[Uncle Buck]

Friend has been spraying his Channel Cat fish bait with Garlic spray? Anyone else heard of this? He always gets a mess of them too...I have seen garlic spray on the shelf in fishing stores like Basspro and Wally world? I will have to give garlic a try?

I wonder that's why that people that have that there GARLIC breath always catch fish?

[Mongojoe]

Never tried any garlic spray...but one of our favorite channel catfish bait recipes has garlic... We will buy a hog liver, cut it into bait sized pieces, put it in a bowl, add a jar of minced garlic, a bunch of garlic salt, mix it well, add just enough water to cover it good, let it set several hours or over night covered in the icebox, then drain it, sprinkle on more garlic salt, and divide it into baggies with about how much we figure we will need per trip, and freeze it.... When we go fishing we just take out how much we figure we will need and take with us..... We like hog liver because it is tougher than chicken liver so it stays on the hooks better...and we just have not had alot of luck with cow liver.

[Uncle Buck]

I'm going Channel Cat fishing this week-end with about 15 predator hunters... I might try that WD 40 and the hotdog bait..Purchased some spawn sac material today...Going to Attach some Oscar Mayer Winners to a treble hook...enclose it in spawn sac material...Hold it together at the top with a rubber band..Spray Garlic on one and the other I will try the WD40.

[Mongojoe]

You got my curiosity up... Let us know how it goes and what works.

[Uncle Buck]

I owe you the results of my night time fishing trip for channel cats....I used two poles and fished with two different baits on each pole...WD 40 hotdogs, commercial catfish bait...all kinds, nightcrawler, minnows, crawfish...I caught nothing...One of the guys that was fishing with our group..Did catch a few nice channel cats...He was using Bluegill...Sunnies cut with the head and at an angle with the guts hanging out. He was fishing the bait on the bottom of course.. One of the Channel cats was 28 inches long..
So on this trip... it was cut bait..Cut this special way...Head on and at an angle with the guts hanging out. Might want to try that down South..The Bluegill or Sunnies fished like I described...

[Mongojoe]

My wife, daughter, son in law, and I, went night fishing for catfish a couple of weeks ago below the dam on Kaw Lake, about 30 miles from here... We used live shad, 2 or 3 kinds of commercial catfish baits, and worms... We ended up catching a couple of gar, and 4 small channels, from 3 to 4 pounds each... I say "we", but I personally didn't catch anything... Now, I don't know what the gar were caught on, I think the live shad, but my daughter caught both of those...but the catfish were all caught on Danny King's Punch Bait.......

http://www.dannykings.com/

[Uncle Buck]

I checked their web site out...Wow you better catch something with that commercial brand of catfish bait? They want and Arm & a Leg for it..Shipping is more then the actual product. Looks like it stays on the # 4 treble hook well?

[Mongojoe]

Yeah, that is the problem with ordering it thru the mail...the expense of shipping. That's just ridiculous... We wouldn't use it if we had to pay that for it... Luckily, they sell it out here at the ALCO store, and so we don't have to pay that outrageous shipping charge. In fact, if I remember correctly it is only about 5 bucks for a pint jar at the ALCO, which is less than his website advertized price for the pint jar alone, without any shipping.... And yeah, it does stay on a plain trebble hook better than any dough, dip, or punch bait I have ever used.