Trotlining

[CR]

What's your favorite bait for trotlines?

[Rattle-m-up™]

cut shad and bream

[Earnhardt fan #1]

Rice slicks

[Rattle-m-up™]

what are rice slicks? :confused:

[AltheimerCastaway]

Cut Bream is what I think works well. We used some of those packaged shad last year. They worked OK but didn't stay on the hooks very well.

[Earnhardt fan #1]

Baby drum...... Little bream found in rice patties when drained

[Gooch]

Goldfish or big shiners.

[longspurs]

I trotline for flatheads and red-knockers are hard to beat.Never was crazy about 'slicks(green sunfish).

[CDay]

I have always used crawdads.

[turkey neck]

What the heck is a red knocker?

[Rattle-m-up™]

i was wondering the same thing? :confused:

[WarblerWatcher]

Not my favorite anymore but bar soap and Days Work chewin' tobacco will catch lots of catfish! Bream usually go for broad leaf chewin' like Beachnut.

Don't laugh. It works. We used to always take a little chewin' and few bars of old P&G soap when we went trotlinin'. Nowdays any soap with a hand lotion or creme in it will work.

When I was growin' up we didn't have "bait shops". We had to come up with our own bait. I remember when our little grocery store first started sellin' aluminum foil, somebody figured out real quick you could cut it in about 2 or 3 inch strips about 1/2 inch wide and load up on channel cat sometimes. So next time you get run out of bait, look around camp and see what you can come up with cause there's nothin' that says good trotline bait has to come from a bait shop.

Of course now I hear tell there's places where you can drive up and get trotline bait right out of a vending machine just like a soda pop! Amazin! Simply amazin!!!

[Earnhardt fan #1]

P&g soap what kind is that heard and used ivory and some others can't remember names . Chewing tabaco works used it too

[SNAKEHUNTER]

Try some potato bugs aka june bugs. In the summer that's the bugs under the street lights laying on their backs spinning in circles. Hookim in the butt. Catfish loveum and the gar and turtle leave them alone.

[deerhunter]

Originally posted by turkey neck:
What the heck is a red knocker? Thats Sammy Hagar..............Oh wait a minute, that would be red rocker. graemlins/thumb.gif

[longspurs]

You fellows must be city boys.A red-knocker is a large long-ear sunfish.The ones with the bright underbelly.

[Earnhardt fan #1]

Hey they're supposed to be four inches or smaller Aren't they

[WarblerWatcher]

EFAN#1,

P&g soap what kind is that P&G stands for Proctor & Gambell. Old timers called it Pig & Goat soap. Probably don't make it anymore.

[Earnhardt fan #1]

Probably don't also remember using old government cheese grndma got from them she never ate it only fished with it

[Rattle-m-up™]

i really think FRESH cut shad is pretty tough to beat.

[Tony Harris]

Skip Jack works good, a bit more scented than shad. Had a guy ask for all I could throw his way while fishing at Dam #2. Needless to say we filled his bucket to over flowing.

[longspurs]

Who's measuring?