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Anyone want to help a Bass fisherman catch Catfish? (read below)?
can i catch catfish at a low water dam/spillway? there is a big branch sunk in the water just below it. i think the Berkley Powerbait deepest part of it is maybe 5 feet or so...i have caught several cats out of that creek just not near that part. which baits would you recommend? i have berkley gulp catfish powerbait, cj's dipbait shad flavor, magic bait king kat flavor, and live canadian night crawlers.(the bluegill eat the worms to fast) i fish in the late afternoon/evening...thanks!!
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December 14th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Without a def location other than “North West” I would probably stock up on these:http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_90511____SearchResultshttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_38256____SearchResultshttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_71416____SearchResultshttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_15723____SearchResultshttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_73985____SearchResultshttp://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_45768____SearchResultsA good selection of the above lures would work well for most NW lakes and streams. You will also need some good Shakey Head Jigs and Wide Gap roundball Jigs, Offset 2-3/0 hooks, Etc.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
Try this, first slide a 1/8th to 1/4 ounce sliding sinker onto your 4-6lb line tie on a size 12-14 treble hook and use a 1/8th oz pinch weight 12-16inches away from the hook. You now have a set up that is very light in weight for the fish to pickup and run with but heavy enough to cast without causing tidal waves. After you have made your cast set the pole in a holder and keep your eye on the slack when you see the slack in the line strip out a fish has taken the bait. let it, count to 5 and then set the hook by gently picking up the pole and giving it a tug. hopefully the hook will set and you will have your fish. This set up works with cheese baits or floating a night-crawler or any bait.Good luck!
December 15th, 2010 at 8:47 am
use your prepared catfish baits or chunks of FRESH shad, sucker or carp. use some of the bluegills live for flatheads.sounds to me like you found an excellent spot. a hole with wood in it? that’s all a big cat asks for.save your chicken livers for bullheads in your local pond. they would wash off the hook in short order.use a sliding egg sinker just heavy enough to keep it on the bottom with a short leader.cats are not hook shy. hook your chunk bait once through leaving the point and most of the hook exposed using a big circle hook, size 5/0 to 8/0. you don’t set the hook with these. just let the cat tighten up the line and hook himself. 99% of the time circle hooks hook them right in the corner of the jaw.late afternoon, evening, all night long with a cattin’ buddy or two… that’s my idea of heaven.won’t even bother askin’ why a bass angler is chasin’ cats. l could just ask myself and come up with just as good of an answer. got two heavens with bass AND cats.you have the major hole right below the spillway. you also have a secondary hole just a short ways downstream of that one. always a second hole below a dam. l guess there would have to be enough current to make the second wash-out but most cases they are usually there.those holes below a dam are usually the deepest spots along your rivers. those are the spots to fish for cats in the dead of winter. you won’t believe how many cats stack up in the holes below dams in frigid weather.either up or downstream, you can also find good spots in other log jams or in the outside of a bend in a river. these holes in the bends are doubly attractive when they’re filled with trees. remember the short leaders, and you can also use a float with some splitshot in a small stream. keep the bait just inches above the bottom as it drifts through a likely spot.
December 15th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
No, I wouldn’t think its a good lure for them. Anything that’s made to look, feel, smell, taste or even resemble a shrimp is made for saltwater. A largemouth bass may hit it thinking its a crawdad, though. You can try bouncing it in slowly and working it like a crawdad.
December 16th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I’d Texas-rig it. Texas-rigging the Power Hawg would be your best bet. And toss it into the thick stuff, matted hydrilla and all. The Texas-rig is weedless, and in the thick stuff I believe the Power Hawg would do well.I’ve not used it myself, but I would guess you’d use a 3/0 or maybe 4/0 hook with it. I may be wrong. But whatever size you use, make sure it’s a sharp EWG (extra-wide-gap) one. Gamakatsu’s EWG are great hooks.EDIT : Why am I getting SO many thumbs down on EVERY question I answer? I’ve noticed that it’s happened mostly to me. Now quit being immature.
December 16th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
I love this lure and have caught LM Bass, SM Bass, walleye, steelhead and even crappies with it. First off understand that one lure will not always catch fish every time it’s used and it takes some experimenting to attract fish with this or any other lure. .I’ll cast it out and let it sink to the bottom, wait a few seconds, then twitch the rod tip a couple of times, reel in the slack and repeat. Some times I’ll cast it out, jig it, let it settle to the bottom then crank the reel in fast a few turns to make it look like a startled bait fish. Some times I cast it out and just reel it back in. During a spawn if you jig it off the bottom it will look like a fish raiding spawning beds which will trigger a strike it. Most of my retrieves I try to make it look like an injured or struggling bait fish to make it look like an easy meal. I have also painted the lead head chartreuse green, orange, red or even all black with big white eyes. I think some times it makes the difference.Basically you have to use different retrieves until you find one that makes fish react to it . Keep changing the retrieves and don’t give up on this lure. It will catch you fish.
December 17th, 2010 at 8:17 am
I love the plastics. Here are my favorites- Zoom Finesse Worm in June bug, red bug or watermelon green.–Zoom speed worm in the Paddle tail version in the same colors and red shad also. Zoom Baby Brush hog in the same colors and cotton candy colors also. And a Yum Dinger in those colors and a yellow and black swirl works great with it.
