Cut Bait

[lovetofish]

What is your favorite cut bait that you use and why. Chub, white bass perch etc.  Do you use chunks, strips or ?

I see some posts from people asking about fishing for Chubs at Lost Creek and was curious about what most people like to use.

[AFDan52]

I like to use Chub at most tof the waters that I visit , but I will use Cisco at Bear lake for the Cutthroat Trout and Lakers.

[wiperhunter2]

I like to use Chub at most tof the waters that I visit , but I will use Cisco at Bear lake for the Cutthroat Trout and Lakers.

I agree with Dan, I use Chub the most but it will likely depend on what body of water you fish.

[Kent]

What is your favorite cut bait that you use and why. Chub, white bass perch etc.  Do you use chunks, strips or ?

I see some posts from people asking about fishing for Chubs at Lost Creek and was curious about what most people like to use.

I use chub the most and I fillet them and vacuum seal them with or without salt.

[TubeDude]

Lots of potential minnows and cut bait options...if you follow the regs and can find the fixins.

I am attaching a few PDF writeups that should help a bit...including one from former BFTer "Old Coot"...who is now fishing in that big pond in the sky.
  PROCESSED PERCH.pdf (Size: 1.49 MB / Downloads: 8)
  FREEZING MINNOWS.pdf (Size: 363.25 KB / Downloads: 5)
  Cutting Chub for Bait.pdf (Size: 622.34 KB / Downloads: 11)
  CARP MEAT PREP.pdf (Size: 1.82 MB / Downloads: 7)   

I also have a mega-writeup on MINNOWS that is too large to post on BFT under current conditions.  Has lots of pics and help on catching, rigging, and fishing several different kinds of Utah baitfish.  If anyone wants it, send me your email address and I will get it to you.

[JazzyM]

Yayyyy! More PDF’s!

[SkunkedAgain]

Lots of potential minnows and cut bait options...if you follow the regs and can find the fixins.

I am attaching a few PDF writeups that should help a bit...including one from former BFTer "Old Coot"...who is now fishing in that big pond in the sky.  

I also have a mega-writeup on MINNOWS that is too large to post on BFT under current conditions.  Has lots of pics and help on catching, rigging, and fishing several different kinds of Utah baitfish.  If anyone wants it, send me your email address and I will get it to you.

Hey Pat, I hadn't heard about Coot... Unfortunately I lost contact with him when he moved to Washington or Oregon or where ever that was.. and we didn't hear from him on the forum any longer... That's too bad, I enjoyed the conversations we had and appreciated his help when I first started chasing the whitefish at Bear Lake during the spawn... Guess I'm not very good with keeping in touch with folks outside of the forum.. Thgnks for that news... Later Jeff
PS... Guess you haven't heard anything about Gary, forget his handle, but know he wasn't in the best health last time I heard from him...
        He taught me the fine arts or down riggers and a really nice guy... Hope he's still doing okay...

[wiperhunter2]

Lots of potential minnows and cut bait options...if you follow the regs and can find the fixins.

I am attaching a few PDF writeups that should help a bit...including one from former BFTer "Old Coot"...who is now fishing in that big pond in the sky.  

I also have a mega-writeup on MINNOWS that is too large to post on BFT under current conditions.  Has lots of pics and help on catching, rigging, and fishing several different kinds of Utah baitfish.  If anyone wants it, send me your email address and I will get it to you.

Hey Pat, I hadn't heard about Coot... Unfortunately I lost contact with him when he moved to Washington or Oregon or where ever that was.. and we didn't hear from him on the forum any longer... That's too bad, I enjoyed the conversations we had and appreciated his help when I first started chasing the whitefish at Bear Lake during the spawn... Guess I'm not very good with keeping in touch with folks outside of the forum.. Thgnks for that news... Later Jeff
PS... Guess you haven't heard anything about Gary, forget his handle, but know he wasn't in the best health last time I heard from him...
        He taught me the fine arts or down riggers and a really nice guy... Hope he's still doing okay...

https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/showthre...id=1105763

You must have missed this post Jeff.

[TubeDude]

Hey Pat, I hadn't heard about Coot... Unfortunately I lost contact with him when he moved to Washington or Oregon or where ever that was.. and we didn't hear from him on the forum any longer... That's too bad, I enjoyed the conversations we had and appreciated his help when I first started chasing the whitefish at Bear Lake during the spawn... Guess I'm not very good with keeping in touch with folks outside of the forum.. Thgnks for that news... Later Jeff
PS... Guess you haven't heard anything about Gary, forget his handle, but know he wasn't in the best health last time I heard from him...
        He taught me the fine arts or down riggers and a really nice guy... Hope he's still doing okay...

Ralph (Coot) did move up to Washington to help his daughter build and run her business. He came back to Utah a couple of years ago, but had sold off his boat and all his fishing gear.  But he got back into some fishing in Utah, although not like before.  His wife has been ailing for several years and it was a surprise that he died before she did.  What she told someone who told me was that he was just out in the front yard and slumped to the ground.

Coot was a hoot.  He had a fine mind was well educated and prided himself on being ultra-organized.  One of my fave memories of him was on the first trip I joined him in his boat to fish for whitefish in Bear Lake. I got to his garage by O dark thirty and he had the boat hooked up and ready to go.  Then he took me for a tour around the boat and in the car...showing me his detailed  checklist.  And the checklist included another checklist for launching, with a detailed step by step to be sure he didn't leave out anything or fail to properly hook everything up for hitting the water.

The rest of the story?  With the boat already backed up to the water, for me to finish backing him in to launch, Ralph was searching frantically in the car...for the checklist.  Then he remembered he had left it on his workbench at home.

I used to keep a long list of the BFT members...by given name and by user names.  It was a looooooong list.  But in the last few years it has been decimated.  A lot of members just quit dropping in.  But a lot have also made "horizontal exits".

[SkunkedAgain]

Thanks Curt and Pat, sorry guess I did miss that post... Thanks for the info on that, to hear but hopefully he's on a pond without drought problems and with lots of big ones.... Good to remember a friend... Thanks Jeff

[RockyRaab2]

I fished with Coot once and can confirm his devotion to checklists - and to Spam and jalapeno sammiches.