Author Topic: Salamanders?? (Read 7561 times)

shrub · « **on:** Apr 05, 2006, 05:46 PM »

i have a minnow trap in a pond by my house and when i checked it today there was about 3 doz. salamanders and a couple tadpoles. so i was wonder if salamanders and/or tadpoles have any value as bait

vipercat64 · « **Reply #1 on:** Apr 05, 2006, 06:32 PM »

I'm no expert, but I believe that in southern ponds and lakes, the plastic/rubber salamanders are very effective on bass. I think it has something to do with salamanders eating the eggs, and the bass attack them aggressively. So the salamanders might be useful as bait, not sure how to hook them though. As for the tadpoles, they may be too small, but I am sure that predators will go after them.

crowkiller · « **Reply #2 on:** Apr 05, 2006, 06:35 PM »

im not sure if you are allowed to use live salamanders for bait

vipercat64 · « **Reply #3 on:** Apr 05, 2006, 06:41 PM »

Not sure either, I'll check the NY regs...he is from Vermont though.

venisonman · « **Reply #4 on:** Apr 05, 2006, 06:45 PM »

Try imitating salamanders with a small spinner and appropriate length black plastic worm.

Cast it let it dead sink, wiggle it fairly fast towards the surface then dead sink it again. Repeat.

Watch your line on the sink....won't feel it ....look for a hesitation and set the hook. Watch how the salamanders do it and copy 'em!

Fishingking · « **Reply #5 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 05:03 PM »

Did you catch Salamanders or Newts because bass dont like newts they taste funny so they will grab them and spit them out quickly

crowkiller · « **Reply #6 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 05:23 PM »

i think they were newts he said he cought them in a trap

Skipper · « **Reply #7 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 05:25 PM »

Put them in an aquarium or let them go, newts are crap for bait.

bassjunky · « **Reply #8 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 05:33 PM »

Im pretty sure there was an identicle thread last season. I think the outcome was that there were a lot of areas where you were not able to use them as bait...

Hood · « **Reply #9 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 06:14 PM »

brookies love em

Skipper · « **Reply #10 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 07:55 PM »

Quote from: Hood on Apr 07, 2006, 06:14 PM

brookies love em

newts or salamanders?

Hood · « **Reply #11 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 08:06 PM »

eastern newt i think...the ones that are in a lot of adirondack ponds....I have found them inside brookies many times

Skipper · « **Reply #12 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 08:18 PM »

what do they look like? The ones I have seen are about 4" long and have skin like a wart toad. The dog wont even touch them. I was told they were newts, but I could be totaly wrong.

Hood · « **Reply #13 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 08:23 PM »

here ya go skip! the ones I see in the bellies look like the 5th one down next to where its talkin about life cycles

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/eastern_newt.htm

Fishingking · « **Reply #14 on:** Apr 07, 2006, 08:40 PM »

Hood are you talkingabout the Red-spotted Newt?? There are 1 and 2 lined Salamanders that live in streams

This ugly bastard

are the ones that I see bass grab then spit out right away.

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