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Updated: Catfish are hammering pellets but not bait
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:28 pm
Anyone have any good suggestions how to get them on the hook. They go into a feeding frenzy with the floating pellets, but won't take worms or livers. Was going to try putting the pellets in panty hose in a ball on top of the hook, but there has to be something they eat besides that. (Not pond fish)
Answer to my own question:
A yellow Gulp Salmon egg on a 5 weight fly rod. Pole bending, drag screaming, 5-15 min fight that is about the most fun you can have on fresh water.
Answer to my own question:
A yellow Gulp Salmon egg on a 5 weight fly rod. Pole bending, drag screaming, 5-15 min fight that is about the most fun you can have on fresh water.
This post was edited on 5/17/13 at 8:34 am
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Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:31 pm to BEATbama05
When we had catfish in a pond, I would throw a topwater lure in the middle of the floating food. They would just hit it in the frenzy. I had heavy line tied to it. We had some 10-15 lbers in there.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:39 pm to BEATbama05
If you watch the beginning of this video, the guy is using pellets to catch bait he uses for gar fish. It shows how he attaches the pellet to the hook.
LINK
LINK
This post was edited on 5/8/13 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:53 pm to BEATbama05
I've had success with cut up bream in a similar situation.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:54 pm to BEATbama05
Castnet
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:55 pm to REB BEER
Small crawfish under a cork.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:56 pm to REB BEER
Toss out the pellets then throw a cast net.
Toss the small ones back in the pond
Toss the small ones back in the pond
This post was edited on 5/8/13 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 5/8/13 at 4:57 pm to ptra
Top water was my next choice. I will certainly try the cut gar too. They are nothing but a nuisance circling the dock feeding on baitfish.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:01 pm to BEATbama05
I guess I should have mentioned that I want to catch them by rod and reel only. No nets, traps, jugs, trot lines, or yo-yo's.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:05 pm to BEATbama05
I hear cut ivory soap works. Or hot dogs
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:10 pm to BEATbama05
grey crickets...they will hit the shite out of em under those pellets
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:25 pm to tenfoe
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:32 pm to BEATbama05
quote:They're full. Stop feeding them.
Catfish are hammering pellets but not bait
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:34 pm to BEATbama05
If you ball up some bread on a hook it will float.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:37 pm to AlmaDawg
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There are several feed pellet files available.
I caught a box of whopper hybrids on a white fly last weekend. It was just the same shape as the pellets. Silloueted against the sky it was the same shape as the pellets the guy had been feeding them. I don't know how much the color matters to a stupid bream or catfish.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:40 pm to tenfoe
Dam, that's a nice bream.
Picked up a snapper today in one of my nets btw. Not big, about 8 lbs.
Picked up a snapper today in one of my nets btw. Not big, about 8 lbs.
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:42 pm to Geauxtiga
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Dam, that's a nice bream. Picked up a snapper today in one of my nets btw. Not big, about 8 lbs.
In the words of my great father
"he's bigger than a butterbean, and you eat butterbeans don't you? What's the problem?"
Posted on 5/8/13 at 5:52 pm to tenfoe
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tenfoe
Fine bluegill!
There are some studs in the pond across from my house. Soul pole and a cricket!
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