best catfish bait - Page 3

Sooner Shooter · 05-11-2008, 10:09 PM

Those ole catfish will bite some weird things but for catfish here in Oklahoma, day in day out you would find it hard to beat good ole shad. In the mid and late 70's I would fish for catfish about 150 days a year and shad would be the ticket in my opinion. Worms would always get you a lot of bites and small fish but the big ones wanted shad. Got married in 1980 so the every other day fishing I once enjoyed changed to once a week but I doubt that the appetites of catfish changed.

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Originally Posted by ArkansasHunter

Some folks round here use road kill, the longer it lays in the sun the riper it gets and you can break pieces off then.
Just don't drink a lot of sprits when you use road kill for cat fish bait or you'll get very sick.
A.H

P.S. this bait works best in rivers or where there's a current !

EDIT: where rubber gloves because the smell is hard to git off your hands and also stay down wind of the hook while your baiting it.

You'll catch more dang cat fish than the law allows !!!

Are you messin with us A.H?

billy · 05-11-2008, 10:26 PM

can you just use a cat?

Sooner Shooter · 05-11-2008, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by billy

can you just use a cat?

I'm thinkin a cat road pizza maybe. Similar to toads that are on the road. Nice and flat to give super action in a strong current!

Capt'n Mil Coll · 05-11-2008, 11:17 PM

Heck we would just tie a rope around my neighbors little brother. Push him in the river under a certain bridge and he would crap his pants. And sooner than you can yodel stairway to heaven he would start screaming. We reel him in and there would be a nice catfish chomped on his lil foot.

soonerborn · 05-12-2008, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Sooner Shooter

day in day out you would find it hard to beat good ole shad.

exactly

squirrelbaster · 05-12-2008, 07:17 PM

best catfish bait = bubble gum!

billy · 05-12-2008, 07:35 PM

dynamite

we used to call it a dupont lure!

bellx1 · 05-13-2008, 03:10 PM

one time we used some night crawlers that had a green dye in em, and the worked real good, but I havent seen um since.
my uncle uses a real sweet mixture of a sugary cereal that is all crunched up and mixed with marshmallow creme. it turns into a sticky dough that is you stick on the hook. striper eat it up too.

squirrelbaster · 05-13-2008, 04:29 PM

we have a little bait shop over here thatsells those green night crawlers. never used them though

Deerhunter2007 · 05-19-2008, 01:14 AM

we use catarpa worms. most of you have probly never heard of them. but they work like a charm! another thing you can do is go buy a bag of maze put 3/4 of it in a 5 gallon bucket fill the rest with water put an airtight lid on it and let it bake in the sun for about a week. get some rubber gloves and a cup or can pour out a couple can fulls of it drop ur worm or perch right where you poured it and you will be catching them left and right!. I will take a picture of the worms if any of yall would like to see what they look like.

Nick Marciano · 06-01-2008, 07:56 PM

I use chicken livers. I roll them in some gauze then hook the whole thing. The gauze keeps the livers on the hook and keeps them from being nibbled off but they still release scent.

Nick10Ring@aol.com

tippmann7 · 06-01-2008, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Marciano

I use chicken livers. I roll them in some gauze then hook the whole thing. The gauze keeps the livers on the hook and keeps them from being nibbled off but they still release scent.

Nick10Ring@aol.com

thats one hell of an idea, il have to try that

jimkim · 06-11-2008, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Deerhunter2007

we use catarpa worms. most of you have probly never heard of them. but they work like a charm! another thing you can do is go buy a bag of maze put 3/4 of it in a 5 gallon bucket fill the rest with water put an airtight lid on it and let it bake in the sun for about a week. get some rubber gloves and a cup or can pour out a couple can fulls of it drop ur worm or perch right where you poured it and you will be catching them left and right!. I will take a picture of the worms if any of yall would like to see what they look like.

