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