2006 POST – Question for the CAT guys!

In Iowa we have a free magazine called The Iowa Sportsman that we get at Caseys convinience store. In the March issue they haveCatfishing tips, here’s a few.

To keep livers from falling off the hook, place liver in strawberry, banana jell-o. Let set for at least 24 hours.

Put 10 to 20 pieces of Dog Chow in a cotainer, cover with water for one to two minutes, then drain. Use #1 or 100 gold wire Mustad hook. push the hook ito the dog food chunk. The dog food will leave an invisible slick on the water that attracts the cats.

Cut a bar of Ivory Soap into 1-inch cubes with a hot knife. Place it on a catfish hook and fish as normal. The soap will dissolve slowly and attract cats.

Dip night crawlers in the cheese from a box of macaroni and cheese and fish the rig as normal.

I was wondreing if anybody has tryed these?

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Dip night crawlers in the cheese from a box of macaroni and cheese

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Hmmm…that sounds better than lutifisk! Might have to try it!

Most of the guys (and girls) up here (in MN) use cut bait..I’ll see if I can track down Blufloyd and some of the guys down that way to comment on these.

I’m guessing one of the moderators will shoot this over the the MN/Mississippi Catfish Forum.

PS I’ve had my best luck wrapping my livers with thick bacon , cooking them for 20 minutes at 300…then eating them with beer…

use panty hose to keep ur baits like that together longer and on ur hook

An old guy taught me this when I was young and still bank fishing a lot. Is the best way I have ever found to keep chicken livers on hooks. So good that you might have to use a knife to cut them off. Cut open a golf ball, using caution not to cut too deeply. Take the shell off and you are left with a ball of very thin rubber twine wrapped around a rubber or cork core. Try to keep this rubber twine intact. Use a long shank hook. Hook your piece of liver as usual and then take a piece of that rubber twine about 2 inches long. Hold one end of that twine firmly against the liver and hook shank. Pull the twine taught and wrap it around the liver/hook shank lots of times. When the piece of rubber twine gets short enough that you cannot hold onto it much longer, simply let go. The liver will stay on the hook so well that you will be able to catch more than one fish without rebaiting. Be advised not to play with liver or use this technique while wearing your Sunday best as it is messy. Try it out, is worth the effort of cutting up a golf ball. Another quick tip, put the golf ball in a vise when you are cutting the outer shell off.

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is worth the effort of cutting up a golf ball.

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Robby, THAT is the BEST use of a golf ball I’ve ever heard!!!

From ’06

Ivory Soap: I’ve never caught anything off of it, and it’s very subject to falling off the hook

Chicken Livers: Work fairly well but if you want a better way to never lose it or have it stolen off the hook you can try this:

Purchase some “Gumball” stockings, they are just Nylons that come in one of those little plastic containers you get out of quarter candy machines. (They are only 33 cents at Walmart for a pair)

Drop appropriate amount of liver into one of the nylons(based of hook size) then pinch the stocking and slide the liver down to the bottom of the stocking as tight as you can, then tie off the stocking tightly against the chunk of liver, and cut off above the knot.

Run your hook through the bag of liver, and it will not come off (You’ll probably have to cut it off when you go to remove it)

Depending on your hook style, and bait holder barbs, if the bag at a rest might obstruct the end of the hook, use an extra piece of line (or leave a tag of 5-6 inches when you tie your hook) to tie the bag on the shaft of the hook.

Then rinse and repeat, tie a knot at the end of the stocking where you cut it off, drop more liver in, tie cut, and go! I usually get the first bait of the eve out there, and then while waiting prep the rest of the liver into the little baggies and put them back in the container (The nylon then gets to soak up even more blood to disperse)

Dogfood: Never tested (I do have CATFOOD, I might try that hrmm..)

Crawlers in cheese: Never heard of it o.O

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In Iowa we have a free magazine called The Iowa Sportsman that we get at Caseys convinience store. In the March issue they haveCatfishing tips, here’s a few.

To keep livers from falling off the hook, place liver in strawberry, banana jell-o. Let set for at least 24 hours.

Put 10 to 20 pieces of Dog Chow in a cotainer, cover with water for one to two minutes, then drain. Use #1 or 100 gold wire Mustad hook. push the hook ito the dog food chunk. The dog food will leave an invisible slick on the water that attracts the cats.

Cut a bar of Ivory Soap into 1-inch cubes with a hot knife. Place it on a catfish hook and fish as normal. The soap will dissolve slowly and attract cats.

Dip night crawlers in the cheese from a box of macaroni and cheese and fish the rig as normal.

I was wondreing if anybody has tryed these?

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That is mostly junk info. Or leaving out some vital info. Like soap is trotline bait. And it wouldn’t be a bad choice if you have a swamp full of turtles. And there are commercial ones available, probably better idea than ivory.