re: Jug Line Bait

Live bluegill. Been catching cats on jugs for 40 years and tried everything. Catfish are predatory and a live bluegill struggling sends out vibrations that attract big cats better than any smelly crap I ever tried.

Channels, blues and flats will all go after live bluegill. Hook them in front of the dorsal fin above the lateral line and they will stay alive all night struggling.

Beef heart is good. Stays on the hook.

Duck guts are great too.

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How do you locate skipjack? What kind of water should I look for?

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Catch them with Sabiki rigs or small crappie jigs behind dikes on the MS River.

You might also check some bait shops because I’ve seen some sell them whole or cut into chunks.

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Tear It Up

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I know some guys that use Ivory soap because it floats. They cut it into cubes...

beef melt!

Get you a pack of stew meat in the meat section. I get the kind that is already cubed up. get 1 container of chicken livers. cubed up stew meat in zip lock bag. Put chicken livers in blender add just about cup and half of water and blend up (It comes out the consistency of a smoothie) . Pour blended chicken livers in on the stew meat. Let is sit for a couple of hours. Put each piece of meat on the hook

Another thing I have done that works well is mixed in non flavor jello. I will go to wal mart and get to go cups that they put like a side of salad dressing in. I will put a piece of stew meat in each cup, pour the blended chicken livers with non flavor jello on each piece just to barely cover the meat. put the lid on, put in zip lock, put in ice chest with ice and rock sale and it holds that flavor for a long time under water.

That stew meat really really absorbs that blended up chicken liver and stays on the hook good

Load that hook up with as much chicken liver as it will hold then slide on a chicken heart to hold the liver on the hook....should look like a pretty good ball on the hook....that's what my grandma taught me back in the 80s and that shite works.

There's a meateater episode on catfishing and he goes with an old man from Kentucky. Old man uses cheap chicken marinated overnight I believe with like garlic and maybe something else? Just to add some scent. Old man basically said this isn't the best bait but its the easiest, and that he would rather put out more lines and fish longer than screw around spending time and money on bait.

Hard to disagree with that.