I love to fish but recvently I moved and I need to kno what I need for catching catfish?

Answer 1

There are three good ways I know of to catch catfish.... all depends on your location, and what you're willing to try.

Plan A- Go to the grocery store, and find the nastiest, cheapest, and grissled piece of beef liver you can find. Cut it into triangle strips, with a long tail. Make either a nylon or steel leader, add some weights depending on how strong your current is ( as in river fishing ), and your hook. Wrap the liver around the hook, leaving a long tail hanging down. The catfish will do the rest!

Plan B- Fill one coffee can with concrete, add an eyebolt to the can, let dry. Get some thin chain, about 6' long and connect the end to the eyebolt on the can. About 1' apart, tie steel leaders to the chain, add your hooks. Add the liver bait described above. Throw one end of the chain trot line into the water, and keep one on the bank. Anchor it down good so it won't get dragged out. You can use a piece of steel rod or something similar to stake it. Leave it for a few hours, or overnight, it's up to you. When you come back, you should have a few catfish on your trot line.

Plan C- Go to either Santee Cooper Lake, or Kentucky Lake. Wade in the water, stick your hands into the caverns along the banks, stuff your hand into the catfish's mouth and make a fist. Pull that whopper out by his mouth. If you don't believe this is done, look online and you will be shocked! It does work! ( This is for large catfish 50-100+ lbs. )

Good fishing.

Answer 2

there are maney ways to fish for catfish, where i'm from noodiling is very popular, but i have yet to try that. When fishing from shore I use the slip weight rig. Use natrual bait, stay away from camircial bait if you can, if not its ok. Use shad minnows bluegill is the best. For larger fish use live bluegill. At night is when catfishing is at its best, check in the shallows then.

Answer 3

i fish on kentucky lake alot and have great luck with turkey liver , chicken liver , and night crawlers . i also use a 2/0 hook and a 2 ounce weight . Heres how i rig .... start with a 3 way swivel tied directly on your line coming from the reel , then on one of the other swivels tie a piece of line on about 18 inches long on the other end of that tie on your weight , on the last swivel eye i use a 9 inch 30lb test steel leader with my 2/0 hook on it . bait it drop it to the bottom and drift letting the weight bump the bottom . be ready on hold on tight . GOOD LUCK FISHING!!!!!!
p.s. i use a medium heavy action rod 6 foot long and a baitcasting reel.

Answer 4

for catfish, you'll need a small hook and some bait, worms will do. you wont be needing a long super strong fishing rod cause catfish isnt that strong and they live in muddy areas.

Answer 5

I used to catch many catfish and bullhead in VT. Get yourself a med. size pole and reels setup. Its best to catch them when they're spawning when the ice goes out and the water warms a bit more. You can fish off shore. Its the best when you fish them at night, as they are primarily nocturnal feeders. Get yourself some chicken livers, real cheap and effective ( I used to pay 1.00 for a small bucket of them, save-a-lot stores would be your best bet if they have them where you live. Or you can use a hook about this long-------------------------- with a wad of nightcrawlers on it. When fishing at night get yourself a propane lantern, as this offers you light and also attracts the cats closer to you. get a sinker about this big(____) and tie the sinker on your line first. About a foot above the sinker, tie your leadered hook to your line. When you get to where your fishing find a "Y" shaped stick that you can thrust into the ground and set your pole on. wing your bait out there and set your pole on the stick, and reel up any slack in your line and wait for them to bite, you'll know when theres a cat on there believe me!! Or you can clip a bell to the tip of your pole and just listen for that also. When you see the bite, pick your pole up but dont apply any tension to your line, as this may and usually scares them. wait for them to take your line out so its tight and set the hook. When you reel them in watch out for there top fin and there two front side fins as these contain barbs that will poke you and let me tell you, when you get stung youll know it. It will just hurt thats about it, but for 1-2 days if he gets you good. But heres my trick. If you get stung just rub the sting on there belly as it contains a natural antibiotic and will soothe it fast. they use it when they spawn because they sting each other alot. But thats about it. Have fun. Ive caught buckets upon buckets of cats like this :)

Answer 6

If fishing for channel cat anything that smells will work, hot dog, worms, liver, shrimp, stinkbaits hell prolly an old dirty sock would catch fish.

If you want flathead then you want to go with small whole live blue gill, or shad

Answer 7

Chicken liver works for me. You can usually buy it at a grocery store. just check around Wal-mart or other food chains.

Answer 8

try using a treble hook with a good size weight with chicken liver or minnows