Chicken for bait

[Tin-Can]

This weekend found me low on chub fillets and no time to catch more. Desperate times call for desperate measures so i rummaged through the freezer and found some very old chicken, perfect. A quick Google search found several thousand recipes for catfish marinade. Cherry kool-aid sounded interesting and tuna fish oil looked promising so i made a batch of each.
This morning found me at Willard Bay trolling fligs, one tipped with chub the other with chicken. The cherry chicken accounted for 2 cats, the fish oil chicken also landed 2 cats but had many more hits and the chub caught 4. Which brings me to the question, how do you keep the chicken on the hook? Those sneaky cats were pulling it off the fligs almost as fast as I could replace it, they really liked the tuna oil chicken.
The only idea I have is to tie it to a hook shank and fish it on a Santee rig.

Greg, get some of this from Amazon. It's a small diameter finger bandage gauze. Works kind of like a Chinese finger trap only softer. 
Pull out about an inch, tie a knot in the end, pull out another 2 inches, cut it from the roll.
stuff it with whatever bait you want to use (I use it for chicken livers)  then tie the cut end.
Feed a circle hook thru top knot, then back into and thru bottom knot. 
Works best (for me) when it's on the bottom. If you troll, or drift drag it, it pretty much knocks all the bait out, leaving a tangle of gauze thread. 
I've not tried to use it with fligs. Depending how much bait you stuff in one of these, it may be too heavy for a flig to float. Santee rig with a bit bigger bobber, maybe. 

I'm planning to be out on Willard tomorrow (Tuesday) and I always have a roll of it on the boat. If you are out there, stop by, I'll cut you off a couple feet.