Id go with chicken or beef liver or shrimp,the brown uncooked kind dont get the pink ones thats already been boiled.I think in the library it tells you how to cure your liver so it will stay on the hook better and wont have to use thread or anything else to hold it on the hook.
If your trying for the medium sized cats then you might want to try some .59 cent hot dogs and trimmings from a butcher shop. these are the main things that i catch 60% of all my cats on.
chicken livers work pretty well where I fish.Also use night crawlers,hotdogs,soap,shrimp....... you name it I believe I have about tried them all:wink:.But the chicken livers have worked the best.
Cut skipjack, shad, bluegill, nightcrawlers. Yes I said nightcrawlers! If you are trying to catch channels that are good eating size they work great. I don't have much faith in homemade or commerical baits.
in kansas i catch or i should say my son catches sand toads then we take them to our favorite spot in the river and catch our limit in just a few hours they are great i recomend using them if you have them in your area they are all over kansas
whenever i am fishing for cats i use either worms(for the small ones) or chicken livers, but if you are going for the big ones i usually use cut up brim
really anything that looks like food. shrimp, cheese, hotdogs, worms, chicken liver, chicken guts, crawdad, doughbaits, anything stinky. for dip baits and stinkbait i like either catfish charlie or wicked sticky and always find that cheese flavor beats out blood.
FOr Channels, basically anything that you might think of could probably catch them, worms and stinkbait are great choises, as are chicken livers(if you can get them to stay on the hook)
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