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CATFISH & CARP FISHING TIPS

Catfish & Carp - Carp love peanut butter doughball. Peanut butter flavor with a touch of cinnamon will drive carp any where nuts. Add some strawberry kool-aid to really make them fight over the bait. Always fish on the bottom, that's where they stay. Use heavy equipment though, anything less than medium action and 10 lb. test is a bad choice for carp. Everyone you catch are big!

For catfish, nightcrawlers or chicken livers will catch a lot of channel cats anywhere & anytime. Medium Action with 8 pound line is good enough for small channels. Channels are regularly caught on minnows also. Charles Slone

This is for fishing catfish.. 1/2 tablespoon cornmeal and 1 table spoon flour and vanilla extraact for smell!

Here is a great recipe for stinkbait that I got grounded for trying but was an effective bait liver mush + Bacon grease + Vinegar + Flour + Creme Cheese. incorperate well in a bucket with an electric beater and keep air tight until ready to fish then make a ball around a hook and fish on the bottom also you might add a little bit of food coloring to make it more attractive to a big ol' mud cat and more visible in muddy or murky water. R.D. Burns 13 Roebuck SC

Here's a tip: when catfishing, dump some bacon grease or chicken liver in front of a dock or other structure. In a few minutes catfish will be every where!!

Throw out some dough bait where you want to be fishing like a day earlier or even a couple of hours earlier. Then when you go fishing, the fish will know a place where they can get food regularly and then just cast out, I usually use a treble hook, with some liver on it and ol' big un's will come and eat it up.

My tip is for catfish. I have observed that catfish will bite at your bobber more than your bait. So just get a crankbate set it on top of the water, throw some dogfood in the same place. James Murphy Oxford ,MS

tip: Big bait equals big fish. don't expect too catch a 50lb. flat head on a small red worm. Use shad an other bait fish. Also chicken livers works well, but if you have a problem with it falling off the hook take some sewing string an wrap it round it an tie! I've had better luck fishing with chicken livers than most baits ..there's been plenty of times I've used big fat nightcrawlers an didn't get even a nibble. Then switched too livers an pulled a cat or carp in. And no mater what people say your gonna get more hits trout fishing useing red worms than corn or marshmellows an thats a fact...fish are meat eaters there gonna go 4 meat more than any vegetable..but beyond that if your fishing for cats you better have a strong outfit. Like a Abu big game Ambassadeur reel..an sturdy pole. an tuff line like trilene big game or stren top notch around 60lb.test...

When I go fishing i put a leech at the end of the hook with a bobber about 4 feet up. After a second or 2 set the hook and you will have a fish on. This strategy works good for panfish, walleye, bass, pike, gobys(what you dont want kill em if you catch one in michigan), trout, catfish, dogfish(bowfin).

When fishing in a large lake there are usally large fish. So you should set your line tension pretty high.If you're fishing for bass use salmon eggs, night crawlers,or minnows.

If you want to catch a big fish use dogfood with a bobber. Wait for 5 seconds when the fish tugs. It's good for catfish, bluegill or bass

I've figured out on my recent trip to Pickwick Lake for my birthday that if you take a cricket (you may not believe but it works!) and put it on normal brim or small bass hooks (If a Bass Pro Shops is near you go there and buy a small bass kit! It's Awesome I've already cought over 15 nice bass (3lb+)) put two sinkers on your line also a medium sized bobber (you don't need to,but for some of us star gazers they come handy) around maybe 2 feet between your bobber & sinkers.Cast your bait to or near a rock wall or a fallen tree near the bank.Wait a bit. Talk to our frinds or what ever and sooner or later thet big honkin catfish 'll come to ya!If you have a mangled hook in the end...don't worry.Just try to bend it back to shape and put another cricket on....if you can't just put another hook on . But Cricket's are my favorite thing to use because almost every thing i know like 'em!Also try smaller spinner baits with long arms.Largies love 'em.Also if you want a good laugh or two get a cane pole,line, hook, and some lunch meat and fish off the dock.....i've cought a lot doing that with my grandma!--Good Luck nd Happy Fish'n!--Ashleigh,11,TN

A helpful tip on using live bait is hooking them through the bottom lip so they can move easier like a regular fish swiming

For catfishing anything works except for dough bait, I've never had any luck using it.

When fishing with minnows, take an empty, clear, water bottle and punch holes in it with a phillips head screwdriver. then put about a dozen live minnows in it. Next, tie it to your boat or dock about 3 feet down and use a live minnow lure about 2 feet away from the bottle. this will catch em every time. works best in the spring.

When fishing for carp on a warm day if floating baits such as bread won't catch carp try a dry such as a daddy long legs the carp will take this as it is more natural

Take a suet feeder and stuff bread and cheese in it and put it next to the bobber. It will atract more fish

If you keep your line tight and always set the hook with a shiner you'll always get'em.

Two years ago I ended using a bobber with a grasshopper. I don't use a bobber any more but I caught a LOT of fish with a bobber. For beginers use a bobber and a grasshopper will catch you a lot of fish.

It is a good idea to fish in the morning or at night because it is nice and cool and the fish bite more when it is cooler

Boil water and cornmeal and add 2 tablespoons of pancake syrup. And one Tablespoon of extract vanilla (for smell). Works great with Carp and Catfish.

When your at a pond that has a whole lot of rocks in and around it try using a #10 hook with a small square of cheese around the larger rocks that you can see.

CATFISH TRICK: Take a bunch of chicken guts, liver, etc. and throw them all in a burlap bag. Toss the bag about 10 feet from shore and wait. Soon the bag should be swarmed with catfish. Then simply cast your line out into the flock and you should have one hooked in no time.

Coat all your artificial lures and even some live ones with bacon grease even use a piece of bacon fat as bait, fish love the grease.

Some fish like...catfish+carp-love bread
   perch+sunfish-like stinky cheese
   chub+catfish-love hot dogs
   largemouth bass-like minnows+night crawlers
   smallmouth bass-like crickets