trot lines

[tracker4stroke]

going camping in a few weeks and i always put out a trot line but with no luck what do yall think would be good bait for this time of the year.

[Bubba B]

livers..............

[MrChickyBaBa]

bluegill or shad are both good choices. Where are you running them at? I usually start putting mine out about the first week of May depending on the river conditions.

[MsgMills]

Chicken strips soaked in Strawberry jello...Let them soak for at least 24 hours, catfish just love the taste for some reason.....Really works at Taylorsville I know for a fact.......

[djh480]

I am a jingleline nut myself and I bait with craws, nightcrawlers, and small bluegill. I dont start til May tho. Had some big cats on them bluegill. Ky river is where i do it.

[greenriverman1]

Put the lines out in May and June in rocky areas where the cats spawn. Bluegill is a good bait for flatheads and they can eat large bluegill without any trouble. I am also curious if anyone fishes the green river (not the lake)for cats?

Good luck,
DA

[tracker4stroke]

thanks for the info it is just one of those things you know when you are camping. i know it is early but you know how it is. thanks ya much i will be at green river

[RoadToad]

Chicken strips soaked in Strawberry jello...Let them soak for at least 24 hours, catfish just love the taste for some reason.....Really works at Taylorsville I know for a fact.......

I have no doubt this works, and I mean no disrespect at all, but... who the heck first came up with the idea of soaking chicken strips in strawberry jell-o, and was there alcohol involved?

[RoadToad]

I have no doubt this works, and I mean no disrespect at all, but... who the heck first came up with the idea of soaking chicken strips in strawberry jell-o, and was there alcohol involved?

Sorry, that just tickled my funny bone. Nobody else's, I guess...

[riverrat12]

I think it probably started in pay lakes as those fish have everything thrown at them...something different....not much luck with that in the Ohio...