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Catfish jug bait?
Posted on 2/25/17 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 2/25/17 at 7:57 pm
What's the go to bait? What's the OB thoughts on live crawfish?
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Posted on 2/25/17 at 7:59 pm to Deaux boi
Crawfish is a good #1....Cast net perch would be a close #2.
Posted on 2/25/17 at 8:06 pm to bootlegger
Ok my question #2. How to hook a crawfish? Time to get my 8 year old off the Xbox and in the tackle box.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 3:56 am to Deaux boi
Through the tail
Posted on 2/26/17 at 4:47 am to saintsfan1977
Best is about a 2" crawfish, hooked thru the tail. Kind of hard to find that size right now in my area. Everything in the ditches are around 1". 
Saturday, caught 5 1/2 gallon bays of fillets. Only 3 fish yesterday due to the water was way to rough. 1' white chop caps rolling right into my lines. So bad, I couldn't rebait my lines. Going to pick them up this morning.
Saturday, caught 5 1/2 gallon bays of fillets. Only 3 fish yesterday due to the water was way to rough. 1' white chop caps rolling right into my lines. So bad, I couldn't rebait my lines. Going to pick them up this morning.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 7:53 am to fishfighter
Baby buffalo! Expensive though. 50 cents a piece!
Posted on 2/26/17 at 8:07 am to Potchafa
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Baby buffalo! Expensive though. 50 cents a piece!
Get an $80 hoop net with wings and catch all you want.
For Flatheads: baby Buffalo, mud cats with the spines clipped, pond perch, XXL shiners.
For Blue cats: cut herring, cut bream, worms, hot dogs soaked in blood or garlic, chicken gizzards
Those are my bait, in order of preference. Crawfish are hard to get where I am.
One piece of advice: color code your jugs. I usually run Purple, Yellow, Organge. And I put different baits on each color. As soon as they show a preference, I switch. I usually leave 2-3 Flathead jugs rigged with live bait just in case a big one cruises through the spread.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 8:54 am to No Colors
So, y'all are anchoring the jugs?
Posted on 2/26/17 at 9:40 am to INFIDEL
hotdogs soaked in pickle juice 
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:55 am to Deaux boi
Cut up chunks of soap
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:17 am to INFIDEL
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y'all are anchoring the jugs?
No. But I usually fish backwater with no current. My jugs don't usually move much.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:26 am to beerJeep
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Cut up chunks of soap
Wasn't there a long thread on this awhile back? It was Ivory soap if I remember correctly.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:35 am to AHouseDivided
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Cut up chunks of soap
We passed a guy while bass fishing once who was pulling 5-15 lb cats off of every hook on a trotline.
I asked what he used for bait and he hollered "soap".
Me and my buddy left scratching our heads
I thought he was shitting us
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:38 am to The Torch
Cut skipjack
Posted on 2/26/17 at 11:40 am to The Torch
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thought he was shitting us
Hahaha nah bruh. shite works. I'll toss a jug line off my pack porch every so often and catch a channel cat on it.
Edit: someone isn't a fan of soap
This post was edited on 2/26/17 at 11:54 am
Posted on 2/26/17 at 12:43 pm to Deaux boi
Liver or bacon fat has worked well for me
Posted on 2/26/17 at 12:58 pm to Deaux boi
Early season when water begins to warm, flatheads will take large cut bluegill heads and gizzard shad heads or nearly any larger baitfish cut.
After water is warm, they swith to exclusively live prey, with very little exception to the rule. Young bullheads, baby carp, drum and buffalo, live spawning age bluegills and crappie (where legal) all produce flattys.
And yes, blues and channels will take cubes of soap. It dissolves its scent very slowly into the water, and since it is a very unnatural scent, it carries very far and lingers. I think it may be more curiosity than anything that draws them to soap.
After water is warm, they swith to exclusively live prey, with very little exception to the rule. Young bullheads, baby carp, drum and buffalo, live spawning age bluegills and crappie (where legal) all produce flattys.
And yes, blues and channels will take cubes of soap. It dissolves its scent very slowly into the water, and since it is a very unnatural scent, it carries very far and lingers. I think it may be more curiosity than anything that draws them to soap.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 1:22 pm to The Torch
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I thought he was shitting us
soap is generally based on animal fat...I have seen fish caught on both Ivory and Zote.
pretty expensive way to fish, though.
Posted on 2/26/17 at 1:31 pm to Deaux boi
1. Zote soap
2. Crawfish
3. Large shiners
4. Small bream
2. Crawfish
3. Large shiners
4. Small bream
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:41 am to Jenar Boy
I did get a one real good fish yesterday. A 26lb flathead. 
Sucker ate a 1lb+ blue cat.
Sucker ate a 1lb+ blue cat. This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 5:49 am
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