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Bacon for Catfish? #4652682 03/25/10 01:18 PM
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I was talking with my Fiancees grand dad yesterday, and he was telling me that back in the old days he would bait his troutlines with Bacon? Roll it up and put it on the hook. Has anyone ever tried this?


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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: TwistedDreams] #4652740 03/25/10 01:30 PM
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I have never tried it but i cant see why it would not work. I guess if you cant get any other bait then raid the fridge lol it may be good

Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: Adam25white] #4652767 03/25/10 01:33 PM
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I'd rather eat the bacon!! Or better yet, wrap the catfish in bacon!! laugh


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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: parttime] #4652792 03/25/10 01:37 PM
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some say bacon used under cormorant roosts is the best


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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: tgravley aka lewisvillecatfish] #4652964 03/25/10 02:15 PM
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I herad that bacon is good as well. It is all the fatty oils on it that works I was told, but never used like yall I would rather eat it. I likes me some pig.......lol

Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: chris720] #4653003 03/25/10 02:21 PM
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I've used it in ponds and have caught catfish so I don't see why it wouldn't work on the lakes. But what chris720 said is true, all those oils dispersing in the water attracts them and just about everything else in the water. If you throw a piece in the water you can see the lil oil rings spreading out on top of the water. This leads me to believe that maybe bacon could be a good, cheap chum?

Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: tgravley aka lewisvillecatfish] #4653042 03/25/10 02:27 PM
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Raw bacon is all I use on my limblines. I buy the flat packages (the cheapest I can find) and cut across the stack to get pieces about an inch or so on a side. It doesn't take much, in fact, less is better than more. Within this month I caught a 10# and 8# blue cat and lots of 3 and 4# blues as well as nice channels.

It has a toughness that stays hooked and it lasts for multiple days in the water, much better than shad. It doesn,t mark you like stink bait. It will entice the occassional turtle or drum, but gar aren't interested. I think the white fat is the reason it is so effective under bird trees.

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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: jorne] #4653673 03/25/10 04:07 PM
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I tried it up in the N. Bosque on a trot line under the cormorants with liver, shrimp and thread fin shad. The liver caught 3 nice channels all the others blanked out.




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I got into trouble for catching "pet" catfish with bacon bits, hot dog bits, ham bits, cheese bits, bread bits, chicken bits and burger bits!

The kids were feeding the "pets" pieces of their fast-food lunches and I jury-rigged a piece of mono with a hook and broken limb.

I had 6 or 8 nice cats getting stickered all over with dried leaves and worm dirt up on the bank when some Mad Mammas heralded the news to the park supervisor that ordered me to STOP IT!

Yes, those cats loved the bacon! and the cheese and the chicken and the ham and the bread and the burger and the....................... bouncy


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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: catfisher02] #4654270 03/25/10 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted By: catfisher02
I tried it up in the N. Bosque on a trot line under the cormorants with liver, shrimp and thread fin shad. The liver caught 3 nice channels all the others blanked out.


under the cormorants

What is that? Ive never heard that before.


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cormorants are natures chum buckets.
any fish you catch under the birds has had a
steady diet of bird poop.

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Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: TwistedDreams] #4654428 03/25/10 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: TwistedDreams
Originally Posted By: catfisher02
I tried it up in the N. Bosque on a trot line under the cormorants with liver, shrimp and thread fin shad. The liver caught 3 nice channels all the others blanked out.


under the cormorants

What is that? Ive never heard that before.


Those are the big black birds that line up on the dead trees in the river mouths and stain the trees white with their poop.




Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: catfisher02] #4654529 03/25/10 06:30 PM
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Do those fish taste the same, if they eat dead and stinky things surely it wouldn't hurt them. I just wouldn't cut them open if I caught some around one of those nests.

Re: Bacon for Catfish? [Re: maconator] #4657073 03/26/10 02:45 AM
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guys, the fish caught under the cormorants are as good as any, Actually I would tell you that there isn't any better catfishing around when you get the ideal condit for it. I have abandoned the method because I never caught many big fiah doing it, b ut no better way to catch a bunch in a hurry.

bacon was the easiest way as one strip could last an entire morning of fishing.

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....and they seem to like the hickory smoked, no joke! thumb

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