Nightcrawlers vs Chicken Liver | Most popular catfish bait challenge?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The results were a little unexpected as I thought one bait would easily out fish another!
I wanted to try and do a fishing challenge with baits that your average fisherman would use to catch Catfish with. Nightcrawlers and Chicken liver have to be the most popular baits ever for fishing for Catfish (or anything else really!). I went to a spot that I have caught Channel Catfish at before in the past to see which bait would work. This video is the results! You could consider both baits as natural baits that a Catfish would find in the wild. Liver is a little difficult to fish with that is why I try to salt cure it or dry it out some. Catfish really like the most fresh baits possible so leave me a comment below if you want me to try using liver differently!
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Good comparison Billy. Nicely done
Thanks!
Hard to beat a worm. Only bad thing about them is having all the little fish clean your hook while waiting for a good one.
3:20 the legendary fisherman crip walk we are all guilty of doing at least once in our life :-)
Spring time and fall i'm all about that chicken liver for my channel cats. Summer time is straight up night crawlers. Depends solely on the water temps. Good video again like always!
I've caught only two catfish so far and they both were on a tiny piece of worm. I've tried bluegill guts but they never worked.
Try bluegill heads.
Yes, I like the bait challenge videos. Please do more! I carry as many as 3 to 4 different baits cause you never know what they might want. Could be the difference in catching something or nothing. I tried chicken breast for the first time a few weeks ago close to chickamauga dam and caught a 20 lb blue on a big chunk of it while the nightcrawlers I had on the other line never got touched. The next day, I caught a nice channel cat on the nightcrawlers while the chicken breast sat untouched the entire time I was there. Go figure, but either way It`s good to try multiple baits.
Exactly. I ore make dough bait from cheese that I keep in a tub ready for easy use. I bring that and chicken liver and night crawelers rerely get skunked unless the fish just aint bitin.
I just caught a bowfin doing a chicken liver vs night crawlers bait challenge. Coming soon! 😊
What I do with chicken liver is take pantyhose and make bait balls out of them. I've had one of my little bait balls catch 3 cats before I had to change it and 1 pound fresh liver from anywhere can make around 15 good size balls.
The secret is adding garlic and whatever else you choose to the blood and small chunks of liver left over and put the bait balls into that and soak them. You can freeze that in the same container and it stays fresh longer plus when it thaws out you still have your stink bait juice to keep the bait balls fresh through the day. Happy fishing 😄
I need to try that! I rarely use liver although recently it caught me a few Bullhead catfish in a local creek here: th-cam.com/video/uiXUze6KxLc/w-d-xo.html
Good video. Yes I'd like to see this challenge in your blue cat spot. Thanks for showing.
I alway cover my hook tip with the worm. If your hook can’t make it through the worm you got some dull hooks. Great video though keep em coming!!!!
Yessir Mr. Bill !! More bait challenges! I hope to get out this weekend. I might do a bait challenge of my own!👍tight lines!
Please tell me what hook you’ve been using. I’ve been trying to catch a catfish for so long 😩
Team Catfish Double Action Circle Hooks are the hooks that have caught me the most fish. I use the big 8/0 ones for big fish and big baits and the small 1/0 ones for smaller fish using nightcralwers and such. I am promotional staff with them now thanks to using their hooks for years.
Glad you asked that i was wondering too
I have started to use Bait Boss hooks from Fle Fly too. They are a tiny Bluegill sized Team Catfish Double Action hook.
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Thank you!
Thanks for the info
I take these tests with a grain of salt. Me and my son have fished next to each other with the same bait time and time again and one of us would catch all the fish.
I agree it's not scientific. The only thing I ever see over and over again is Jello beating Kool-aid on baits. Jello has some of the same amino acids as Bluegill. th-cam.com/video/9YOilzleGQ8/w-d-xo.html
Good video buddy FISH ON
Chicken liver Works good for me. No no frozen livers no good go get you some fresh livers! Eagle Craw bite holders best hooks to use with chicken liver. Do don't use a lot of weight learn to cast the cast the liver let it be the weight.
I used to cover my hook points and the cats would swallow the hook. Now that I leave the hook exposed, no more gut hooks. Great tip. I laughed when you told the fish "That Way!" I talk to them as well. The first release left a beautiful mud trail in the water. Looking forward to more excellent content. Tight Lines Bro!
worms will always catch fish
You should do Kool aid chicken vs the winner of this
I use night crawlers. My husband does the liver.
