Cheese as Trout Bait
May 17, 2021 11:44:52 #
OverTheRainbow
Loc: Hayward CA 94544
What cheese do you use? Do you use it as is or with an attractant?
May 17, 2021 11:49:16 #
May 17, 2021 12:44:58 #
Velveeta. The original - in a block. Cut some little cubes. Float under a bobber. It doesn't float and trout are not bottom feeders usually.
May 17, 2021 13:36:12 #
HenryG
Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts
Hey Spiritof27 I've forever seen trout take salmon eggs of the bottom my brother when the trout were on the tuff bite would chum with the eggs and they would always show
May 17, 2021 14:05:00 #
Well I imagine if you chummed with velveeta or niblets corn they would eat that off the bottom too. I didn't say they were not bottom feeders, I said they're not generally bottom feeders. Like most fish, they are opportunistic feeders. But I've been fishing for them for about 50 years and I've found that in order to fish them successfully you have to present your bait at the depth at which they feeding at that particular time. By the way, chumming is illegal in California and in a lot of other states as well.
May 17, 2021 14:26:09 #
May 17, 2021 14:42:58 #
Pretty sure chumming is legal if you're out on the briny. But fresh water is a no no.
May 17, 2021 16:08:06 #
Spiritof27 wrote:
Velveeta. The original - in a block. Cut some little cubes. Float under a bobber. It doesn't float and trout are not bottom feeders usually.
Oh, come on Sprit, 90% of a trout's food comes off of the bottom. 10% of their food are insects that land on the water.
May 17, 2021 16:27:11 #
Ever just watch a trout in a stream that is actively feeding? I have, and I've never seen one go down to get anything. They will go side to side, or rise to the surface. I'm not sure, but I don't think they see well looking down. Not sure they see well period, because they will hit about anything that drifts into their zone, and then if it ain't edible they spit it out. Taste and try before you buy.
May 17, 2021 20:18:10 #
HenryG
Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts
I've caught many on a small marshmallows on a split shot but they sometimes be the most finicky of eaters
May 17, 2021 20:20:13 #
May 18, 2021 13:27:48 #
Cheese flavored powerbait has always been my go-to back in the day it was Velveeta but like spirit said it doesn't float chumming trout in California is illegal although if you're going to chum for trout they're raised on rabbit pellets believe it or not all hatcheries feed their trout rabbit pellets that is to go to Chum bait
May 18, 2021 13:37:02 #
Lil Al wrote:
Cheese flavored powerbait has always been my go-to back in the day it was Velveeta but like spirit said it doesn't float chumming trout in California is illegal although if you're going to chum for trout they're raised on rabbit pellets believe it or not all hatcheries feed their trout rabbit pellets that is to go to Chum bait
My friend had a private pond on their cabin property up in northern Arizona. One day he brought over a big bag of Purina "Trout Chow". It looked just like the dry dog food bag. He grabbed a fist full of the little brown pellets and threw them into the water. A boil of trout appeared to gobble them up. He said he was told that the Trout Chow was what they used at the hatchery to fatten them up. Maybe that's what you're referring to as "rabbit pellets"?
May 18, 2021 17:48:45 #
HenryG
Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts
Hey LittleA any relationship with BIGA your dad? Its funny BassPro and Cabellas sell hatchery dust and the pellets you rub your powerboat(same company that has the dust) in the dust and they say the trout can't leave the bait alone here on Cape Cod where I live they heavily the ponds down here where I think you can chum but you can't use any lead in inland waters so stinkers and lead jigs are out of the ? But salmon eggs below your powerboat( most of the time just a regular mellow cheaper )you limit out in an hour or two nice if you like fishing in a bucket but do you mean rabbit chit if so how do you know it's true sounds hard to believe but ya never know😁👍
May 18, 2021 17:51:20 #
HenryG
Loc: Falmouth Cape Cod Massachusetts
In 5he spring(March or so ) they stocked the ponds like every other week it seems
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