RedCat
Well-Known Member
I like shrimp. I buy them frozen and pack them 20 to a bag once semi-thawed. I find once they are thawed completley they don't last as long on the hook. A thawed bag is not garbage tho. If you are heading out in the next couple of days just put them in a container and leave them outside. Sometime they like them good and stinky.
Cut bait goldeye and sucker works. Sucker in the spring and goldeye in the summer. Live frogs in the fall.
Catfish are efficient hunters. They are not the dirty bottom feeders that some think they are. Yes they will eat almost any bait off the bottom but more often then not you will catch more and bigger fish if you are using the right bait at the right time. If I am fishing with shrimp and the cats are feeding on goldeye I will catch fish but at a far lower rate, perhaps only 10% of the fish that I would have caught using goldeye. I had a friendly competition with a co-worker of mine. He was convinced that he outfish me using hotdogs. I used fresh cut goldeye and out caught him 17:1, then he switched to goldeye.
Cut bait goldeye and sucker works. Sucker in the spring and goldeye in the summer. Live frogs in the fall.
Catfish are efficient hunters. They are not the dirty bottom feeders that some think they are. Yes they will eat almost any bait off the bottom but more often then not you will catch more and bigger fish if you are using the right bait at the right time. If I am fishing with shrimp and the cats are feeding on goldeye I will catch fish but at a far lower rate, perhaps only 10% of the fish that I would have caught using goldeye. I had a friendly competition with a co-worker of mine. He was convinced that he outfish me using hotdogs. I used fresh cut goldeye and out caught him 17:1, then he switched to goldeye.
