Im using chicken livers on a #4 treble and wrapping the veins around tight on the hook when possible. Problem is when i cut up the livers then some don't have the vein, and the liver flies off half the time during cast. Any tips or tricks to keep these on??

Before i stopped using chicken liver i would lay them out in the sun for a bit and let them dry on one side. It always helped keep it on the hook.

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Cover one side with garlic powder, set in sun for couple hours on a sunny, low humidity day. It will make them very rubbery. Cut to size and use them on your favorite single hook. I like to use them on circles, but to each his own.

The best way Ive found for usin livers is put in blender then use sponges

Use a small piece of either cheese cloth or get some of your wife's pantyhose. after your put the liver on the hook wrap the cloth around and tie it off. The cloth is thin enough to allow the hook to go through but will keep the livers on a little bit better.

get you some sewing thread. once you put the liver on the hook get the thread and wrap it around the liver a bunch of times. this will hold it on any hook, treble or regular hook.

Lay the liver on foil and coat with garlic salt. Put it in the sun for the afternoon and it will be good to go that night or the next day. Beware of the neighbors dog!

If the liver is fresh I will just hang a lobe on the hook or cut it( you cant get fresh liver at the store, we process some from time to time, it is much firmer) If store bought in the tub liver just hook it on one prong of a trebble hook and start wrapping it around the shank, it stays on really good if you do it right, you just kinda gotta get the feel for it.

matt

i don't use livers on long casts

I buy small penny ballons, slide over treble or single hook,
slide my long nose pliers in the edge of ballon then open handles making the ballon open then poke in the chicken liver.
Then take out the pliers and tie up the end with thread.
Sometimes i use a bead at the eye of the hook to hold the tied
end in place if the hook eye is small.
Works for stink bait, etc:
Poke holes in the ballon after filled with the point of another
hook to let it chum the area its sitting, small holes only or
ballon will tear.
Cast as far as you want.

I also use a .99 cent injector, cut off the end where the
injector needle goes, fill it full of bait, then inject
the bait, chicken liver, whatever into the ballon.
good luck

Also cut up the chicken liver into strips with scissors
there's less crushing of the liver and then wrap the
strips around the treble hook, always seems to work better.
I only use chicken liver this way on ponds for short cast
or off the side of the boat.

I would soak them in anise oil overnight in the fridge, the lay them out on a cookie sheet in the sun and let them dry out. The outside "skin" gets hard but the inside stays soft and gooey. The anise oil has a lot of alcohol in it, so as soon as you pour it on the livers, they get cirrhosis instantly, kinda gross looking, but it worked several years for me until I started using shrimp. Now all I use is shrimp for channel cats and shad for blue cats.

I've been using the #4's with liver for years, and I can tell you that the swatches of panty hose are WAY easier than using thread. Cleaning the thread out of the hooks after the fact was such a pain that it led me to throwing a lot of them away.

I don't use the thread to tie on the chicken liver.
I use a couple halfhitches to tie the balloon shut above the
eye of the hook on the leader.
I put the hook into the balloon, squirt in the chicken liver
or punch or stink bait, tie the top of the balloon to the
leader then punch some small holes in the balloon to let out
the sent.

You need to put them in pantyhose then tie each one real tight in a ball, that thing will never come off your hook even if you want it to