Meat

[fisherdee]

Has anybody used gizzard shad for meat rigs? It is readily available for me and was wondering how it would hold up?

[Fishme00]

I dont run meat too often but I usually catch a bunch of sawbellies in the early summer on sabaki rigs and keep them for meat. I also use smelt in the smaller clip style bait heads. The smelt rigs have been deadly on big lakers.

[Killin' It]

Awifes would work better wait for them to come to the piers and get the cast net out and go out about midnight...

[jerryriggin]

try it it may work great. ive never tried it but have used smelt and lake herring i caught on drummond island

[DKuiper]

I have about 30 smelt froze up in 6 packs if any one wants to try them as meat rigs. Pick them up and they are yours free.

Duane

[SUPERTRAMP]

Dave said it I love to use alewives cast net after dark or we have gone out perching and found big schools in shallow water,(under 20 FOW) and thrown the cast net with a lot of success. The sabiki rigs will also work on alewives. Biggest problem is they dont work well with some of the tooth pick bait holders.

[SUPERTRAMP]

If u use a cast net dont go get the biggest one u can find find the smallest and practice, Practice, Practice. Some good instructionals on the Spanish Fly website. Here is a great instructional link castnets.com/how- to- throw- a- castnet

[mayvillemark]

I honestly dont see why they wouldnt work they have the same reflective scales as a herring or smelt their body is just wider but you can trim that up. They are probally fatter that herring or smelt so they should be smellier and greasier.

[prop nut]

i like the thick strips

just super fast easy and works good

whole fresh cut may work a little better but not worth the differense

to me

rinse the salt off stick a tooth pick in it dribble a little herring oil on it send it out

[fisherdee]

thanks all for your replies. i will give them ideas a try but those strips sure look easy and mess free. Can the strips be shipped, storage problems? expensive? i assume they work in the Weenie meat heads.

[prop nut]

salt packed easy to use easy to store

fresh whole cut rite before you use it is the best but just too much work

24 tubs of the thick strips are 135 ships usps because of the heavy salt it dont have to stay frozen

some pure herring oil is recomended to use with the strips

a couple drops on the strip before it goes in the water

will work with any bait head it fits in

the thick strips seem to last a lot longer than the thin ones that where packed in the vacume bags

some of the larger bait heads it spins too fast with this you will have to slow it down a bit with some heavy hooks or some times pinning the head to the fishing line slows it down

or best flip speed is 60 -120 rpm = 1-2 flips a second if it flips like a propeller blade it wont work well just like if it is not flipping at all or only once and a while

sure make meat rig fishing easy with little or no mess

[Priority1]

I think the salt is as much of an attractant as the herring oil. The shelf life on these has to be real good.