VIDEO: Man Tries to Use a Big as Bait for a Huge One, but Things Don’t Go As Planned

In the video below a man tried to use a big fish to catch an even bigger one.

He did this with just his hand and held it over the water.

While it is quite weird to do it this way, using a big fish isn’t actually a bad idea as most great fishermen know.

Watch the video to find out what happened because things didn’t go quite as planned and there were some quite weird moments.

According to fishingthemidwest.com, one thing that can have a very dramatic effect on the chances of catching big fish is fishing waters known to have trophies, and ideally, lots of them.

For example, the Rainy River in the spring is known for producing lots of 8- to 10-pound walleyes, and even bigger fish each spring.

For that reason, I do everything I can to clear my schedule to get on the Rainy at least a day or two each spring.

And, in fact, I have caught my year’s biggest walleye from the Rainy several times on the year’s first open water trip.

Another example of fishing the right water when trying to land a trophy fish involves the booming population of smallmouth bass currently roaming Mille Lacs Lake.

Not only are there lots of smallies swimming in the lake, but lots of them are fish four-pounds and bigger. Mille Lacs has lots of those size fish, and some even bigger, fish in the six- to seven-pound range!

Being on water where big fish live is important, but so is fishing that water when the fish are biting well.

June is a great time to land big fish as lots of fish species are now recovered from the spawn and feeding aggressively.

Another great time to land numbers of fish and a real trophy is fall.

Fall fish are feeding aggressively in preparation for winter, and that, along with reduced fishing pressure on lots of the best fishing spots, increases the odds for catching good numbers of fish and some big ones too.

Anglers can often increase their odds for a bigger fish catch by increasing the size of the bait being fished.

Big fish can obviously handle eating a bigger-sized baitfish, and they can be more efficient by targeting a bigger “meal,” meaning they eat less often.

Anglers can take advantage of this situation by using larger bait offerings.

A great strategy lots of tournament bass anglers utilize is fishing smaller baits to catch a limit of fish, and then try to upgrade their catch with a bigger “kicker” fish or two.

When attempting to upgrade their catch, many anglers trade their smaller finesse baits fished on spinning gear for a big skirted bass jig and plastic trailer fished on heavy line and baitcasting tackle.

Tournament walleye anglers also use this strategy as well, particularly when fishing where slot limits mean a tournament team of two can only have two fish measuring twenty-inches or longer in their daily catch.

In this situation, jigs tipped with medium-size minnows or plastics might be utilized to catch “unders” – fish under twenty-inches.

Those offerings are then traded for big chubs in the six- to eight-inch size range fished on live bait rigs to try to target bigger “overs.”