We love harvesting our catfish via milk jugs. The younger kids like chasing the jugs around our ponds. We set them out about two hours before dark. Jug lines set 20-30" braided line 120lb test just incase they go under a branch. I use live bait for most 2"-4" panfish prefer GSF vs BG. Hooked just behind soft dorsol fin. I use over sized 6/0-7/0 circle hooks sometime offset.
If your wanting to try something other than live bait. Buy some chicken livers, lay on news paper heavily salt one side, the following day flip over onto a fresh news paper salt the other side. You want to then lay them on plastic mesh for the rest of day. Next day put in plastic bag and pop in fridge. Have chicken livers last months and become tough as leather. Catfish surely foul hook themselves trying to pull it off the hook. Especially with the gallon milk jug pulling up on the hook.
Last edited by Snakebite; 11/29/16 09:12 PM.
