What is the strangest bait you have ever used for sharks?

lol........ strangest bait ever used was not really sure.....Ill get back to you

Watch the sale papers and but fryers on sale.
A whole chicken fryer works great for bull sharks.
Causes a fantastic oil/chum slick. I rigged a float system for the surf. Kept it off the bottom and crabs.

i stuffed a 1/2 block of chum in a frozen turkey then tied the end shut with mono and stabbed a bunch of holes in the turkey the pinfish and crabs loved it

Whole frozen Publix chicken was MANY years ago i remember we caught more than 1 shark that way...Certainly don't remember what kind...Cause i am OLD

The problem was Crabs love chicken

i never used any weird baits but i have heard of some people using strange baits out at the pier. i heard of one person using a dead rabbit for bait. that was the strangest thing i heard of.

bloody steak and result was big sailcat

jd lizard step to the podium young man..

i have caught sanbars on sail cats with the barb cut off... so catfish for me..

I also caught a blacktip on a pig fish and parrot fish on two seperate hooks

i have caught sanbars on sail cats with the barb cut off... so catfish for me..

I also caught a blacktip on a pig fish and parrot fish on two seperate hooks

lol, ive always thought of using a 5lb parrot fish for bait...

Once walked a moon fish for cudas off long key n hooked up on a black tip but only had num 4 wire so i didnt catch'em also last week my father jd hammer caught about an 80 pound jewfish on a blue fish at long key first time i ever saw something caught off a blue fish but heard many people catch sharks on them

Once walked a moon fish for cudas off long key n hooked up on a black tip but only had num 4 wire so i didnt catch'em also last week my father jd hammer caught about an 80 pound jewfish on a blue fish at long key first time i ever saw something caught off a blue fish but heard many people catch sharks on them

has caught alot of blacktips and small hammers under 8 ft on bluefish there nice and bloody

Hi Guys:

Away back in the days when I was an avid sharkfisherman I have used all kinds of bait just to be fishing. I remember the days when John Hensley and myself would pick up road killed bait along the roadside to fish the Boca Chica jetties. I also remember the day I used a small goat off the end of Bob Hall pier. No, I didn't get any runs. I used a dead cayote off the beach a time or two also. When times were tough you had to use what was available. I know that a lot of you young kids don't really understand what we went through back then. You have these grand ideas about all we did back then was to catch big tigers. You have no clue what it was like to shark fish back then. It wasn't all peaches and roses....there were pleanty of lean times also so you had to pick up road killed bait just to fish.

Best and tight lines,

Norman Bateman
www.ncbateman1.smugmug.com

I tried a deer ham one time. I put 3 baits along side it and all three of the bonita got eat quick and the deer ham sit there all night, no tooth marks, no runs. I once took a 20/0 J hook and caught 5 or 6 hard head catfish (not sail cat) and hooked all of them on the hook alive. It looked like a big wiggler wiggeling away. I caught a 7' sandbar on the wiggeling hook. I stupid possum came waddeling down the pier railing one night and one of the guys that was there fishing (not with me) killed the ole possum and used him for bait. nothing ate the possum.

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