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his is my Cat Fish idea.
Catfish are active (mostly) from Midnite to 4: Am.
You put out a long line about 10 PM and pick the lines sometime around first light.
They call it a TROT line down here.
I think you could do this for Fresh Water Ling's in AK. Better check the laws first though.
The little scrap fish will eat any bait fish right off the hook in an hour.
So I came up with the idea of a Rubber bait with scent inside it.
If anything bit hard enough to squeeze it, the squirted scent should draw a whole herd of Catfish.
One time I used some Baby Chicks for bait. The little fish ate all the feathers off the Chicks. They came up NUDE. But the Cat's didn't bite!
My idea is to get a scent on(actually inside) a rubber bait. Something the size of a small Rainbow trout. (they do make Rubber Herring for Halibut)
Shooting scent into a piece of rubber with a Needle/Syringe is messy! The density of the rubber shoots the 'stuff' right back out onto my hands.
So I thought maybe I could pull some thick Cotton threading through the Rubber bait.
The Cotton being soaked in Fish oil of some kind. The Thick Cotton strings are quickly replaceable.
Or better yet, I could put a whole wad of Oily Cotton up into a Cavity in the Rubber bait?
Making a cavity in the Rubber, filling it with something like cooked Rice, Beans or Pasta, Maybe Raw Oatmeal too, with the oil inserted might work. It sounds good anyway.
That Stuffing should hold the scent for a long time. Days even. Two or three 'leak' holes in the Cavity to help lure in the Cat's.
Using a Rubber Shad bait in the past, I got too many other kinds of fish. I finally left the point of the hook embedded deep into the rubber so the little fish wouldn't pester my set.
We very seldom lose a set down here. Not like fishing in Cook Inlet.
So let me know what you think. Maybe you might improve on my idea and go into the Business of Fish scent insemination.
Catfish are active (mostly) from Midnite to 4: Am.
You put out a long line about 10 PM and pick the lines sometime around first light.
They call it a TROT line down here.
I think you could do this for Fresh Water Ling's in AK. Better check the laws first though.
The little scrap fish will eat any bait fish right off the hook in an hour.
So I came up with the idea of a Rubber bait with scent inside it.
If anything bit hard enough to squeeze it, the squirted scent should draw a whole herd of Catfish.
One time I used some Baby Chicks for bait. The little fish ate all the feathers off the Chicks. They came up NUDE. But the Cat's didn't bite!
My idea is to get a scent on(actually inside) a rubber bait. Something the size of a small Rainbow trout. (they do make Rubber Herring for Halibut)
Shooting scent into a piece of rubber with a Needle/Syringe is messy! The density of the rubber shoots the 'stuff' right back out onto my hands.
So I thought maybe I could pull some thick Cotton threading through the Rubber bait.
The Cotton being soaked in Fish oil of some kind. The Thick Cotton strings are quickly replaceable.
Or better yet, I could put a whole wad of Oily Cotton up into a Cavity in the Rubber bait?
Making a cavity in the Rubber, filling it with something like cooked Rice, Beans or Pasta, Maybe Raw Oatmeal too, with the oil inserted might work. It sounds good anyway.
That Stuffing should hold the scent for a long time. Days even. Two or three 'leak' holes in the Cavity to help lure in the Cat's.
Using a Rubber Shad bait in the past, I got too many other kinds of fish. I finally left the point of the hook embedded deep into the rubber so the little fish wouldn't pester my set.
We very seldom lose a set down here. Not like fishing in Cook Inlet.
So let me know what you think. Maybe you might improve on my idea and go into the Business of Fish scent insemination.