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Title: cat fishing
Post by: sageur on Apr 16, 2008, 10:34 PM

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

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: jjmoser on Apr 17, 2008, 07:39 AM

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. 

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: DR.SPECKLER on Apr 17, 2008, 12:29 PM

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.

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: gonephishin on Apr 17, 2008, 02:38 PM

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.

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: jdisci on Apr 19, 2008, 10:06 AM

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

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: icefisher69 on Apr 19, 2008, 10:40 AM

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!

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: Litchfield Fisher on Apr 19, 2008, 12:06 PM

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

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: bearsfan on Apr 20, 2008, 11:55 AM

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.

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: mud_n_fun on Apr 20, 2008, 09:20 PM

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.
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi245.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg44%2Fmud_n_fun%2Fchair028.jpg&hash=4350595fb7da6a238c4f2e32aa432dea)

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: walleye1 on Apr 21, 2008, 06:17 AM

Quote from: mud_n_fun on Apr 20, 2008, 09:20 PM

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.
(https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi245.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fgg44%2Fmud_n_fun%2Fchair028.jpg&hash=4350595fb7da6a238c4f2e32aa432dea)

Great pic! 8)

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: sperrin on Apr 21, 2008, 11:18 AM

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

Stevo

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: pooley on Apr 21, 2008, 12:23 PM

herring chunks on the hudson river! ( i was fishing for stripers )
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Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: rgfixit on Apr 21, 2008, 05:10 PM

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! ;D
RG

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: Big Brother on Apr 21, 2008, 05:46 PM

Got this one using shrimp set 3' under a slipbobber drifting in the current                                                      (https://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ff297%2Fhudsonh%2FDSC01221.jpg&hash=40a88779d2bf2922374c364f99bc3762)

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: panfishman13 on Apr 21, 2008, 11:58 PM

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

Title: Re: cat fishing
Post by: sageur on Apr 22, 2008, 12:02 AM

great suggestions ill defiantly try them. Always looking for new ways