I have used chicken livers from the bank with success on hybrids to about 5lbs or so. We have used the whole live sunfish a few times with luck. Another bait that worked well when I was a kid on hybrids was while fishing below the dam fishing with water dogs, those ugly suckers got bit and often....Man I would like to drift some humps with those sometime. With all this said I done this type of fishing from about late April to August with these baits.
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Another thing that I found while researching this--and something that I am guilty of often--is throwing out shad. I have loaded up my boat several times and thrown out shad that I did not use for the racoons. According to TPWD that is illegal--I have never heard of anyone getting a ticket for that but they could issue one.
Waste of fish - It is unlawful to leave edible fish or bait fish taken from the public waters of the state to die without the intent to retain the fish for consumption or bait
Waste of fish - It is unlawful to leave edible fish or bait fish taken from the public waters of the state to die without the intent to retain the fish for consumption or bait
Another stupid law. Guess you can bait a coon trap though.
Registered: 03/12/02
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Loc: Dallas,TX for now....Going coa...
Have a friend with a ranch lake stocked with hybrids. Love to flyfish for them. Been several times they would not hit an arti but would hit the liver as soon as it hit the water and this lake is clear! Of course I'm sure the feeders set up had nothing to do with it. HaHa.
I once saw a guy catch a 42 flathead cat out on Lake Carolyn in Las Colinas on a live yellow bass. He was catching 10-11 and 12 inch yellows, and using them for cat bait! He hooked and lost one much bigger than the 42 lb one the same night. This was in the dead middle of the dog days of summer but it was about 2 AM.
Rudy
Be careful..yellow bass are a Texas "gamefish" and are unlawful to use as bait.
Back home when I lived in Kansas I owned the Marina on a small county lake. Catfishermen caught more hybrids than most, all while using liver fot bait on the bottom.
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Registered: 02/25/03
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Loc: Granbury Texas USA
I'm from the northeast and have caught stripers from the surf and boats for a many years until I came down here 20 yrs. ago. We did use clams but I never heard of liver for stripers. I used mostly lures, bunker, squid and live eels. PB was 42# off the surf on rigged squid. I used to catch lots of hybrids to 9# on chicken liver at Squaw Creek in the summer up the north end in the river channel. That was before 9/11. No more hybrids there now. Also at Proctor.
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