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Live fish baits for catfish

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Live fish top the list of most enticing catfish baits, and with good reason. A catfish 24 inches or longer, regardless of species, sustains itself on a diet comprised almost exclusively of other fish. There simply are no better baits for trophy cats. Shad and herring. Throughout much of their range, large blue cats feed almost exclusively on shad, herring and other schooling baitfish. Channel cats and flatheads relish these baitfish, too. Catch these baitfish using a cast net, tiny jigs and sp ...

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