If you freeze them they will be mushy when they thaw out and will not stay on the hook. They are good live bait for flatheads.
Okay so I have a little neighboorhood pond where i live and its got big bass, bream, and unfortunatly green sunfish. Them things are super predatorial and pigs.
What I was thinking is I could catch some tiny ones, freeze them and put them on the bottom for channel cats in the ross barnett.
Has anyone done this before?
If you freeze them they will be mushy when they thaw out and will not stay on the hook. They are good live bait for flatheads.
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If you can catch some just before you go catfishing and use them as cut bait that would be the best. You may be able to pickle them, although I have no idea how to do that.
like they said the fresher the better. i use gills for flathead bait all the time. they are easy to get and keep. i usssually have 20-40 in this tank
in my basement, just for that. gills are also very hardy on the hook and will last for hours. one of the best channel cat baits i have found is "danny kings punch bait". that stuff, flat out, out fishes cut bait 4-1 most days! and it stays on the hook, where most wont.
I perfer live Green Sunfish. The Channels here love em. I use biggest ones I can get to deter the Channels when Flathead fishing. I used to set limb lines in the river or noodles on the lake for Flatheads. Durn Channels would'nt stay off my hooks.
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did someone mention flatheads? a 20 year old daughter of a friend here caught a 53 lb flathead using glodfish.