Shrimp for catfish bait

[george77]

Used shrimp today at a farm pond and Hammered them with 2 10 lbs+ cats. I never used shrimp beforebut wow it worked great! I think it is one of the best catfish baits what do you think?

[bobbymalone]

I think I'd rather dip my shrimp in cocktail sauce rather than an old farm pond

[Steve Foss]

Shrimp has been a good catfish bait for a long time. Problem is, it's kinda expensive compared with how I usually got my bait when I did a lot of cattin (caught live goldeye, suckers or frogs).

[aanderud]

Shrimp can be GREAT bait. I don't know about the best, but I know it works well here later in the year, especially.

In a pinch, shrimp can be a lifesaver. You know, 3 minutes to walk into the store and grab it on the way to the lake, versus paying for sucker minnows to cut or spending a bunch of time catching bait.

If you get the right size shrimp so that you can throw one on ("medium" is usually good enough), you can get them for 20 cents each pretty easily. Even better on a good sale. If you bait up every 15 minutes for fresh scent, a day's worth of bait isn't all that expensive after all. Buck an hour.

[harvey lee]

I agree Brian, no problem here using shrimp when they catch fish.

Suckers are not cheap either.

[pureinsanity]

Make sure its raw shrimp and not cooked. I am sure cooked would work but raw will small better.

[mrklean]

i used shrimp a few time last year it worked caught my largest cat last year on it, but not a go to bait for me

[Mr.Seaguar]

You can buy shrimp in December on clearance and throw it in the deep freeze until July. You know you always have a supply of good bait. I gave my Dad some to use for cats. My Mom boiled the shrimp and bought Dad some liver instead. Theres just no figuring old people sometimes. She did say next time I should drop off cocktail sauce with the shrimp. And that Dad would fish more if I dropped off shrimp every couple weeks.

[RumRiverRat]

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Well Played!

[Ed Carlson]

Raw Un-cooked cheap 2" 0r 3" shrimp are very good cat baits. Where I find them especially productive is where one will expect Crayfish to lurk..gravel beds..creeks...sand flats......Kitty's love CrawDads.

Even better yet....is find a fish market that can order you in rough grade unprocessed bait quality Prawns...they really work well...very smelly critters...shrimp times 100% for pure stink...and cats really love them. I used to get them for $30 a case/flat and that was a lot of bait.

The top 3 channel cats we have caught, all over 40 pounds came on Prawns at night. Biggest went 43 pounds just a hair shy of 44 pounds. In late August at night, off gravel to sandbar transitions that slide into the river channel.