best bait for Cats?

[inthebox30lbs]

whats the best bait for catfish if shad, or skipjack is not availible? Thanks guys
scott

 

[foodsaver]

I would go with dynamite I have had some luck with cut bream or crappie and some people swear by spam

 

[CRAZYHORSE]

i would give a bream head a try. they have worked just as well for me as skipjack have. i only use the head, and maybe a little bit of the gut pocket depending on the size of the bream.

crazyhorse

 

[SpurHunter]

Hard to beat chicken breast or thigh. Easy to come by as well!

 

[Guest]

Chicken breast, chicken thighs, chicken legs, spam, night crawlers, marsmellows are a few more baits, most people who fish for the big ones use skipjack steaks or whole skipjacks or just the head of a skipjack. Years a go we used to use fiddle worms, found them up on sand mt., these worms were about the diameter of a pencil and 16 to 18 inches long, they were tough and stayed on the hook good.

 

[Guest]

For bigger fish use bream or crappie heads. For eaters all the other baits mentioned plus raw shrimp and hotdogs.

 

[sprestwood]

Those that like bream heads often like to leave the guts attached. They often say Berkley Gulp catfish baits outperform the real counterparts.

 

[Guest]

Hard to beat Catalpa worms when you can find them.

 

[Guest]

Teamchatterbait - 7/17/2008 4:32 PM

Hard to beat Catalpa worms when you can find them.

TN River cats don't like catalpa worms. Other than a small handfull of channel cats I have not done any good with them at all. I used the worms hard for two seasons and they just won't hit them. Now in a pond there ain't nothin' better.

 

[Guest]

I have had good fortune with bream and CB.</p>

I would like to catch more flatheads but I have only caught small ones usually when bass fishing with artificials !</p>

Has anyone caught larger flatheads with just bream "heads" ? Or do they STRONGLY prefer live ?</p>

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