Catch Catfish - How to Free Drift for Catfish

I'll show you guys how to drift up some blues on the Ohio River hey everybody I'm Steve Douglas with Monster rod holders we're out here on the Ohio River today do a little free drifting for some blue cats I want to share with you the setup we're using I've got a seven and a half foot medium action rod spooled up with some 65 pound braided line we're using a basic Carolina rig six ounce weight tied to a swivel tied to a 50 pound monofilament leader with an a taut Gamakatsu hook might be pretty good oh yeah you a lot of fun we use a skipjack for bait today and I'm gonna show you how I like to cut it will cut that gut pocket out first and then I suck it up and I like the chunks better when I'm drifting is when you hook it in the top doesn't tend to spin it just kind of floats through the water I'm gonna show you how we put them on the hook right through the top just barely make sure you knock on any scales off so it doesn't get on that tip and lose the fish what you want to do just drop it straight down keep dropping it to that sinker it's all the way on the bottom see how the we've hit bottom there right there so now reel it up till my tip touches the pole reel a couple more times sticking the raw hold and this kind of free drift down till you running some blues now guys when you're drifting I like to kind of if I can we got a little current here I like to drift sideways that way I can give a larger path of baits offering to the catfish down there if you notice I've got my rods staggered this one's pointing straight out towards the boat just come over this one I pulled it in probably four foot less than the first one this third one here we jump across I'm going to put it about four foot away from this one and we jump back across this lines a little farther down four foot again so I like about these drifters bases on the monster rod holder you can quickly adjust them any which way you want so that you can do some staggering with your rods what we've got here we've got about a 24 foot swath I want to say going down the river with baits every 4 foot apart to hopefully catch a fish coming into it I'm just going to touch on the basics today to get you started but if you like this kind of information and want to read more about it you can visit my blog which is discover catfishing calm there's a lot of information on that about free drifting and much more discover catfishing calm look at that pointer move the load of fish on it that kind of effort we run it right through over I got another one going on here looky here oh don't you guys know this is a little bit better look at that face I like that plan we just run over top school fish you kiss me fish deep like this kind of thing to bring looks low they can decompress you see something coming up right now they don't do that no guy will put it back in isn't something freedom is very big boy they're right eight that never cleaned up I've got another one over here number four right here the same spot you got love this if you don't let Sun America again it ain't a big one thing loads are fine the most loved ah I think I don't fade off yeah bubble blowing big bellies pop tonight bring them up now without blowing me there's some where's the bubbles now we bring it on up there we bring it on up four poles all at once oh you gotta love this we're probably going to turn around go back up another couple hundred yards and come back and do it again when you're pulling these free drifts you really don't know what you're gonna catch you they come catch some catfish but unless you're targeting big fish these eight 10 12 pounders ain't even bigger I just fun to catch how much fun is this guys how much fun he's a good 10 pounder don't let him do the death roll with you get that hook enough gotta love it I don't Milan or something that was a big fish that was a big fish that's pot number twenty-two twenty-three we've got here just to live we're guess we're gonna call today I lost more people back here while go we didn't get that we'll come back tomorrow night and try to missable you

Channel: Steve Douglas The Catfish Dude

Views: 166,956

Rating: 4.9183674 out of 5

Keywords: fishing, catfishing, catfishing tips, catch catfish, blue catfish summer, river, Monster rod holders, big catfish, catfishing techniques, catfish rigs

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Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 02 2010