Zakaster
Slip weight. ok, thank you!Typically have them set up with a slip weight so the fish can pick it up and move with it. Normally I try to be set up and fishing right around dusk and fish as long as my eyeballs will stay open.
Yeah, Bullheads (yellow bellies) do love night crawlers.My experience with chasing catfish has always been with yellow bellies, not channels. I am also at the other end of the state fishing the Coquille and Coos Rivers. I have heard that chicken livers and really smelly/oily baits work well, but we have had great luck with just strait night crawlers on a long shanked worm hook. Typically have them set up with a slip weight so the fish can pick it up and move with it. Normally I am try to be set up and fishing right around dusk and fish as long as my eyeballs will stay open.
Both of those waters are teaming with yellow bullheads. I think you can catch as many as you want to clean.I was reading a different post that said the Long Tom River and Fern Ridge Reservoir are good for catfishing. But that thread was a bit dated. does anyone have any newer information on them?
Hey guys, I want to go cat-fishing this FridaySaturdah, but I would love some help/advice:
First off, I’m new to this. I could use any tips y’all can give me from bait to technique. I’ve only gone once, and that was a few years back in Utah with my uncle. We went out in the middle of the night and just threw the poles into the lake from the back of a pickup and waited until we got a bite. I’ve heard that chicken liver is a great bait.
I planned using treble hooks (size 4-6, can’t remember), but I’m still open to advice.
2nd, I would really appreciate advice on spots where I can go. I heard Bond Butte Pond is good, but I went there Saturday and I fished off the two piers, and I had no luck. I live just south of Salem. So any pointers where to go, and when. (Im kinda hoping to try out some night fishing, but I dont know where to go).
And just any tips and advice y’all can give, I will greatly appreciate.
Hey guys, I want to go cat-fishing this FridaySaturdah, but I would love some help/advice:
First off, I’m new to this. I could use any tips y’all can give me from bait to technique. I’ve only gone once, and that was a few years back in Utah with my uncle. We went out in the middle of the night and just threw the poles into the lake from the back of a pickup and waited until we got a bite. I’ve heard that chicken liver is a great bait.
I planned using treble hooks (size 4-6, can’t remember), but I’m still open to advice.
2nd, I would really appreciate advice on spots where I can go. I heard Bond Butte Pond is good, but I went there Saturday and I fished off the two piers, and I had no luck. I live just south of Salem. So any pointers where to go, and when. (Im kinda hoping to try out some night fishing, but I dont know where to go).
And just any tips and advice y’all can give, I will greatly appreciate.
Make sure you are using 15-20 fluro leader. They can chaff up line pretty bad.
Yeah, about that Fluro leader.
There's a line you will find in most of my posts about rigging for catfish.
It that "catfish don't care".
Catfish are not line shy in the slightest, also there's no need to try and hide the hook in the bait, or worry about using too heavy of line, because, you guessed it, Catfish Don't Care.
Yeah, and if you want to try a cheaper alternative to chicken breasts, buy chicken hot dogs and soak them in your Kool-Aid.Only started fishing for channels a few years ago and my favorite bait is chicken breast with kool aide and garlic powder mixed in! Works great in the John Day normaly!
Just lay off the WD-40.Dont forget the pam cooking spray
Always fresh liver. My personal experience, from many years of fishing Channel Catfish, is that fresh bait will always outperform that rotten bait myth.now the secrets out I really like using rotten chicken liver tied up in spawn sacs when I fish the jd
I've read a number of time about using hotdogs but have never tried them. Fisrt time reading about chicken hot dogs though! Sort of makes sense though, I mean if they like chcken that well, why not in a hot dog? Watched a video last summer of a guy catching them on McDonalds fries. Cat fish amaze me!Yeah, and if you want to try a cheaper alternative to chicken breasts, buy chicken hot dogs and soak them in your Kool-Aid.
I know quite a few tournament cat fishers that swear by Kool-Aid hot dogs as their go-to bait when the bite is slow.