December 17th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Berkley “Powerbait” plastic’s have better color’s and action.”Gulp” has better scent and “fish-holding” power.I use both. I use alot of the “Gulp” Minnow-Grub in black & green. And the Black “finesse” worm.And the Berkley Powerbait in many, many, various color’s and styles. I would say that Powerbait is #1. “Gulp” comes in a close 2nd,(because they don’t have the color’s/action PB has). (“Gulp” would be #1 in salt-water, IMHO.) 7″ Motor-oil PB worms work excellent in super-clear water. Rigg them “weightless” with a small 1/2 inch piece of “wire” (like a cut-up used coat-hanger sized wire), buried in the back of the tail, for extra weight.Here’s a good tip for Berkley PB: Get a cheapy wire brush and “poke” your worm before rigging it. This causes the “scent” to disperse easier. I quickly “comb” my PB worms before rigging and have noticed some improvement in catches. In fact, when PB first came on the market, a company sold a sharp wire “Brush” to do this exact thing. Renegade has good color’s but next to no “scent”. IMHO, I think you will find your catch ratio improve if you use PB worms!Goldenfeather: I watched a Berkley rep at a fishing expo “willingly” EAT a piece of Gulp plastic’s. YUCK! (lol)
December 18th, 2010 at 8:23 am
don’t use any that worthless crap I bought plenty of them to experiment them and no luck it’s all about the correct lure and the right skills.
December 18th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I would have to a say 1/2 oz spinner bait with with double willow blades and a white/chartreuse skirt is the most versatile and productive artificial of the lures to use on Largemouth as well, as smallmouth certain times of the year, Berkley works well for me too, I use the 7″ power worm alot during the spring and berkley also has a good line of tube baits that work great for skipping underneath docks. I would also learn how to fish a Carolina rig and a dropshot, I dont know how many time I have been saved by a Carolina rig in tournaments, it is an old method but can produce some monsters. To really get alot of info on bass fishing join B.A.S.S. they have probably the best magazine on bass fishing tips and techniques; as well as a wealth of informational videos on the web and even a blog for any fishing related question could have.
December 19th, 2010 at 8:54 am
In my personal opinion i think that any bait would work at the right time. but, I do not believe that any processed dough is a good consistent bait. I am confident that the best bait that you will be able to use is live bait or chicken liver for catfish.
December 19th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I have have been using both for years now, and I would have to say Powerbait. I see no difference in the two as far as the ability to attract fish is concerned. The Gulp however, does dry out fast (open it when you plan on using it, it will dry out before you get to the lake), it’s expensive, and far less bait styles and colors are offered than Powerbait. Powerbait is less expensive, lasts longer and is more durable, offers a vast array of baits in many colors, has good scent (that masks human odors) and fish holding power. They say “the fish bite and wont let go”, and I do believe the fish really like the stuff. I have caught many fish that tried to completely “gulp” Powerbait!
December 20th, 2010 at 8:44 am
to rig it weedless you push the pointed barbed tip of a large 1, 2 0r 3 ought worm hook through the dead center tip (head) in about a half an inch angling its entry toward the side making sure you go out the side on half inch down from the top and pull it through the worm all the way to where the knot is all that shows on top then you hold the shank of the hook and squeeze the worm back up by bending it slightly trying to get the tip to wedge into the body of the bait one half an inch further down than where the tip is hanging in line (the reason) is you want the worm absolutely straight no kinks bends and or waves to its hanging on the line body but if you don’t know how (and with my directions who could) go to the library and look up bass fishing there. they have it all and explaining to you the intricacy of the task without a visual is darn near impossible. But fish it like an eel don’t let it settle to the bottom and eels wiggle side to side cast upstream or up current and use your rod tip to very precisely (while retrieving it) wiggle the tip back and forth (not up and down)
December 20th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
I haven’t seen some of those you’ve mentioned. I might have to give them a shot. These are the ones that I’ve liked so far:1. Storm2. Berkley Powerbait (particularly the leech and minnows)3. Berkley Gulp! (BTW, they do make some soft plastics too. I have some soft plastic minnows from the Gulp! series.)4. Gary Yamamoto5. ZoomGood question Dane. It’ll give us all some additional brand name ideas to try. Thanks.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:57 am
I have most luck with Powerbait. Also, if you want to increase scent, buy Powerbait Roe which is also very benneficial. I dont have much luck with gulp, and it kinda slides off my snell to easily.
December 21st, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Berkley worms are good soft plastics. It’s been a while since I’ve actually used a normal-sized Power Worm, though. Lately its been nothing but Yamamoto Fat Ikas and 6- and 7-inch Roboworms.But for a long time I was using strictly Power Worms. Black, motor oil, Motor oil/red flake, junebug, pumpkinseed, and black grape were always good colors for me.At night though, a 10- or 12-inch black worm is still my number one soft plastic.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:07 am
I don’t use it all the time i mainly fly fish for trout and find that a better way of catching them but when i have used it in the past it wasn’t too bad and did catch trout, i didn’t automatically think this THE bait for trout i found it OK as opposed to cheese etc.
December 22nd, 2010 at 9:08 pm
If it were me, I would use the black blue or black red. Your water looks silty, muddy and seems to have a loose floor. Darker colors will work well for this type of water.As my friend JT mentioned, move this bait along SLOWLY!