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::::: Catfish Bait Fishing and catfishing Tips ::::::fishing for catfish? First off , if catfishing, we'll start with what kinda tackle not to use ... a zebco 202 is not going to cut it. 6 lb test will not cut it.... Your sons snoopy fishing pole is not going to cut it!
2/0 eagle claw baitholder hooks are hard to beat catching catfish on rod&reel. They seldom miss a good strike from a catfish and if you keep them sharp they'll almost set themselves. The reason I use small hooks rod&reel fishing for catfish is basically so that I can use a small bait and they bite better it seems like if you haven't got a pound of metal stickin outta the bait ... they hook better too ...
loading the hook up with humungous amounts of bait or very large cut bait will catch you more turtles or unwanted strikes by gar or some other non-target fish in Keystone tailwaters. In certain areas it's best to use large bait but in some areas it's useless and it affects casting. Casting large bait with surf rods defeats the purpose .
the largest bait I can throw well is medium to large shad heads which I throw quite a bit lately. I've caught the majority of catfish in my life on one inch long by 1/4 inch wide strips of shad or some other cut bait if they weren't biting on shad. Great catfishing bait - Grasshoppers are most of the time the best bait you can use behind Keystone Dam but they're seasonal. They don't come out good until 3rd week of July around here. The largest catfish I've ever caught was on a 2/0 baitholder and a grasshopper ... 51 lb blue.
I also caught a 22.5 lb blue that night plus a limited out with 16 blues and channelcat weighing between 2 to 10 lbs not counting the two bigger ones all caught using one rod and grasshoppers on 2/0 Eagle Claw baitholder hooks in about 5 hours so if you think these hooks are too small consider all the fish I catch just about are on this sized hooks.
Blues are considered channel cat in Okla. but what we call channel cat don't usually get much bigger than 12 lbs or so but I've caught one that was 18 lbs the world record is something like 58# or 59# ... world record blue is 111# world record flatcat is 123#. Channels or what we call channel cat have a more narrow mouth and have kind of a greenish color and retain the black specks on their body until they get over 5 or 6 lbs. The channel cat that we call blues get much larger "up to 100 lbs". I think the record is like 96 lbs in Okla. River Fishing Fishing rivers I've kinda slacked off as I usually don't fish anywhere but keystone but fishing rivers there's just one or two basic rules I live by ... use bait that is natural to the fish ... using store bought bait will just lead you to disappointment ....
that stuff is just a way
to get your hard earned money and you won't catch any fish but maybe one
or two the whole day unless you use it in a farm pond where the fish are
being fed regularly by the landowner. It's always best to fish structure
upstream from brush piles/log jams or rock ledges. Fishing in wide open
areas is okay just as long as the water is rising from a recent rain. For
jugline catfishing I like to use a hook that I'd never use for rod&reel
except in extremely fast moving water and those are large Kahle hooks ....
they're a weird looking hook and a person will miss a lot of strikes on
them with rod&reel but for juglines they're great ... they hook the fish
really well on juglines and have kind of a cam action and will twist
around and hook blues several times when they twist and thrash around ...
I like to use shad heads and whole perch on juglines.
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