Any anglers out there that have any good recipes or ideas for catfish bait?
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All you really need to do is mix up something that has a pretty rigid consistency (it'll hold on the hook well), and smells awful.  Try to include one of three things to increase your chances though - blood, cheese, or garlic. \n\nNow, if you're after the big ones, either use live shad or live breem.  It's that simple.  Put them on a carolina rig and troll.\n\nI've known some people who will make chum bags as well.  Get a mesh bag and fill it up w/ cheese and wet dog food and run it down your anchor line.  Good luck.
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I like to use my silver spinner. Get one with a bight strip on it. If you go in the river use a smaller one, and if you are at the mouth of the river us a medium one. They also like flies. Find out which ones just hatched and go get that bait. They eat it up. Good Luck!
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First go to your local sporting goods store, and get yourself some 4 inch and some 6 inch YUM dinger "worms".  And some YUM 7 inch ribbontail worms.  Also get a pack or 2 of Gamakatsu #2 worm hooks.  Rig both of these worms Texas style with out any wieght.  Cast near the edge of grass beds, where bass like to ambush thier prey from.  Also try flipping the worms near the shady side of underwater trees and rocks.  Keep your line taut by casting, and then raising your rod tip to get rid of the slack.  Do not reel in the line to pick up slack, because most hits will happen moments after the worm splashes into the water.  If it doesn't get an immediate strike, let the bait sink to the bottom, and then give the worm a few little tugs, as to jump the worm up about a foot off the bottom, then let it sink back to the bottom, then as it sinks again, keep your line taut, and do 1 or 2 cranks om the reel to pick up a little slack.  99% of hits will happen as the worms are falling down/ or sinking, so keeping the line taut will help you feel the hits. Bass usually don't eat worms off of the bottom.  You must also keep an eye on your line, because sometimes you won't feell the hit and your line may go to one side or the other and you'll know a bass has your bait.  When you hook a bass, be sure to reel him away from the cover, because that is right where the bass will go, and you have to be quick, or you will lose him.  After you get the bass away from the cover, let the fish wear itself out.  Then reel him in and carefully lip the bass.  DO NOT touch any part of the bass except the lip, unless you plan to eat them.  Fish have a protective enzyme that protects them from bacteria.  The slime is eaten away and removed, when you touch the bass, because of the amino acids on your skin.  Touching the bass removes this protective layer and opens the bass to bacterial and fungal infections which will kill the fish. Last night, I fished a heavily pressured lake and caught 9 bass in 3 hours. 8 largemouth and 1 smallmouth all with the YUM dinger.  On memorial day I fished a small farm pond and using the YUM ribbontail, I caught 16 largemouth in 4 hours.  It is all about presentation, so go to the site that the others have listed, the best is bass resource, which I put a link up for, and research how to best fish these worms.  I gave you my favorite and most productive methods.  Have fun and remember, tight lines.
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If you are fishing from the bank of a lake and using a regular rod and real not a fly rod then maybe I can help. I've been fishing the same lake for about 10 years.  There are many good baits out there but the two that work best for me are salmon eggs and power bait. You can get them at any walmart k mart etc. Usually spring and late fall are the best times for trout where I live. But in the summer go as early as you can or close to sun set. Use a 6-10 pound test line I prefer  a gold size 10 eagle claw hook and pinch on a small lead weight about a foot above the hook that way the weight stays on the bottom and your bait will float about 10 inches above, or you can use a slider weight. All this stuff is very inexpensive. Less then 10 bucks. It's best to get a map of the lake bottom so you know where the deep holes are and where cover is. But if you can't just try different places. Just cast as far out as you can tighten up your line a little and wait.  One little trick I use is to throw some little rocks or pebbles as far as I can where I am going to fish.But only do this once in a while. The noise will sometimes attract  fish.  When you get tired of waiting for the fish to hit your bait re-cast every 10 minutes or so in a little different place. If you get bored with bait fishing try a mepps spinner they work really well sometimes. The colder the water the better it seems.
