Trotline Bait........

[BOCEPHUS]

..........I BEEN MARINATEN HOT DOG WEENIES IN VINEGAR, LIMBERGER CHEESE, GARLIC POWDER, BAR-BQ-SAUCE, MUSTARD, STRAWBERRY KOOLAID, ALINISE OIL, SALT, STEW FROM PIG BRAIN, AND LEFT OVER CATFISH GUT CLEAN'ENS FOR A WHILE................WHAT ELSE DO YOU USE????

[garciap77]

Minnows and liver.

[Looking4number8]

When I was a kid, at the start of the summer my dad would by a couple of slabs of "cotton seed cake". It was something like 3'x6' and about 1 1/2" thick. We would cut it in 2" squares (with a skill saw) and drill holes in the middle of each square. The first time we put them on the line, it seemed like an all day affair. You had to take the string off the line and thread it thru the cotton seed, then put it back on the trot line. After the first time, most of the seeds would last up to a month and we just had to replace a few at a time, so running the trot line was easy. The Cotton seed caught us a lot of big cat fish, yellow cats and even some blue cats. We also caught gar, drum and a every once in a while we would get a snake... Man I hated that part!

Every summer we ran six trot lines at least twice daily. Dad got either me or my brother up before six and we would run the lines. I would go back to bed and he would go to work. Sometimes we would run them again when he got home at 5 but we always ran them again after dark.

I remember we had two trap doors on our dock with huge square wire baskets. We would clean all the catfish we caught on weekends and lots of time both of those baskets would be completely full!

[JasperDog94]

At night we always used live bait but during the day my Dad would cut up ivory soap and use that as bait. It worked surprisingly well.

[BOCEPHUS]

ANYBODY EVER USED STORE BOUGHT BISCUITS, POP'EM OPEN AND LET THEM SET IN FIRG FOR A DAY, THE MIX'EM WITH SOMETHING GOOD AND STINKEY.

REASON I AM ASKING I FOUND 5 GALLONS OF WEENIE BAIT FORM LAST YEAR, HAS 14 MONTHS OF MARINADE GOING FOR IT. IS AOBUT 300 CHUNKS BUT THEY ALL SOFT, WONT STAY ON HOOK. WAS TRYING TO FIGURE HOW TO GET THEM ON, MASH UP AND MIX UP, SOMEDAY SAID CORNMEAL, CORNFLAKES, OATMEAL, KARO SYRUP OR HONEY.

IS SOME PRIME STUFF THOUGH. WAS A 16 PART MARINADE ..FOR STARTERS WAS VINEGAR, GARLIC, FISH GUTS, CHEESE.......

ANYWAY IT WILL KNOCK A BUZZARD OFF'EN A 10 DAY OLD GUT WAGAON THATS FOR SURE.

WILL SELL 1/2 IF IT FOR $50 IF'EN ANYBODY WANTS SOME??

[BwdLions]

The best bait I've ever used on trotlines to catch catfish is helgramites. You have to catch them first with a seine. The only river I've ever caught them in is the Colorado back when it used to run.

[BOCEPHUS]

WATER DAWGS!!
DAD BLAME THINGS HARD TO FIND, HARDER TO KEEP ALIVE

[GreenMonster]

I dunno about trot lining, but when the catfish are spawning I use a mixture of Quaker Oats and Big Red. Mix it up so that it's sticky and wrap it onto your treble hook, cats and even carp go crazy over it.

[solocam]

Perch and small carp for yellow cats

[Bearkat]

Perch. Catfish like perch!!!

[crzyjournalist03]

Originally posted by BOCEPHUS
..........I BEEN MARINATEN HOT DOG WEENIES IN VINEGAR, LIMBERGER CHEESE, GARLIC POWDER, BAR-BQ-SAUCE, MUSTARD, STRAWBERRY KOOLAID, ALINISE OIL, SALT, STEW FROM PIG BRAIN, AND LEFT OVER CATFISH GUT CLEAN'ENS FOR A WHILE................WHAT ELSE DO YOU USE????

Wow...that's a lot of stuff.

You must be a master baiter.

[Looking4number8]

Originally posted by Bearkat
Perch. Catfish like perch!!!

yes they do. I used to perch fish all afernoon and we would put them on the hooks. Another thing we did was gather mussels from shallow water. When the lake level is going down, the mussels are plentiful. We also had to open them dang things with a screwdriver. Also, went to my uncles farm and caught grasshoppers off the corn plants. Never a shortage of them when it was real hot. Man, I did not realize we worked so hard at fishing back then.

[Looking4number8]

Oh, and the ironic thing is my dad NEVER NEVER are fish, he hates em, but he loved to catch em!

[PPHSfan]

I use live crawfish. They stay on until they catch fish.

[Emerson1]

Worms

Anything else is just cheating.

