If you want the bigguns, live bait is the way to go.
When we were at Monticello Friday I had one rod set up for catfish. First small perch we caught, I cut a strip off and put out on bottom. Drug it around several spots and never got a touch so when a really small perch came aboard I hooked him under the dorsal fin and let him swim around for some time. No luck on that either.
I've caught a lot of smaller cats on night crawlers and minnows but was hoping for a bigger one. How are y'all rigging and fishing for the big cats?
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
If you want the bigguns, live bait is the way to go.
Well I had a small perch swimming around until he died, maybe an hour.
I did get a 28# one at Murray with a big minnow I got at the baitshop. Can't remember exactly what they called it wasn't herring or anything like that but about 4-5 inches long. They were in the tank with the crappie minnows(separate section).
Mark 1:17 ...I will make you fishers of men
Dieter posted a YouTube video recently using Menhaden. Seemed to catch a few.
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If you can get live gizzard shad that's my favorite bait to target bigger blues and flatheads. Although in the winter time they can get a little more dormant. Like last year all of my better cats came off smaller pieces of cut perch and "bass minnows". It was like they wouldn't go after small live perch or perch heads. I've got to get back out there soon and try my luck with them again. It's been almost a month since my boat has been in the water.
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What I usually do is get a real small crappie minnow and go crappie fishing. Usually end up with a big'ol cat screwing it all up.
Filleted crappie. (legal here)
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Happens to me all the time
Oh I could wrestle a monster fish