Best prepared channel cat bait

[Cooter]

I'm gonna be floating the Chipp R this weekend and we usually camp by a hole and fish channels. Somebody usually brings chicken livers but I'm thinking of going with something less messy - something like Berkley or Strike King prepared bait. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[crazyice]

Go to your local bait shop and see if they keep their dead sucker minnows. If they do just scoop up some of them as long as they have been kept frozen. I have managed to get about 5 lbs of dead frozen suckers from 4" up to 10" for a buck! Great cutbait.

[DTro]

I guess I agree, no mess and bigger fish.

I've caught some on the prepared bait, but if I was to do anything other than cutbait, it would be stinkbait or frogs.

[sparcebag]

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I guess I agree, no mess and bigger fish.

I've caught some on the prepared bait, but if I was to do anything other than cutbait, it would be stinkbait or frogs.

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Frogs work great if ya can find and catch em,kill em and slit the gut----MMMM good scent!!

[hanson]

In my quest to have an upper hand on the Red River of the North channel cats this weekend, I tried everything I had in the boat Thursday & Friday.

By everything, I mean...

- Goldeye

- Sucker

- Leopard Frog

- Creek Chub

- Shad

- Large Shiners

- Sonny's Super Sticky Stink

- Chicken Livers

On Thurs & Fri, I continually ran 1 rod with Sonny's Stink to prove that you could catch them on the Red with stink. Guess what, not a friggin' tap!

Out of that smorgasboard, the tried and true Sucker, Goldeye, Frog produced fish equally.

What suprised me was the Shad, very little action on Shad. It would get tapped but nothing would commit to it. Shad works soooooo great in the metro rivers but up there, it didn't produce.

Guess I would round up some suckers, kill 'em and freeze them ASAP. Bring them with you in a small cooler on ice, or in something to keep them from unthawing.

[sparcebag]

You tried lots a bait!! Praire River, I may have caught some grasshoppers,if other baits wernt workin,especially tourney for $$$