Favorite/Most Unusual Catfish Bait
 

I know the classics (live perch, crawfish, gizzards), and the unusal (like soap?? and red hotdogs) but whats your favorite catfish bait?

We used to have slat traps in Bayou Ramos when we were kids, I remember this stinky "cheese" we would pack into the front corners of the trap...

Stuff came in a 5 gallon bucket from LaFluer's Dairy in MC.

Nasty, nasty :puke:

Hydro

Favorite=live blue gill

My dad used to buy that stuff in a drum. That's was some nasty stuff.


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Live: baby bullhead carp
Cut: slicker

X2 on the slicker (skipjack)

Cast net for some cut mullet, sometimes live crawfish, and gizzards.

I use cut pieces of Slim Jims at the neighborhood pond and catch channel cats w/ em. Also a good ole nightcrawler will do.

ive heard soap before. whats up with that?

They like clean breath. :-)


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I use the cheese in my hoop nets and slat traps before the water,warms up. After that I use soy cake

Ive herd cut eel's work well also. Cut mullet is good too.

I use hotdogs seasoned with garlic powder or minced garlic.

catfish belly meat works wonder's its tough and stay's on hook long time.

That's canabolizard like my son says. Lol catfish belly meat!

My grandpa always used live bream, but during duck season he would only use duck guts and fill the icechest. I've also heard chicken guts work real good.

I used cut eel before. For some reason they ones with the fins worked great and the ones with the little legs hardly caught anything

Live bream hands down......and baby bass are the bomb on flatheads

Live bream for ops

Cut bait - skipjack is great, pogies good too

Market shrimp is real good too on the MS River

Have heard the soap thing, but I saw a show where commercial fisherman were using plain ol Ivory soap. I don't think just any soap will work, I wouldn't go out there with Irish Spring:) They used this because it was cheap and stayed on the hook. The other bait they were using for trotlines was .....those big marshmallows:confused:

I've always heard that Ivory soap is the only kind that works...though I've never tried it

Typically use whatever is available at the time...bream, crawfish, night crawlers, cut gizzard shad

Ivory soap does work, used it years ago.

Bullfrog Heads and the back Feet!!! Might not catch that many, but they will be nice! You will be suprised that some of the smaller ones will stuff that foot in its mouth too!

When using live bream, where do you hook them? Through the Back?

Yea. Right under the back of the dorsal fin

My Paw Paw used it on his trotlines in bayou Sorrell/Pigeon. I was the one cutting it up in the boat. Also he used Catalpa worms he raised back in the day.

Those are my favorite catfish baits, and make good baits for bream too. We used to catch em and freeze em in corn meal. Some people would say they would come back to life when you unfroze em, but never saw that. There could be a whole new thread on 'what people call catalpa worms':rotfl:
Uncle called em catawba worms, i have heard togger worms, katogger worms

One other catfish tip we learned is that when setting wooden slat traps it was best to set the throat down. Always heard to face it downcurrent and the fish would swim up and that works, but someone suggested hanging the entrance to the trap about one foot off the bottom (we tied a brick on a one foot rope, set it down and pulled it up til it got heavy) and the catfish will swim up into the trap. It doubled the catch

We use to use the cheese wrapped in panty hose but one of the best was spoiled pork liver. During the spawn we would leave a female full of eggs in our slat traps and never had a trap tht wasnt full of fish.

Forgot about the catalpa worms. My dad used to "turn em inside out" with a stick. Very good bait.

Beef Gizzards, Hands Down!!!