I mainly fish in Lake Dallas and have been using shad and minnows on my hooks. Whats the best way to hook a shad or minnow? I was taught to stick the whole fish in the hook from mouth to tail with the hook still being covered, basically killing the fish. How have most of you hooked live bait and what do you think works best?
I use hook size 2 and 5, with a leader and weight on the end. I believe the hooks might be too big but in the end I'm just a beginner and don't really know. Initially I thought it would be better to hook the fish through their mouths so that they would stay alive. please advise.
A size 2 hook might be a little large unless you are using minnows of 4" or larger. For the smaller crappie or chub minnows a size 4 hook either through both lips or right below the dorsal fin might be better for you.
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We are using shrimp, how do you hook it on?
Through the head(not through the black spot)
I want to go northern or walleye fishing today but I dont have any live bait and I cant get any for a little bit yet because my dad has to get it and he is to busy to fish right now. Anyways, is there any hooks that I can use that dont require live bait on them that will still catch a northern or walleye?
Try a leadhead jig or a drop shot rigged with a Berkley Gulp minnow. Pro walleye anglers all use this bait.
I've heard a lot of people using fiddler crabs to catch sheepshead, flounder, catfish, and trout (I'm fishing out of brackish water to explain the mixture of salt and freshwater fish). And I live on a river and behind my home is a bank and a marsh and both are loaded with fiddler crabs. I'd like to use them as bait but I can't imagine how to hook them being that they have that shell. Or atleast hook them and still use them as LIVE bait.
I googled the mess out of it, but no site I found really addresses how you'd go about hooking them. And I know people do this all the time, so I decided I'd come here for the answer.
And I'd like a link to a website that explains it or a link to a picture that explains it. But if that's not possible, detailed information would be great.
Thanks.
This site is very informative. I also hook my crabs in the furthest corner of the shell, however they are not hardy on the hook.
yea they have big teeth
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I like to use live Shad caught with a cast net.
Whats a good rig as far as where to place lead weight and hook on leader.
Also where do you hook the shad to stay on the hook.
I like to tight-line at night for catfish.
Flylining. Light line, no sinker, just a hook.
Hook the shad through the nose or just behind the "thread" of the dorsal fin. Don't cast it out, all you need is a light flip of the wrist and he'll land in the water safely and unharmed. After he starts taking off and heading for cover, let a little line out. And there you go.
You can also use a float with a shad on about a 4 foot leader (none of that flourocarbon BS) just tie directly to the main line with the float about 48" above the hook. But then the little piece of bait starts hauling the float all over the place.
This is how I fish live shad for bass, for catfish I have no idea. If you're using American shad, I would think rig them the same way you would a live shiner or sucker.
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There are a lot of live fishing baits in this world and they all are broken down into many different categories. For instance, you are not likely to use a one inch minnow as your live bait if you are fishing for sharks in the ocean.
So you see there are some restrictions to what live baits you use and where you use them. Some baits are only available in certain areas or during certain times of the year, while others are simply not useful for one kind of catch, but extremely good for another.
We want to discuss things like minnows, and other baitfish, as well as things like crickets, frogs, toads, leeches and worms, crustaceans, salamanders and all sorts of flying insects.
Minnows are used for numerous reasons. Some minnows are chosen for their size, shape, activeness, sex, flash or color, even taste and smell. With so many decisions its a wonder anglers ever have time to get their bait in the water and this is just the decisions regarding the minnows and we still need to figure out our hook. But we will save that for a different topic.
Lets quickly go over minnows so you can identify them and perhaps even learn why some are chosen for one catch, but not the other. We will now identify the most popular thirteen minnows at your local bait shop.
Minnow Identification:
1) Fatheads, sometimes called mud-minnows or tuffies, have a short first ray on the dorsel fin and live in lakes and rivers throughout most of North America.
2) Creek Chubs look similar to the hornyhead chub, but have smaller scales and a dark spot at the front base of their dorsel fin. A very common stream minnow usually found in eastern North America and thrives in gravel bottom streams east of the rockies in the United States and southern Canada.
3) Bluntnose Minnows are more rounded at the nose than the fathead and have a dark band from the tail to eye and they live in the eastern half of the United States.
4) Horneyhead Chubs, also known as redtail chubs, have a lateral band that extends to the tail and they prefer gravelly streams from Wyoming to New York, south to Arkansas.
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