[Frank Rizo]

The flasher is made from a kids toy. The toy is avalible at the Dollar Tree store it is a bounce ball with a light that is triggered by impacting but the vibration of the water will also activate the red and blue flashing lcd inside. Cut the rubber ball apart to get the plastic light out. The nice feature is the light activated at random. It is a new idea of ours we have used it only a few times. Also you have to drill a hole to slide you line through and when you do this apply silicon to the hole and a light coat to the outside and leave dry before use. I like to find random thing in life and make them into fishing lures. It is truely amazing what fish will eat!!!!!! One of the funniest is the spoons we cut the handle off of and made what we call "poor man spoons" If anyone has other stories of funny things that fish eat please indulge!

[willie525]

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[Cartrpill]

I was out bluegill fishing with a worm and bobber. About to call it quits, reeling it in, my worm was dragging across the bottom and I caught myself a clam. To get my hook back I had to crack it open. As it turns out clam guts work great for bluegills.

I find it so funny when I am pulling a crankbait in and a minnow half the size of the lure bites.

I know carp suck anything in (spit on the water surface), but never had a pole around to see if I could catch one.

[SwampBaits]

Originally Posted by Cartrpill

I was out bluegill fishing with a worm and bobber. About to call it quits, reeling it in, my worm was dragging across the bottom and I caught myself a clam. To get my hook back I had to crack it open. As it turns out clam guts work great for bluegills.

I find it so funny when I am pulling a crankbait in and a minnow half the size of the lure bites.

I know carp suck anything in (spit on the water surface), but never had a pole around to see if I could catch one.

I bet not a lot of people have caught clams on a bobber setup before!!

[smirkplug]

A LONG LONG TIME AGO, WHEN PLASTIC WORMS WERE MADE ONLY BY A COMPANY CALLED 'CREME' WE USE TO USE A 2' LEADER AND A A WEIGHT CALLED A 'BASS CASTING WEIGHT' NOW CALLED AN 'EGG SINKER' WITH A SWIVEL. I LIKE TO WATCH MY WORM IN SHALLOW WATER AND MANY TIMES WATCHED 1-5 POUND LARGEMOUTH SLAMMING THE WEIGHT ALL THE WAY TO MY FEET. IVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING GET HIT AS MUCH. IF YOU JERKED THE WEIGHT AWAY FROM THE BASS TO DROP THE WORM IN FRONT OR TO THE SIDE OF IT THE BASS ALWAYS SWAM AWAY DISINTERESTED. I USED TO JOKE THAT THE BEST PLASTIC WORM GOT BIT ABOUT HALF AS MUCH AS THE WEIGHT

[skeeterfisher]

When I was about 12 or so...too many years ago to mention...back when bass fishermen kept and ate what they caught...my dad and I were fishing a lake in Texas...I caught a 12" large mouth....when we got home and cleaned it...it had swallowed a round rock the size of a golf ball..guess some kid was throwing rocks in the lake and the fish ate it....I guess he would have died if we hadn't eaten it...just not as soon...

[lilcraw]

This one is hard to believe and I wouldn't believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes, about 10 years ago we were hungry for fish and went to catch some dinner, have a few lakes around we do keep our catch for eatin, we fished for about 5 hours and only had 2 bass around 2 pounds each in the live well came home and started to unload the boat and put the bass into a 5 gallon bucket of water, then my son wanted to go check out another lake to see if they were biting any better, so we did for another 6 hours and didn't catch a thing worth taking to the house, after supper that evening my son went out got the bucket of bass and brought them in to clean them, it was a fall day and the bass were in cold water and were both still alive, I fillet them and as always opened there bellies to learn what they had been eating, not surprised for this area both had bellies full of crawfish, I scaped everything to the side and went on to finish filleting, all of a sudden my son said DAD ! ! !......Look at the crawfish, I kept cleaning and said yaaaa, he then in a louder tone said DAD ! ! LOOK AT THE CRAWFISH and said YA I know and looked and could not believe my eyes one of the crawfish about 2 inches long was crawling out of the pile of guts and stomach contains, I thought about it and I KNEW that bass had been in the bucket of fresh water for at least a min. of 8 hours so the crawfish was in his stomach for all that time and still ALIVE ?????? Hard to believe but it happened...........

NOW...... if I ate something that crawled around in my stomach for 8 hours after I had eaten it I sure in the world would NEVER eat it again......... Talk about indigestion

[Whitedog]

I guess this qualifies. While fishing a tournament, I caught chunky bass of about three pounds. When I went to remove the hook a snaky looking tail jumped out of his mouth. Naturally, I dropped the fish and had a mild heart attack. I finally got the nerve to ease his mouth open again and realized it didn't look like a snake so I pulled a little. A full grown rat started coming out of his stomach. Being a tournament fisherman, I showed it to my partner and gently pushed it back in. Get weight any way that's legal!!

[clemmy]

Up in Minnesota my former brother in law was bitten in the calf by a northern pike while waterskiing!

served him right as it turned out....

Clemmy

[smirkplug]

Last year tuna fishing at Gerranimo Is. in Baha Ca. (where those huge white sharks are all over the place ) we had a chicken dinner one night and threw the bones overboard. The next morning when 1 guy dropped his sardine bait in the water a large calico bass ate it and when he brought it on board it spit out a drumstick bone from the night befores dinner. On the same trip another guy caught and kept a black sea bass about 80 lbs. that when cleaned had a large cormorant skeletin inside it! Sorry about my spelling im too tired to check.