what do you guys use for good catfish bait
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Back in the day, we used to toss a can of dog food with holes in it into a spot that might attract some catfish or as we refer to them up here horn pout. Wait until later that afternoon or early evening, and toss a worm on a hook on the bottom. Now we toss the dogfood like chum, and use a worm on a hook set to the bottom.
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Make a nasty, stinky paste. The nastier and stinkier the better. Someone mentioned chicken livers...a pretty basic ingredient. Essential even. But the secret is cheese. It doesn't have to be stinky cheese, because it will be. Mix whatever sounds good or gross together. Put it in a jar or can, covered if you're going for the long marinade, or uncovered for a day out on the roof. Get some of those spongy baits with holes in them made specifically for this stuff and catfish, or just use chunks of sponge. Dip 'em into the goop, let them soak it up. You can also play with the consistency. Anywhere from dipping slime thin to thick pasty baitball is good.
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Catfish are like any other fish you gotta match the hatch so to speak.You gotta give them what they are eating if you really want to be consistent.After a late frost and a fairly cold winter I caught some channel cats on nightcrawlers.I decided to see what they'd been eating and in their stomachs each one had a ball of nightcrawlers and directly behind the nightcrawlers was an equal sized ball of rollypollies.They had been eating rollypollies the week before when it was to cold for nightcrawlers to come out.Now, a prespawn male flathead will bite a treble hook if you put it in front of his face.
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