EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Wats yalls favorite? Ive never used stink bait but frozen liver and goldfish seem to work the best for me.

live fresh caught gizzard

Cut shad

so what kinda fish we talkin catfish i presume  lol  what method  trotline ??  and where at river , lake  lost to consider when chooesing bait

I wanna say it's illegal to use goldfish?

For poles hands down shrimp then live bait perch then worms.  For trot lines live bait.  Never had much luck with stink bait but have good luck with the chum stuff you get at walfart.  Read in fur fish and game that ivory soap works well haven't tried it yet but plan on it.

It may be illegal but they sell them at the bait store i go to. For trotlines in the river and jugs in a lake i use live bait. Usually perch. But im talking about from the bank of a river with a pole. ive had pretty good luck with cut shad. Just wanting to know if there is somethin else out there that would work better ;)

yeah thats the info i needed . if the river is flowing the stink baits are bad about washing off i'g use a hard bait or live shad or cut bait bream or perch /

Man what I have used in the past for river and lake with pole is a bag of some tortilla makin flour mix big red and crushed up Cheetos. Them cats like it!

I'll be trying that this weekend never heard of that mixture

Goldfish just can't be used for bass but can for catfish I do believe

Red belly perch work well on trotliine or limb line big op love em

We use a little of everything but the best we have found are

Fresh or frozen cut shad. Cut the head off, the tail off and fish with the head and middle.

COOKED frozen shrimp. It's tougher than raw and they are usually all the same size, and your not winding up with a bunch of heads and trash like you can in the TV shrimp.

Danny Kings catfish bait. It's a dough bait but it really holds on a treble hook nice and they will attack it hard.

Perch. Enough said.

We also use the hell out of chum. Mix one package of yeast, a beer, and about 3/4 of a 5 gallon bucket full of 1/2 chicken scratch and 1/2 milo or cracked corn (not whole!!). Enough water for everything to cover about an inch. Then let it soak. Don't put a lid or anything, or it will swell and pop it off. It's ready when there is black and green slime all over it. 

I have caught thousands of catfish on Danny King over the years. However, one of the guys that made it died and the stuff you get at Wally World is not the same.

Porters Sporting Goods in Dogwood City, Tx. went in with the guy that used to  make the real Danny King and are making a bait now. It is good and catches fish. They grind up crickets and put in it which seems to help. However, they need to put more cat tails in it so it stays on the hook better.

It is legal to use gold fish on a trotline and I do it all the time on my noodles.

Cool thanks for all the tips!

catch a large carp scale it then filet it leave the skin on him cut into small pieces make shure the hook goes thrue the skin it will stay on for more than one or two fish

bluegill perch, live shad cut shad gold fish or cut carp

Soap!

Soap (in the winter when the water's moving) and Shad have always worked the best for us!

  just curious are you having to add cattails you your danny king.  i used to use it all the time, i still use lewis king...since danny sold his recipie i have had lots of trouble with it being loose and not staying on the hook. found that wrapping it with mesh helped but to much hassle.

Cut carp! Works great got me .. weather its fresh or not...

stink bait called J.PIGS hands down the best bait you can ever use
other than chicken express livers.  Used to run out at the grocery store and I
Could get two family tubs of it for a dollar.  I guess its the marinade they come in or something cause believe it or not I've caught several big yella cat on it.

I like to use danny kings punch bait. Original and blood kind.

for fishing with a pole.. SHRIMP hands down is the best.. had better luck at the lake with shrimp then at the river . i use Liver when im at the river

Old timer told me to use deer heart. Been using it for years. stays on hook even in the river and is full of blood. just keep in  freezer and cut off as needed.

for all the hogs u catch.thats FREE BAIT... we like to drain all the blood into a 5gal bucket and u put it into and old fridge that works.and give it a day or so and it will be hard.almlst like the dough bait u buy at wallfart.u can make mixes with it to.or chum it.

when the river is up red worms and grub worms dn't buy em dig em they seem to like the ones you get under horse crap

we use live bait most of the time , flatheads eat live bait most of the time , big perch or shad , blues arnt as picky ,live ,  cut, wadded , heads , tails , guts , once you figure out what there eating that day its on, we also use live bait for sandys but smaller bait than for catfish , I always thought stink bait was for the dink fisherman or the occasional fisherman that cant throw a net , i believe if you wanna catch fish in quanity shad is the best way , save the cheetos for when you get hungry , we also use several types of rigs depending on what the water is doing buts thats a whole other story

I re read my post and I think I came across as a a$$ and not meaning to , a dink to me is a smaller fish , my dad catchs the crap out of them with shrimp dipped in stink bait , I personally like to catch bigger fish which in most cases takes larger bait , a carolina rig works great in running water , try to position your self in a eddy , your bait will go side to side in the eddy , blues like to feed in these areas , they will go back and forth in the eddy mass feeding , flatheads can be caught in the same area but most of the time they are a night bite , we use shad up to 6 inchs long for them and alive , sorry sounding rude , not my intention

we use mullet and perch works great

Not an old timer yet but big deer hunter/hog hunter and fisher and have used a lot of deer hearts and they work great - livers also. One thing i did not see mentioned was catabwa worms - they work great with rod and reel - only bad thing is the window for getting them - i usually clean a tree out and freeze a couple bags of them to use later

IM WITH BOB. THE BEST BAIT IS A NATURAL BAIT THAT FISH EAT DAY TO DAY.

Im sure fish are like anything else though - like something different and good from time to time! Them catabwa worms sure do work great for me anyways.

Fish livers work best for me!!