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Went creek chub fishing today what a blast! caught a bakers dozen in an hour using a small chartreuse barbless jig and worms....Now how to fish with them....Thinking the smaller ones ill run a jig threw their lower lip and target some bass and walleye....But the 10-11 inchers I'm at a loss for....Any tips on riging the bigger ones?
Kill the bigger ones and salt and or freeze them and use them for pike during the ice season.
Good tip! Thats why i like this site! look out Constance lake this winter...
Where legal those xl would make a good Laker bait through the ice or even early season open water. Salt them for sure.
Cheers
How do you salt them?
I've actually started doing a combination of both salting and freezing.
To salt them you basically just coat them in corse salt until they loose most of their water content.
I found the frozen ones difficult to use because you have to thaw them to use them and then out on the ice they might re freeze. Or if you don't use them all you re freeze the leftover then thaw next time... they start to go mushy...
Now I sort of half salt them and the put them in the freezer. They don't freeze as solid as the fresh ones and the salting toughens up the skin.
I just coat them in salt and leave them for an hour or two someplace they can drain then rinse them off, pat dry, pop in ziploc and freeze.
Like Rugger says................Don't use table salt, get some "pickling" salt................Daniel
Remember you are limited to 120 bait fish in total, frozen, fresh or whatever. On Simcoe I have seen a CO count out 50 perch from a bucket, I wonder if they would count minnows?
Thanks for the heads up....I will stay way below 120.
A ten inch creek chub would be in my pan, fried well and served on toast....