Like I said its a small pond and the weather here is supposed to be hot and sunny. Any tips? and im fishing with chicken liver any tips on how to keep it on the hook? thanks!
Im fishing in a small pond tomorrow for flathead catfish any tips?
May 5th, 2010 
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I have used chicken livers before, but I didn’t let them thaw out all the way with being frozen, and they really fell away from each additional–not staying on the hook at all. I would advise buying them just before heading out as I will try to do for next time. Using some sort of catfish attractant (like stink bait stuff) would likely help, if you can tolerate the smell.
Anything else I can add would be that fish generally like to linger near any fallen trees/branches/shady nooks in the fill up, just watch for snags.
Excellent luck and I hope this helps. I’m just language from private experiences.
Chicken liver will not catch many Flathead catfish. Flathead catfish are going to be spellbound with some kind of live bait fish before a stinky bait. (Although channel catfish and bullhead like chicken liver) Do you know of any excellent spots to catch bait fish? Throw out a casting net or throw out a minnow trap if you have one. Catch some large chubs and use ‘em whole.
Use pretty heavy equipment. I would go with a 7′ ft. MH action trigger rod, with a baitcasting reel filled with 30 lb. Power Pro. That is if you’re fishing with live bait fish for the larger Flathead. If you are going to fish with chicken liver (Which may catch some very small Flathead) you can go with a 6′ M action spiraling rod, and a spiraling reel filled with 14 lb. Stren.
Oh, and for how to keep the liver on the hook, here is a video that clarifies “Beginner Channel Catfishing Baits” but at the end this guy shows you how to wrap up liver in a cut of mesh so it stays on – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV9n2JapC1Y
Lucky fishing.
try hooking the livers into the vessel parts where the veins are thats the toughest part. also try using a huge nightcrawler. and also use a night crawler and catch a sunny or something small and cut it up and use that as bait.
might want to catch some bluegill to use for bait.
flats like blugill in ponds,it is a natural food source for them.
scale and fillet the bluegill,or use the heads
fish or crayfish, you can try frogs
When I fished for cats, I always used chicken livers, too. But a friend told me to take the toe of a pair of pantyhose, place the liver in it, tie a knot right above it, and hook it. The mesh allows the fragrance out, but holds the hook better than the meat does. Just tie knots in both ends of the next cut, and keep cutting pieces of pantyhose going up the leg, since just using the toes gets expensive.
hey there, the ol catfish is my favorite fish to go with. here is what i do and use. for baits, it really all depends on what type of bait that you would be comfortable with. for smaller cats, i like to use dough baits. those can be found at your community walmart. also know as stink bait. i prefer the one that is a mixture of chicken blood and shrimp. going up in size of cats i prefer to use liver. chicken, turkey, or beef, will be just fine. i like the turkey livers since they seem to be tougher and stay on the hook longer. now if you are wanting to go with some huge cats i use live bait such as bream or bluegill redbreast fish of that nature.
for the ropes that i use. take a 2 ounce slip weight and slide it onto your line. if you are fishing a river with strong current you may need to step it up in weight but a 2 ounce is a pretty excellent weight to use in most conditions. ok now that you have a weight on tie on a number 2 or 3 trebble hook. regular bait or plastic worm hooks but the bait just doenst seem to stay on for a long period of time and when casting out there is more of a chance to sling the bait off. ok now that you have the trebble hook tied on go about a foot and a half above the hook and clamp on a small splitshot weight. you dont need a huge weight just a splitshot that is a small larger than the hole in the slip weight. that keeps the slip weight from sliding down onto the hook.
now that you have your rig, if you are using the dough bait get out a dough ball and wet it a small. crack the ball open. not all the way run the shank of the hook through the dough ball. squeese shut the bait and pack it onto the hook shank and then press down onto the bait getting the bait ontop of the hooks and there you go. if you are using liver, keep the liver cold as possible when you are using them. keep them in a small cooler of ice. that will make the livers a small tougher and they will be simpler to handle and stay on the hook longer. ok now take out a liver and use a sharp fillet knife and quater the liver you dont need the whole thing. they are usually pretty huge. take a cut of the liver and run one of the hooks through it and then wrap the hook with the liver and then press down on the liver getting all the hooks in the liver and there you go. ok now fishing with live bait, use a excellent sized group hook or a regular plastic worm hook. use the same rig just different hook. take one of the small fins right behind the head and snap it off and run the hook through its back right below the dorsal fin. that this does is make the fish sink and makes it flop around instead of swimming around.
what the rig does is gets the bait to the bottom where the cats are and it lets the bait float around. flip open your bail on your reel or cut off the drag what ever you got to do to make the line come off your reel easily. when the cat grabs your bait the fish can run with your bait without feeling any pressure. alot of times when a fish feels pressure it will drop the bait so with this rig it can run for a small while and have time to swallow the hook. when you see your line bring unspooled let the fish run for a while. pick up your rod pull out a small line and close the bail and start to retreive your line slowly and once the fish tightens the line set the hook.
ok man i know that i gave you alot but it really isnt hard. i hope that this has helped you out a bit excellent luck excellent fishin be safe and remember to share the experience
treble hooks are made for chicken liver and things that are hard to keep on the hook. they are fantastic with cat fishing. i can gaurantee the liver wil stay on a treble hook
one excellent tip.
forget catching flatheads in a pond unless you stocked them yourself. they won’t be there. flatheads live in rivers and creeks.
they are also predatory carnivores. top of the food chain. they eat live fish along with snakes, turtles, rodents, ducks. anything that will fit in their mouth. and they have a huge mouth.
Cut or whole/live bluegill shad work well for the huge uns. I would take some chicken livers along too, though. If the huge uns don;t bite and there are additional cats in there, they can rarely resist livers.
When using chicken livers, use a trebel hook and take the hook off the leader you are using. Place the liver over the eyelet part of the hook and then hook it on the treble points. It will stay on better.