How To Use Live Bluegill For BIG Catfish

good morning folks whoo it's the last of April and it is cold here Tennessee Valley here and Alabama on Lake Guntersville we have experienced a lot of cold fronts unseasonable cold but today we're going to talk about catching catfish with live bluegill something I love to do matter of fact I'm going to set up right here at this little boat ramp and I have me some night crawlers and I need to catch about three dozen at least before we go to her home catfish home but it's something I love to do I love to use live bluegill for blue cat and flathead and channel cat I don't really care but it's a great way to fish and actually I'm fishing in the pre spawn period that's right as y'all know catfish are just like any other fish i pre spawn before they actually start spawning and that's what we're going do the water temperature is probably after all these fronts I'm going to say about 54 degrees on the surface right now that's a guesstimate but I bet you I'm pretty close but let's go over here and catch us some blow yield and let's get started woo the temperature like I said is about 32 degrees this morning it is cold it's just been one front after the next but I've already I'm already set up right here I'll show you what I've got right here I've got a bucket right here that I've made let's pull it out of here it's got a lot of holes in it and I've done caught one green sunfish in there okay he's kindly smile I want big ones but I'm just going to put that right there like that leave that lid open right here in our I caught that fish on a micro jig right here just a little tiny micro jig and I found them right here on top of the ramp on the slab right here this slab is holding he counted of the Sun in these little pan fishes in here I've got two sides to fish right here you know that slab that core concrete is holding heat so I'm gonna try to catch it least three does and I need three dozen if I don't get them here I'll need to get them somewhere else but this is fun right here just I'm using a micro grid one pound test line like I use for crappie flimsy rod it's fun just catching bait there's one yeah that's a pretty good size I want them bigger than that fine get them to target blues and a flathead you need some big bang okay folks here we are I didn't got my bluegill called I got them in my little bucket I'm gonna get down here and hook one up now I'm using this is a sick salt seagard circle hook I've got two kind of hooks with me now I'm gonna kick out I've got different sizes a bluegill I'm gonna pick you out let's see right here a smaller one for this six off here's one right here you see him very big so that's six all to take care of you now I'll hook them right here about right in here at the anal fin and I'm using a 1/32 ounce weight it's kind of a funny way of fishing 20 pound line but what happens is see I'm going to be fishing in about 10 to 12 foot of water in amongst a lot of rocks and the rig and the way I've got that bluegill hooked up if you'll watch he's gonna go straight to the bottom you see that just boom straight to the bottom and that little weight will encourage him to stay there he'll swim around but he'll stay on the bottom this bluegill here's a little bit small for big cat but a big catfish could grab you a lot of the rods completely different I got real heavy line on it 35 pound test try lean big-game what's not real heavy but it's heavy enough with a a top circle hook now use the big blue gills for it oh yes that bluegills just about on the bottom right now ir heels right there okay I got a clicker feature on this real it's an ambassador sixty-five sixty-five hundred s and just put it right here I like this real because it was sound off right here and I got it clicked over so when I get a bite you'll hear art and that's what we want right here I had to move on in a different place because they simply wasn't any fish on the other side and I apologize for the wind no is this reason I started off like I did but I got a big fish right here I'm going to chase it down the bank no doubt gotta get some light on taking drag I mean he's burning drag off of there I mean that's nothing dude nothing at all and I have a rod down to the bank Oh out I wished it was up out of the way maybe he won't head that way but it looks like he's going to okay he's heading that way I'm gonna have to go with him you see I don't have any choice I don't have a better choice I just hope you don't get wrapped up in here there he is he's on top of the water again rolling twists and he's doing everything he can to get out which I don't blame you but yeah he's hitting that way I will go with him lord have mercy what if I get myself into I got a huge fish right here look I got a video hi what a blue blue this is a big and I got to be real careful right here I'll lose you master all that and I don't want to do that oh my goodness let me just sit here just a minute I don't give out alright let me get that sick salt circle hook got that circle hook out there I'll tell you what [Music] let's see if that fish are going now her she goes oh I'm panting because I've been running up down this hill I don't know what that fish why he'd get bottled 50 pounds scale out so I almost couldn't do it that was pushing the limits right there I need you to lot heavier line but let me go back over here and watch to see if we can't catch us another one hook that hook right there still sharp now it's just one of them them cheeping and get them at Walmart there a girl owl hoots called Seaguar this is like I said a six all right here they're cheap lasers on sale for a dollar forty four pack I bought me four packs of them but they are they're like light hook with the real sharp right here I mean real sharp that one's still sharp even after that yeah yeah yeah Oh Leo we're downtown cops I'm interning hands the other day those pretty good news too I'll take them yeah a five gallon bucket pull them whoo this rod right here bowed over I'm talking about this rod bowed over I hope that fish is still there he is he's easing off right here and I got a big bait on here I'm gonna let him have it just a little bit our guarantee mmm all right here's the tail of the tail all right we got the fish he ain't big that blue not at all of course I got a big rod here that steel now I got this other one going off the sadly hey Jimmy I believe this is probably a flathead pulling like a small flathead we'll see yeah I want a flat head okay that's why I love the kitchen my target leads all the time I used to target them all but I mean a lot like in a boat these bluegill look here what a fish yeah okay how we're gonna land him he's laying it okay good here oh what a flathead oh let's check it out what a fish now that's a good one we're gonna let this one go okay let's go here and put this big boy back in the water Oh watch him swim offer get back other way boy no that's a powerful fish that fish right there I mean it fooled me I knew it was a pretty good flathead but I didn't know it was that big I mean it didn't start a fight until it got right up next to the bank and then then it got rough you never know that's another thing why fishing is a sport second to none okay see that alert over Elmo that thing right there's a living you I'm fixing the writing he's watching me watching the stream here so you hearing scream paint a poop all over these rocks in here then things a stain too late all fish up hey chica boom boom boom Chicka Boom Chicka Boom Boom Boom whoo [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Richard Gene The Fishing Machine

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Keywords: catfish, catfishing, catfish fishing, catfishing from the bank, catfishing tips, catfish fishing tips and techniques, catfish fishing tips, catfish fishing with bluegill, catfishing with live bluegill, catfish fishing bait, catfish fishing from the bank, blue catfish, flathead catfish

Id: 4OGOkSCsx_4

Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 22 2018