I hear alot of you saying hot dogs work for catfish. I have two questions. Are you catching channels with them or just bullhead? Also how big of piece of dog do you use? Thanks in advance. BTW I am from NW Iowa and I catch a lot of 5 to 10 pound catfish on a regular basis using liver or stink bait depending on what lake I am in. But hotdogs would be easy and fun for me to use with my 4 year old son when we go fishing.

i cut the hotdogs into 1 1/2 inch slices and if i find hotdogs with the cheese in it i buy it cost more but worth it.
co-chairman south texas multi species fishing club

Mmmm, cheese dogs. I just cut about cubes, so maybe about 1 inch? I suppose I could catch bullheads with it too, but never tried it.

the first cat i ever caught as a kid was at a bbq on a 10-15 foot piece of line i found with a treble on it and a chunk o dog. was a little 2.5-3lb channel. since then i havent tried it again but there are alot of channel cat guys at the damn by my place that use em.

I have never herd of cheese hot dogs. I will have to look for them.

For channel cats, I like to use frozen squid purchased at asian supermarkets.
Phoenix Arizona

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I use hot dogs(cheapest kind) cut in 1" bits. I marinate them in cherry KoolAid non sweetened and minced garlic. Works very good on channels. I have caught from 1lb to at least 5lb channel on it.

bassmaster: Almost any grocery store should have the cheese hot dogs, Oscar Meyer makes them and I'm sure so do the other 'dog companies. Saw them yesterday at Wallyworld. Tom

My wife used to houseboat with the family a lot as kid. She swears by hot dogs for channel & blue cats. They had a grill on the houseboat and would cook dogs for a meal. They wouldn't eat all of them, so the hot dogs would sit out in the sun for a while even overnight. Next afternoon they would be good and ripe, she would use a free line and a hook, drop them to the bottom under the houseboat and have dinner for that night.

any tips on how to fish a dog on a small riverfor channels? Would you just let it drift down through the holes or would you fish it behind a sinker of some sort?
Brian

I use hotdogs, with cheese... If you would like to hook a big one, soak them in garlic over night.

good thing bout using dogs to is ya got something to eat should ya get hungry with the fish lol

i usually catch sum bluegill or crappie or sumin like that and cut off the heads and use them i catch any where form 10 to 40 pounders consistintly....ive never heard of hots dogs... i guess i find sumin new out every day....lol

I AM WITH GIBY05 ON THIS ONE WERE I LIVE THE CATS LIKE DEAD FISH, FROGS AND CHICKEN LIVER... JUST LOOK AT MY PROFILE PIC THIS WAS ON A FROG IN THE LATE SUMMER. 30 LBS.

Great looking fish!
Brian

I used to use hot dogs for cats but it caught me more turtles than fish. I did catch a 15lb snapping turtle with it. That was more fight out of water than in it.

I have herd alot about hot dogs but i have never yous it to fish I am going to yous it this weekend down at the river

Hey Whiteshark did you eat that snapper. It is better eating than any channel ever dreamed of being.

Gary

i'd stick with live baits for decent sized cats

I recently pulled a 4lb Channel Cat out of the river where I live in NM. I used rotten chicken livers which they seem to love. My brother began to gut it and we found the stomach surprizingly full so i had him slice it open. Out fell a full size hotdog! Thanking the fish, I promptly cut it (the hotdog) up and began using it as bait!