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 Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 04:45 AM
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Txmedic033
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Besides shad. Everyone knows that shad is the best, but I am having some difficulty procuring some fresh shad. I can have an obnoxious amount of live or fresh cut bream instead. Do you think bream will work?
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 05:02 AM
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Cyberfisherman
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Fresh caught carp or buffalo. If you cant find any, go to fiesta and buy buffalo up their. I like to soak the buffalo from the store in Dead Red by Team Catfish and anything caught fresh to use as is.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 05:42 AM
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Big Dude
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Ive heard the bream work better during spawn as the bream often steal ol'mrs. whiskers eggs therefore making the whisker family hostile towards the bream.....or so ive heard.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 05:44 AM
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Big Dude
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Not better than cut shad or buffalo/carp just better time to use bream if you are going to use it.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 07:55 AM
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mcfalcon
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I always use bait shrimp and i have had fairly decent success with them. That being said my wife left the other day to go get groceries and my son and left to get a QFF(quick fishing fix) before we had to help unload groceries. With no time to get bait we grabbed some smoked ham lunch meat out of the fridge. Caught 3 yellows, a 16 inch and 20 inch blue in a matter of 25 mins before i got the"where are you?"call.
I would rather catch fish and starve then be full and not catch fish.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 11:23 AM
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CatBoss
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The best bait is always the freshest bait,yes they do hit other stuff pretty regularly
but fresh is indeed "best" IMO.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 11:39 AM
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banker-always fishing
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The best bait is always the freshest bait,yes they do hit other stuff pretty regularly
but fresh is indeed "best" IMO.
Plus #1 on being fresh. Also Cut Shad works best for me! 
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 11:39 AM
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steveiam
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I have caught some nice blues with cut perch at times--
It is just another choice but to answer you Yes, if you can get fresh perch it is sometimes a good bait.
What has happed to you does not define who you are-
HOW you react to what happens to you DOES!
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 01:31 PM
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Perch fillets work great.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 03:05 PM
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79scooter
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I caught 3 on cut perch Saturday. It was all I could get, so I used it. They ate the middle cuts with the guts in it.
Last edited by 79scooter; 02/24/14 03:06 PM.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 03:11 PM
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Reel Buck
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 03:31 PM
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mjmetro0719
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Perch heads and perch fillets, cut chunks of carp/buffalo and drum, black salties, chicken breast soaked in dead red, I've had good luck on all of these when I don't have fresh shad, I just started using chicken breast within the last couple of months but I have been doing good on them.
Mike
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 04:08 PM
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kdub#1
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I have had good success on cut perch, especially on trotlines. You can't beat fresh cut shad though.
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Re: Best bait for blue catfish
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02/24/14 04:16 PM
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CoC Angler
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If you can find sucker fish (redhorse or spotted) and river carpsuckers, they will likely be a close second to shad as these are very oily and slimy (much like shad)
SirHerbertC
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