What are some simple recipes that work great catching catfish?
I would advise you to try the following: 1) Anchovies – 1″ cubes should work just fine depending on the size of the Cats you are going after, which will give you about 4 or 5 pieces of bait per typical sized anchovy. Stripers like anchovies as well so you may be fighting them off. 2) Beef or Chicken liver – Are excellent, smelly bait that Cats love. However, Chicken liver is a very delicate bait, so be careful when you cast. The fresher the bait, the better. If the liver is frozen, it’s not going to stay on the hook very well at all. Thawing it seems to greatly weaken it’s integrity. Stripers like it as well, so… 3) Nightcrawlers – What fish does not like worms?? 4) Live minnows – Catfish love live minnows. They really like shad. 5) Crawdads – It’s a hard decision to make. Catch the crawdads to use as bait for to use as my dinner… Cats have been known to go a little nuts if you hook a live crawdad to your hook. Even been known to line up in a straight line waiting to be the next to
