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Games Guy | August 21, 2011

In order to increase the likelihood of success an angler needs to judge which of the huge range of catfishing baits will attract catfish today.  As catfish will eat anything that could mean anything.

We can group catfishing baits under five headings:-

Natural baits – garden worms, night crawlers, small frogs, grass hoppers, prawns, shrimps etc.

Live fish – normally bait fish that are caught earlier in the day from the water the angler is planning to catch the catfish.

Dead bait – dead fish that have been acquired or pre-caught, stored (frozen) and perhaps cut into portions.

Specialised baits – marsh mallows, unscented ivory soap, chicken livers, hot dogs yes I said hot dogs.

Homemade baits – many people have concocted different baits from sweet corn, cornflakes, fish oil, blood, bread. – Young children tend to have as much fun from developing and making the bait as they do fishing. This fun is increased for the children by making the bait as smelly as possible.

Never forget, however, that the bait is only one of the decisions you need to get right. The adage “location, location, location” is very true if you are to be successful at catching catfish. Learn how to recognise where the catfish will be lying especially if you are fishing in the day. Look for those holes in the bank, spot the fallen tree, where the rocks provide good vantage points and you will start to catch those larger catfish. Dams are a site where there are large gatherings of catfish during the breeding time – spring through to early summer. Although not as pleasant cloudy and wet days usually prove more productive for catching catfish. At night the catfish will leave its lair and go searching for food this usually makes them easier to capture.Get all these various components of the art of catfishing right and you will catch catfish and a few will be monsters.

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Games Guy | February 13, 2010

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Typically catfish thrive in food rich and fertile waters such as in eutrophic lakes that are not in their final stages of eutrophication. You can use the following lake aging process as a guideline to find productive channel catfish, blue catfish,and flathead catfish waters to go bait fishing in.

Oligotrophic Lakes: (stable young, infertile coldwater)

During the early stages of eutrophication there are no catfish present.During the midstage of eutrophication there are no catfish present. During the late stage of eutrophication there are no catfish present.

Mesotrophic Lakes: (mid-stage water changing from cold to warmer)

During the early stages of eutrophication there are no catfish present.During the midstage of eutrophication there could be some stocked channel catfish present.During the late stage of eutrophication channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish start to thrive.

Eutrophic Lakes: (Late stage lakes have changed to warm water )

During the early stages of eutrophication ideal for channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish to thrive. During the midstage of eutrophication channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish are still thriving. During the late stage of eutrophication channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish could still thrive under certain conditions.

From the chart above you can eliminate a lot of of fishing waters if you are targeting just channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish. Catfish will thrive in mesotrophic lakes in their final stages of their aging process and eutrophic lakes in all stages of aging. The main reason catfish thrive in mesotrophic, and eutrophic lakes is because of the much warmer water temperatures. All catfish need water temperatures of 75 degrees to spawn and the water in oligotrophic lakes all aging stages, and mesotrophic lakes in the early stages of the aging process have water temperatures way below what is needed for catfish to thrive and reproduce.

Also there is a abundance of bait fish and vegetation in mesotrophic, and eutrophic lakes both needed to fuel the metabolism of channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish. You can use this information to your advantage when you are going to go bait fishing for catfish. Once you have identified what type of lakes are going to be productive for catfish you can concentrate on there locations and what catfish bait types to use at during the different seasons of the year.

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