Bacon The Best

[trizkid]

just wondering if anyone uses bacon for cats.... i have found that it works better than anything ive tried.....will never come offf hook and makes a great oil slik

[rcguy]

I've not heard of this but it sounds like a great idea. They really like it??

[Jason Essary]

where did u fish it? never used it before but cats on the rock seem pretty specialized most of the time.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I used it as a kid, that and hotdogs. Not many bait shops in the burbs. Works well at times just like any other bait for cats. Eels love it on the Mississippi River near St. Louis.

SIO3

[Kayser]

Never caught an eel. Might try it soon with all this high water.

Best catfish bait that I've found has to be bluegill. Use live fish for channels, blues and flatheads, or as cutbait (a skin-on, scaled piece of fillet) for channels, blues, and bullheads. Best part is, there is an abundance of bluegill in most waters, and you don't need to buy bait!

Rob

[Paola Cat]

My go to baits for big cat baits are: Leopard frogs for blues and channels. Use them dead hooked down through the bottom of the mouth and bring up one leg and hook it through the thigh. Small green sunfish for flatheads fished live and hooked through the back. PC

[Jason Essary]

green sunfish are the "best" live bait for flatheads Ive ever found. Love them. 4" all the way to 8". just set two lines full of them with a few other bream. should have some flats by morning

[oneshot]

green sunfish are the "best" live bait for flatheads Ive ever found. Love them. 4" all the way to 8". just set two lines full of them with a few other bream. should have some flats by morning

Too bad we can't use them over 5" in Missouri.

oneshot

[Jason Essary]

did not know that. Thanks for the info. Looked it up and ur right, guess ill start measuring my bait.

[trizkid]

I've not heard of this but it sounds like a great idea. They really like it??

oh yeah...even if you run a cross some sunfish they will tear it up