What is the best way to catch a catfish?

Question

I have tried all tricks...these are great big catfish. and can you it brim

Answer 1

we used to live in a place that had big catfish! i always used to catch them with a fishing pole, and some live bait, though. well hope that helps (though it probablly didn't)

Answer 2

Okay sheila. Get some big sinkers. The egg type that will slide on your line will work. I use a one ounce sinker. Put it on your line (I use big tackle with 20-40 pound test) and don't tie it. Put a little split shot on you line about a foot from the hook (This stops the sinker from reaching the hook, will allow bait to float free, and when a catfish picks up the bait, Line will slide through the big sinker, fish won't have so much resistance that way.) I Have two favorite hooks and baits. Number one is a circle hook with a chunk of cutbait (a piece of a small fish, preferably with some skin on it to keep it on the hook). Number two is chicken liver on a small treble hook. It is hard to keep on the hook. If you can just kind of set a whole liver down onto the barbs of the hook and lob it when you cast, it stays on pretty good. If you tear it up trying to manipulate it onto the hooks multiple times it will fly off.

Then, like many others have said, find some moving water. In a lake, fish in the area of the dam if they are letting water out, This is a perfect situation, because you have some moving water along with deep water and shallow areas as well. Cast it out and let it sit. The blood in the bait will drift, and the cats will hunt it down. Only the minnow is more sensitive to blood than the catfish. They will find it. Happy hunting!!!

As for the second part of the question, Absolutely!!!! Brim (which can be any panfish: bluegill, sunfish, perch, crappie, etc.) are excellent, some of the best fish you will ever eat. Fillet them if they are large enough to keep, a little egg and corn meal, some spices, a deep fryer, and you have an excellent fish fry.

Answer 3

Fish the bottom of an area with moderate current. Catfish are bottom feeds that suck food off the bottom that they come across or drifts in front of them. Catfish seldom pursue live food, instead they eat the left overs that sink to the bottom. There is catfish bait you can buy. It's not very pleasant, but it's a good bet. Put it on your hook and fish the bottom with no float...just let it lay on the bottom and watch your line to start to start moving to the side when the catfish picks it up then starts to drift away looking for more food. Set the hook at that time because the catfish will spit out your bait if it feels the hook. Good luck and good fishing.

Tom

Answer 4

Use small live perch, maybe 3", for really big ones. Use a really heavy pole with strong tackle. Put the perch on the hook and whing it waaaaaay out there. Be sure you anchor the pole, or sit on it. When that big ol' Mr Whiskers hits, the pole will be pulled in fast if you're not careful. Just let the perch swim around out where you cast him, give him some slack line. You don't want the line too tight. If the line start acting funny, watch out. A perch will do a lot of running around when it knows a big catfish is zeroing in on it.

Answer 5

in the south we use dogfood it works really good get yourself your personal flavor of dogfood not cheap stuff either and throw about a handful in the water then take some bread spread peanut butter on it and stick the dogfood 1 or 2 pieces in the middle put a 3 to 5 oz. wieght on the line and about a 2/0 or 1/0 size bait hookput her out there and wait

Answer 6

Chicken livers work great for me, I tie them on my hook with nylon panty hose to keep the bait on...Don't use too big of a hook, i preferably use a treble hook, and usually have my best luck in the evening. Another good bait is the head of a bluegill. It creates a very bloody bait and the channel cats seem to really like it.

Answer 7

Take a Bream and cut him up and use him as cut bait. Put it on a big hook and sail that thing out there with a 1/2 ounce wieght Carolina rig and let it set. Fish at night after dark.

Answer 8

fish on the bottom soft crawdads- chub minnows-chicken liver or night crawlers are a few good baits to try. If you have a boat ask someone about a trot-line

Answer 9

best way i know off is go to the store and buy some smelt put them in a bucket of blood let set for a day then go fishing lol hang to your pole and enjoy your catch.

Answer 10

What kind fo catfish? Shovelheads use live bait such as shiners,
large minnows or chubs.