Need some good advice for catching a big catfish?
 

I'm in need of some advice of catching a big cat, unfortunetly I'm trying to catch it out of a park in Ohio called Miami Whitewater Park so it's public and have to put up with alot of people till dark. Can anyone help me out?

RE: Need some good advice for catching a big catfish?
 

Fish one hour before dark until about 2 or 3 in the morning. Use chicken liver, shad, minnows,etc.

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If there is no current in the body of water and you are relatively alone, use a love bream (bluegill to some) and a hook (no weight). Take the bream and make 2 cuts on each side of the body behind the belly. Do not cut through the backbone. Hook the bream behind the head and in front of the dorsal fin. Throw it out and leave the bail open (or button pushed) so the line can free spool. The bream will stay close to the top of the water and will quiver and drive the big cats crazy. When the line starts spooling out, let him run with it for a ways, hold the rod up ( give slack ), drop the tip, close the bail and when the line gets tight, sock it to him.

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You can also chum the area.

RE: Need some good advice for catching a big catfish?
 

Throw a kids basketball in the lake.....

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Good one PL:) Thought about getting a 14 weight flyrod and tying one myself!!!!;)

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LOL @ PointingLab:D

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Yea, those were some funny pics, that was nice catfish but at Miami Whitewater Park here in Ohio the biggest cat ever caught was 74 lb. and that happened this year during a tournement.

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i also fish here in ohio for cats ive had a lot of big channel cats hit on shrimp shovel heads seem to like creek chubs the bigger the better blue cats seem to prefer bluegills about 6" long and another trick i use is plain old spam on a treble hook if yah get down around cowan lake give ma a holler ill show yah how and where to catch the cats at were havin catfish monday night the wife said the freezer is gettin to full

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biggest catfish i caught was about 10 lbs...on dough bait (peanut butter, cottonballs, soysause(i think) )
actually was fishing for carp but the cat decided he wanted it too.

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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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Two Words: Trout Line

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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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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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Yeah dynamite!!!!!;););)Ive never had luck!