Best bait to use for catching catfish #fishing #outdoors

[panchito]

Hotdogs are the best with a little bit of garlic and vinegar highly recommend

[kishredbird]

Cut bait from a carp has been the winning ticket for me this last weekend

[HenryM]

Catfish really eat just about everything

[ladyelephant]

Went bass fishing at a pond with live minnows. Caught a 7lb cat with a live minnow. I didn’t even know the pond had cats.

[Auditing.northern.N.Y.]

I prefer jumbo shrimp. I put hook through the body twice and once through the tail

[JimmyTorque]

In Lake Erie, it seems like they switch what they want. Shrimp, worm, crawdads, but the one thing that never fails is cut bait.

[JakeCline-lh]

We used to catch catfish with ...grape Bubble Yum bubble gum. Chew it a little bit to soften it up and pack it around the treble hook. Worked every time.
There were big debates held over wether Bubble Yum, Hubba Bubba or Double Bubble was the best. Tried em all and it was Bubble Yum for us.

[williammckechnie]

Idk if yall have tried koolaid chicken, but I’ve caught some slammers with thigh meat and cherry koolaid, stays on the hook better then liver, and doesn’t get snatched by panfish like worms. Best bait is life fish, I always bring a creek rod and a rooster tail, catch a small fish, then hook it up and catch a water heifer

[Kaden-fz]

Hot dogs with SWEET strongly flavored drink sweetener. If it is unflavored, it will not work as well. along with onion and garlic powder. Shake em all up in a Tupperware container and your good to go.

Tip- If you are desperate and just want to catch a catfish no matter the size, chop the hot dogs smaller with a slightly smaller hook. You will catch a much higher variety. I hope this helps!!

[CountryLiving]

Uncooked chicken breast with garlic and koolaid.

[SamBlakley]

Livers are real good.I use a cut panty hose and wrap them around it with 5 0z .😊

[Mrwhite]

The only problem about worms are that more fish will bite more often than a catfish will

[chriswalls]

All those i used caught many channel cat's seen big ones

[findinggreatness]

Liver's if you take sewing thread and just wrap the livers in all different direction

[bradywhatley]

Depends on what you're after. For large blue cat, cut shad. For large flathead, live perch. For smaller channel cats and smaller blues, catfish charlie blood bait "B", the company out if Iowa, is the best I have found in the last 50 years, though there are some days that local punch baits seem to work better than anything here in North Texas. For small channels and small blues, its best to sour maize for three weeks in a bucket of water in the sunshine and sink it weighted in a burlap bag in 4 to 8 ft of water near a gentle current. Make sure the catfish cannot get into the burlap bag, knot tie the top a couple of times then cut a piece of trotline and cinch the bag tightly right below your knot ties so the bag stays closed . Old bricks or big rocks or cinderblocks can weight down your burlap bag. Sink the bag with a five gallon 🪣 bucket's worth of the soured rotting milo in it, wait 48 hours, and come back ready to catch fish. I like to use this technique for lazy fishing at night with my pontoon boat. You can bring several folks. The lighted bobbers with bait just off the bottom thrills the small kids, though I usually fish tight lining with my bait inches off the bottom using a slip cork and small bullett weight.

[darkmagician]

All of them amd the processed bait I use some other things to enhance the catch rate 😁😁😁

[dm]

I've had luck with partially defrosted shrimp hooked thru the shell. or mackerel same way just thru the skin, or even better marinate in blood/garlic
yuck!
gotta love it

[briandonnalley]

Velveeta Cheese, been using that stuff for 40 years and the bottom dwellers love it.

[ZacharyLittleton-in]

Chicken marinated in red Kool-aid. Any flavor will do. Thought people were full of it but it’s been the most reliable I’ve ever used.

[Fishervick]

Different kinds like different bait. Channel catfish will eat just about anything; but I find it easier to use hot dogs or chicken liver. Blue catfish tend to like live bluegill or cut shad. Flathead love cut bluegill.