Best bait for jug lines
 

What is the best bait for jug lines? Going to make some up for catfish.

Go to lake Charles poultry plant and get u 5# of chicken hearts. Put em in a bucket and throw u a couple packs of liver in there to make em real bloody and give it some stink. The. Bait wit da hearts. Catfish love chicken hearts and they stay on the hook good

grandpa uses buffalo, filet it then cut it in chunks. It stays on hook well if you hook through skin and if I remember right its kinda oily

we use shrimp or crawfish when they become available.

Catdaddy always swore by bream...I don't remember if they were cut bream or not though.

I believe they were live. Flatheads love live bream.

I'm gonna use live bream also

we always used live bream ......

We use live bream on trot lines. But if ur just lookin to catch some catfish hearts is the way to go. We use bream in Toledo bend for ops

I'm gonna try that td need to catch some catfish father-n-law wants some for the freezer

Where are u plannin on goin catfishin? When we jug the intracoastal and lake misere we fish hearts. Picked enough for a fry and a courtboullion last time
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These came from Toledo wit live bream and shiners
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other than live bream,cut bait is really good. Even did well with some chicken hearts marinated overnight in a lil garlic powder.

Bell city drain ditch, intercoastal, lake miere and maybe lacassine bayou

If it were me I would go wit hearts or cut mullet

What kind of setup do you have td? Jugs, noodles etc.

Heck, if you are going to Lacassine Bayou, just get there early. They will have a bunch of jug lines out for that run they are having. Pick up the fish and throw the jug back.
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But really beef hearts marinated in garlic is a good bait. And what is good about the garlic is that you can leave the hearts in it with a closed container and you don't have to freeze the hearts, just put them in refrigerator.

I just us water/Gatorade bottles wit about 12-16 inches of line. If u want u can use a weight to help em drift slower. I would hang the weight on the bottom and bring the hook up about 6" from the weight.

Put some whole gizzard shad on there

I have always used cut mullet in a hurry or bream if I had time to catchem

Cut mullet is good but the best is cut shad. U can't beat it. And IRS easy to find.