Has anyone ever used 'Velveeta cheese' as fish bait?

I've only been fishing three or four times in my entire life. When I was 15, I was fishing with some friends and we weren't getting anything. There was a couple of older gentlemen nearby who were pulling fish out of the water like it was going out of style. Naturally, we were quizzical over what we were witnessing, so we approached them and asked what they were doing to be so successful. They said to us, and I quote "velveeta cheese with a bit of garlic powder, and some flour mixed in." We went and got some, tried it out, but to no avail. We didn't catch any fish.

Were we had? Or does this method actually work. I was 15 when this happened, I'm now 31, and reflecting back on it I'm inclined to lean on the former.

 

When they are REALLY biting a cigarette butt with WD-40 sprayed can work too.

 

I'll take this as we got had.. Thanks

 

Yeah most likely. They were probably using it but of course the fish may have been biting on anything at the time. The Velveeta cheese was a new one for me, heard many of ones like that over the years.

Best to have some kind of bait on the hook for the most part.

Your post did give me a good chuckle. I grew up with many old timers that would try all sorts of things for bait.

 

I think that the velveeta is plausible if you were fishing for stocked trout. Some times for these trout there is nothing better than orange trout paste, some paste it also garlic flavoured.

 

As Dave mentioned the cheese and garlic isn't much different than orange trout paste . People catch rainbows on corn which isn't even animal protein like cheese. I haven't personally tried cheese but caught brookies on spinners tipped with raw bacon when a bare spinner would result in follows.

 

A friend of mine uses it for stocked trout. He buries a pair of treble hooks spaced 2' apart in a ball of velveeta and sets the bottom hook on bottom and the other one is then a couple feet off bottom. He catches some decent trout in the same lake I fish for stocked trout. Last winter at first ice he caught a 4lb and 6lb Brook Trout first day out!

 

Never but it makes killer smoked queso

 

So we weren't had? Those old guys really were trying to help us kids pull some fish from the pond?

I'm not exaggerating, these guys were pulling fish after fish out of the water using this bait. Then again, we had no knowledge of how to fish whatsoever and were using these very basic garbage rod & reel combos from Walmart..

Edit: your friend wasn't from the Camrose area, was he?

 

No he is from Lloydminster. No they were not pulling your leg either. When my mother was a kid she grew up in Wawa, Ont and had access to some of the best brook trout fishing available in Ontario in the early 50's. She often told a story of a family outing one day where they caught 66 Brook Trout on the Michipicoten River using pieces of cheddar cheese on a hook as they floated the river.

 

Good to know, thanks for sharing this. I take it trout like the taste/smell of cheese?

 

I would assume so since there are folks that use it for bait. Never tried it myself. I cleaned a Rainbow the other day that had corn in it's stomach. I guess someone was chumming with corn. I recall a fisheries manager I used to shoot skeet with years ago telling me trout couldn't digest corn? I assume they can't digest plastics either as I've caught fish with plastic baits in them that looked like they had been in there a long time.