Buy some hot dog buns and charcoal while your at it, and if you don't catch any fish, you can have a shore lunch anyway!

I've had some very...good...success with boneless chicken marinated in cherry or strawberry jello. Get the cheap ready to expire meat. Very cost effective.

I have caught flatheads, channels, and blues on chicken thighs or drumsticks right out of the Wal-Mart meat section-
I just fillet if I want a chunk or small strip-
I used to use only breast and sometimes flavor them but no more-
I like the thighs and drumsticks because they are cheap and have been just as affective-
Leaving the skin on helps it stay on the hook-

I used to run sliced beef liver on trot lines when I was a kid. Then I learned how to throw a cast net.

Gizzards or bacon.

FYI

Albertson's has fresh chicken breast on sale this week for .97 cents per pound. About as cheap as I have seen it in a while.

Good luck all, stay safe.

Ken

using glorious bacon is sacrilege

The catfish think it is glorious also. It is one of my best “secret” baits. I fish it like a jig and they really like it. But don’t tell anybody.

My wife baked some chicken and she took the skin off. I saved the skin,. I am going to soak it in something (unsure what to soak in) and try it for cats.

Let us know how that sound does please-
Made me think about one of times I went out of Waxahachie lake, launched my pontoon, went out and cast net up some bait, spent about 5 hours or so and just picked up one small eater-
Came back to the launch and there was a couple there that had pulled up close to the boat launch and just put up a couple of lawn chairs, listening to the car radio, very stress free and low cost-
They had about 7 channel cats if I remember right, all caught on the trimmings of the pork chops they had cooked earlier-
Pork chop fat did better than my cast net caught bait that night-
So you really never know-

Nice!
And off of bacon!

Beef kidney is my all time fav. I stock up on ot when I find it. I slice it into small strips first, trim off as much of the hard white part as possible. Then I set it in a gallon ziplock bag in the sun for a full day.

2nd to that, I use chicken gizzards and hearts. I dont age these, most of the packages I find were shipped frozen and I dont want them to deteriorate more.

I fish rivers and creeks from bank, or tributaries far above lakes and I usually tear it up with either of these.
good luck

I use only chicken and duck hearts. Duck hearts are a lot bigger and a lot more expensive.

If you can find a market that sells Buffalo,(Fiesta comes to mind), buy one, have them filet it but tell them not to wash it. It's very oily.

Peanut butter and jelly stuffed in some of pouches made from my wife old nylon stockings. Just make up some little pouches about the size of rice packs used at weddings, stuff it full of your favorite PB&J, tie it up with an left over bread tie, hook it and send it in for a swim.