What is the best way to use fresh chicken liver when catfishing in the Ohio River?

Question

Since the liver is very soft it's hard to stay on the hook so what size hooks should I use and what type of rig or setup should I use to keep the bait on and to catch catfish? If anyone has any techniques or uses a certain bait to catch catfish this time of the year please let me know.

I have used panty hose before to help keep the bait on

Answer 1

I use liver hooks they have a double hook with a pin to help hold liver on.(Mustad)

Answer 2

PLEASE READ ALL The egg came first because other animals came before the chicken that had eggs of some kind. One kind are the fish in the seas; fish lay eggs. Another are snakes; snakes also lay eggs. Only if this question was asked as, "Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?", would it be a paradox. Sexually reproducing animals also have eggs- the question doesn't specify a type of egg. Dinosaurs had eggs. Darwin's theory; the chicken egg came from a different species. A chicken could not have its genetic material altered during life, so the egg must have evolved and been first. If you take into account the doctrine of evolution, the egg's coming first becomes plausible on the cellular level under perfect circumstances (abundant food and resources). There will be an a-sexual reproduction once the environment becomes unfavorable. The species would then evolve, and a lot of animals have no parental instincts but through evolution some have started to look after their young. An a-sexual reproduction is reproduction in which there is no fusion of male and female sex cells gametes. The egg came first because the chicken descended from a dinosaur, and it laid an egg that was changed from Darwin's theory. The egg came first because a chicken comes from an egg. At whatever point you decide to call the chicken a true chicken, it must have come from an egg. Because the different species before it must have evolved to make a chicken, the egg came first. THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST: Using Literature, the chicken comes first. Using grammar, "the chicken" comes first in the sentence (They come before the words, "the egg".). In a dictionary, the word "chicken" comes before "egg". God created the chicken first. In the seven days that God created the earth, it makes no mention of animal's eggs. Thus, the chicken came first. The chicken came first because, if the chicken didn't come first, there would be no egg or care for it. So, God had to make the chicken first. NEITHER THE EGG NOR THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST: There is no answer.Since the question is a paradox, there is no answer. If the chicken came first, it came from the egg. If the egg came first, then it came from a chicken, and so forth. There is no correct answer that can be proven. It's all theory. Evolution suggests that both chickens and eggs evolved from creatures and "egg-things" you would not recognize to be part of the lineage. (Similar to how, in the very distant past, some molecule[s] that was [were] not what we would call "life" became "life".) That was the beginning. The rooster came first.Neither the chicken or the egg came first. It was the rooster who came first. The egg and the chicken came at the same time.The chicken and the egg are just two different names for the same process or being. It's like water becoming ice is still water, and vice versa.

Answer 3

dont use chicken liver catch some bluegills or crappies scale them fillet them but leave the skin on them it will stay on the hook alot better sometimes i catch 3 or 4 fish on 1 piece and also use the head hook it through both eyes it works to but the fillets are the only bait i use know i have tried every bait out there and this works the best year around

Answer 4

i use cheese cloth with treble hook squeeze liver around hook cover the hook with cheese cloth and tie at top of hook use a three way swivel tie one end to pole end use one end for your sinker about 18 inches long and on the last one for your bait abuot 9 inches long this way it keeps the bait off the bottom so the catfish can see or smell it raise and lower your pole with the current by bouncing the sinker off the bottom bigger is better

Answer 5

You can use a treble hook or a 4/0 to 5/0 circle hook...I use to use pantyhose or bread ties to keep the liver on...but I agree cut bait is better...

Answer 6

Throw the liver away use either cut bait like cut bluegill or live bluegill . There are monster flathead catfish in the Ohio that love bluegill

Answer 7

When I fish with chicken liver, I use some thread, and wrap it around the liver. That usually helps keep it on the hook. Good luck.

Answer 8

I go to the dollar store and get some hose fromthere(knee hi or panty hose) this wooks pretty good
I have also "tied" the liver to hooks.Hook the liver then tie it off with plain thread.

Answer 9

try using a treble hook and embed the liver into all three points of the hook

Answer 10

I use big trebble hooks and try to wrap it around it as much as i can to ge the best hold on it.