While the best catfish bait is something natural to the area (I.E. worms dug from the ground nearby, grasshoppers, and perch from the water itself.) Making your own bait is always an option. My dad used strawberry pop and wheaties mixed together into dough balls I've found rotten wheat grain to be the best natural stink bait. I worked at a grain elevator loading barges and the port specifically around our dock was loaded with catfish. An old man turned me on to it and its the best artificial bait I've ever tried out of about 100 different tips.
The first step is to melt about about a pound of cheese for a minute in the microwave. Next, you'll want to dice six to eight ounces of raw beef. This part can be substituted for perch as well. The next step is to chop a head of garlic and add garlic salt. Then, add a can of dog food, 12 minnows, and flour for consistency. Put everything in a food processor.
I'd say a worm
Chicken livers, some cheeses,
just put chicken liver on a hook :)
Out of Doughbait, shrimp, and other stuff, I find Chicken Livers to work the best out of all baits. Hope this helps and good fishing :) Try using soap. It is a very effective bait for catching catfish in the rivers. Rednecks Catfish Bait Soap is a catfish soap bait. You can find it at www.catfishbaitsoap.com There are also a lot of baits listed on www.whiskerkitty.com
you can use bluegill or you can go to a store and buy catfish bait
Yes, certain types of smelly cheese can be used to catch freshwater catfish.
yes
The main foot catfish eat is crawdads. The crawdads are probably the best bait. The meat from the tail of the crawdads is the best. Just remove the shell from the tail of the crawdads. You can purchase crawdads at any tackle shop or catch them yourself with a crawdad trap. Also, any kind of cheese is a good bait for the catfish. You only need to cast 25 feet in front of you to catch the catfish.
Yes, they can be caught with live bait.
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Luncheon meat, deadbaits
Chunks of hot dog weiners will catch catfish, fished on the bottom.
Any person that usually fishes for Catfish will say ''Soap is an excellent bait for Catfish''. And anyway, they use Soap a lot in Africa and they catch plenty of Catfish with it.
walmart and most tackle shops
yes great for catfish and carp