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Has anyone ever heard of using a piece of onion as a catfish bait. I have a friend that saw it on tv. The claim was that catfish would take it but other fish and critters would leave it alone. I have never heard of it though. Has anyone ever tried it?
Iv heard of it but never tried it. I think its a myth but who knows. Swamp People or some show on Discovery did it on an episode but I don't recall they caught anything. Guess its worth a try.
I saw the show you are talking about where they used the onion and for what its worth it did work on the show. I personally did try it. Didn't catch anything but had I have had a trotline out I could better judge the results. I only had one reel baited with it and cast out of the rear of my boat. I am willing to try it again.
It was on the TV show "Swamp'd" on animal planet. It worked on the show, but I have doubts in real life. Also saw them use wasp larvae. I don't want to catch catfish enough to mess with the wasps.
Heard of folks using in bait traps. Catfish will eat weird things. I have seen them full of green persimmons in the fall in flood water! Bet their arse puckered up eating those!:Rofl
If it's edible and you can get it on a hook, it probably has cat-catching potential. Never heard of using it as a primary bait though. I guess all you can do is string a trot line full of onion out and see what happens!
One of the more succesful trot line fisherman at Santee Cooper uses small chucks of Ivory soap. I saw a big bag of what looked like tiny white marbles in his boat and asked what it was. Ivory soap he said, works better than anything else he's tried. :dono
I've heard about this too from a buddy down in LA. He pulls some bigguns out of the Bayou on goldfish/Lava soap.Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaRay
I wouldn't be surprised. I think a better list would be what WON'T catfish eat. :D
Garlic is commonly used as a bait scent for quite a number of species. No reason onion shouldn't work as well.
I have caught Blues and Channels in the fall full of muscadines.
Makes great bait in a bream trap