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Friday 16 March 2012

Bait for Catfishing

 Here's a great fishing article for all you catfishing experts, this one covers the bait need to catch those extra special catfish, the ones that will make you the envy of all your fishing buddies!

Whenever possible, one of my favorite things is to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and head off fishing. Growing up with brothers provided ample of family time together, often egging each other on to see who would catch the biggest fish of the day and which bait for catfishing was used.
The bait for catfishing often become a big debate and competition in our household, especially when it came to who would lure the big one in. My grandfather always out to prove his philosophy, believed that the best catfishing bait was "natural & alive" - like perch, crawfish or shad, frogs or worms. He preferred using the garden style of worms as he could find them pretty easy himself. He would also sometimes use minnows or grasshoppers and the odd bit of stink bait. He taught us that the catfish possessed a strong sense of smell and using a smelly live bait he would proudly lure them in.

Old School Catfish Fishing

Now my father, however, being a somewhat rebel and always up for the challenge to fish out my granddad, was always experimenting and creating bait for catfishing. He taught us that catfish were mainly scavenger eaters and would just about eat anything long as they didn't have to travel too far to get it. He would try experimenting with formulas that entailed different combinations from chicken livers, Cheerios, cheese, peanut butter, flour and fish oil or guts. He would take this well mixed up concoction and then freeze it for a couple of days, saying that was part of his "secret sauce" in luring. Depending upon the "formula" some would need a bread wrapped over after being applied to the lure. Especially if he was trying a simple bait technique of marshmallows or a few pieces of corn stuck on the end of each treble hook, with peanut butter to "glue" the bread. He believed that the sweet smell of the corn would work its magic.
We'd head off for a catfishing fest, with various buckets & boxes of live bait and the cooler packed full of homemade bait combinations and spend the day test fishing with the different variations, hopeful of winning. Sometimes my granddad would win out that day and other times my Dad won. The catfish won too, as we always put them back after the inspection and bragging rights. All in all, it provided a lot of fun family memories & planted the seed of pursuit to continually find that perfect bait for catfishing.
More debate on bait for catfishing and fishing shenanigans in general at the website, Bait for Catfishing
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