How many chum Catfishing spots? We dump soured grain or sweet feed in spots here to pole fish for them. Yesterday 4 of us landed over 50 in about 3 hours.
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How many chum Catfishing spots? We dump soured grain or sweet feed in spots here to pole fish for them. Yesterday 4 of us landed over 50 in about 3 hours.
Got some corn sitting in the sun right now, should be right by this weekend. I never really understood the difference it makes unitl I started doing it.
How long do you give it to bring them in? Toss some out while fishing, day before, ect?
Never tried it cause it's messy and if it turns over in the trunk...shew.
I'm not a pro at it, I just let it sit in the sun for a few days with a towel over it to keep the bugs out. And dump it in the morning I going to fish. Like Nimrod said....you can sit in one spot and catch fish for hours.
tell me more.... do you put a little water in the corn? are you talking like deer corn (50lb bags), horse feed or what. interested in trying at my local lake.
Thanks
Tom
Soy beans work great. You can get some for free around the railroad loading area of the feed bins.
Make sure you are up wind while transporting. Has a mild odor :D:D
Chuck
Tommyboy, you soak grain in a bucket covered with water and a pack of yeast or a beer poured in on top to help it sour. That's about it. Deer corn will work fine.
How long:
to let grain sour
before you fishing the spot
will fish stay on this spot
Thanks a bunch
You dump the corn straight in the water or put it in a burlap sack.
I had a old man tell me once to put bread in a burlap sack and sink with some blocks
Never tried it but he said to sink it a week ahead to give it time to spoil
I know that soured corn works great,but something else you can use without the smell or mess is range cubes available from your farm store about 10$ per 50lb bag I use them all the time! If you are fishing a good area it usually takes about 30 min. to start working. I throw them out by hand about a gallon jug at a time . Last week I went to and only baited one time and ended up with 31
If you don't want the smell, try Sweet 10 Horse feed for about 6.00 a 50# sack. Pour it in the water dry. Fish will get on a spot within a day, but more days you bait ,the more fish pile in if it's a good hole. I start with a bag and then 1/2 bag every day or two afterwards. Just open the sack and pour it over the side. It helps to throw handfulls out while your fishing every few minutes.
I use sweet feed, or some feeder corn. Let them sit in the sun in a bucket full of water and let it get right. The longer it sits, the better. When you bait a hole, you can't just throw it out and expect fish to come. You must put it in a place where catfish will be, a place with cover or a ledge and so on. Baiting a hole ever couple days is the way to go, and will pay off more the more you can keep the fish there. I do not have that luxury, its an hour to my favorite lake. So I will usually bait two or three spots first thing in the morning that I know will hold fish. Its takes a while sometimes, but it will bring them in. We have had some days catfishing I'll never forget doing this. Its trial and error like anything else, give it a try and it will pay off as long as you stick with it.
thanks guys
ok so i just filled a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 up with deer corn and covered with water and left it in the sun is there any thing else for me to do with it and how long should i let it sit in the sun. What kind of area should i dump it on
how would this work on the big muddy? i always considered baiting, but figured the current would wash away the hours of work. perhaps behind a wing dyke, but in my experience, fishing is slow there except for little cats. does this work for larger blues or flats? i've considered going to the butcher shop and getting a barrel of beef waste and guts. put it in a gunny sack and weight it with rocks. i think this might work for big blues if I can get it to stay put in the currents blues like.
If the current is not too strong , Beef Blood (gelled) in a burlap sack might work.Quote:
Originally Posted by south point
Until you can't stand the smell, or your nieghbors start to complain. Dump it in an area you know holds fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by finchaser4ever
thanks locator. Im also going to get some sweet feed also and give this a try. I love fishing for flat heads but would like to take the wife some times and she looses intrest real quick much like a 3 year old so im going to rig up my 13 ft bream busters with 12 pound test and small hooks and look foward to catching some.
so, what type of bait goes best with sour corn or beans? do you fish under a float , or deep?
Here we use no weight , just a #2 bait hook using liver or Catalpa Worms. Toss it out and let it sink, some grab it as soon as it hits the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by south point
got a few cans of sardines from biglots and filled old pantyhose with them.threw them into a cove and the fish turned on in about an hour! ended up with 14 nice channels around 5-8lbs. don't know if it was really the sardines or the pantyhose!!!!LOL
How deep are your holes you are baiting in the heat of summer?
the cove i bait is at the deepest 10ft. its shaped like a bowl with a creek that runs into itQuote:
Originally Posted by 8fishermen
Thanks, I will give it a try as soon as I can. I have a batch of wheat and a batch of soybeans souring as we speak. I was thinking of putting the soybeans in a sack and sinking in a couple of spots. Then when we are ready to fish, sweeten the hole with a little wheat. I also have some cotton seed meal, it may be worth trying also.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Crappie 2
If you put the soured grain in a burlap sack and weighted it down good, will it work in a river or stream with current? Anyone ever tried this?
does this work on big fish if they are in the lake???r is this just for small fish?
always remember big fish follow small fish...
We have caught Channels up to 13 lbs and broke off lots of fish. Suspect them big Flatheads may hang around, as after a few days of baiting the bait fish are thick over our holes.Quote:
Originally Posted by gthartwell
thanks, i was wondering if it would on the big flat heads, we have some big ones in our lakes and riversQuote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
When I was a kid, my dad worked at a Safeway store. He would collect the unsold (stale) bread.Quote:
Originally Posted by gonefishin55
We put it in burlap bags, weighted it down, and dropped it alongside treetops (also weighted and down).
We did this at Lake Nimrod and would always limit out with 3 1/2 - 5 lb slabs...course that was 60 years ago. :)
-bpatch
Big fish eat little fish. So if it draws tons of small ones the big ones should not be far behindQuote:
Originally Posted by gthartwell
You talking about Catfish? Never heard them called slabs.Quote:
Originally Posted by bpatch
Crappie...not catfish...so I guess I am posting on the wrong forum. :)
Must have gotten lots bigger in the old days. lol lolQuote:
Originally Posted by bpatch
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Tried it for the 1st time last summer using milo and we had good luck.Will sure do it again