Catfish on a trot line

I've been having pretty good luck with pork liver. It holds up pretty well. I haven't used them in a while but I used to buy some shrimp and leave them outside for a day to get a lil stank to them, would work well too.

depends what type of catfish you're fishing for.

Blood bait, shrimp, liver, heart, night crawlers, gold fish, bream, soap…come to think of it, they’re not too picky.

I've always used small crawfish (too small to eat). They're easy to pick up with a net even in a roadside ditch especially this time of year. they live a long time on the hook, and they don't come off very easy. I'm generally setting for channel cat.

Awesome, thanks guys! I have only used frozen pogies and shads so far. Only caught one on the frozen pogies. Nothing on the live shads

Chicken livers work good. But they're soft. So you have to run the hook through the main artery to keep them from easily pulling off.

Bream are good. Cut bream for Blues. Live bream for Flatheads. Do a combination.

I like cut Buffalo fish. Find an old school local fish market. There are two filets that come off a Buffalo. One has bones in it, the other doesn't. The one with bones usually sells for about $1 a pound.

Anytime you can find shad, they work well too.

Whenever I go offshore fishing I keep and freeze Bonita. Those work great.

Just about anything you can get your hands on will work fine.

My absolute favorite is the small sunfish species that is really colorful and aggressive. Not sure it they are long ears, dollar sunfish or what. I used to call them pumpkin seeds, but now that I have looked into it, I do not think that's what they are. You can catch blues/channel and flats with these, while cut bate is going to pretty much exclude the flats.

River catfish are cleaner than whatever pond or lake you’ve decide to eat your catfish from.

Dead shrimp and cut up panfish work anytime they are willing to feed.