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While at my son's school this week, I happened to look at their bulletin board and saw a photo from the local paper of a school kid (7 yrs) who caught a nice rainbow trout off the Skaneateles pier while fishing with a worm and marshmallow.

OK, now I know kids will reach for odd things to fish with, as I did the same when I was little....but....

I'm wondering if the marshmallow is actually a common practice as it acts as a kind of float? (assuming this is a mini marshmallow, folks!)

Anyone ever hear of this, or better yet fish with a marshmallow??? Floatfishin'...?!



W.

First for me..

Heaven forbid My kids would never waste a marshmallow, when they could eat it

Pretty neat though, should get an "A" for ingenuity

when I was growing up in Alberta, I fished with my dad for bows with marshmallows quite a bit. I remembered they used to sell scented (garlic I believe) marshmallows in all sorts of colors.. pink, green, red.. It was always in my dad's arsenal of baits.. along with nightcrawlers, corn, popcorn, and salmon eggs.

I was at Olcott NY and these guys were fishing with marshmallows on the bottom at the dam and getting nice 10 pounders with ....I have heard them used for salmon but trout....guess so!

Well...there you go!

Marshmallows!!!!

I never would have guessed, but I suppose it makes sense after all.

If it were M&M's or something chocolate, I'd have trouble restraining myself from raiding the bait bucket.

W.

As Akira mentioned growing up in AB marshmellows were the most popular bait for rainbow trout. As mentioned they used to sell many different colored ones with various sents. I was a cheapy so I just used the multi colored minis. They were very sucsesfull bait and a nice snack too.

Rex , you an AB'er too ? We missed out on our $400 bonus! lol

Akira wrote:Rex , you an AB'er too ? We missed out on our $400 bonus! lol

Yes but I have been out here for about 7 years now

years back have fished Bronte Peir with them on the fall salmon runs.
best for me was a 31 lb chinny.

Every rainbow I have ever caught has come on a cherry flavoured (pink) marshmallow fished about 6" above a bell sinker sitting on bottom....

All two of 'em

Sure have, I use them alot with a blown up worm. Some people even use jube-jubes beneath their float. Must be the sweet bait,lol.

I'm finding all of this candy stuff for bait both amazing and hysterical!

W.

Bite the head off a gummy bear in stained to semi clear water, and drift er under a float,,,,, Yupppers!!!! Just like a single egg best times for that is Oct when the Salmon have dropped or in the process of droppin eggs, and the bows, and brownies gobble em up!!!!

The sweet taste to the gummy or jube jube, makes em hold on for a hook set!

Also doesn't hurt to drift one in dirty water with some of your favorite scent

F.F

Proof from the the man! I will have to give it a shot at Le Brasserie this year

When I fished the salmon at the mouth of the Credit in Mississauga, we would use a spawn sack with a large marshmellow (slightly stale to help it last longer in the water) and a big worm. It worked absolutely amazingly for both salmon and rainbow. I have also used bits of coloured sponge as salmon/rainbow bait and hooked several chinooks on stretches of the Credit through Mississauga.