Favorite/Most Unusual Catfish Bait

[wtretrievers]

Ivory soap does work, used it years ago.

[Big Country7807]

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!

[Big Country7807]

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

[Top Dawg]

Yea. Right under the back of the dorsal fin

[Garfish]

Originally Posted by wtretrievers

Ivory soap does work, used it years ago.

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.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by Garfish

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'
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

[saute86]

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.

[jbart]

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

[Gasper Master]

Beef Gizzards, Hands Down!!!