What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
Posted Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:47 am What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
Not having a huge amount of success and getting really frsutrated...any advice would be much appreciated guys.
Posted Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:04 am Re:What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
i used chicken liver and caught a couple fish. Then i tried beef liver and all i caught was turtles!!! i pulled out 3 painted turtles and a huge snapping turtle.
Posted Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:08 am Re:What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
Try hard stale bread that was soaked in sardine oil,and chum with cat food or balled up chicken mash. Punch holes in tuna can and try that
Posted Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:52 am Re:What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
Catsfish love fish. I would use some cut shad or live large minnows. Back hook them so they still move around and make sure you fish the deep pockets, points and any underwater structure you can find.
Posted Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:25 pm Re:What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
During the day cats bite just as good as at night but you have to find them. Normally they'll be in the deep pockets or channels or if you have undercut banks they hiude in there sometimes. The rule I follow is if you don't get a bite or something move on. Work the entire river that you can
Posted Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:20 am Re:What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
If you want to stick with liver use the chicken and put it in a panty hose bag just big enough to nake about a 2" ball and tie it off around the top of the shank of your hook. It'll keep the bait in place and does double duty as a chum bag. good luck and tight lines!
Posted Sun Sep 7, 2008 5:39 pm Re: What is the best bait to catch a catfish in the Lehigh River?
Flatheads and large channels are strictly predators and won't take "garbage" bait. Use live bluegill to target the big boys. If you want small channels, any strong odored bait is fine. Ripe shrimp for example. Happy fishing.
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