What Catfish Actually Eat: Choosing Bait for Channel, Blue and Flathead
A catfish is close to a swimming tongue — 175,000 taste buds, most of them nowhere near its mouth. What that means for the bait you tie on.
Bait and Recipes
What catfish eat, why they eat it, and how to prepare, store and present it. Cut bait, live bait, prepared dough baits, punch baits and homemade recipes.
Bait matters less than rigging and more than gear. A catfish finds food by smell and taste long before it sees anything, which is why fresh cut shad outfishes the frozen bag of it and why a bait that has been sitting in the sun for three hours stops producing. These posts cover what to use for each species and season, how to keep it fresh, and a few recipes worth mixing yourself.