Catching Fish with no Bait on Hook

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john ledger

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I was fishing a small lake for crucians yesterday when a trange thing happened midway through the outing.I was fishing pellet and feeding micro sinking pellets and decided to change from the pole to rod.
Replumbed the depth and was testing for shot when the float slid away(no bait on)and on lifting the rod a small crucian was hooked fair and square,casting in again i caught a further two fish with no bait.
The hook was a size 15 silver wide gape nickel and it could have been the glitter that the fish where attracted too.My mate Mike Townsend came down and i was telling him about it plus the fact i kept hooking fish for a short spell after with no bait on the hook.Mike seemed to think there was so many fish in the swim they where competing for anything and i tend to agree.
These where not F1 carp and the fishery was not a commercial,could the reason have been one of the following
1 The glint of the hook (i can take that one)
2 The amount of fish in the swim(yes i can take that one)
3 Yorkshire carp are bloody stupid(nay never)
4 The answer i like most came from my mate in the pub"John these fish where in the presence of a greater being"
Now why did not i think of that,i bought the lad a pint
 
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Only joking mate. You get days like this you will no doubt go next time and not see a fish never mind a bite.
 
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If you had a lot of bait in the swim i think that they were so preoccupied feeding on the pellets that you put in that they didn't even notice your hook. I certainly don't think that they were attracted to the hook glinting, i would think that glinting hooks would scare carp away.
 
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john ledger

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Never happened before Bryan and i doubt if it will happen again.I fouled hooke about 5 crucians and thats never happened before.
FM could do with a spellchecker because i have posted a few lately double checked the spelling only to find during the posting a spelling mistake appears
 
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john ledger

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Double checked that one and its my fault more haste less speed
 
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Christian Tyroll

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John , when i was fishing with my dad last year, we almost caught a pike on plum weight!!
The fish held on to it for a while, before giving up and dropping it. We could see it was a pike as the water was only shallow and the water was clear!
Then 30secs later it attacked it again!
also caught a little bream on nothing, i left the unbaited hook in the water whilst setting up another rod, picked it up again and there was this littlee bream attached.
Talk about stupid...
 
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john ledger

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Christian
Are you sure you have not met me before and shook my hand because you are truly blessed
 
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Christian Tyroll

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But why would a pike attack 1/20z weight with a bit of cork on the bottom? i guess it could have remotly resembled a fish fallin through the water!?
 
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Paul Clarke

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i have this happen twice , both times it was small rudd and both times it was with a gold coloured hook !!! I'd go for the colour of the hook having something to do with it.
 
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ive caught on a bare hook at Boyleston lake, ,it was a bright sunny day and the hook was a nickel colour all fish were small carp about two three ounces, i put it down to the hook glinting, as it moved through the water we watched these little fish chaseing the unbaited hook in the margins
 
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Steve King

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Nearly happened to me once fishing for barbel. The meat flew off the hook whilst casting and a pike seized the bare hook on the retrieve. I played it for a short while before the hooklength was bitten through!
 
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I once caught a small Perch on a local canal on a bare hook, when I was checking the shotting on my float.

I didn't get a bite for an hour when I put a maggot on. Ironic.

If you're from Yorkshire you might want to skip the end of the last paragraph.

To add fuel to the debate there is a specialist stalking pattern in fly fishing circles called the red hook. It's just that.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA-Life Member)

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What - a whole one?

I have caught lots of trout with a hook painted with red nail varnish in the past. It works well during the winter when the trout are grubbing bloodworms on the bottom.

The best catch of fish I and some friends took years ago using bare gilt hooks was about 30 - 2lbs plus rudd on the Inner lakes of Lough Ree in Ireland in the 60s.
 
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I was fishing in Ireland a few years ago on the Erne and cast out my open-ended feeder only for it to be taken on the drop by a pike. I had it on for a good few minutes before it freed itself from my feeder which came back ragged to bits.

The trip was also my first (and i hope last ) encounter with the dreaded zebra mussels.
 
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I caught my first dace from the River Nidd on a bare hook while checking teh shotting on my stick float.

I also caught a small perch on a bare hook on a pole rig while doing the same. It was still June 15th, I was preparing for casting in at midnight and I was worried that I would have my tackle confiscated!
 
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I was fishing a lake a few years ago with 2 rods - one on waggler a few meteres out and one on quivertip down the margins to the right, using luncheon meat as bait.

I hooked a small carp on the waggler, which was going nuts in the margins, so I swung my leger rod up and lay it on the reeds to my right. The meat was quite soft and had fallen off the leger rod hook by this point, leaving a bare size 10 suspended about 6 inches below the surface.

Imagine my surprise when, as I was unhooking my fish, the tip on my leger rod started tearing round. The result? A 6ib 8oz common carp, cleanly hooked in the mouth.

Madness - but hugely entertaining! Not at all dissimilar to a zig-rig though. If the carp boys can catch on a lump of foam floating around mid water, why should a bare hook be much different? I believe cruising fish will simply suck anything in (out of curiousity?) that lies on their path on the right day.

Mike.
 
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I had this happen to me twice in one day John with bream at wentworth a couple of seasons ago


I'd been fishing the feeder but changed to the pole but carried on chucking the feeder out with nowt on the hook just to keep some bait going in

nothing special about the hook, just a standard whisker barb, The only thing I could put it down to was the hook being hoovered up with the groundbait by accident
 
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