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    Catfish bait

    What is a good bait for jug lines. I have been using worms, but I need something a little bigger and easier to handle. I saved some small perch and cut them up to try.

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    Try using the whole perch, don't cut them up. Hard to beat shad if you got the stomach for them and they are available. When we were younger we used to seine and used a lot of crayfish.
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    Best I’ve used were fresh shad. Toss a net and get a bunch if they’re available.

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    A guy who works on the Mississippi river told me when he uses chicken gizzards, he tried chicken livers nd they are good but they fall apart. You might try some beef liver, it would probably work and hold together better than chicken livers.
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    Catfish chunks work good too.

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    Cheapest frozen uncooked shrimp you can find. She’ll keeps them on the hook. Flavor/Stink best ever. Your welcome.

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    If you want blue cats, shad is by far the best you can use, whole or cut. I hear herring are just as good, but haven't ever found any.

    For flatheads, you need something live, like perch, bluegills, crawdads, or goldfish. Shad are OK, but they die if they can't keep moving forward, so they don't last long.

    Channel cats will eat just about anything with enough smell for them to find. All of the suggestions above are good.

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    We use chicken livers up here .
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    [QUOTE=BigFishSteve;11241571]Cheapest frozen uncooked shrimp you can find. She’ll keeps them on the hook. Flavor/Stink best ever. Your welcome.[/QUOTE

    This is what I use

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    For the big Blue and Flatheads skip jacks win the most money, I am talking about 40 plus pound fish.

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    Cut up bass.

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    Depends what you're trying to catch. Channel cat you can use pretty much anything. I've even had luck on hot dogs. Blue cats I use fresh cut shad or skipjack, when I can find it. Flathead is usually live bullhead or bluegills.

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    I use for our channel catfish pork loin cut into one inch cubes that has been marinated in vanilla and garlic for four days, Then left out un the sun for another day before using. Other baits up here used are Goldeye, Whitefish, Suckers and Tullibee plus frozen shrimp and frogs. I have even caught them using a dead drum that was floating bye, it was so ripe when cut into it but had a double header within two minutes.
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    Cut up bass.
    This.

    Been a long time since I fished for Catfish but I remember getting Crawdads and breaking the tail off and getting the meat out and using that. If you let them sit out in the sun for awhile they will stink something awful but you will kill em.

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    Pig nuts, really works, when I was growing up I would be waiting for dad to cut the pigs, caught a lot of cat fish using this as bait.

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    Fresh shad is the best

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    Around here Mullet chunks work really well.

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    Best catfish bait I ever found was by accident. One of the first bycatches we had for a day was an eel. We cut that slimy thing up into rings and absolutely slayed the cats all day long.
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    What ever I’m using for Bass fishing Lol!

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    Deer heart. Very very tough, juicy, and holds scent well(garlic powder). Just caught a bunch at Ky. Lake last Sun. morning.

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