[CrappieJohn]

Yup....and trout, and crappies and sunfish, and.....

[AWH]

Funny thing...my former boss told me that hot dogs on tip ups is THE way to go for pike. Haven't ever tried or seen it first hand to verify its effectiveness!

Aaron

[Ranckenstuff]

Muskies bite on Johnsonville brats

[minnowhead]

Do they have to be all beef or can the chicken ones work just as well?

[Eric Wettschreck]

Laugh if ya want, but my boys and i often use beef jerky for perch, and it works.

[hoggs222]

When I was about 10 years old, we used Hot Tamales (the candy) on hooks & caught sunnies all the time. Although, they still would bite on a bare hook.

[markkstanley]

Bluegills love pepperoni but aren't too wild about Slim Jims. It was one of those days.

[Fish On! Guide Service]

Great for bullheads too!

[P.DONA]

lol , Um? Is this a Minnesota thing?

[Fish On! Guide Service]

For me, it was a "I'll try anything as a young tyke to provoke a bite of any kind".

[Tyler Holm]

When I was young, I use to tie a piece of hot dog on a string and tie the other end to a small stick. I would throw out the piece of hot dog and let it sit for about 2 minutes and then slowly bring it in. It had a crayfish on it just about every single time.

There were several occassions where I had something more than a crayfish on. Humm.. Pike?

[chaffmj]

We were fishing in Canada a few years back and meet some guys from Canada that gave us some beef heart to tip our jigs with for walleyes. It worked great. Also it was so hard for the eyes to get off even without a barb on the hook you could use the same chunk for hours.

[Duffman]

I was enjoying a Slim Jim (aka meat gum) last saturday, and when the gums flavor wore off I tossed it in the hole. On the camera, the sunnies and a crappie would suck it in as it floated down by them, but they would spit it out just as quick.

[Random guy]

Thousands in Musky baits and all I needed was dang polish sausage!

[jigginjerk]

Try chicken skin on the river you will catch just about everything. (Old trick)

[CrappieJohn]

With all this talk of good food being dumped down the holes you might be finding Matt Johnson taking up scuba diving. He is a real meat person. Watch for bubbles.

[Captain B.R.K]

That was a good one CT!!!

My cousin years back used sugar coated gummy worms on his lindy rigs to catch walleyes up in Canada! He was pretty successful at catchin em' to with those things.

[Big Roy]

I have done the chicken skin also, let it dry for a few days and use for ice fishing. Hot dogs work great on the river for rough fish, just put on a piece and a sinker, park on shore, cast out, let sink ( I do this in the no wake zones) hurry up and wait, the kids love it. Make sure you get skin on so it holds to the hook.

[Dano2]

I've used chicken skin as well for perch, they went nuts for it on one lake, but tried it on another, and they would only bite on crappie minnows, maybe just picky that day.

[Skitterpop]

I'll post a serious answer to your question. Here in ND many people us hot dogs, half a piece, on a tip up and catch lots of pike. I figure it is a scented bait for them and it keeps a strong odor in colder water. So, yes, definately try using hot dogs. If the pike do not cooperate then at least you can eat the bait .

[Early Riser]

I will try a hotdog suspended for a spearing decoy and let you know how that works out and how the pike approach processed meat. Seriously I am pretty sure it would work due to the shape and color of a hotdog. Based on my observations there will be some days that pike will come in to look at almost anything that is suspended in the water column. Other days, when they are actively feeding, pike will charge in and hit anything suspended. They usually immediatly drop a wood decoy but I think they would hang on to a hotdog.

[SomethingFishy*]

so do we use generic processed hotdogs or the nice coarse ground variety?

[Jeff Dosch]

We use Hot Dogs all the time and have very good luck with them. I think its the salt in them that attracts the pike. We started soaking out herring and smelt in salt over night and our catch rate has gone up.