Catfish to catch Catfish ? ?

You seem to be knowledgeable enough to know a catfish will eat just about anything, especially towards the Fall of the year. Using cut bait is going to produce good results provided the cats are in a feeding mode however whatever is on hand for bait would give better results with whatever is natural to the waters being fished. As far as using another catfish for bait, well I have used the organs like heart & liver but never used the flesh for cut baits.

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I've used catfish as cutbait and it works well. I'll fillet a 1-2 pound cat and then cut some of the meat along the spine for bait. I've used entralls before, too, and they work (although the turtles love that). I think the tail would be good for cut bait, but haven't used it. When I use cutbait I usually stick with bluegill, though. I prefer live bait and dip bait to cut bait, but you gotta go with what the fish are biting. My grandpa used dead chicks (he raised chickens) on a trot line.

Once I was night fishing at a catfish pond. There was a young man that caught a small catfish, about 5" long. He got all excited and I remember thinking it didn't take much to make him happy! Well he used the catfish as bait and managed to catch three monster cats in about an hour. One went over 30 lbs. So I guess they do like their own kind.

i ran into the wierdest thing this year fishing for cats.first off any cut bait is good cat or no.but what intrests me is when i was cleaning cats a couple of months back inside there bellies was the seeds to lilly pads.the lake was down and coused ponds.i dont know if this had anything to do with it or if they normally do this ive never seen it before.the lillies i noticed had flowers and in the flowers is were the seeds were.the flowers were all up on the shore torn apart but the ones i did see that were still entact had pods with the seed inside.guese they were eating the pods.totaly amased me

Sure, Ido not think they can tell the difference between these types of bait. Meat is meat

its a fish eat fish world...in the states ive fished in it was illegal to use bluegill as bait..o well

Live Bluegill on large hook will catch very large catfish.

The "Cats" are willing feeders and I have seen and heard of them being caught on a number of unusual offerings including hot-dogs, bologna lunch meat, chewing gum, cigarette filters, etc. I'd try just about anything once, and I am confident that any fish scraps would rank high on their list of favorites....even from their cousin 'cats. Go for it!

raw shrimp is the easiest thing to use

i use raw chicken liver.