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Here's a resource for you. It has a geographical section so go to your area for specific information. It's a real treasure trove of experience-based information. United States Catfish Association
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PS: If Vic_in_Va chimes in, listen up. He's a hard-core catfisherman who goes after those whopper blues.
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Strawberry chicken. Buy skinless boneless breast and cut them into desired chunks put them in a freezer bag and sprinkle a pack of sugar free strawberry Jello, mix it up good put it in the freezer and take it out the night before your going to use it. yep,they use strawberry chicken sometimes here in va.we caught some nice cats last year on it. we never catch any big ones where we fish. but we go after eating size fish. the locals use live eels 12-16in to catch rock fish when they run up the palmunkey to spawn in april. they say on cats use monster hooks and big bait to catch bigger fish. one of them bro's caught a 59lber the day before went. i saw a pic on his phone.
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Strawberry chicken. Buy skinless boneless breast and cut them into desired chunks put them in a freezer bag and sprinkle a pack of sugar free strawberry Jello, mix it up good put it in the freezer and take it out the night before your going to use it. yep,they use strawberry chicken sometimes here in va.we caught some nice cats last year on it. I dunno but I might even like to try some of that deep-fried up myself..... Sounds kinda good. Mebbe even some orange jello.....
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All that soap/jello/cheese/liver/guts/blood/oil-of-olay special mixture stuff is for channel cats. For flatheads and blues you need live bait and cut bait, respectively.
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This is interesting. We started using circle hooks years back, and caught almost nothing. I use circle hooks quite a lot. So we got 12/0 circles, SS, and put em on our stagings for whatever type line we were going to set... I know we never caught a single yellow on the circles.... Got any ideas? Normally fish 9/0 SS Oshaugnessy... those get bent up less and less often than the 7/0
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Crappy heads/ 12/0 mustard circle bent offset by hand and and sharpened
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We sharpened. And wondered about offset, looked like the way a flatheads mouth is, not offset sure might not snag anything...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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PS: If Vic_in_Va chimes in, listen up. He's a hard-core catfisherman who goes after those whopper blues. I use these. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6100/6313373080_1f00343699_z.jpg) Cut up like this: ![[Linked Image]](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3889/14214482359_0542599fba_z.jpg) To catch these. ![[Linked Image]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7095/7389994280_c5eb7bfd75_z.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6228/7036702161_091a2e20fd_z.jpg) I am blessed in the fact that I live about 3.42587 minutes from the James river, one of the best Blue cat fisheries on the east coast.
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Frickin' A! What's the weight on those things?
And I assume the stuff in the bucket is fresh shad that you caught yourself?
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Raw bacon. They can't strip it off the hook as easily as, say a shrimp, plus its salty, cheap, and easily available.
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Top fish went mid-50s, bottom one is low 60s
Correct on the shad, Gizzard shad to be exact. We use a gill net for them.
I don't have many pictures of me holding fish, to give an idea of scale. 90% of the time I'm out there by myself.
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them in a freezer bag and sprinkle a pack of sugar free strawberry Jello, Curious as to why sugar free. miles
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How does the soaps stay on the hook. Glad I posted this, lots of great info. Thanks to everyone!
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Local 15 acre lake is suppose to have some big catfish in it. Whats your best bait?? A set of tanks, flips, respirator, light and spear gun.  Gunner That's for snappers and groupers.
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Best bait for blue cat is carp chopped in 2 in. chunks.
Live perch for yellow cat or fajita meat soaked in chopped garlic.
Chicken, squirrel or rabbit guts for channel cat.
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Local 15 acre lake is suppose to have some big catfish in it. Whats your best bait?? A set of tanks, flips, respirator, light and spear gun. Gunner That's for snappers and groupers. And big damn cats over in Lake Ouachita. lol Gunner
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Best eva was sun fermented chicken guts. Sometimes smeared with Limburger.
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