Hot dog sausage

[Pangolin]

Shopping to prepare for our latest carp-fishing trip, I noticed that tins of hot dog sausages were a lot cheaper than luncheonmeat. I bought a tin of each, to take along. Fishing with my daughter, yesterday, we had four rods out, with a different bait on each: we tried boilies, pellets, luncheonmeat and hot dog sausage. All three carp caught were on the sausage, even though we switched the positions of the rods several times. It's a very easy bait to use; you just break off a piece of about an inch long, and hair-rig it, securing it with a mini boilie-stop. The sausage pieces stayed on the hook better than the luncheonmeat too. I guess there are probably some people who have been using it for years, but it was a new experiment for me!

 

 

[lancslass]

What lovely photos pangolin, must try the tin sausages next week, going on a weeks fishing holiday! carp to 30lb...Carnt wait (and tuition on site)

 

Tight lines

Jean

[Chesh]

you could also try the bait that has taken some waters apart this year already, still on the 'sausage theme' but PEPPERAMI !!

 

a small section hair rigged with a small pva bag of trouties, or even the 'stick' a deadly method when all else fails !!

[Nightwing]

Ah, hot dogs, frankfurters, weiners...

A long standing American carp bait if ever there was one!

The very FIRST carp I ever saw pursposefully caught, was on a hot dog back in the mid 70's..

Gotta give em a go this year, I think.

[purseyl]

Have not used hot dogs but have used good old peperami and have had some nice fish. Perhaps I should try hotdogs at my local fishery. I exspect it will catch fish hopefully a new twenty or a rare thirty.

 

Tightlines

 

Luke

[kendo]

what size hook with dog on average?

[Pangolin]

I was using a hair-rig (braid, bought ready-made) with a size 8...

[Mat Hillman]

I've had a fair bit of success using tinned hotdogs for barbel, but never had a carp on them!

[jeepster]

i've used pepperami for years, responsible for my PB chub and river carp and countless others. one thing i have seen in the supermarket is little balls made of hot dog sausage meat, hot dog boilies in effect! always thought they would be worth hair rigging

[purseyl]

Went down my local water last night and tryed hotdogs, brillant only down there a couple of hours. I had 7 carp to 15lb average size about 12lb. This is a result as normally using particles and bolies I would only expect one fish in a 24 hour session. Either the bait worked or I was in the righht place at the right time. The only down side was the size, there are alot of 20,s and the odd 30lb but I only managed a few low doubles,still all welcome nun the less.

 

Tight lines

Luke

 

[ 18. May 2004, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: purseyl ]