Catfish Bait Challenge - Chicken vs. Cut Bait

that's a good fish that is a big fish it's a big big big fish hey Ferg stealer Mel Warren here getting out to the lake early sun's not even up yet do a little catfish bait challenge today we're gonna try some primo cut bait against chicken [Music] alright guys kind of dropped into water sometimes even up yet it's water temperatures about 64 nice and clear we've had those several days without any big heavy significant rainfall don't know where I'm going yet just gonna do some experiment in here see what's going on - what's going on with the wind probably do some drift and just try to cover some water and find fish that seems to be the best way to catch these fish here in the springtime it's just covering water dragon bait script and it's producing them produce them on watery this past week I got get my gear together here some baits in the water won't be anchoring up typically where I do I stick with my Santee rigs when I'm anchored I just take my drift and weights off these things are great for drifting these are made by bone pound or drifting sinkers I don't think they cast as good so I put some of these pencil weights from Dale's tackle on there you can use the pencil weight to drift into but I use those to anchor up the game today is going to be checking out how chicken performs against some really good cut bait so I'm gonna get these baits in the water we're gonna anchor up try to see what's in here see what we can put in the putting the boat we got some current flowing up here water looks about normal it's not muddy it's a typical stain color that it is up here I said we can catch let's get some bait to get some fish baits there get some chicken we got some super-secret cut bait alright let's get us some chicken out here we're gonna split it up anything across the boat here three on each saw but not some extra pieces there put that up pull out some chocolates cut bait here one two three will drop off this back in the cooler so it stays nice and chilled no rhyme or reason to how I'm putting these out here just gonna scatter them around I'm gonna try to mark them I've got some bait Betty's on the boat basically some little markers I can put out now one case a bag gets pulled off I know what's what one bottom little deep hole here I'm fishing okay we'll put these two side by side let's not see what let's mix them up here let's mix them up on this side all right guys we got a ride going this one is on cut bait I was just getting ready to make a move - she's getting ready to pull out of here I hadn't had a single bite had a few boats come by shot some drone footage it's like man this hole ain't workin I'm a hole hop I got fish pulling like a blue sea bring it around the anchor right feisty blue fastest sucker just not exactly one we're coming to bait right now oh my goodness is this what I think it is it's a channel cat Wow guys AC big mouth channel cat T well that's one way to get released that's a nice channel cat we don't get them that big anymore than I like nice one all right I may give it a few more minutes again I came on a piece of cut bait let's knock it back out there all right guys there's fish number one in the boat and they came on cut bait the bites not been on fire so I'm not taking away a lot from that I'm hoping to catch a few more fish hoping for a half decent catch rate I'm just trying some of these lunker spots to see if there's any big fish biting I'm gonna hold hop around that pier I'm gonna hit probably three or four different places several of these places there's a good chance of getting in channel cats blues flatheads there's a good mix up here and then we'll probably go out and do some drifting some Oakland water stuff just to see how everything performs out there but right now it's one night things cut beat that sucker is running we were in striper country that's where I had a striper guess what guys this one is on with chicken this is a chicken fish and it's a decent fish good blue berry dipping down underneath the bait this one is on chicken could be worse could be worse male blue cat we're tied up back in that one was on chicken believe it or not I'd downsize the chicken pieces a little bit after they got after and they fluttered up and they were pretty big so I got a more comparable to the other baits where he goes there he goes oh good pulling fish look up guys been here back I don't know 10 minutes first up and guess what it's on the chicken I'm not kidding and let's say good fish and that is on chicken you came to the top of the water I've got a smattering of them out a little mix other fact I think I bow got them split there maybe two chickens together and to cut baits together that's a good fish they've big angry male right there [Music] bugger grips always on the wrong side [Music] good get the dish big ol male oh yeah big angry male on the chicken anyway [Music] starting to get some color to him guys fish a lot of color nice fish on the chicken it's getting back it's three fish two of them will come on chicken oh I think we got one swimming off yep hook that boom pinky this one his own cut bait this is a cut bait fish just tightening up my anchors I saw this one rolling off boom he's got at least one other line better fish actually see one of my rigs hung up on the hung up on the line there