What is the best cat fish or carp bait to use ?

Question

i am fishing at a pond and got one bit and we where using worms. I just want to know what is is the best typ of bait to use

Answer 1

At a local lake in Calif., the experts recommended nightcrawlers, with a squirt of fish oil.

Answer 2

Try soaking Wheaties in a little water till mushy then forming a ball on the hook.  Both are bottom feeders, so relatively anything that sinks to the bottom is potential bait.

Answer 3

A good carp bait is to mix strawberry pop with wheaties, make a dough from it, put it on a small treble hook. Corn also works sometimes

Answer 4

for catfish use the stinkiest old moldy cheese and or stale rotting meat of any kind seriously the worse it stinks the faster they find it. like liver left in the sun eight hours really works, mackeral chunked and sun dried (two things it stays on the hook better is sun cooked and man it stinks. Blood soaked anything you want. and lastly (when I was shown this trick I was amazed) my favorite and clean and not stinky but cut off kentucky fried chicken skin and use it in strips it stays on the hooks very well and it gets hit.

for carp: pop open a can of poppin fresh biscuits and roll a small portion into a ball and squeeze and shape and form the piece into a pyramid shape hiding a strong treble hook and cast into shallow flats where clean water (like a stream feeds into) is regularly found in a lake.  

Answer 5

Yup, they like a worm, down on their level.

The best way by far to catch carp though, is with electric shock.  The DNR uses that method all the time.

Answer 6

I agree with Artie's answer especially about the dough for carp... nice! And it saves a lot of time and mess in the process too.  In my neck of the woods the catfish love fish and crabs. Shiners, bunker, bluefish... any fish with any oily base will bring them in like crazy. Cut the fish into chunks and cast to the same area. The scent acts as a magnet and draws the fish to your location.  For carp I use night crawlers or  dough bait with a touch of vanilla extract added. Again, cast to the same area to keep the scent working in your favor. Tight lines!

Answer 7

I caught one with a pickle on a bet once - not the preferred method.

Use minnows, worms, chicken, frogs, sausage, hot dog chunks (1/2 - 3/4"), etc.

Answer 8

bacon

Answer 9

chicken livers (get them at your grocery store meat section)