I've never had much luck with liver. Sardines/Anchovies and worms are my usual pick, at least where I fish. A deadly combo is a nice hunk of sardine topped with half a worm.
Sounds like prime Sturgeon bait! I've had crazy luck with liver when I was younger. Now it's not been as good.
Great video. Love these challenge videos!
Thanks bro, good job.
I could never have fished at at that spot no disrespect 😂😂 cause the bayous I go too are always loaded I just can’t have a day of fishing where I only catch 1 or 2 fish I haveeee to catch like 15
It's like this almost everywhere around here. High population near water = overfished
Good video , have you tried chicken breast, I have been having good luck with it. What state are you in?
I am in Tennessee
Good video, I have fished with both and had some good luck with both especially in smaller lakes with channels
Frozen liver sucks. Got to have some fresh, bloody liver and use some elastic twine to tie it on the hook.
So does rotten liver. I couldn’t even make a video when I tried it…
How can I keep chickenliver on line,because the chicken liver seems to slip off
I like to cure it with pickling salt. Other people use bait socks.
Take the challenge to the blue cat spot and maybe add cut bait. I'd suspect cut bait to prevail but I think it would make a perfect control group for the experiment.
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I run trotlines. I had 2 lines of 50 hooks. I used 4 types of liver on 25 hooks every. Deer, pork, chicken, beef and in that order from best to last mid summer
From my experience. Worms= a lot of smaller fish and Chicken liver= bigger fish maybe less. Now with that being said that can be bice versa at times and you can catch a big one on a worm and numbers on liver. But I have just caught more big cats on liver and cheese dough
When I was a boy we would get a hand saw and go in the woods near where we were fishing and clear the ground leaves around a small tree that was about a inch or two in diameter saw it off about a foot or so high then slowly drag the saw across the stump sawing toward the ground and the worms come to the surface thinking it's raining, free bait and didn't have to go spend money for it
tbh its not really fair for chicken liver because the blood sent has to spread then then any fish that smells it, will pick it up (even turtles any fish or turtles)
To be fair I don't like using chicken liver. I rather use what the fish eat.
its ok but im just telling you what i prefer, i been using it with my great uncle for whole my life.@@TNRVG
Try weenies mixed with cherry jello powder packet. We have a stocked pond here in El Paso Texas. Works great.
Worms are great catfish bait but you usually can’t keep screwgills off of it.
Nice video.
Use liver +night crawlers on a Santee Cooper rig.
Heck yeah buddy keep on catching em 🤘
Great video man. Thanks
I just started catfishing I went tonight for an hour threw a nightcrawler out at a lake I waited an hour I had one bite but it just nibbled it im thinking about trying chicken liver tomorrow night the lake I'm fishing on is know to hold alot of channel catfish
Try muddy dirty rivers and ponds, if your at a clear lake try baitfish like cut bait or even live shad. I do best in canals and rivers
Awesome 👏!
Hey why don't you have bell on your rods
I used to use bells. There isn't a spot in East Tennessee that doesn't have one or more of my bells in the woods or water lol!
First time here and kinda njoyed watching the video..👍😁
Thanks!
nice video , which bait in your opinion is the best for catfish ? I'm talking about any bait , not just worms or liver.
Fresh "whatever swims in the water". I've seen 100 pound Blues caught on cut Bluegill.
@@TNRVG thanks
Yes I would like to see you do it again and the owner lake
I will have to do that! There should be tons of baby Blue Catfish there right now!
What rod and reel is that your using
Okuma Ceymar Baitrunners on Okuma Ceymar rods.
I think this is the same spot you caught your certified Tennessee trophy channel cat at.
Yep! It was a skinny and long guy. I would have rather registered that 20 pound Channel I caught after this one! TWRA would of called me like they did over the 52 inch Muskie haha!
@@TNRVG do you have the link so I can watch the 20 pound channel catch? That's an awesome channel cat. My biggest was just over 15 lbs
Here you go: th-cam.com/video/yq5ZiTew3BU/w-d-xo.html
Nice fish! I use both baits but have caught many more on night crawlers than I have on liver. Usually mud cats hit the liver in my case. Love the channel cats and just had a nice fish fry yesterday at the lake.
Good stuff! Thanks!
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