up here clouded up real thick here I don't let this rains gonna get here quicker than I saw it or not I'm only sitting in about three feet of water right now yeah you've got same fish Oh dark Dartfish dark fish yes gasps good-looking blue dark color all right you've been back in the water it's a great fish love that dark coloration on like we might have a chicken back going unless he dropped it or he's swimming right at the boat yes women night at the boat coming right up through here huh boom small fish I think yeah a small Channel flip him in the bait bang them chicken takes the lead chicken takes the lead just getting ready to move in there about 45 minutes got to fish whole channel might give it another 10 minutes now put my 10 minute roll into a thick channel takes the lead that's 5 fish three of them I come on the chicken alright God there goes there it goes there it goes there it goes right there oh that's a good fish I think our leverage on that rod guess what guys chicken chicken chicken this is crazy I can't believe this is chicken this is the same rod we got one on a minute again I've got rods around and I'm gonna swap Rhys just for effect I'm going to recast one of these rods over there and see if there's something with that area the only thing is I've got rods right through there that are in the same area it's a big old dark nail - I just big that not as big let's get fish there another little turn the teens yeah good fish good fish can't believe this - good fish here another nice one yes nice and fish very life because I think we've got a fish going along for a ride here thing he is there I think it's a very small fish I'm going to nurse it in this one it's on the cupcake I can get it in here see if the cut bait can make a comeback I'm making a long trip down through here a very long pull across a big flat and let's feel like a channel cat trying to nurse it in fishing it like a walleye and this little channel captain over here lifting me boom hook better than I thought he wasn't going anywhere yeah I'm making a long pull through here channel cat some of the cut bait I'm gonna drift us all the way to the trees probably take me an hour to get across here and give me a good sampling not a good catch rate right now the like seems to be down for whatever reason and [Music] boom look at that second go slime cat rod and this one's on chicken chicken chicken I cannot believe a chicken that's gonna move into the lease chicken is gonna move stay in the lead actually chickens up I think four to three right now making a nice long pull across here the bite is not on fire today it's not horrible this will be fish number eight so it's not that bad but not exactly good I'm fish don't want to read the last couple of days and it's been a six fish and our catch rate so that kind of shows you I've been out here for six hours and I've only caught eight fish so funny not all lakes are equal at the same time changes transitions and my suspicion yeah that's just fishing it's a big fish good that is an excellent specimen perfect placement on that circle hook to the corner of the mouth roll them out after on the mouth you believe this this is a high teens I'm a piece of chicken there it is guys my teens on a piece of chicken what a good-looking fish eight fish well folks this last fish was a true giant it's a pretty long clip but I'm gonna let it play out in its entirety so you can see the entire battle with the fish from the start to the finish all right guys we got one second line here this one slammed it one of those you hear the line coming off it's his own cut bait hey maybe getting in some fish here see making a big long drag across the flat here he's fixing to be scattered that's what I could kind of tell this morning when I was oh it's a good Bend right there boys that's a that's a good fish that is a big fish that is a big fish drag that is a big big big fish that's a big fish I did not know how big that fish is but it is a very large fish just kind of going where it wants to go on back the drag off on this a little bit but this is a medium action rod this big kept fever right and I don't see it candy-cane over like this that much so play with this drag a little bit here this is a big fish see my seam on some more big fish trying to nurse this baby in y'all can see that rot what it's doing to it not seeing this fish yet taking my time got some loose drag on it I got this drag probably at about 8 pounds boats moving but I've got big drifts knock out kind of so he's flipping that tail around feels like a draft I'm in open water most of my brush and stuff is over that way that I would be concerned with and 20 feet of water I missed him on the net that fish the fight is more than the fish it's a big fish it looks like it's about 40 pounds can feel not quite high now doesn't quite have the power to dive like he did pigtail wish maybe bigger than I thought yeah I think he's bigger than I thought he was that's a big fish fish is big very big be starfish well folks if you made it this far thank you for watching please consider subscribing and here are a couple of more videos that I think you're gonna like [Music]

Channel: Dieter Melhorn Fishing

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Length: 27min 24sec (1644 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020