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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: BananasQ on July 06, 2015, 11:52:23 AM

Title: Fishing for shiners - "artificial" baits
Post by: BananasQ on July 06, 2015, 11:52:23 AM

Hi - just got back from a weekend camping at Montague Harbour and did some fishing with the kids, which they always love.  We fish for Shiners on the dock and even managed a striped perch this year as well as some as yet unidentified black ones with silver stripes. We use tube worms for bait and the fish love it, but someone on the dock mentioned that they are protected there and we shouldn't use them. I'd be quite happy to use an alternate bait (prawns, powerbait, etc) does anyone have any recommendations?  Also, what size hooks would people use? We were using #12 but the hook ups were rare, but we had no gut hooked fish (as little kids often miss the strikes).

Title: Re: Fishing for shiners - "artificial" baits
Post by: SPEYMAN on July 06, 2015, 12:00:10 PM

Garden worms, mussels,shrimp for shiners. Try small crabs from under shore rocks for perch.

Title: Re: Fishing for shiners - "artificial" baits
Post by: Fish or cut bait. on July 06, 2015, 12:03:55 PM

Bugs like horse flies and such...

Title: Re: Fishing for shiners - "artificial" baits
Post by: Fish Assassin on July 06, 2015, 01:26:40 PM

Tiny bits of beef. Last forever.

Title: Re: Fishing for shiners - "artificial" baits
Post by: BananasQ on July 06, 2015, 03:03:38 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions (and any more)! I may organize an experiment with the kids to test a few of these.