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Night of the Living Catfish
stickbender:
We used to use liver, in patches of nylon stocking material, and old shrimp, in the same material, some people have used soap, I think it was Ivory, I never have, but I have heard of it. Hey, Tiller, there is a new line for your soap, "bottom blossom" the catfish cocaine. ;D
Just about anything stinky will get their attention. Mashed up earthworms, in the nylon stocking material, etc. Frog guts, and so forth. Heck you could save your fish guts, and freeze them, and then use them for bait, wrapped up in the nylon stocking material. Stockings, panty hose, whatever holds the bait, without it coming off the hook. Plus it is reusable. If it gets torn a bit, just re wrap it. ;)
Wayne
recurve shooter:
mr. eddie, i eat mullet to. not to bad. with expeditions like that a cast net is my best friend. you can almost always catch something edible.
stickbender, i like the stocking idea. may try that. i love chicken liver for catfish bait, but always had trouble keeping it on the hook. ;D
knightd:
Smoked Mullet dip..Is the way to go.. Eddie you know what im getting at.. ;)
servicebeary:
my buddy found the best cat bait I've ever seen before. I've tried a lot of stink baits over the years, but this one that smells truly horrible actually works. They come in to within 10 ft of the shore in a foot of water to get the stuff! You could net them if you were fast enough. He caught a 17 pounder 15 ft from shore with that bait once, and that's a big cat for Idaho. I wonder how that stuff would work in the south east? I fished lake Gaston in N.C. a long time ago and I couldn't tell any difference in what they bite on.
---there's a ton of mercury in the fish here due to all the past gold mining, but the fishing association book I have claimed that all you have to due is remove all the belly fat and you get rid of almost all of the heavy metals, I think it works, unless I'm crazy and just don't know it :P
--oh, and I'll second the notion of them being really good predators, we catch em on croppie jigs, and spinners all the time
stickbender:
Dana, if you do catch yerself a catfish, easiest way to clean them is to just take a sharp knife, and go around the head and neck , and make a full circumference cut, then take a nail, and nail the head, of the fish to a board, plywood, plank, whatever, and take a pair of pliers, and grab the skin behind the head, and pull it off! then just cut the head off, and pull the guts out, and clean out the fat, and air bladder, and other tissue that don't taste good. Then if you want, you know you being a Yooper and all, ya can fillet them, or do it southern style if they are not too big, and just pat them dry, and dip them in an egg mix, and then dredge them in some corn meal, crushed corn flakes, or whatever you want, with some Cajun seasoning, and a little granulated garlic, and onion powder, and fry away! We used to catch a bunch of little ones about 8-10 " long, and fry them up in butter, when I was a little kid. We used to call them yellow bellies. They were usually not any bigger than that. But oh boy, oh boy were they ever good! :o
Wayne
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