re: Catfishing- any tips

Catalpa worms

Livers

Live perch

Soap

In that order

get something stinky, i have caught off of dish soap, cheese, chicken liver (let it sit out over night and get real stanky,) worms, thick cut liver... me and a buddy fish the miss. river regularly since its within walking distance

small marshmellows

The only way to catch catfish is to rig up for something else. They'll bite like hell if you give your kid a bobber with a cricket, or if you set up a minnow under a bobber and pretend you're trying to catch crappie. Make sure to talk in loud tones about how you're going to catch a mess 'o crappie and don't mention anything about catfish. This throws them off your trail and they'll come runnin. The only problem is, you'll be using a light wire hook, so I suggest you bring a buddy with a shotgun loaded with no. 6 shot. If you get any of the bigger catfish up to the surface of the water, have your buddy blast them immediately to prevent them from straightening out your hook. Fish in shallow water where nobody has ever seen a "catfish big enough to swallow a man" or "catfish as big as a volkswagon beetle." The LAST thing you want to do is rig up with heavy line and hooks and go throw a chunk of bait into one of these "known" giant catfish havens below dams or in deep holes. That is, unless you want to spend a lot of time reflecting on your life while feeding the bream and gar.

Yours,

Learned The Hard Way

Buy a jar of "Hogwild" at wal-mart. Buy yellow sponges with treble hooks. Bring a stick to stir up the Hogwild and to dip your sponge in it. You will catch a ton and you don't get your hands stinky.