Mississippi River Catfishing

Hardest part is finding a clear stretch of bank. You'll see what I mean. Depending on the water level you may need either waders or a machete just to get to the bank.

Other than that it can be a lot of fun. Don't waste time throwing to eddies near barges, get out in the current. Throw out as far as you can and use durable bait. I found bacon or cut bait works best. It's absolutely loaded.

Never fished from the bank but used to hang limb lines and trotlines in the willow trees when it's high enough to be on the levee in Laplace. We caught some big arse fonky blues!

always done it from a pirogue or kayak in trees and backwaters...

if you can't catch em there...


take up stamp collecting

That's just how we used to do it between Dupont and Lil gypsy

get the largest, cheapest, nastiest can of dog food you can find, attack it with an ice pick on all surfaces till it oozes, toss it in without the paper wrapping (so you are environmentally correct), come back in an hour and fish down stream from it with cut bait and load up on 'em...

My buddy's FIL makes a living doing it. I don't know any of the specifics of it though. He's shown me videos of em pulling up 50 fish at a time in his nets.

Got a place down the road we call "the point". Nothing but a big stretch of sand with a pond about 50 yards off the levee. Caught many monsters off the bank there.

How is taking a paper (biodegradable)label off of a metal (non-biodegradable) can and throwing it in the water environmentally correct?

come on baw, both are biodegradable, the paper is litter that could float, the can (if you buy the cheap stuff I suggested) will rust away sight unseen at the bottom of the river...

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We used to ride our four wheelers into the river there.

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Was a party spot at night when I was a teen in the 70's. Small fire, beer taken from dad's fridge, the slut from the neighborhood......good times.