I get out of class around 1130 during the week and me and my roommate go for catfish right after... We started going about 2 weeks ago and the first week we didnt do half bad off chicken liver. Now all we can get is fish playing with our liver and stealing it over and over again, we even caught a couple sunfish off the liver... We used cut up blue gill last night and didnt get anything and our liver was just getting stolen again... we have been using trebble hooks... I am looking for some advice on what bait to use, or hooks, or times they hit, just something to put us on some fish.

Get frozen squid at an Asian supermarket. That's all I use for channel cats anymore and I outfish those around me nearly every time. It is very tough and hard for the fish to steal off the hook as well.I caught my largest channel cat on squid last year.

been there done that answer circile hooks i use #4 i get up to 10 lbs cats on these an use 12 lbs line split shot 12 in up 3/4 oz egg sinker so cat cat feel wgt. let them take it 99% of the time they hook them selfs straight hooks they get the bait right off of ok as far as bait in river try ell or shad or shad guts ideal if uer useing liver use a bigger circle hook #6 or 8 cat arent afraid of a hook watch the vidios on the slip bobbers an cat in shallow water it will shock ya it works look at my profile they where on slips also go to loacl bait shops and get cut bait use 1 1/2 in slices on circile hook see vido on shallow cat to find out how to hook the bait on its easy most of all have fun kick back and learn thats what we do right when we do that the fish bite catch many hope ta hear from ya good fishin

Your plight is a common one while using liver...baitfish and panfish will drive you crazy with that stuff. Don't give up on the cut bluegill or shad, the cats will hit it if they are present.

Thank you

just a good point check with dnr for bait laws about blue gill cut bait and types u can use there are 4 types ya cant use all of them in iowa just the one they call the sun fish good point huh

Try using sonny's stink bait it works great!

to make the liver stay on the hook get some sawing tred like for the soing buttom on your shrit just warp the liver at the top of the hook and tie knot in it the liver will still be on the hook.