08-17-2007, 01:03 AM
What species are you targeting? What do you WANT to catch? I was under the impression you were after bass. Stupid me. It sounds like you are after cats mostly.
A few ideas to throw around. Take it with a grain of salt.
1st, catfish are extremely omnivorous and will eat almost anything.
Having said that, there are places and times they will only hit one thing or nothing all together.
2nd, there are hundreds of baits that people use for catfish. Where i live, i can name a few that are old stand-by's
chicken liver
red-side shiners
chubs
night crawlers
beef liver
shrimp
carp and all the gross parts of them
hot dogs(the cheap bar-s kind) yes they work around here
little smokies
chicken gizzards
anchovies(have been working well lately)
store bought dough bait(berkly power bait stuff)
The list goes on and on and on.
My advice to you if you are going to target cats is to have 3 or 4 of these on hand and try them until you find what they want. If you take 4 things and don't get bit, take 4 others next time.
If i had to choose the top 4 to take with me if i went right now, it would be: chicken liver, chubs, shrimp, and night crawlers.
I am not sure of your states laws, but if you can use 2 or more rods try something different on either rod. I am assuming you live in the south east, not sure, but i would think most of the states west of the mighty mississip allow live bait or parts of game fish. If that is the case, catch a few gills or breem and fillet them out and use a side of that. Usually the forage base species of the particular body of water work very well on catfish. I am now getting too intense for myself so i hope some of this will help you. Good luck.[cool]
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A few ideas to throw around. Take it with a grain of salt.
1st, catfish are extremely omnivorous and will eat almost anything.
Having said that, there are places and times they will only hit one thing or nothing all together.
2nd, there are hundreds of baits that people use for catfish. Where i live, i can name a few that are old stand-by's
chicken liver
red-side shiners
chubs
night crawlers
beef liver
shrimp
carp and all the gross parts of them
hot dogs(the cheap bar-s kind) yes they work around here
little smokies
chicken gizzards
anchovies(have been working well lately)
store bought dough bait(berkly power bait stuff)
The list goes on and on and on.
My advice to you if you are going to target cats is to have 3 or 4 of these on hand and try them until you find what they want. If you take 4 things and don't get bit, take 4 others next time.
If i had to choose the top 4 to take with me if i went right now, it would be: chicken liver, chubs, shrimp, and night crawlers.
I am not sure of your states laws, but if you can use 2 or more rods try something different on either rod. I am assuming you live in the south east, not sure, but i would think most of the states west of the mighty mississip allow live bait or parts of game fish. If that is the case, catch a few gills or breem and fillet them out and use a side of that. Usually the forage base species of the particular body of water work very well on catfish. I am now getting too intense for myself so i hope some of this will help you. Good luck.[cool]
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