Anyone attest to this?

[Bob Wright]

Heard of this method of fishing years ago for use in places where dynamite is too disruptive:

While in an apparent good spot, toss several Alka Seltzer tablets overboard into the lake. The fizzing attracts fish which come up and gulp down the tablet. The fish will bloat up and float to the surface.


All you have to do is scoop 'em up, burp them, and put them in the live well.



Bob Wright

 

[mohavesam]

Kinda like hiding in a tree and using corn and stout line and hook, "fishing for pheasants!

 

[opos]

Kinda like hiding in a tree and using corn and stout line and hook, "fishing for pheasants!

Shhhhh...don't tell every one...

 

[Jeepnik]

Heck, even the USAF recommended grenade fishing when I was in. Although, I think if I were somewhere that I were carrying a grenade I'd rather save it for the original reason I was carrying a grenade.

 

[Paul B]

Kinda like hiding in a tree and using corn and stout line and hook, "fishing for pheasants!

Back when I was a kid living in San Francisco, my next door neighbor had chickens. Dunno if people can do that there these day but this was in the late 1940's, early 50's. One day messing around I found out I could catch a chicken if I had a worn on the hook. Neighbor never did figure out where a few chickens disappeared to. My folks had no problem cooking the birds but did make me stop. :(
Paul B.

 

[wunbe]

How many grenades did USAF personnel carry? Why, except to kill fish?

wunbe

 

[BRL]

They probably came up for the Alka Seltzer after the headaches they got from the dynamite and grenades. :)

 

[Jeepnik]

How many grenades did USAF personnel carry? Why, except to kill fish?

wunbe

I gotta find the old pocket size survival book we had when on flight status. It's in there.

I personally never carried any grenades. But there was this one bunch of maroon bereted fellows who did. And trust me, if you aircraft went down, or you unit was pinned down and your guts were hanging out that maroon beret was the pretties thing you ever saw.

These guys put the "special" in special forces.

 

[gramps]

During WWll, my father was in the engineering corps. He was in France and Germany building bridges, and clearing the roads as our guys advanced, then blowing up the bridges, and roads as our guys retreated. Ie they were in front of the supply lines. Food was scarce. They did use grenades to "fish". They also used their M1's to take deer, cattle, hogs etc.. I never heard of using the Alka Seltzer. I am going to give it a try.
gramps

 

[Colonialgirl]

During WWll, my father was in the engineering corps. He was in France and Germany building bridges, and clearing the roads as our guys advanced, then blowing up the bridges, and roads as our guys retreated. Ie they were in front of the supply lines. Food was scarce. They did use grenades to "fish". They also used their M1's to take deer, cattle, hogs etc.. I never heard of using the Alka Seltzer. I am going to give it a try.
gramps

Alka Seltzer Sounds GOOD to me; We got a small "pond" up the road which fills to the brim in a rain storm, think I'll give a whirl there.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

They also say, I've been told, it does a number on Seagulls.

 

[graygun]

...only if they suffer from acid reflux

 

[BearBio]

Baking soda, flour, sugar, and cornmeal makes a good rat poison.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Baking soda, flour, sugar, and cornmeal makes a good rat poison.

I don't eat dead rats>

 

[Galaxiedan]

Baking soda, flour, sugar, and cornmeal makes a good rat poison.

I don't eat dead rats>

The live ones are harder to chew though ;)

 

[Merle1948]

They also say, I've been told, it does a number on Seagulls.

why yes it does!!! :mrgreen:
miserable flying rats anyhow....

 

[Merle1948]

Baking soda, flour, sugar, and cornmeal makes a good rat poison.

I don't eat dead rats>

so you don't do Vietnamese food? :mrgreen:

 

[Viking Queen]

Speaking of dead rats/mice and fizzy stuff....pour coke into a shallow dish and place against a wall where you are having rodent problems. They are attracted to drink sweet stuff. Rats drink coke, can not burp, sort of explode from the fizzies....end of rat problem. :-)

 

[Number9]

Dad told me when they were young, they would use an old crank telephone and run the wires into the water... turning the crank would shock the fish which floated to the surface.
It was "calling'm up"!

UT uses a boat rigged with electric generator, when they test an area for fish... it doesn't kill the fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0rdRSC6xPo

 

[Colonialgirl]

Baking soda, flour, sugar, and cornmeal makes a good rat poison.

I don't eat dead rats>

so you don't do Vietnamese food? :mrgreen:

NOPE !!

 

[Fox Mike]

Can't speak for Alka Seltzer but know for a fact that artillery simulators dropped in the water WILL produce fish.

 

[Tom W]

Years ago I used to slice a plastic worm and put a half of a fizzy or Alka Seltzer in the slit and fish with it. Tom Mann told me about that trick. The fizzing attracted the fish. Shortly thereafter he made the " kangaroo worms" that had a pouch built in and little fizzing balls that fit into the pouch. Don't believe they caught on too well. People also put a small plastic rattle into the pouches.

 

[dougader]

using too much dynamite on a small river will part the waters for just a second... or so I've heard.

 

[opos]

The method for taking game back in the late 40's and early 50's near the Denver stockyards was pretty inventive...A small community of packing house workers called Globeville housed a large population of black slaughterhouse workers and the pay was pretty minimal...so they did what many poorer folks do..they improvised.

The stockyards had several elevated walkways that ran the length and part of the width of the stockyards...and the pigeons by the thousands roosted up under the overpasses...they were everywhere and fed on the grain left in the excrement from the cattle...making "corn fed pigeons"...the Globeville folks would gather up big wads of used bailing wire from where hay had been fed to the cattle waiting to be sold...they would sort of "ball it up loosely" and sneak along under the overhead walkways...the pigeons would come out from under and the people got close and they woulde toss the big loose ball of wire up in front of the birds and normally get one or two tangled up and the whole mess fell to the ground....grab the birds, wring their necks and move to the next spot...we'd see them with gunny sacks full of dead pigeons as they headed home to clean the birds...

Never tried a stockyards "squab" but lots of folks lived on them.

 

[#1rugerman]

I doubt it, fish normally move away from a disturbance in near by water so by the time that they would come back the fizzing of the alka-seltzer would be over , nothing to swallow.

 

[exavid]

A .357 or .44mag does a good job for fishing. Very good for getting Grayling as well. No waste either if you shoot in the water close but don't hit them because they'll be stunned but shortly recover if you should happen to get too many. Of course in all the years I lived in Alaska I never would have done such a thing it's very unsporting.

 

[Tom W]

I never saw a seagull have a problem with an Alka Seltzer.

 

[Jeepnik]

I know nothing of alka seltzer fishing. But I can attest that it is unwise to put an firecracker in a bee hive.

 

[Merle1948]

I know nothing of alka seltzer fishing. But I can attest that it is unwise to put an firecracker in a bee hive.

unwise for who? :mrgreen:

 

[Jeepnik]

I know nothing of alka seltzer fishing. But I can attest that it is unwise to put an firecracker in a bee hive.

unwise for who? :mrgreen:

Did you know humans can not outrun bees?