cut bait

[erikwells]

I was planning on taking my son catfishing this evening. I bought two big suckers for cut bait. Are they best kept as fresh as possible or is there some value to letting them stew or adding something to them to increas their effectiveness? Any preference sucker meat to chicken livers? Thanks I will wait for a response from the experts. PS I will also give a report how we do tomorrow? Thanks

[dakaulf]

cut bait and chicken liver will both work well for channel cats,and a flathead every every now and then,but i have always had my best luck fishin cats with fresh live creek chubs.
good luck eric

[erikwells]

Alright. I'll try that next time. Seems like a good idea to try being live chubs would bring a nice species variety fishing the river. Thanks

[bassman186]

Hey I'm also going Catfishing tonight on the MN. I'll be fishing from shore at the Chaska Landing. Maybe I'll see so of you FMer's there.

[erikwells]

Bassman186, I will be heading back up by Elk River for my trip today so I won't be bumping into you but maybe some other FM ers. I work in Bloomington off of old shakopee road and have been thinking about trying the Minnesota out of Shakopee after work sometime soon. I was going to bring my boat down but if there are some nice shore spots I would rather do that. If you are willing to share any spots or additional Minnesota river please let me know my email is [email protected]. Good luck and thanks for the responses. I willlet all of you know how Zack and I do this evening.

[abens1078]

I would do one of each since you have two baitfish. we use to use milk to sour clams so I imagine you should be able to get some smelly fish by tonight. Cut one sucker into the size of chunks you want. A Glass jar in the sun usually works with 1/2 to a whole cup of milk. This works best if you have a good 1-2 days to let it get a good stink(is there a good stink?)poke the chunks from time to time to make sure they do not get mushy. The juices off of chicken livers can sour things real quick too. I think you should have enought time to get things stinking otherwise fresh works too and next time grab some frogs if you have the chance. Walleyes start inhaling frogs when they go to the river bottoms to sleep for the winter. Good luck

[Aquaman01]

Well? Did Zack get kitty-fever?

[erikwells]

Ok I failed to get out on Thursday. I however made up for it this weekend. We caught 3 catfish and the biggest was Friday night and he was only about 20 inches. It was a lot of fun and the look on my sons face was the greatest. We used cut bait (sucker). We also caught several bullheads. I think I need to make my cutbait a bit bigger to keep the bullheads away?? All in all he has a great time and dad has a great time. Thanks to all for your advice and maybe we will see you out there sometime. Rob the boy loves catfish. They are big, ugly, strong and aggressive. Can't ask for much more in a fish.