| One of the best catfish baits available at you're your | | | | 1. When placing the liver onto your hook try to work |
| local grocery store is chicken liver. The blood in a | | | | it so that you only puncture it once with each barb. |
| chicken liver gradually seeps into the water providing | | | | The more you try to get it hooked the mushier you |
| an excellent scent trail for the catfish to find. Channel | | | | make it. You will still lose your bait at times this way. |
| catfish and young (small) Blue catfish both will eat this | | | | 2. Put your liver on the hook as above but now take |
| bait up. | | | | about ten inches of thread and wrap around the bait |
| As with most catfish baits, they should be fished on | | | | and the hook. Make it firm but not hard enough to |
| the bottom with a slip sinker. One of the drawbacks | | | | cut into the bait. This stays on pretty good. |
| to using liver for catfish bait is that it is difficult to | | | | 3. Take some old panty-hose or potato netting (from |
| keep on the hook when casting. This can be | | | | a sack of potatoes) and cut a circle out of it the size |
| frustrating when you think you have a good cast but | | | | you want to put your bait in. I make mine about |
| you see the bait fly off. | | | | three inches. Wrap it around the chicken liver and use |
| There are three things that you can do to keep | | | | a small rubber band to tie it up. You can cast a mile |
| fresh livers on the hook. Keep in mind that I use # 6 | | | | with this setup and it will not come off of the hook. |
| treble hooks for all of these methods. | | | | |