any catfisherman out there bait help

It might be the place you're fishing.

Sometimes places get fished out, or have other factors that are detrimental to a fishery.

m checkig on that as well, trying a new hole tonite, was gonna weight, but the fever struch me...

sorry awful spelling

Waaaaay back when I was young, we used to trot line for catfish and used ivory soap. Cut into tiny cubes. Nope, not kidding.

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Originally Posted by wolfy-hound

Waaaaay back when I was young, we used to trot line for catfish and used ivory soap. Cut into tiny cubes. Nope, not kidding.

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Here is to soap in the catfish mouth :rolleyes:.Thats a first of hearing this being used :P

Try using strawberry soda and unsweetend corn flakes(mashed into stick balls)...The best formula out there!

Yep, I've heard of Ivory soap. Supposed to be the oil it's made with or something.

Here in Missouri, we catch a lot of channel cat with chicken liver, but there is a catch to it. We use rubber bands to hold the liver on the hook. Yep, rubber bands. We buy those packages of like 500 little pony tail rubber bands for $1.00 at Wal-Mart. Thread your liver on the treble hook like usual, then you take one of those little rubber bands and wrap it around the liver and hook shank two or three times before you cast. You can catch two, sometimes three cats off the same piece of liver that way. And it's a lot harder for smaller fish to steal your bait.

Channel cats here also eat shiners, so they make good bait. Grasshoppers are also good, but not as good as Cicadas. Nightcrawlers also work well, but it's a lot harder to keep other fish from taking the bait.

The one that surprises most people is marshmallows. That's right, I said marshmallows. You'd be surprised at how many catfish will hit a marshmallow. Seems they've got a sweet tooth, like a trout does.

Gale

Use a piece of a hot dog, works every single time for me in Lake Lanier

thank you all, as we speak im righting down recipies. thinking of using hot dogs and dipping them in a concoction, mabye som dip bait, instead of tubes hot dogs, lol idk taking it all in, and yea i've heard soap before

well to bait them in you can get a can of catfood and tie it to a rope and toss it over the side.... then usually you can catch em with livers. Ya I say a bp.net fishing trip to santee cooper would be awesome!