Chicken for bait

[FatBiker]

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.

I usually use skinless chicken thighs.