A post in another thread got me thinking about what everyone might use for baiting their jugs or noodles. Please post what your favorite baits are and where you fish.
My favorites are blue gills and creek minnows.
I fish Center Hill in Mid TN
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A post in another thread got me thinking about what everyone might use for baiting their jugs or noodles. Please post what your favorite baits are and where you fish.
My favorites are blue gills and creek minnows.
I fish Center Hill in Mid TN
i use hot dogs cut up 20 pieces per dog soaked 3 days in dollar store onion powder......fish kentucky lake.....cheap,easy to make.not much mess and can freeze whats not used.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Williefb
we have our best luck on fresh tiger shrimp under noodles on old hickory lake
Any particular brand of hot dog? Some folks I know use the red, "old-fashioned" kind that have a "skin" on them. Is that what you use?Quote:
Originally Posted by akmoose40
Thanks!
circle S seems to work best for me.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Novice
If I know that I am going about a week in advance, I have my favorite bait shop get me some minnows about 4-6 inches long. (I have caught large crappie, chanel cats and flatheads in the same outing on my favorite lake. )
If I leave in a hurry, I have about 15 pounds of frozen shad in my freezer that will thaw quickly in hot water.
Recently, someone on my favorite lake told me that he uses pink Zote soap. He even gave me a bar of it to try. (I had been fishing all day, he may have wanted me to bath with it.) :eek:
1. cut bait,, and it's free
2.Chicken liver #1 but $$$
3. Shrimp,, lot of $$,, but good for blues
4. Sun fish or gills for big Flatheads ,, we alwys put 4 or 5 out
5.Hot dog not much luck ,,I WILL Try them again eH
TIM
Pole fishing Channel Catfish or Blues
Catalpa Worms , Turkey Liver, Shad,Nightcrawlers, and have used about anything from bull blood to dough stink baits.
Setlines for all including Flatheads is live baits like Bream (Green Sunfish is best , then any other type .) Those bigger Channels will tear up some Bream. If I can't catch Bream , then big Shiners , and last resort Goldfish.
For channels and blues:
-Deer liver & heart...usually get enough to last my week-long fishing trip.
-Beef liver, bull liver if you can get it
-fresh shad
-catalpa worms
-if all else fails, cheap wiennies soaked in Strawberry jello.
Flatheads:
-6"-8" live bullheads, polliwogs, mudcats #1 choice
-3"-4" live bluegills, longear, red-breasted sunfish or warmouth; don't use redears, die rather quick!
Shad
Shad
Shad
minnows or leeches
Fresh shad! We catch our shad with throw nets on our way out.
FRESH shad. Not some from 3 hrs ago, so just keep what you need. At times cut shad makes a big difference. Have tried the hot dog thing but I haven't ever had it outfish fresh shad for numbers or size.
I would say fresh shad and try keeping some of em and deposit in a mason jar take one of the shad or two and find a old blender at one once of water blend then pour that over the other shade in the jar leave the lid loose so it can breath and set in the sun for 2-3 days. the cats here on highrock seem to like that alot.
For many years when I was younger I fished Clark Hill Lake with jugs and spent the week setting out & checking bream baskets collecting just the righht sized baits (bluegills). A perfect bait for me would be as long as your middle finger, or a tad larger. Now that Lake Russell was built and a good supply of shad and herring were established you cant beat cut herring on eith Russell or Clark Hill lakes for catfish. There's sooooo many shad and bluebacks in the lakes its just a natural food for them now.:o
Winter time, small perch because it is hard to find shad. If I can't get perch I use Catalba worms I had frozen.
My neighbor is a big time jug man. He has the men at the fish hatchery keep and freeze all the dead rainbow trout. He cuts then up in chunks. The skin is so tough the cats have a hard time getting the bait off of the hook
BETTER CHECK YOUR STATE REGS, HERE IN ARKANSAS UNLIKE TENNESSEE THE USE OF GAMEFISH IS ILLEGAL!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by oldwun
That aint bait Mr. Officer, that is lunch!!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Some of that pre-packaged dough bait works pretty good for me and keeps all the little perch and other fish from takin the bait.
oldwun trout are also so oily we do the same thing lol got guts and heads froze in deep freeze right now
I don't jug fish but I would use cut skipjack, live or dead shad minnows, creek chubs, cut bluegill, live small bluegill, raw shrimp, and crawdads
Here in NC the regs say that its unlawful to use livebait on a jug or trotline or any other set hook. Does that mean I can use a dead shad or does that mean I have to use artificial bait?
crappie dan you should be able to use fresh cut or dead bait
or go with nite crawlers or chicken liver and even store bought shrimp
i may be wrong but i dont think artificial bait would be affective for you
You could also use a prepared bait such as doughballs or a homeade recipe.
Nightcrawlers on Reelfoot Lake.
#3. cut bait... Carp is the best!
#2. Crappie heads... don't throw them away, freeze them!
#1. Dung Beetles!!!... Catfish love anything that has to do with poop!!!
I discovered the Dung Beetle phenomena while clean a mess of catfish in the early summer. I was using chicken liver for bait but they all had Dung Beetles in their stomachs.
dung beetles. would have never thought of that we caught fish last year on nightcrawlers. every other hook crawlers, chicken livers, crawlers had fish livers notta.
Live or cut shad and Bluegill
I've heard of Tournament guys using raw chicken marinated in their secret juices, and set in the sun for a few days to really get the stink going. supposedly, this is the ticket for the monster blues. I have never tried this, for fear of handling to much raw salmanila infected chicken. Have any of you other CDC members heard of this?
Couldn't swing that one in Texas since White & Black Crappie are game fish, even using any part of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by GCD
Skipjack Herring, Shad, Large Minnows, Sunfish or Shrimp.
chicken livers are usually my go to for cats, but ive heard of great success using shrimp that had been dead for a few days, nice and stinky.
What about crawfish? I have a crawfish farm here close and was wondering.....
Bout how deep to start? Local lake is bout 29-30ft at deepest point.
Bream of chicken hearts
Fetmo
Catalpa worms
Chicken livers
I use chicken tenders cut into chunks and soak in garlic over night on half my sets and on the other half i use brim chunks i like both baits fish tend to swallow the bait instead of pull on it
This is what I use
World Famous Catfish Bait - YouTube
Very interesting recipes, and baits.