every time i go fishing this always happens to me i put bait on my hook and im ready to cast, i cast and my bait goes flying out of my hook, what can i do to stop that from happening, its always liver, cut bit and stink bait it happens with.

My first thought is that you are casting way to hard. If you are stuck in a position of having to make extemely long cast to get to the fish I would invest in longer rods. Are you using single or treble hooks? With trebles and liver I take the hook off of the line and push the eye of the hook through the liver. This does the least amount of damage. With singles I try to find the stringy part of the liver and put my hook through that. You can also use something such as pantyhose or a lightly woven cloth like the cheap terry cloth shop rag to make a bag of sorts to hold your liver. For cut bait and stink bait there is no reason other than casting style that I can think of. For cut bait try to make sure you are put your hook through the skin since the meat will rip easier.
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A longer rod will only help if the angler takes a bit off his cast and lets the rod do the work. Casting hard with a longer rod will usually make the problem worse. Tom

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try using spawn sack material on the west coast we use it to make egg sacks for steelhead and salmon (or at least up till D.F.G closed the salmon season all but off now we are only allowed to fish for them in a strech of the Sacramento River that is at best maybe 90 miles long ( the Sac. is close to 200 miles long). but we use the spawn sack to put liver in for cats too  good luck and tight lines to ya !!

Buy a piece of nylon mesh material from a fabric or craft store and cut pieces @ 3" square and place the bait in it, then gather up the ends and sides and use a twist tie to wrap it around the hook shank and pass hook through the bait.
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Try treble hooks with springs on them,like trout guys use with doughbait.

Another bait that works well & stays on the hook when you cast is shrimp. Raw, not cooked. The cats wont touch the precooked stuff.

Get a softer more forgiving rod.  Your bait will stay on better.

For chicken liver use Atlas Spawn Bag material and Atlas Magic Thread, look online for it, order it, it works wonders. The thread is stretchy and no need to ty it, just wrap snugly and it stays put. For a demonstration on how to do this look in youtube for a guy called Roadsnake, he has a video demonstrating the technique, thats where I learned this most valuable and time saving method.

For stinky punch bait like Doc's and such this is what works the best for me: take a plastic water bottle, cut the top off to make a cup and fill about halfway with cold water and add about four ice cubes or so. Now you punch your hook in the sticky bait, I use Doc's plastic worms, comes ready to use with treble hook already snelled. Could also use treble with the little sponge. Or treble with the metal coiled spring in the shaft. Well anyways, dip your hook in stinky bait then dip in the cold ice water for a minute or two, this cold ice water "sets" the stinky bait. This really keeps the stinky bait on your hook, even in strong current. Now you can CAST!

You can buy hooks with springs built on to them. They keep the bait on way better and they come in single hooks and treble hooks. What kind of dough bait do you use? Another thing, you could try putting you dough bait all they up to the eye of the hook.

what bait would you guys say works the best, i like to make catfish bait anybody out there got any good recepies??

One other trick I used was an old pair of panty hose cut a chunk out and tie the liver in it it stays on the hook way longer. Plan b would be to start fishing with fresh cut bait it stays on way longer and the bigger piece you use the bigger fish it attracts.

You could also use a spawn bag:

You may be casting too hard or not hooking the liver right. There's a certain way you have to hook liver for it to stay on.