[Sooner Shooter]

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.

Quote:       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]

can you just use a cat?

[Sooner Shooter]

Quote:       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]

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]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Sooner Shooter

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

exactly

[squirrelblaster]

best catfish bait = bubble gum!

[billy]

dynamite

we used to call it a dupont lure!

[bellx1]

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.

[squirrelblaster]

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

[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.

[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

[tippmann7]

Quote:       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]

Quote:       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]

Quote:       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]

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.

[unclejer]

Catch a carp cut it up and put it in a covered bucket in the sun for about 2 weeks drain the oil out (WEAR A MASK) or you will get sick mix with a little blue cheese until thick liquid put sponge on your hook and dip it then watch your pole if you look away it will be gone. Small blue gill also work well just hook them like a minnow. This old man who used to fish where we did also used ivory soap.

[tws135boom]

my fishin partner and i go out on the river a catch 8-10 little bluegill, about 1 1/2 to 3 inches long and my bud prefers to cut them in half while i like to use them whole and hook them just below the dorsal fin.
but fishing still water or on a big lake i have always had good luck with chicken livers or gold fish.

[pontiac_fiero_g]

chicken liver wrapped in panty hose and tie them up so you have a little sealed bag full of liver and bait in your hook. or canned biscuits preferably butter flavored

[GotCoffee]

Raw shrimp (let it rot a little though)

[cb671]

I've seen people here catch catfish with a good ole piece of SPAM!