Grasshoppers.

[Oldcountryboy]

Do you have an abundant supply of grasshoppers around your house? If so they make real good fish bait. Go around high weedy area's after dark with a flashlight and a container to put your grasshoppers in. The grasshoppers climb up on high weeds when dark falls and they are easy to catch. Just shine the light on them and quikly grab them. You'll have a bottle full in no time. The last several days I've been catching bass, perch, and catfish on live grasshoppers.

[mothernature]

I've got a great way to catch them: just let my hair down out of the pony tail and walk across my front pasture and in no time I have at least 2 dozen in my hair!

[braggscowboy]

If you have the right kind of weed and grass, like Johnson grass, you can set up a minnow seine up in front and drive the into it at night. Legs will stick to it and it seemed to work when I was a kid.

[moocow]

put a wool blanket down. Their legs get caught. Easy pickin.

[backwoodsman]

We use to drive along our country gravel roads with a wool or fuzzy blanket hanging out the window and catch plenty. Cicada's were here this year and they were great bait.

[Oldcountryboy]

I now have about 40 plastic bottles filled with grasshoppers and in the freezer, waiting to be used at the fishin hole.

Not really planning on using that many as I thought maybe swinging by the camp ground and seeing if any campers would want to buy a bottle or two to fish with. Thought about selling them for maybe $1. each. I only have about 2 dozen grasshoppers or better in each bottle.

That should pay for my next case of bottled water and ice that I buy and carry in my icechest whenever I'm out running around.

[braggscowboy]

Old country boy, you think of everthing. A country boy can survive. I guess if they don't sell, one can eat them, raw or fried.

[backwoodsman]

Ive only had luck on live ones.

[Oldcountryboy]

Originally Posted by backwoodsman

Ive only had luck on live ones.

Been kind of busy with other things the last couple of weeks, but I had been catching several catfish, sunfishes, and small mouths a few weeks ago. All on dead grasshoppers.

I would fish with a bobber for the bass and sunfish, at about 2 feet deep, and whenever I came across a sunken log/log jam/or eddycurrent I would take the bobber off and fish off the bottom. Just kind of let the grasshopper float by as if the current brought it in.

Hopefully, I'll get to go often this fall and load up on sandbass and crappie. They love grasshoppers, dead or alive, also.