Ever heard of this trick?

[Andrea]

An old man told my husband about his way of catfishing. ( This guy is from up north) He said to use night-crawlers and inject them with extra virgin olive oil. Said he catches tons that way and wouldn't use anything else. I have NEVER heard of that. Is that a northern way of fishing? If so, I want to try it. I saw on t.v. the other day these guys stuffing their stink bait into sausage casings. Gonna give that a whirl too.

[gfourhunter]

i dont know why just olive oil, but any oil. think about it, what do cats want to eat? blood and oil. try spraying wd40 on chiken livers.

[robk]

there is a garlic oil as well that you cn use it jusr depends on what you want to try i have heard of it and some of the old timers have passed that down but there are so many tricks you can use to get that to work and oils aren't the only thing. we've used dogfood and an oil that has kind of a scent like it was a medicine i fogett he name and use garlic oil and you use big chunk dogfood mix it all in a big plastic bag and let it set for a few days and it will make soem of the best bait you ever got and you use a nylong stocking and put it together and tie it on a treble hooks with the nylon hose and just hang on set out a good trot line and check it ever 6 to 8 hours and you will find a lot of cats on there or if you want to bait a hole you fill up a buch of the nylons with the bait and and usually you have a prvate place and feed that hole for about a week or two and then go take your poles and you will catch a ton of fish for fish frys or bring your kids and you will make fishers out of them as it will keep their interest and you will catch form small to giant toads weighing over 30 to 40 lbs. all kinds of good stuff to use
rob k

[Bruce Schmeck]

Yeah, but that works best for Italian or Greek catfish.

[bulldawg]

That also works for big sturgeon.

[hutchies]

Preperation H and bubble gum works good for channel cats as well as ivory bar soap. The old timers have all told me about using these things.

[Bruce Schmeck]

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Preperation H and bubble gum works good for channel cats as well as ivory bar soap. The old timers have all told me about using these things.

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Yeah, but the Preparation H was for their hemmoroids from all the time they spend sitting on the bank waiting for the channel cats to bite.

[flyrod64]

I've never injected oil into them but I have pumped em full of air to make em float.

[dodge4x4]

sounds like a good idea, ive never heard of it....thanks huntin_girl!

[LifeNRA]

A catfish is nothing but a swimming tounge! It has taste buds all over its body, even on their tail! So if they swim by something and their tail touch's it, if its food they will turn around and eat it!

The extra virgin olive oil is being used as an attracking scent. The oil probably is slowly making a scent cloud or trail, the cats smell or taste the oil in the water and go looking for the food!

[Texan_Til_I_Die]

Here's another odd tip:
Try putting some food coloring into the water that you keep minnows (or other types of bait) in. The minnows will pick up some of the coloring and look really wild in the water. Works sometimes when everything else fails.

[goose21]

ive always heard that u inject them with air so they float but never heard of injecting olive oil
sounds liekk a good idea
ill have to try it and let u know how it works

[va_strutstopper]

we use chunked chicken breast soaked in cherry kool aid

[Shaun_300]

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I've never injected oil into them but I have pumped em full of air to make em float.

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LOL me too! we do that all the time. i'll have to try that oil trick!