jug fising bait.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:16 pm
Other than the norm cut bait and shad and minnows what have you had luck with?
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:36 pm
shrimp
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:13 pm
Back in the day my Dad told me about when he got his hands on some goldfish and baited some trotlines with them. The flatheads love some live bait like that.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:41 am
Put you some buffalo on them and you'll only have to bait them once, that what we been puttin on our trotlines and after the 3rd or 4th round do we re-bait them, stuff is hard to get off. 
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:48 am
and let the buffalo rot/age a little bit.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:04 am
My late grandfather and I always used rotten cheese. He found a 5 gallon bucket of pepperjack cheese cubes somewhere. Left it outside in the heat for a summer and then the following spring it was some kind of stink nasty. Cut up sponges, put hooks w/ leaders through them, and stuck them down in the cheese. Then just pulled the leaders out and clipped them to the jugs. God forbid you get some on your hand then not thinking wipe your nose with it, WHEW!!!! You would smell rotten cheese for a month. Pretty much had to wear to disposable clothes. BUT we wore that butt out with that rotten cheese!
That stuff is also good to use in current. The smell reaches out. Used it and hammered them on Cane Creek off of the Tennessee River one night. Caught over 150 in about 6 hours one night. Had to start culling catfish because we ran out of room in the three coolers. Talk about a smelly drive home though.
That stuff is also good to use in current. The smell reaches out. Used it and hammered them on Cane Creek off of the Tennessee River one night. Caught over 150 in about 6 hours one night. Had to start culling catfish because we ran out of room in the three coolers. Talk about a smelly drive home though.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:30 am
beef blood, Probably one of the best catfish baits I ever used. Its almost impossible to get it now USDA put a stop to rednecks and 5 gallon jugs of blood walking out of packing houses. I know it sure is a great bait for catfish and unbelievable for attracting those black river skeeters
We used to cool the blood then once cold slice into sizes about like your thumb nail hang on the hook and wait.
We used to cool the blood then once cold slice into sizes about like your thumb nail hang on the hook and wait.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:32 pm
the best luck i have had is with gold fish they live a long time and seem to catch bigger fish big frozen cut up shad are good too but we have done the best with gold fish and small pond perch
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:06 pm
Day in day out, nothing beats cut shad.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:19 pm
First gold fish, then skip jack or shrimp. If I didn't make quota chicken gizzards, livers....
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:22 pm
Crawfish or Magic Bait's King Kat Chicken Blood.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:58 am
Fried Chicken and Watermelon..................Oh you said "JUGS" I thought it said "JIGS"
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:38 am
DUCKAHOLIC wrote:Fried Chicken and Watermelon..................Oh you said "JUGS" I thought it said "JIGS"
He ain't coon huntin, he's catfishing.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:05 pm
Ivory Soap......I swear I ain't being funny but when it's right, Ivory soap
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:08 pm
Nuker wrote:Ivory Soap......I swear I ain't being funny but when it's right, Ivory soap
A lot of old timers will say the same thing.