| #21  03-13-2005, 03:18 AM | |||
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| Re: catfishing Bre5584, I've heard of grawping, not the actual word but the method. I'd rather stick to rod and reel too, much safer and funner that way I think. How big are the ponds you guys fish at? Usually 8 lb. test will do the trick, but I'm going to be using some bigger line so I can go fishing for bigger fish, because I've lost fish on 10 lb. line before.     |
| #22 03-13-2005, 05:14 AM | |||
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| Re: catfishing Bre5584 sounds like what we call hand fishing. I agree, the idea of sticking my hand in A hole that I don't have any Idea what might be in there just don't intrest me AT ALL !!! In the spring we use shad very stinky shad then in the summer we use chicken liver or worms and somtime stink bait. I think I will try your brand. how is the fishing over your way. |
| #23 03-13-2005, 03:53 PM | |||
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| Re: catfishing I have a story about chicken livers. I bought a package one time with a friend, with the plans of using it for catfish. On one pole I used a big chunk of chicken liver, and on another pole I put my nightcrawler on the hook, then dipped the setup into the package to make it nice and smelly. I tell you what, the white bass were going nuts for that nightcrawller dipped in liver juice. We were catching them fast and furious like that for awhile that night. |
| #24 03-15-2005, 12:31 AM | ||||
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| Re: catfishing Nightcrawlers dipped in liver juice... I will haffta member that... I'm thinking that "hand fishing" is probably a lot like grawping... lol. I'm curious as to how the word "grawping" came about... There's a really big fishing tournament around here at a place called Lake Odessa... I'm not allowed to go because it's a "guy's weekend"... But I'm gonna try to smuggle myself in this year... It probably won't work, but it's always Memorial Day weekend and the guys talk about it for the rest of the summer.... We also hold "Annual Drunken Trot Line Weekend" every summer...That's just a thing between friends though... It'd be a lot cooler if it was a sponsored event.... Anyways- All of my friends are in town from college for spring break this week and I'm about to head down to a friends cabin to play Drunken Scattegories... Haha- as you can tell in a town this size the word "drunken" preceeds a LOT of words...  __________________ Fishing is an excuse to drink in the daytime... |
| #25 03-15-2005, 04:38 AM | |||
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| Re: catfishing Bre5584, I live in a small town too, and there's plenty o' drunkeness in this town too, and a couple of the other smaller Monroe County, MI towns too. The town I live in, Lambertville, MI, as well as the next town Temperance, MI, has grown quite a bit the last 10 years or so since a lot of the Toledo hoodlums thought it would be cool to live in the "country," but now its not so country anymore. Anyways, give that a try about that nightcrawlers in liver juice. The smell seemed to really attract the white bass. We even had a few hits that were a lot like a catfish, but could've also been a sheephead (freshwater drum), bullhead, or carp, since it seems they bite pretty similar. |
| #26 03-22-2005, 12:24 PM | |||
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| Re: catfishing Hi all. I grew up on the rock river, fishing for catfish and "borrowing" flat bottom boats to check outlines. I fish mostly smallies now, but I have caught some big flatheads. I catch channel cat every once in a while on some of the creeks I fish. surprisingly big for the stream size. Catfish are easy to catch, and there are some huge ones out there. I always seem to get drunk fishing for catfish. I usually use stinkbait for river channel cats, and use small ones on an outline or 2 for flathead and big blues. __________________ Et tu, myself? |
| #27 03-22-2005, 07:42 PM | |||
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| Re: catfishing trespasser, what kind of stinkbait do you usually use for the flatheads and channel cats? Chicken liver? Blood baits? Cut bait? Just curious. |
| #28 03-23-2005, 02:41 AM | |||
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| Re: catfishing I use a soft prepared stinkbait, TJ's, its made by a guy I work with, and its easy to find around here. But thats for channel cats. Sometimes inline spinners too (they seem to like black with flake). For flathead, I use actuall whole fish, like if theres a small channel on I'll leave it overnight. Not sure thats legal. thats how i caught the largest flathead I ever landed. 49 lbs. I thought it was a tire or something when I was pulling in the outline. I dont really fish for flathead or blues with a pole. I just get drunk, and then I'm not really fishing. Oh yeah, TJ's is a cheesebait, but theres alot of junk in it, he wouldnt tell all of it. (secret). I have never had good luck with chicken liver, its not very tough, good blood or cheesebaits will stay on for about 45 minutes in normal river current. (normal for the rock.) Levi __________________ Et tu, myself? |
| #29 03-23-2005, 03:20 AM | |||
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| Re: catfishing I never really have used chicken liver a lot, just some here and there with little success, but like I said I don't use it a lot. Mainly use nightcrawlers, that are on their last days and bloody. You might've seen my post above how I've dipped nightcrawlers on the hook into the liver container and had white bass biting like crazy with that setup. |
| #30 04-10-2005, 11:22 PM | |||
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| Re: catfishing I dont know what species can be found in SoCal but if you want to catch big ones you need to understand that big fish get that way by eating more calories than they burn to eat.....make sense? If you want to catch big blues, flatheads etc. (75 to 100+lbs.) you need to use large (hand sized or bigger) panfish for bait. They wont take (generally) the same baits that channel cats and smaller cats take i.e.; dough bait, blood bait, worms etc. P.S. I dont use live bait anymore myself, I get too much of a kick from catching fish on hardware, and I have never gone after cats with artificials so I have no advise there. good luck |