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Tips from those who know:\n\nIt's true that you should troll a little bit faster then you would for walleye but don't go screaming down the lake at 15 miles an hour. You can catch Muskie going fast but not near as many as you would going at a slower speed. \n \n\nPeople do catch Muskie using big 8 inch long crank baits and swim whizzes but you will catch twice as many using a nice 4 or 5 inch floating fire-tiger or orange Rapala. The jointed Rapalas work even better. Fire-tiger is best during the day and the orange is best at night or just before dark. If they are not hitting either, go to a brown or silver color. \n \n\nLike any fishing, the thinner the line, the more fish you catch. Like most fresh water fish, visibility of the fishing line makes a big difference on whether the fish will strike or not. In a lake that does not have very many weeds, you should use 8 pound dark green line. If you are in a weedy area or an area that has sharp rocks or Zebra Muscles, then you might want to go to 10 pound test. If you use 15 or 20 pound test, you will not get near as many hits. \n \n\nSalt and scent - Muskie are very sensitive to human smell as well as other chemicals like gasoline. You should wash you hands with sugar before you handle your lures. Also, you should always use fish scent on the lure. Another trick is salt. Both Muskie and Pike have receptors on the bottom of their jaws which react to positively charged water particles which are created when feeder fish swim through the water. If you want to boost your fish scent, add salt to it. Believe me, it really works. \n \n\nMuskie also are very sensitive to motor sounds so when you are trolling, try to have at least 70 yards of line out. If there are a few people trolling out of the same boat, try to have your lures out the exact same distance to give the appearance of a school of fish. This also helps attract attention. \n \n\nCrank Baits - In early to lake Spring, Walleyes and Bass are is the shallows spawning. This is when a lot of big Muskie come right into shore and feed in 1 to 3 feet of water. Try casting with a spinner-bait or a Rapala towards the shore like you would for Largemouth Bass. \n \n\nIn the last couple of years, we found that while using silver leaders, we were losing fish. Actually, we would have a hit and then the whole lure was gone. What we believe is happening is the Muskie sees the lure and also sees the leader and hits what it thinks is the head of its prey. Thus it's hitting the end of the leader and biting through the line. When we switched to black leaders, the problem disappeared. \n \n\nFor those of you who are experienced Muskie hunters, we have a question for you. Do you ever notice the first Muskie is the hardest to catch. Then after that it seems a little easier. You will notice it in a lake with an extremely high Muskie population. Once we got our first Muskie, we would let the Muskie go but after, rub the lures in the slime that the fish left on our rubber mesh net. It seems to work. Maybe the smell of another Muskie eliminates a fear factor. Not quite sure on this one. \n \nIn conclusion, the best results for Muskie is to use a medium rod and 8 to 10 pound test line dark green line. Use medium size jointed lures with fire-tiger, orange and chartreuse colors. Be very careful to not get any gas on your hands and always use lots of fish scent. Muskie will be found along weed beds, off rocky points, at river mouths or deeper holes that hold good populations of feeder fish. If you have a lot of experience fishing for Muskie, then use your proven techniques. If they don't work, then try some of my suggestions. Just remember, every lake is different with a different food chain, thus techniques should be slightly changed from lake to lake.
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you can't beat a red and white dare devil for pike. also had great luck using live minnow sucker or shiner and bobber if the current isn't bad. pike are kind of dumb i think and usually anything flashy or minnow looking works. i prefer nice days myself, spring/early summer, 4-8 foot
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Keep Fishin\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht4h9XA1zus
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for bait id say minnows and salmon eggs. they love 'em. for lures run spoons, spinners, rooster tails, even some rapala minnows will get eaten by the big ones.\n\ngood luck and leave a few for me!
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minnows are really good bait for just about anything that swims bass,crappie,catfish walleye trout carp,pike but try  rooster tails ,road runners jigs with minnows on it
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It really depends on what you are fishing for. Corn is great for carp. Chicken livers are great for catfish. For large game fish (such as bass, pike, pickerel, etc) I find that anything small will be picked off by armies of panfish. For those I prefer shinners (roughly 2+ inches). The larger the shinner the fewer (yet larger) fish you will land.\n\nFor trout, mealworms (I think they are the same as waxworms) are killer. As they are for perch and crappie.\n\nFor saltwater.... I dunno.
