Around here, the predominate catfish bait are Creek Chubs, Chicken Liver and night crawlers. As far as store bought stink Bait, it is hard to find all of the sudden, but Sunny's super sticky stink bait is by far the best I have ever used. I am from NE Iowa and fish the Mississippi river some and it is killer there.

Around here, the predominate catfish bait are Creek Chubs, Chicken Liver and night crawlers. As far as store bought stink Bait, it is hard to find all of the sudden, but Sunny's super sticky stink bait is by far the best I have ever used. I am from NE Iowa and fish the Mississippi river some and it is killer there.

Posted By hutchinson on 17 Mar 2011 11:07 AM
Around here, the predominate catfish bait are Creek Chubs, Chicken Liver and night crawlers. As far as store bought stink Bait, it is hard to find all of the sudden, but Sunny's super sticky stink bait is by far the best I have ever used. I am from NE Iowa and fish the Mississippi river some and it is killer there.

You should be able to find stinkbait at your local Wal-Mart store.

I have been meaning to try some team catfish's sticky stinkbait. It is a kind of dip bait, and they say it works good where they are from. I use Hotdogs, chicken livers, and I am going to try Bluegill both cut and live next time I go. I do the panty hose idea with the chicken liver as well. Works good.

i use chicken livers,shrimp and cut chubs but,will take a tub of catfish charlie-full stringer with me.i have really good luck with this bait in late summer on evening trips,either on bottom or with a slip-bobber.

In a pond setting, I have had quite a bit of luck with cheese filled hotdogs for channels. I have also had good luck with the various punch baits in larger reservoirs such as CJ's and Stick-It for channels. As everyone else has said, live or cut bluegill and shad work great for flatheads.

Before writing off store bought catfish bait, give Danny King Punch Bait a try. It's the best channel cat bait I've ever used. Not sure what it is, but the cats in my neck of the desert go crazy for it. You can buy it online, just google it. I've also been able to find it at Wal-Mart and Sports Authority. Good luck.

i herd spam is a good bait and u can buy it at any walmart or store

If you go early in the morning, you can catch som decent Bluegills, cut their heads of behind the gills and hook em through the eye and out the other side with a larger hook. Also let em sit out for a while in the sun, it will make em stink a bit more. Just make sure the bluegills you use are of legal keeping size or you could get fined. Its great because you can have fun getting the bait too. Kinda pumps you up for the day!! I once threw one out and caught a 25lb Blue Cat in 5 mins. And several more throughout the day. Good Luck man. post some pics when you get one!!

I'm not real big on killing Bluegill, since I fish for them a lot, but I would probably use a few for bait if they were stunted in a certain location.

Catfish eat kickballs right.... haha just kidding.

WOW there are as many baits as threr are Kats. Heres what I like and use 90% of the time. For chans I like to use live or cut shad (deadly this time of year), and for flatties I like to use live gills as big as I can get along with large creekchubs and suckers. Try diff things and come up with some other things out of the norm and see what happens. Almost forgot lg or xlg shell on shrimp as well. Good luck.


Tight lines bent rods and big fish to all

Posted By traseley on 03 Apr 2011 10:00 PM
Catfish eat kickballs right.... haha just kidding.

Well...some of them do!

Worms, shrimp I even caught one on a baby 3in cat and they say tigers only eat there young lol!

For numbers of eater channel cats I go with Sonny's super sticky cheese flavor (never had luck with blood flavor). For larger stuff I go with bluegill halves, with the heads getting more hits than the tails

I think Im going to the "pet shop" for my cat bait from now on. NW Arkansas Channel Cat.

Other than that, I prefer to use Cut Shad or Cut Sucker for channels and blues. Sunfish/Brem for Flatheads. Here in Madison, Wi I use Nightcrawlers in 3-5 FOW for channels on Lake Mendota. When Im down in Arkansas fishing I use all of the above since "Throw nets" are legal down there but they are ONLY legal for Wisconsin ON THE Mississippi River and NOT any other Wisconsin waters. Not even a bit upstream on ANY Wisconsin river that feeds the Miss. Also in Ark we use what we call "red dance" Kind of a zebra striped 4" minnow with a bit of red on it and/or Shinners, Lem Perch, and creek chubs. Dance and Lem's we gut hook and replace every 15-20 Min or so. Thats my two cents worth, Hope it helps some of you get biggens.

Posted By mtroeckler on 19 Apr 2011 08:51 AM
Worms, shrimp I even caught one on a baby 3in cat and they say tigers only eat there young lol!

Bullhead catfish are common bait for large Flathead Catfish.

I wouldn't know...I never catch anything.

So basically anything that stinks or is a natural forage of that body of water.

For CA lake catfish, it seems like cut mackerel is the #1 go-to bait for the larger channels, flats and blues. Locally, crawdads is a big bait for nice channels as well. I'm a fan of cut up beef liver soaked in garlic juice. As a matter of fact, my family will be hitting a local river tomorrow night and right now I have a small tub of cut up elk liver (from my daughter's elk she killed last year) marinating in garlic juice. I'm also picking up some crawdad traps in the morning that will hopefully produce some quality crawdaddies. And, finally, I have a couple of mackerel I bought from a local Asian grocery store that will be cut up as well. I made several short leaders with #4 treble hooks that will allow me to slide the bait down onto all three barbs for better keeping of the bait as well as easier hook sets. We'll have several lines in the water and a co-worker gave me directions to a new spot we look forward to trying out tomorrow evening. Something has got to work, right?