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River Renegade · #1 05-18-2016, 08:53 PM

Good luck tonight hopefully you brought tons of chicken livers for those cats!

Delawareriver · #2 05-18-2016, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by River Renegade

Good luck tonight hopefully you brought tons of chicken livers for those cats!

If your using livers or other typical channel cat baits you will not catch flatheads consistently if ever. They like live bait 90% of the time with fresh cut fish taking a few fish as well

River Renegade · #3 05-19-2016, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Delawareriver

If your using livers or other typical channel cat baits you will not catch flatheads consistently if ever. They like live bait 90% of the time with fresh cut fish taking a few fish as well

Flatheads do go for livers/other channel cat baits. My friend has caught them using those. And i was with him fishing, plus taking his pic.

Jigman13 · #4 05-19-2016, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by River Renegade

Flatheads do go for livers/other channel cat baits. My friend has caught them using those. And i was with him fishing, plus taking his pic.

Lol

Pics or it didn't happen!

Livers would never be my go to bait in any River system. The eels and smaller fish would demolish the bait constantly. with a 5-6" bluegill or rock bass only something substantial can really get that down the ol hatch.

Delawareriver · #5 05-19-2016, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by River Renegade

Flatheads do go for livers/other channel cat baits. My friend has caught them using those. And i was with him fishing, plus taking his pic.

When you catch 30 flatheads in one night then I will say that's consistent. I've caught probably close to a thousand flatheads on the delaware and Schuylkill and every single one was on either live bait or cut bait. Yes I've heard of one here or there caught on odd things but typically they are the less than 5lb skippers. Never heard of a 30-40lbers caught on anything but live or cut bait

FASTEDDIE29 · #6 05-19-2016, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Delawareriver

When you catch 30 flatheads in one night then I will say that's consistent. I've caught probably close to a thousand flatheads on the delaware and Schuylkill and every single one was on either live bait or cut bait. Yes I've heard of one here or there caught on odd things but typically they are the less than 5lb skippers. Never heard of a 30-40lbers caught on anything but live or cut bait

Truth!!!! No livers here! Bleh! Nothing but schoolie Stripers, Channels and Eels on that crap! Live bait, cut bait! YEA BUDDY! I CANT WAIT TO GET BACK TO THE BIG RIBBER.................

Andrushkin33 · #7 05-19-2016, 01:35 PM

I agree

Live bait or go home. On another hand I knew I was hoarding dem trout for something.

Andre

jmurr711 · #8 05-20-2016, 07:26 PM

I need to catch a flathead

DRiverRat · #9 05-19-2016, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by River Renegade

Flatheads do go for livers/other channel cat baits. My friend has caught them using those. And i was with him fishing, plus taking his pic.

I love this sh*t !!!!!!!!!!!!! We got a ?newbie? a**hole telling the pros how to catch flatties. Hahaha This forum can turn to crap real fast like that.

Delawareriver · #10 05-19-2016, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by DRiverRat

I love this sh*t !!!!!!!!!!!!! We got a ?newbie? a**hole telling the pros how to catch flatties. Hahaha This forum can turn to crap real fast like that.

Easy now, I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else or other guys don't know how to catch fish but as Forrest Gump would say

"I may not be a smart man, but I know you don't use liver when fishing for flatheads"