Many years ago there was an article in T&S about carrot lures, as in wobbling lures similar to Kynoch Killers made out of carrots.....
My old man said it was tosh, would never work etc etc. Because he'd said that I was, naturally enough, determined to prove him wrong
The more I read it the more I was compelled to give it a go.
At the time I had Loch Shiel on my doorstep and my own boat on the loch, I trolled a lot for big browns and salmon and had already experimented heavily in fabricating my own wooden kynochs/plugs from bits of pine, oak and even teak. So the idea of making one from a carrot didn't seem so odd
I didn't catch a damn thing on my first couple of efforts with the carrot lures, just couldn't get them to swim how I wanted at trolling speed. But an invite to fish Loch Tay had me rushing off and I threw in a couple of the bigger carrot lures I'd made (about 5" long) wheras the largest I'd used before was almost half that size.
The upshot was after a long day on the Loch with nothing to show I set the trolls down the south side of the loch at the Croft Na Caber end and for the hell of it put a bloody great carrot lure on. 5 minutes in and one fresh salmon took. Half an hour later and the same rod with the carot lure 'went' again and a nice 'bow about 8lb came to the net.
So we called it a day as the one carrot lure that had worked got 'munched' by the 'bow and had broken
I've never used one since, mainly as I rarely do that sort of fishing any more and if I do I use more conventional lures.
But it
worked and it remains the strangest bait/lure I've
ever used
Hamish
