Hey guys, I just have a few questions about catfishing.
1. Is catfishing any good from the shore yet?
2. I have a few snakes and I feed them frozen mice and rats. And sometimes they won't eat, and I can't refreeze them. And I was wondering if was legal to fish with dead rats and mice? And if they would be a good channel catfish bait?
Thanks so much guys.
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Yes and yes. Guess it depends on where you go, but at least in my areas - the cats are moving in shallow to stage for spawning, or to do the deed.
As for rats, mice - I'm not aware of any regs that say you can't use them. Might need to "open" them to let any juices, scent flow. But where chicken/beef livers are commonly used - can't see why not.
Cats are pretty opportunistic omnivores. They do like carp and sucker mean, as well as shrimp, worms, hot dogs.
[#0000FF]Both legal and potentially good bait...especially around Utah Lake this time of year. The voles (a mouselike rodent) are swarming around the lake in mating frenzies. Many of them swim out into the shallows and either drown or disappear into the gullets of bass, catfish or northern pike.
Here is a pic of a vole found in a catfish off the Knolls a few years ago. Several of the cats we caught that day had voles in them. One fish had 3.
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That's a pretty heinous pic TD, not exactly what I would want to find in a fish I'm going to eat hahaha
to the OP all I do is fish from shore and I've had a lot of luck catching cat from shore. Caught one last night in fact, I went out to just kill an hour or so and pulled one in.
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"That's a pretty heinous pic TD, not exactly what I would want to find in a fish I'm going to eat hahaha"
[#0000FF]It's all just edible protein to a catfish. Unbelievable the number of things you find inside them if you fish for them a few years. Their digestion system can process just about anything.[/#0000FF]
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