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I've never been a live bait / jigging kind of guy. I'm into spoons and spinners and trolling (kingmann now knows why too)
Kingmann took me out last weekend, put a minnow on my jig head and told me to catch a catfish. Wow what a rush. It was a great fight and a real thrill, thanks Kingmann.
Now my question is pretty simple. What is an alternate bait for catfish other than minnows. I've even heard people use hotdogs but I forgot to ask what kind of bun. Kingmann had good success with worms too but I can see going through a few dozen pretty quickly. I even heard about people using pork rinds but at $6 or $7 a small bottle it can add up pretty quickly.
Mr.J, Cats have a really keen sense of smell so what ever it is it has to be smelly(or have smell to it). You should PM Xenos for a stink bait recipe, he and a neighbor made a stink bait from cheese and all kinds of other stinky stuff and let it rot in the sun and fun stuff like that. It is on it's second year of frementing and apparently will work wonders. The problem is that no wants to open the jar
Funny you should ask. Float Fishin has got me hooked for evening shores fishes for the cats and am I doing fairly well.
So far I have used ( With good success)
Pork Liver ( 1.50$ ) - I cut into strips and I add a garlic scent to them
Shrimp ( 6.99$ for a ring ) - These I put fresh garlic into a zip lock withe shrimp and let them soak in the stink .
Both have worked equally well and and having a blast.
To Note: Shrimp never needs to be changed or rescented I have found. Whereas the Pork Liver I find actually slightly cooks in the water and gets tougher (red to grey meat colour ) so I keep changing the bait.
That being Said at 1.50$ ( 3 or four days worth of meat ) its not that bad of a way to go) Normally we pay for the meat and share it amongst 3 or 4 guys.
My method is a jig head with a hook at 45Degree angle sticking up.
One bait that i would use if i went out cat fishing would be trout (feed) pellets. I've used them a lot when carp fishing but not in canada. I know a few people that have and they were pestered bad with cats some decent ones too.
All you do is add some water to dry trout pellets to form a paste and mold some around your hook and away you go.. It really stinks and stays on the hook well..
Now where you'd find trout (feed) pellets around here i'm not sure... I know shur-gain an animal feed company sells it but mostly in the maratimes. Also if you know of any trout farms you may try t osee if they'd sell you a bag.
I've always used slow sinking pellets straight out of the bag as loose feed for carp and in france and the uk this has been a very successful method.
You guys have me thinking now. The Parry Sound side of the bay has channel cats, Greymist always takes liver pate on our trips (cat food IMHO) maybe mixed with bread and made into a ball, anyone ever try it?
If you want to catch a lot of cats use chicken liver. Farm Boy in Kanata sells it fresh (and cheap) If previously frozen it doesn't work as well. BUT, if you want to catch big cats, in the 10 lb. range use as big a minnow as you can find with a slip sinker. We have found that the minnows, up to 6 inches, work best when they are dead. Best ones are the local ones, not the canned variety. Find a good hole and good luck.
All I can say to that is rotten beaf dipped in rotten chicken livers. During the catfest me and partner could not keep them off of our lines, and for some strange reason they hit the yellow jig-heads way more the the other colors.
Word of caution the smell will make you gag, to say the least and try to keep the wind at your back at all times.
Hotdogs, yes hotdogs work really well, unforunatly unlike worms or minnows you'll only get cats and not the odd smallie or walleye, but they sure seem to like hotdogs.
Kingmann had good success with worms too but I can see going through a few dozen pretty quickly. I even heard about people using pork rinds but at $6 or $7 a small bottle it can add up pretty quickly.
If you want to catch a lot of cats use chicken liver. Farm Boy in Kanata sells it fresh (and cheap) If previously frozen it doesn't work as well. BUT, if you want to catch big cats, in the 10 lb. range use as big a minnow as you can find with a slip sinker. We have found that the minnows, up to 6 inches, work best when they are dead. Best ones are the local ones, not the canned variety. Find a good hole and good luck.
