Reply With QuoteA piece of common eel about the size of the first joint of your thumb is hard to beat, and I kid you not at all! 'Course, first you gotta find an eel...
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What do you guys like for catfish bait this time of year? Fishing saline/larto this weekend and gonna have some jugs and maybe a trotline. I usually use chicken liver and shiners. thanks for any input
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A piece of common eel about the size of the first joint of your thumb is hard to beat, and I kid you not at all! 'Course, first you gotta find an eel...
Pete
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I saw a 48qt. ice chest full to the top, no ice, with catfish that were caught on shinners on yoyos this past weekend at Larto. They also had over 50 nice crappie as well. I also saw a guy setting out yoyos and before they got finished baiting at about 6pm they already had 8 on the first yoyos they baited.
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Just put a crappie nibble on there
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not sure how I'm gonna get that eel?? lol. always do well on shiners w/ cats during the winter, curious if you guys use anything else.
Keeper
Hello, Use Cold Worms. You only need a small piece on the hook and a box will bait about 100 hooks. Also small crawfish that maybe raked in the ditches is very good. Good luck.
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All right, sacman, I'm going to load you up!Originally Posted by sacman
And I'll die and go straight to the devil if all this isn't the truth!
Rabbit meat (Had planty of rabbit and needed some catfish fillets bad one winter!), shrimp (The older the better), half a pogy, live cocahoes, gold Johnson "Sprite" spoons (Caught my biggest one - 28 pounds - on one of these), crawfish - live or dead, fly rod poppers (Work good on Lake Fausse Point!), but that piece of eel is hands-down the best!
And as they say in the oil patch, "That ain't no, uh, stuff!" (Well, that's not quite how they say it, but you can probably guess it!) :D
Pete
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Hot dogs!! All we use is hot dogs, the cheaper the better!! I think there was an article on LA Sportsman about the best bait for catfish and it was one of the best or the best one on the list. Im hoping to run some this weekend at Larto.
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I tried that Zote soap once, but not with any success. I usually stick with cold worms, shiners, shrimp, liver, or small cut bait from bream. I don't know that any of these are affected by seasonality (except the heat on the soap), so I'll usually grab whatever's easiest. Seems I've read of people soaking hotdogs in garlic or something like that too. No idea if it works or not though.
Guppy
Cold Worms and crawfish and inch or so long are definitely my favorite. shinners and bream cut bait usually work well too but the gar like them as well.
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