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Old 06-30-2004, 10:25 AM
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If there are any trees around the bank, i would set lines out over night. Use 50 pound test. Tie an egg sinker about two feet from the hook. Use a live bluegill, or one that you put slits in the belly. Through it out about as far as you think you need it to go...let it set over night. Come back the next morning and see if you have one on your line. The biggest i have cought doing this was a 50 pound flathead
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Old 07-11-2004, 03:14 PM
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Two Words: Trout Line
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Old 07-13-2004, 12:50 PM
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Odds are in a public park you can't use bank or trot lines. Most large cats eat natural foos and not stink bait and liver. So if its a channel cat use a fresh piece of cut bait like shad,sucker,shinner, or a bluegill. the oilier the fish the better. For flatheads use a lively live bait like bluegill,bullhead ,or sucker and change your bait every 30min in order to keep fresh scent in the water. also fish snags near deep water..good luck
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Old 10-07-2004, 07:02 PM
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Use large cut shad on a big circle hook...or whole big shad. I'm talking about 14-16" shad cut in 3 pieces. I've had some okay luck with it.

Not sure..I think this was in the high 30's..I'll have to find the pic where I wrote on the back of it

25

and between 25-30
Not sure why these aren't showing up now...they were before. Anyways, what type of cats are you targeting? Blues, Channels or Flats? The best bait to use is whatever is most abundant in that body of water. Big Channels love live bluegill as well as Flatheads. Blues love the cutbait and love it big
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Old 10-12-2004, 06:33 PM
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Yeah dynamite!!!!!Ive never had luck!
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