I haven't tried it personally but I've heard some of the old timers talk about putting the chicken in a panty hose pouch to keep it from coming off so easily.
Cut out of squares of pantyhose, put chicken inside, then tie off with Magic Thread. (it's used for salmon eggs) Smaller hook Dave, 8/0 circle is fine.
I had 1 try to break my rod yesterday and ofcourse the Team Catfish circle hook didnt set. Ive yet to get a catfish on their hooks. Very Not Impressed.
@@rawbsworld6604 your good man,no offense was taken unless the Demon hooks dont work. Then ima be pssed and break out my big boy rods and J hooks. Ima just start back swinging on the kitties.
It works well in certain bodies of water and not very well in others. Fresh cut bait from the body of water you're fishing is always the best bet along with live baits from that same body of water.
We don't have skipjack here on the Catawba river system. My wife and I catch a few bream and use those. I use chicken breast some and have caught several 20+ pounders on it. Flatheads won't eat it.
When I use chicken I precut it and put it in vacuum seal bags then coat it with strawberry jello powder and vacuum seal it. I place it in the fridge for 2-3 days to let it cure. This seems to toughen the chicken up quite a bit and it stays on the hook very well. I believe the jello powder helps the curing process.
🤦♂️ strawberry jello yada yada yada…. Does anyone try cherry or lime ? There’s lotsa jello colors n flavors when did strawberry become the go to flavor? Does shad taste different than skipjack? Chicken ? 🤷♂️✌️😂🤣
@@rawbsworld6604 Had you paid attention you may have deduced the flavor/color isn't the objective. It was the ability to cure the chicken and make it tougher and stay on the hook longer. Whatever your opinion may be, it still works and we have caught a lot of 20 and 30 plus pound blues using it. Especially when they don't seem to be wanting to bite. If you don't want to try it, then by all means , please don't. I use skipjack, shad, white bass, blue gill or chicken. They all work at times.
@@931tow lmfao 😂 relax mate don’t be so quick to get but hurt 👌, if you be paying attention you’d know friendly banter when you read it! 🤦♂️ mostly a humorous response to the 15 other life coaches comments saying he gotta go with strawberry jello on chicken 😝😳 if it was that good I surely would think he’d be doing it in every vid ,
@@rawbsworld6604 nah, I doubt he would since it was something that Dieter Melhorn endorsed quite a bit. For some reason he seems to have a thing with Dieter, don't know why. Dieter does say that the chicken by itself works just as well but as I said the jello does cure it.
Try the thigh meat from the chicken it is tougher and stays on hook better ! Also cheaper especially when getting close to out of date around a dollar a pound and takes jello and kool aid very well .just bring hand sanitizer on the boat and use after every rebait !
I use chicken and have cought fish. I think chicken works best when the water is warm for some reason. Ive also used cut bait and it does well also. so one pole has chicken and the other is cut bait most of the time. works for me.
I always get chicken breasts and soak them in Cherry Kool Aid. Make it blood red and messy as hell. But, I've slammed 70 plus in the last 4-6 weeks. and over 50 were keepers. 5 - 14lbs
Rumor has it that chicken works well in waters that have high mussel concentrations, but not as well in waters that have few mussels. Don't know if that is true, as it is anecdotal information, but it could be true. Probably only for the blue cats because they love mussels during certain times of the year.
Ya, what about the Flatheads are you high and dry out there? Or are they to hard to get right now. I know that you have some old stomping waters that you can fish or is it that you don’t want to give up those waters I can understand that. What about your reeling fish in music bring it back your very good at that to, come on Catfish Dave nobody does it like you and that’s the truth. Thank you for your time on the water
Personally I’m here for the CFD experience not the music 🤷♂️ but then again one might think royalty free music is a CFD experience , it’s not! Just a CFD experience enhancement 🤪
