04-05-2007, 03:21 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Chicken liver is for lazy midwestern cat fishermen who believe that catfish only feed at night...and on stink baits.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I seldom fish them at night, and I have found that natural baits work far better over all. I use fresh dead (or frozen) minnows that I catch and preserve myself. I also use fresh pieces of carefully filleted and stripped carp or sucker meat. Fresher always outproduces "aged" stuff for me.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I fish the bait without weight, tossing it out and slowly moving along in my tube, letting the bait move naturally over the bottom. Catfish often roam, and are seldom all in the same spot. Moving helps me find more fish. I fish with the bail open on my reel, and when a fish takes the bait, I let it move off for a short time without setting the hook. Then, I close the bail, let the line come tight and WHAM.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching one of the writeups I do to help answer questions from folks to whom some of my methods are not clear. This system not only works for catfish, but for many other species as well.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I seldom fish them at night, and I have found that natural baits work far better over all. I use fresh dead (or frozen) minnows that I catch and preserve myself. I also use fresh pieces of carefully filleted and stripped carp or sucker meat. Fresher always outproduces "aged" stuff for me.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I fish the bait without weight, tossing it out and slowly moving along in my tube, letting the bait move naturally over the bottom. Catfish often roam, and are seldom all in the same spot. Moving helps me find more fish. I fish with the bail open on my reel, and when a fish takes the bait, I let it move off for a short time without setting the hook. Then, I close the bail, let the line come tight and WHAM.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching one of the writeups I do to help answer questions from folks to whom some of my methods are not clear. This system not only works for catfish, but for many other species as well.[/#0000ff]
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