Fishing with herring

[Gunking1]

When fishing with dead herring , should you fish like cut bait or whole.

 

[red neck richie]

Whole. Live is obviously better but they are hard to keep alive. I have caught a lot of fish on dead ones though with slow trolling or down rods. Unless you are targeting cats the cut bait seems to work better.

 

[Gunking1]

Thanks

 

[nccatfisher]

Depends on what you are fishing for.

 

[41magnum]

Whole. Live is obviously better but they are hard to keep alive.

We never had trouble keeping Gizzard Shad or Blueback Herring alive in a tank, when striper fishing, after a capful of Hypno was dumped in......is that stuff still around?
It sure helped reduce "rednose" that stripers din't like at times.

 

[nccatfisher]

We used salt, keep alive and defoamer when needed and have kept them 48 hours or better. All you have to do is have a decent tank, and that tank better have a good filtration system to it, that is key. They are some nasty bastids and will puke their guts up when you dump them in there. If you clean the filters a couple times soon after catching them you are usually good to go. One of the things many use now is called G-Juice, the ones that use it swear by it.

I have never heard of Hypno, but that doesn't mean anything.