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the best bait is patience

I like to use strawberry chicken breast for catfish. I put the night crawler on first then a piece of chicken, then I spit on the bait, I know its not lady like to spit, but it works for me. I have caught over 50 catfish this year,mostly channels. I am an avid believer of the farmers almanac. I have used it for years and will continue to do so =)

My two daughters and I were fishing in our boat with red worms and could not get anything on the hook, although the bait was being eaten. We had just eaten some pizza and my younger daughter had thrown her crust out in the lake (she said it was biodegradeable, so OK). After about 2 minutes, a large catfish was attacking the crust. I quickly ate another slice and placed the crust on a treble hook. 2 hours later, we were eating catfish filets at the house from catfish caught on pizza crust (a catfish feeding frenzy)!

2 of my grandsons wanted to fish for trout, but not wanting to let them in the swift moving river I took them to the pond popular for perch. I had heard of marshmallows and hotdogs being an acceptable bait. We baited up both. The marshmallow was good for 1 channel cat and the whiners worked great. They both caught several channel cats with the youngest catching a 2-3 lb and the older one caught one close to 5LBs,it was the biggest fish they had ever caught, and made great pics with grins a Papa was ecstatic to get pics of.

#1 tip on catching grouper in the winter when the water is cold and the fish have 'lock jaw' go to your nearest grocery store and buy chicken wings put your grouper hook on the little part of the wing and hold on grouper love then its easy for them to get when they are 'lazy'

I love to saltwater fish and I learned the hard way that if you just scent your bait dead are alive fishing becomes easy. If you are reading this Kick-N-Bass have some of the best scents in a bottle. If you want to really get some big ones Fishbites are top of the line. I have a catch all bait that I only tell my favorite friends because I can win a lot of fishing tournaments if use properlly.

When my son was 4 he loved to fish but couldn't stand to touch worms,,so he used his bubble gum,, wasn't 4 minutes later he caught a turtle. Now @ 42 he still loves to fish and yes he uses worms. Just wanted to share this with all of you oh yea I am his mom..

I tried an idea that I read on another forum: I used bacon, mixed with garlic powder & cherry koolaid powder (for color). I was fishing on a dock and I threw my line in. 2 seconds later, my pole was flying thru the air, into the water!!! I'm assuming that it was a big catfish! I will never know because that big fish has my pole with my koolaid bacon bait.

Periwinkles off the river bottom do the trick. Pull them out of thier little sand shell and pop 'em on a hook. You'll have supper shortly!