Originally Posted by Flame
Just curious...when your channel catfish get too hard to catch...has anybody ever set trotlines in their pond for them? Especially to catch bigger ones? My pond is only 2 acres so a line would be easy to manage.

If they've been caught a few times, they won't even get caught on a trotline. I have caught the bigger ones in the pond on lures when fishing for largemouth. A 6" floating Rapala caught one, a 4: live target crank bait that mimicked a school of fish caught the other.

A package of cheap hot dogs cut into 1" pieces, then mixed with 1 package of real sugar strawberry jello and 1-2 tablespoons of powdered garlic. mix the dry ingredients together, then mix in the hotdogs. Do not add any juice to the mix, the hotdogs have enough in them.

I thought I had them all removed from my pond, then I found where some escaped the holding tanks and got into the pond, SO, I will be fishing for them hard this coming year.

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