Green sunfish for catfish bait?

[Spawn]

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?

[bflowers]

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.

[Phil in MO]

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.

[river scum]

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.

[NIMROD]

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.

[olduckhunter]

did someone mention flatheads? a 20 year old daughter of a friend here caught a 53 lb flathead using glodfish.

[NIMROD]

did someone mention flatheads? a 20 year old daughter of a friend here caught a 53 lb flathead using glodfish.

Never heard of those old timer? We use Goldfish sometimes.Rofl Buddy of my from Carlise uses Goldfish alot, but I perfer Ricefield Slicks (Green Sunfish).