cat fishing

[sageur]

what do you use for cat fishing bait: Me I use a simple rig witch is atexis rig red  hook loaded with fat heads with an orange float held down with a 3/4 ouncs barrel sinker. In the boat or on shore. Use the same when going for Sturgeon

[jjmoser]

I use a drop shot almost.  I tie a hook on to a sinker with about a 2 ft or so peice of mono.  then I make a double uni knot attached to the main line on my pole.  I make the end with the hook come out about 8 inches or so when i make the final knot.  I fish off a dam usually for channel cats and this rig helps keep the bait just off the bottom.  For bait in the day I use berkly gup nightcrawler natural color near dusk I switch to cut gills. 

[DR.SPECKLER]

i use a slip sinker rig with a nice strong catfish hook live blugill for bait sometimes ill slash the gills for some blood flowage. for channel cats i use cutbait.

[gonephishin]

I caught them on everything this year from hair jigs to rattletraps to a hunk of Carp.  I caught the one in my Avatar on the piece of stinky carp I found on the bank, with a size 2 hook and a small splitshot and 8 pound test line, my walleye pole.   nothing special.

[jdisci]

Chicken livers, either drifted weightless while wading,or on a bobber or bottom from shore.

[icefisher69]

the best bait i have found for the really big one's 25-40 lbs! you have to have a strong stomach,i let my chicken livers set out and rot for 4 or 5 days! they kind of firm up a little when they rot,so they stay on the hook better! give it a try!

[Litchfield Fisher]

well generally fishing for cats all I do is bait a trap and set it up on the front lawn 

[bearsfan]

Boy, I really had great sucess with G&S Cheesebait when I was living in Illinois. If any of you come across any of that stinky stuff I highly recomend buying some.

[mud_n_fun]

We caught ours on pork liver today. It's what I had in the freezer yesterday when I decided to thaw out some bait for today. It worked great.

[walleye1]

We caught ours on pork liver today. It's what I had in the freezer yesterday when I decided to thaw out some bait for today. It worked great.

Great pic!

[sperrin]

plain and simple a pickeral rigs with night crawlers or leeches..... always works for me. A 6 pack of bud also helps.

Stevo

[pooley]

herring chunks on the hudson river! ( i was fishing for stripers )
 

[rgfixit]

Pooley,
"Rolly Polly fish heads are never seen drinking cappuccino in
Italian restaurants with Oriental women.
Yeeaahh !"

Dr. Demento "When you're hot, You're hot!"

You're a sick man.....Yeaahh!
RG

[Big Brother]

Got this one using shrimp set 3' under a slipbobber drifting in the current                                                     

[panfishman13]

i just use the remains of the small perch we use for bait during ice season, use a head or a tail or just throw the guts on, i freeze it beforehand but dip it in some sort of scent before sending it out i prefer a drop shot rig with the sinker above the hook if from shore , below from a boat. also, if you buy a jar of preserved minnows, when you run out of them use the gunk left over for dippin' sauce on the bait, works terrific, even for 'gills