How to catch fish when they don't bite

These are mullet they can be caught on a hook and line but it's hard.

 

I was going to say dynamite or electricity.

 

There's an art to throwing a cast net.

 

Works fer me

 

Old crank military telephone and dial Up the fish.

 

Called in some places "telephoning a catfish"

 

Given a choice if TSHTF, Bishop would be a much better resource then FEMA or any other government agency. Love watching his video's and his take on things. Thank you for sharing.

 

Back when I was a small-time commercial fisherman I often went after mullet with a cast net.

I figured out a way to take a lot of the work and time-loss out of cast-netting. Basically, the longer your net is out of the water, the less you catch.

SO...

I took three ten-foot pieces of 1" EMT conduit, drilled one end of each, and installed a small eye bolt in each. I then ran the threaded end of a fourth eye bolt up thru the eyes of the other three, and secured it loosely with a large washer and a Mickey Nut. That gave me a nice tall tripod that I could set up and close up (and carry) easily, and set up anywhere--including on a boat, as long as the feet were secured in place.

I attached a small pulley to the center eye bolt, and ran a line thru it with an S-hook attached. Presto: Instant hoist.

A large tote was placed in the center of the set-up tripod to receive the catch.

After each throw, the loaded net would be pulled in and set into the tote, fish & all.. The S-hook would then be attached at the horn of the net, and the net hoisted up straight.

The catch would drop right into the tote, with any tangled up fish being easy to clear out without having to chase them.

They all stayed in the tote.

This worked extremely well with two people. One to throw the net, and the other to run the hoist and dump the tote into the ice box.

Two nets meant one was in the water almost constantly, while the other rained fish into the tote.

A good routine was to trade places every three beers.

Using the tripod easily doubled or tripled the size of our daily catch--and it took and enormous amount of stress off the arms of the caster.

People went nuts the first time they saw me and my buddy pulling in the fish.

I expected everyone to copy the idea because it worked so well.

Not a single one of the other fishermen in the local bunch had the initiative to start using a tripod.

The "old way" was good enough, I guess.

Hehehehheheheh! I wasn't good enough for me.

That-there hoist thingy, it works good when yer shrimpin', too!

 

Them is the two best!

 

The DuPont spinner does work for all types of fish.

 

Nice job Bishop, Good to see you back in action !

 

OR WORM's
Had a neighbour years ago in the city , took the hot feed of power and stuck a nail 12" long into the ground , would get lots of worms coming up , for fishing I guess.. His lawn would be full of round dead grass circles ..
Sloth
Nice work @Bishop

 

Crushed china berries or black walnut hulls in a muslin wrap.

 

I've used Dupont spinners, 60/40 painted with wax and cut into four inch sticks, I mean baits...

 

I was think 2,000v at a half amp from a microwave oven transformer.
Beware that voltage at that amperage will easily kill a person.

 

You don't have to electrocute the fish, just stun them. Then cut the power, dip out the ones you want. and let the rest swim off. THAT PART ABOUT CUTTING THE POWER IS REAL IMPORTANT!!!

 

My Dad had an old hand crank generator from a telephone or something like that ,, we tried cranking that thing in my grandfathers pond years ago trying to get the fish to come to the surface,, never did work. My Dad said it must not have put out enough amps ,, either that or there wasn't any fish in the pond at that time .

 

I was also gonna mention black walnut hulls. Also a primitive fish trap, or a native american fish trap. I have used the native fish trap, and have had decent luck with it.

DW

 

Works on carp. Of course we could see them at the time. Wasn’t much of a range with it.