Catalpa worms were a good bait. I haven't seen any on our tree in ten years now. I guess the birds got all of them or maybe some disease.

soonerborn · 06-11-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by jimkim

Catalpa worms were a good bait. I haven't seen any on our tree in ten years now. I guess the birds got all of them or maybe some disease.

You know, i keep seeing this mentioned and so I gathered up a few dozen last year and fished them twice without catching anything, so I dont know. I aint saying they wont work, because we didnt catch anything at all on those days, i just havent had them work for me yet.

The two trees I got them from were LOADED with the little buggers.

roverboy · Yesterday, 01:20 PM

My brother in law used to make this bait with 1 lb. ground beef and 1lb. of limberger cheese. He let it ripe in the sun. He said don't put a lid on it because it will blow the lid off. I reckon it got pretty rank because he said use them plastic gloves they use at resturants. And dont inhale alot unless you wanna puke. Said it was rerally good bait.

05-11-2008, 10:26 PM	#42
billy spiritual counselor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca Posts: 10,865 Trader Rating: (0)	can you just use a cat? __________________ i'll keep an eye out for ya!

05-11-2008, 11:17 PM	#44
Capt'n Mil Coll Military Rifle Collector Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Right behind you. -NRA Member- Posts: 2,057 Trader Rating: (0)	Heck we would just tie a rope around my neighbors little brother. Push him in the river under a certain bridge and he would crap his pants. And sooner than you can yodel stairway to heaven he would start screaming. We reel him in and there would be a nice catfish chomped on his lil foot. __________________ Let's light this fuse and see what happens!

05-12-2008, 07:17 PM	#46
squirrelbaster Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,068 Trader Rating: (0)	best catfish bait = bubble gum! __________________ "My Shotgun SAYS I AM the POLICE !"--Mooseman684 "I like Turtles!" youtube kid

05-12-2008, 07:35 PM	#47
billy spiritual counselor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca Posts: 10,865 Trader Rating: (0)	dynamite we used to call it a dupont lure! __________________ i'll keep an eye out for ya!

05-13-2008, 04:29 PM	#49
squirrelbaster Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,068 Trader Rating: (0)	we have a little bait shop over here thatsells those green night crawlers. never used them though __________________ "My Shotgun SAYS I AM the POLICE !"--Mooseman684 "I like Turtles!" youtube kid

05-13-2008, 03:10 PM	#48
bellx1 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kalifornia Posts: 160 Trader Rating: (0)	one time we used some night crawlers that had a green dye in em, and the worked real good, but I havent seen um since. my uncle uses a real sweet mixture of a sugary cereal that is all crunched up and mixed with marshmallow creme. it turns into a sticky dough that is you stick on the hook. striper eat it up too.

05-19-2008, 01:14 AM	#50
Deerhunter2007 Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 4 Trader Rating: (0)	we use catarpa worms. most of you have probly never heard of them. but they work like a charm! another thing you can do is go buy a bag of maze put 3/4 of it in a 5 gallon bucket fill the rest with water put an airtight lid on it and let it bake in the sun for about a week. get some rubber gloves and a cup or can pour out a couple can fulls of it drop ur worm or perch right where you poured it and you will be catching them left and right!. I will take a picture of the worms if any of yall would like to see what they look like.

06-01-2008, 07:56 PM	#51
Nick Marciano Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 10 Trader Rating: (0)	Best Catfish Bait I use chicken livers. I roll them in some gauze then hook the whole thing. The gauze keeps the livers on the hook and keeps them from being nibbled off but they still release scent. Nick10Ring@aol.com

Yesterday, 01:20 PM	#55
roverboy Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Moss,Tn. Posts: 58 Trader Rating: (0)	My brother in law used to make this bait with 1 lb. ground beef and 1lb. of limberger cheese. He let it ripe in the sun. He said don't put a lid on it because it will blow the lid off. I reckon it got pretty rank because he said use them plastic gloves they use at resturants. And dont inhale alot unless you wanna puke. Said it was rerally good bait.