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Bass Pro Shops!\n\nThe best selection, best prices, &; if you're in a hurry, they overnite-ship!\n\nBut, honestly; the BEST bait I've ever used, for Carp, is to "Sight-Cast" a small piece of white-bread, squeezed into an air-less dough-ball on your hook! You can "Chum" them up, with bread-pieces, first; if they are hard to see.\n\nSuper-cheap bait; & ANY trebble-hook will work!\n\nP.S.  Carp SUCK, as "Food-Fish"; but, they put-up a WORLD-CLASS FIGHT, on light-tackle!\nENJOY!!!
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ask local fishermen.\nthe bes way i know is troling with jigs. you can also cast spoon baits from a pier or jetty, if they are in a feeding frenzy reel in fast so the bait is close 2 the surface.
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i know for the white bass and large mouth and walleye if any!!! id for sure try a bullet blade (there called alot of different things... the ones i got were called Zonars) !!! ,,,  http://www.in-fisherman.com/reference/weekly_tip/IFD_tip_FreshwaterDrumA.jpg  ... in the picture its the lure on the top left looks just like the pic pretty much... i was just introduced to those this year by a random fisherman who was pulling them out left and right using one... and saw i was having no luck... i was using twisters.. rapalas.. live bait... all of the above.. and i finally ran over to the bait shop and picked up a few of these and nailed white bass and large mouth in the same spot i wasnt catching them B4..but the picture is what they look like not sure what there called in ur local bait shop.. but they were killer... Ive found out that white bass LOVE Silver!!!
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The kind they love to bite....lol...   Okay, I'm sorry. But that was funny wasn't it...lol...\n\nNow seriously, most catfish love an easy meal and thier olfactory nerve is better than most fish.  This isn't to say that it's all they use... but most spieces of catfish like some smell, eud de fish funk!!  Chicken livers and blood baits are common, but shad give off a great oil that channel and blue cats both love.  Personally, I use brim that are about hand sized and I back hook them.... right ahead of the dorsal fin... and chicken quarters.... both on 0000 stainless steel hooks.... Granted I am going after big.... no I mean really big cats on the Cape Fear River.... 45 plus pounds.\n I have found that most are the most active at night.... usually between midnight and sunrise... we catch more and larger fish in the wee hours that we do at any other time.\n\nHappy Cattin'!!
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-Jitterbug at night during warm weather\n\n-hula popper it the moring, anytime of year\n\n-try senko-type lures like the yamasenko or yum dinger and texas rig them...this is by far the best technique i have ever used\n\nhere are a few website you should check out to help you:\n\nhttp://www.insideline.net/2000/price-0708-00.html\nhttp://www.insideline.net/articles/gary-senko.html\n\n\nIf you want to buy some great lures , here are a few of my favorites: yum dinger, yamasenko, hula popper, anything by powerbait and Gulp, bass stopper magnum, anything by poorboys\n\nIf you want to buy a good rod, try a 6 to 7 foot ugly stik by shakespeare\n\nif you want great line, try Cajun line by Shakespeare or spiderwire (between 8 & 12 lbs would be best)...fire line isnt too bad either\n\nThe best hooks to use are Gamakatsu Offset shank worm EWG size 3/0\n\nhoes this help! best of luck!
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Try a Rapala "shad rap" in a perch pattern.  I have found it to be very productive for lake perch. A few years ago, I caught almost 30 perch in 3 hours using this lure.  Tight lines.
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wow there is so many. Lets start with trout: Small spinners are obvious, salmon eggs are great, i have also ( believe it or not ) had excellent success with cut bait. you can also buy the artificials at local bait shops or even walmart.\nCats: Great success with chicken liver. Night crawlers, if you can find crawfish tails they also work well, you can try the stink bait if you want . I havent had good success and i cant stand the smell. Good luck, hope thi helps in he future.