[espn1]

Originally posted by Emerson1
Worms

Anything else is just cheating.


For a Trot Line?

Shad, Perch, Gizzards, Livers! I've also seen some women out at Pardner's the would work! maybe not they might be a little too fishy.:D :D :D

[Emerson1]

Originally posted by espn1
For a Trot Line?

Shad, Perch, Gizzards, Livers! I've also seen some women out at Pardner's the would work! maybe not they might be a little too fishy.:D :D :D
Trot lines are cheating

[Diocletian]

Use goldfish. You'll catch some great channel-cat.

You might also snag a snake or two though, and depending on where you are those are good eatin' too.

[navratbacker]

i use danny king punch bait that works great for cat fish

[zebrablue2]

Originally posted by BOCEPHUS
ANYBODY EVER USED STORE BOUGHT BISCUITS, POP'EM OPEN AND LET THEM SET IN FIRG FOR A DAY, THE MIX'EM WITH SOMETHING GOOD AND STINKEY.

REASON I AM ASKING I FOUND 5 GALLONS OF WEENIE BAIT FORM LAST YEAR, HAS 14 MONTHS OF MARINADE GOING FOR IT. IS AOBUT 300 CHUNKS BUT THEY ALL SOFT, WONT STAY ON HOOK. WAS TRYING TO FIGURE HOW TO GET THEM ON, MASH UP AND MIX UP, SOMEDAY SAID CORNMEAL, CORNFLAKES, OATMEAL, KARO SYRUP OR HONEY.

IS SOME PRIME STUFF THOUGH. WAS A 16 PART MARINADE ..FOR STARTERS WAS VINEGAR, GARLIC, FISH GUTS, CHEESE.......

ANYWAY IT WILL KNOCK A BUZZARD OFF'EN A 10 DAY OLD GUT WAGAON THATS FOR SURE.


LOL...:D

WILL SELL 1/2 IF IT FOR $50 IF'EN ANYBODY WANTS SOME??

[sinfan75]

perch , minnows and redman chewin tobacco. Also hardhead meat or pretty much anything else we could find. Catfish are pretty wide open about their diet.

[trojan37]

Originally posted by GreenMonster
I dunno about trot lining, but when the catfish are spawning I use a mixture of Quaker Oats and Big Red. Mix it up so that it's sticky and wrap it onto your treble hook, cats and even carp go crazy over it.

I've seen corn flakes used also. Mix it up into balls and bait the hooks and look out!

[Electus Unus]

left over cuts from your last catch

[slingshot]

Used to trotline fish a lot with my Dad and his buddies on the Colorado and San Saba rivers when I was a kid. We used perch (live small ones worked best, hook them through the tail); shad gizzards--we would seine them and clean them, a lot of work--but they worked great; live grasshoppers--would catch them at night during the summer by flashlight, think I still have a home-made keeper somewhere, wood ends with wire tube side and a rubber slit to stick the hoppers in; helgamites (sp?), would gather them from under rocks in a fast running stream. We caught a lot of channel and yellow cats back in those days... good memories. Good until you remember a water moccasin wrapping around your arm at 3 AM that was hooked on a trotline that you were running in the dark with a dim flash light and nearly having a heart attack!!!
:D

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Emerson1
Trot lines are cheating

Kinda like feeding deer all year and hiding in a blind and shooting the poor unsuspecting deer while he is eating where you trained him to!!

No sport to that, IMO!!

[kepdawg]

So I take it a trotline is some sort of fish?

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by kepdawg
So I take it a trotline is some sort of fish?

You so silly!

[kepdawg]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
You so silly!

Well if you got bait for it I'm assuming you can catch it!

[BOCEPHUS]

Originally posted by crzyjournalist03
Wow...that's a lot of stuff.

You must be a master baiter.

THAT WOULD BE 'MASTER BAITER SIR '

SOME PEOPLE KALL ME KONG

OTHERS BAITZILLA
U BETTER DO MORE RESEARCH FORE U LEAVE THE SIR OUT

[Looking4number8]

Originally posted by BOCEPHUS
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OTHERS BAITZILLA
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Baitzilla.... :clap: :clap:

[PPSTATEBOUND]

I have trot lined a few times in my days, Mosses Lake "saltwater", Texoma, Lake Nocona, Ray Roberts...

Shrimp works great, Sardines, Scalops, cut shade or whole shad, Live Perch, cut bait any type fish, Ivory soap and cheese mixed then melted on a cookie sheet then cut into cubes " great for soft shell turtle also" bucket stink bait mixed with cattails to better stay on hook, hominy, liver, gizzards, goldfish, Minnows dead or alive..and yes even hot dogs.....

Shrimp and any type small live fish has always worked best for me.....

Try putting some maze into a nylon stocking then tying it off and hanging it on the trot line in a few spots that will bring them in.

Yall have a great day!:)