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re: Favorite blue and channel cat bait for jugs
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:25 am to Royalfisher
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:25 am to Royalfisher
Beef heart cut up and soak with some liver. Put a piece of both on the hook.
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Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:38 am to tke_swamprat
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Beef heart
where are you getting beef heart? I just want some to eat
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:45 am to nolaks
Try a well stocked Hispanic market.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 10:58 am to nolaks
Cannata's in Houma typically has it.
Posted on 3/27/23 at 3:20 pm to nolaks
Super One in Lafayette has it about 50% of the time.
Posted on 3/28/23 at 4:33 pm to tke_swamprat
I’d rather eat beef heart than catfish so those catfish will have to do with less tasty fare.
Posted on 3/28/23 at 5:23 pm to Royalfisher
Catawba worms are deadly too. My grandpa would put a Catawba worm (which is basically a catipillar) or two on the hook then a live bream then if you missed hook up with live bait you had another shot. We always did 20% or better overnight and often on a good night 30% hook ups with fish. If we had checked every few hours would have been better as we always had straighten hooks etc
Posted on 3/28/23 at 5:35 pm to TutHillTiger
The lake we fished in had good blue cat population I think the biggest we caught was about 30 pounds but it had massive flat heads and we caught several over 50 pounds and I am sure lost a lot of bigger ones.
One of the old timers who regularly caught flat heads over 70 pounds showed me his technique once. He would tie heavy trot line like that black cresote line 400 pound test or so and tie around a old tree in the water along deep spit with lline about 2-3 feet or so off the water and put a few spark plugs or some massive 8 oz lead weights with a 7/0 or so true turn hook with the biggest damn bream you have ever seen hooked in the back set up with the bait about 10-15 feet under the water.
It always seemed like the bream would just wrap around the tree but apparently they don’t. He said they would live a few days like that and he would drive through and if the line wasn’t straight down he knew he had an opp or flat head. He caught hundreds of them.
One of the old timers who regularly caught flat heads over 70 pounds showed me his technique once. He would tie heavy trot line like that black cresote line 400 pound test or so and tie around a old tree in the water along deep spit with lline about 2-3 feet or so off the water and put a few spark plugs or some massive 8 oz lead weights with a 7/0 or so true turn hook with the biggest damn bream you have ever seen hooked in the back set up with the bait about 10-15 feet under the water.
It always seemed like the bream would just wrap around the tree but apparently they don’t. He said they would live a few days like that and he would drive through and if the line wasn’t straight down he knew he had an opp or flat head. He caught hundreds of them.
Posted on 3/28/23 at 8:01 pm to ChenierauTigre
We use duck gizzards and hearts off the dock. Stays on hook very well. Works great!
This post was edited on 3/28/23 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 3/28/23 at 8:02 pm to Royalfisher
Red Bar S hotdogs work as good as anything I’ve used and the smell of a hotdog washes off way easier
Posted on 3/28/23 at 8:15 pm to Royalfisher
Off the dock with yo-yos we use the cheap red Frank hot dogs. Just cut them into like 8 slices and thread them thru the skin to the hook
Posted on 3/28/23 at 9:30 pm to Piebald Panther
Ehh I have personally seen days where they wouldn’t touch hot dogs but hit on cut bait. Guess it could go either way depending on circumstances.
Posted on 3/29/23 at 12:04 am to Royalfisher
#1 Live Shad, #2 live bream #3 cut shad, #4Catalpa worms.
That’s my list. Would rank catalpas a little higher but they are like finding hens teeth these days.
That’s my list. Would rank catalpas a little higher but they are like finding hens teeth these days.
Posted on 4/23/23 at 8:24 pm to tke_swamprat
Bump for a hog blue cat we caught on a jug this weekend at Verret. Cut bream for bait.
Posted on 4/24/23 at 9:54 am to Mister Bigfish
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chicken hearts soaked in strawberry jello mix.
How in the hell did you come up with this concoction?
Posted on 4/24/23 at 10:08 am to Wtodd
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How in the hell did you come up with this concoction?
I certainly didn’t invent it. A friend told me to try it and swore by it. I tried and it worked pretty good. What’s good about the chicken hearts is they are already in hook size portions.
Posted on 4/24/23 at 11:38 am to Royalfisher
I've always had good luck catching catfish when baiting with beefstick. That stuff holds together, is oily and stinky, and attracts the catfish.
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