Thread: No bait

Buy a bucket of waxworms & put them on a small jig or hook about 6" under a float .... pitch it out close to rocky banks and catch Green Sunfish .... cut the Greenies up and bait your Catfish rods. Then the kids get to fish for fish to catch fish with ... double fun !!

Or teach them how to catch nightcrawlers (after a good rain or after watering the yard).

Hotdogs, Beef Melt, Chicken Livers, Chicken gizzards, etc. (anything bloody or with a heavy scent, even if you have to add the scent) will catch Catfish.

A buddy of mine uses popeye jigs & waxworms about 18" under a float on steep rocky banks or cliff ledges for bedding Bluegill, and catches many Catfish in the process. I catch my share on jigs, cranks, & Road Runners when Crappie fishing.

Leaves are on the Catalpa trees the worms will bot be long behind them. If you are lucky enough to find some worms you can freeze them in cornmeal and they work just as well as fresh when thawed out and placed on a hook

And don't forget these guys .... if/when they show up in your neck of the woods :

There’s a big mayfly hatch on Clarks hill right now. The crappie are tearing them up as soon as they hit the water. They’re like little piranha.

Chris


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Originally Posted by NCkenner

There’s a big mayfly hatch on Clarks hill right now. The crappie are tearing them up as soon as they hit the water. They’re like little piranha.

Chris


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That is always a good problem to have

Myself I'd go with a natural bait. Chicken breast soaked in garlic powder and jello! :-)

Bluegill works well. I've been catching 5-10 lb catfish lately with chicken breast cut into small chunks and a spoonful of minced garlic.

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Only been fishing for cats bigger than bullheads about a year and a half now. Only thing I've caught them on is chicken breast with garlic powder and trying minced this year and sometime kool aid mixed in. My son catch's them on night crawler's but I haven't then again I don't have them much either. Problem he has is other type's of fish hit his worms too, have only had cats hit chicken breast. Wait, I did catch a couple on chicken liver but a pain to keep on the hook. Used to use beef liver for bullheads and it stayed on the hook very well, calf liver is hard to keep on the hook also.