Bass who like chicken

[MurphyAtkins]

Dear all,
Does anyone else have any experience of Bass eating chicken
A few years ago I caught a small Bass and when gutting it found a piece of Roast Chicken from a drumstick in it's stomach. I dismissed this as a one of weird event; until.......
Last month, whilst out in the boat off Bournemouth one night I had some roast chicken in my tuck box. Having consumed the meat I threw the bones over the side of the boat. I then moved back to the harbour to collect a friend and then we headed back to the same mark (marvels of GPS). 4 hours later I caught a Bass and in it's stomach was two of the chicken bones !!!!!
So not only had this Bass randomly eaten one bone, it must have gone looking for a second to consume.
I'm not suggesting Chicken bones as a new Bass bait, but interesting how they seem to like the flavour !!!!!

[JT]

I know people fish for Mullet using chicken as bait. Good idea I reckon, KFC is open all hours so you will never go short of bait

JT

[Brian]

In NZ chicken legs were meant to be good. So was calves liver soaked in paraffin to toughen it up. Honest - this is true.

There I often caught fish which had eaten the gills of fish I had gutted. Maybe try a bunch of mackerel gills?

[MurphyAtkins]

I can't PLUCK the courage up to try chicken !!!!
Nick

[Brian]

You saying you're chicken, then?

Enough of this fowl language.

[Ron]

was it a hen or cockfish?
regards
Ron

[george]

chicken skin works in pompey dockyard ;D

[Corrie]

Chicken catches bass in Plymouth sound but its not as good as the usual baits.

[Faggot features]

It is well know that Bass like chicken in the Portsmouth Harbour Area - they have got used to the fact that quite a lot of chicken scraps are thrown overboard from the big ferries which are in and out of Portsmouth daily. On old bloke I know puts a couple of lines out with 2/3 hooks baited with chicken on each and comes back to collect his bass 2/3 hours later. Very unsporting but he simply wants to catch a couple to sell or put on his plate!

[plaice face]

bantom or rhode island red,hmmmm !,sounds like rotten eggs to me

[me]

Aint fair! i bin trying for years to catch a bass an now you say even them thar chickens is doin it? ;D ;D

[codzilla]

In a fishing book my mother in-law picked up at a car boot sale it suggested using bacon rind so maybe i could try chicken and bacon on a two hook flapper.

[Dynaglide 0]

I read a report in one of the angling magazines this week about Black Bream taking sweetcorn. Anyone else tried this? <)0)><

[Tim]

::)Around Cowes (isle of wight) Bass can be caught on Cheese, Burnt sausage, & I've even gutted one which had eaten Corned Beef. This is especialy common around Cowes week when all the boats (thousands) throw food overboard.

Like any preditor they won't pass up a free meal that's why we can manage to get them to eat food with bloody great hooks in not to mention bits of coloured rubber,metal & plastic (lures etc) !!!

I Still find peeler crab at night & lures & bubble floating by day the most effective though.

One thing I would like to know is what are the common factors in big Bass catches ? or is it just luck ?
Tight lines

[sid rogers]

i work on a tug in portsmouth naval base. after eating are tea of chicken we thrue the bones over the side. then later that night i caught six bass the bigest was 11lb 12oz. but the two small ones had chicken bones in them. this year i have also caught a 11lb 13oz bass on cheese,

[dave collins]

8-)there you have it the abundance of fast food outlets ie food waste from boats and harbour cafes make tough work like waiting around to ambush other creatures seem like hard graft and the path of least resistance is down hill so try chicken where its plentifull and it might be a lazy fat territorial basse's downfall but dont expect to catch fish on chicken mc nuggets in places where the bass havent seen a cafe literaly. ps dont try caviar if you come across a venue with a posh bistro at its shore. good luck

[Ben]

Sometimes this fishing lark is just eggasperating. Well someone had to say it!

[Animal]

this really is quite interesting, are we going to end up with bass like foxes in cities that do not know what to do when the bins are removed? the only problem i can see is that 10 years down the line some politician will spend several million on an inquiry as to why british bass are over weight and borderline obess.. in the mean time lads are we talking free range chicken or is it just a load of old turkey?

[paulhoward]

I have seen Bass caught on Bacon off what used to be Sandown Pier on the Isle of Wight, it seems to me that we might all be using the wrong bait!!!

[blueboo]

Guys take a look at the northwest forum it seems that it is not only bass that like chicken!!!!! very interesting that they are similar threads for two different fish