catfish bait

[ho_shi]

cereal, big red soda and a little bit of vanilla or garlic

mix and kneed together into a paste and voila

dough bait

[ho_shi]

cherry coke is in wyo too
find u a link also cornmeal and coffee grounds for worms


PS IM A SHARK TOO LOOK OUT

[ho_shi]

http://www.bigredltd.com/
taste like bubble gum personally I dont like it that much

[hushpuppy]

Hotdogs and bologna.

[ladymohawk]

i think you can get catfish on just about anythnig ladymohawk

[ho_shi]

lol wish they would take more of my hooks instead of taking and running

[swampman]

grasshoppers mashed up and left in a jar with salt and garlic salt. caught fifty 4 inch grasshoppers in august, smashed em up, put em in a jar filled it half full of water then filled a quarter of the jar with salt, then the other quarter with garlic salt. shook it up. and now im letting it stand till it warms up in april, it kills em on hot summer days.

[ho_shi]

really they dont ferment?? think that would blow the jar up hmmm interesting then you ball them or what u do then??? how long the jar last??

[Timotha7]

For eater size channels I use liver, either garlic cured or fresh, and cut bait
(carp or big creek chubs)

For bigger cats I like live bait biggest channel I ever caught came on a
big ribbon leech on slip bobber
I like to fish for the big channels in same area I catch crappie,
crappie suspend in brush an the bigger cats in that lake tend to hang
right under them an start feeding at night

Flatheads I like to float a big creek chub on big bobber into the snags
an turns on small rivers round here (don't have big water)

Biggest flathead I ever caught came on pink twister tail when I was
fishing Des Moines river for walleye one nite (28 lbs or so best guess)

[ho_shi]

wow most of mine lake as i live about 3 blocks away

[wewamohawk]

swampman sounds like it would work;;;maurice

[ho_shi]

is wewamohawk and lady mohawk and the other mohawk (grizzly adams look a like) all related???? just wonderin havent seen this many mohawks since the days of the A Team

i pity the fool http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f350/Johnny61225/ATeam.jpg

[hushpuppy]

Um Boy, I bet that gets rank. Grass hoppers and garlic salt, Sounds like it would work for bass. Until it brews a little.

[hushpuppy]

As far as the Mohawk question goes. Kinda. Wewamowhawk and Ladymohawk are the loves of each others life. I believe the "grizzly adams" is there son in Kentucky. Very nice people. :)

[ho_shi]

gotcha ty

[swampman]

the grass hoppers havent blown up the jar yet, as for them fermentin and getting stanky the salt seems to keep them from rotting and its supposed to be stanky its catfish bait. i tried this last year and i couldnt get the lid off the jar at first, and when i tried to pry the lid off, i got the lid but the jar dropped into the water. we caught some nice eating cats for a few days after i dropped the jar. but after about 4 days the smell musta gone cause the cats stopped bitin in that part of the creek........ oh well ill see how it does as a bait this year......

[Schoe]

In the rivers in Ill. that I fish I have the best luck for Channel cats with Chicken Livers, Stink Bait (Sonnys), and Peeled shrimp that has been around a spell. For a while I had a person in the seafood section of a grocery store save me the shrimp that were getting a little high on the smelly list and there was no cost for those so that saved on the wallet. Schoe

[ho_shi]

have found with chicken liver take a small piece of momma hose and a rubberband holds it on longer

[Schoe]

When I first started using Chicken Livers I would use a large chunk and either would throw it off on casting or those Cats sucked it off the hook before I could set the hook. I tried the hooks with snaps without much luck so with nice fresh Livers I use a chunk about the size of your thumb nail and catch fiddlers and bigger cats up to 13 Lbs. on those smaller chunks. Schoe

[Schoe]

An old buddy of mine from Horse Branch Ky.(ya know where that is Soupy?) Makes a dough ball bait out of,
1 cup of Corn Flakes
1 Lb. Ground Beef
1 package Strawberry Jello mix
1 Tablespoon Garlic powder
Mix all together with enough water to
form a nice ball and keep refrigerated or
on ice.

My pal made a ball about the diameter of a nickel and either used a treble hook or a single hook and caught lots of cats on that mixture. Once in a while a Carp will take it and the fight is on.

Try this sometime and let us know how it works. Schoe

[ho_shi]

i'v been to ynot ariz
and one other i cant remember the name of darnit was a good one too

[Schoe]

Yes sir Soupy, right smack dab close to where Bill Monroe rests. Schoe

[Schoe]

Believe it or not I used to be able to do a reasonable job on Blue Moon of Kentucky before my voice got deeper. It hurts to try now. Schoe

[swampman]

hey soupy, is earl scruggs still alive? i love bluegrass and me and my grandma go to the walnut valley bluegrass festival down in springfield kansas every year. grandma brittingham plays the banjo and guitar and something called an autoharp?

[swampman]

during the summer i clean cars for an auction company, and we had to clean a car last year that had a large coon get into it, the racoon died and it was several weeks before the owner of the car figured out where the smell was coming from, we tore out the carpets and seats and replaced them. the smell was still there and we ended up scrapping the car.

[4rum]

The autoharp was the instrument of choice of 'Mama Maybelle Carter' of 'The Carter Family'. June Carter later married Johnny Cash.

Some folks here swear by crushed Mulberries in a dough mixture. I haven't tried it, birds get my mulberries before I can get enough ripe to try any.

If you live in an area where you have a supply of REAL scallops, keep some in the freezer. Take out a pack to go fishing and use them as they thaw out. The imitation ones don't seem to work.

[Rainman4u2]

Schoe is absolutly correct on those livers. I had been using big chunks with no avail, and after he showed me to use little ones, the bite was on. The shrimp worked great to. I prefer to use Wicked Sticky Dip Bait for ponds. It does not get used much around here, so it's a new and exciting smell to the channels.

Ray