Best bait for your trot lines?

[dukbum]

Just wondering what y'all use or what folks you know might use on there lines?

[davidees]

Cut shad during the day, live bream/ carp/ perch at night.

[matador1]

Cut shad during the day, live bream/ carp/ perch at night.

Ditto! Have cast net, two bags of noodles, and a couple throw lines. Will travel if you the floating apparatus to access the murky depths of the Le Reservoiur!

[MSDawg870]

I've always used cut shad too. Next season yal save the livers outta the deer you kill. I know a commercial fishermen that baits his lines with it. He's been killin fish at Sardis this winter.

I baited jugs with liver the other day. It's bloody as hell and soft at first but stays on the hook good once in the water. If you like to keep things clean don't use liver, it'll make your boat look like a crime scene.

[Blake Williamson]

We mostly bait with crawfish, chicken parts, and pond perch.

[randywallace]

There was a member here at one time that swore by cut beer cans. I never tried it, but the fella sounded legit.

[davidees]

There was a member here at one time that swore by cut beer cans. I never tried it, but the fella sounded legit.

Yeah, it was buckwabit. Haven't seen him around in awhile. http://www.ducksouth.com/phpbb/viewtopi ... ns#p722986

[Huntington Point]

Red weenies. Work great and good to eat if you get hungry. Cut in 1 inch sections.

[Seymore]

Chicken liver. I use a combination of Mustad liver hooks, panty hose, or elastic tubing with elastic thread.

http://discovercatfishing.com/2013/07/t ... fish-bait/

Another trick I use to keep the boat clean is to get a plastic tub at Wal Mart and put a cutting board in the bottom. I put the liver containers, knife, and other supplied in the tub on top of the board and then bait hooks inside the tub.

I also use quick release clips for drop lines. I take a swim noodle from Walmart and cut it down the middle length ways. Then I fit one of the halves around the inside top of a 5 gallon bucket using marine silicon to keep it in place. I hang my drop lines in the noodle with the line and clip hanging toward the bottom. When I get a fish either jugging or on trot line I just unhook the clip and slap another on the line. I throw the fish with the hook and drop line still attached in the cooler and worry about taking the hook out when I dress the fish.

[mlj300]

I have caught catfish on about everything. From bare shiny hooks to jet puffed marshmellows, even Zote soap. In my experience it seems there is no better bait for blues and channels than night crawlers. Pool perch for flat heads. I also like the cube cheese bait from memphis net and twine for trotlineing. It's cheaper and more convienent than fooling with worms.

[js]

Me and my dad used gold fish on our lines when we did a lot of cat fishing.

[Up2Early]

Cut shad for me.

My son and I put out 2 doz jugs at 8pm Friday and had 14 good fish in an hour.

[quackerkiller]

Two weekends ago I put out 15 limb lines baited with the usual pond perch..... Checked them one time that night and had 10 fish..... I like dough punch bait or liver during the day on rod and reel, and live perch on rod and reel and trot lines at night!!! But gonna try some "can shiners" in a few days....