Will Chicken Really Catch BIG Catfish?

[Music] [Music] do in my early catfishing days i i was like everybody else you know go to the grocery store get some chicken livers put it on a hook i fished hard religiously and uh to be honest with you i never caught anything over about eight ten pounds on chicken liver well later on you know i discovered shad skip jack that's when i finally started getting my big fish that's when i finally became a catfisherman and uh all my biggest fish and uh you know i've caught some big ones came on skipjack usually the headpiece and uh you know as far as in the tennessee river system i was a believer in skipjack fresh skip jack uh fish eat other fish i kept hearing these stories you know about guys using chicken breasts it became big in these pay lake i always knew about that and they were mixing this strawberry jell-o crap kool-aid and stuff in it and i've seen guys doing this stuff i seen guys around tennessee that use chicken because they didn't know how to throw a cast net and they always said man you ought to use chicken you ought to use chicken but i'd look on their facebook page and they didn't catch any big fish on it you know of course uh they're fishing like a lot of people fish they're cutting these little bitty pieces and throwing it off a dock you know so to me chicken was no different than chicken liver how could it be any different you know well as time went on i got into youtube uh you know i became friends with billy claibo pam fish bill at the time uh fishing with billy now he was good friends with joe jealous of chat cats and they'd done quite a few trips together so uh i noticed one time joe had caught a 50 pounder on chicken now he caught this fish below watts bar dim which watchbar dam's a way better place to fish than where i'm at here in knoxville so i'm thinking you know lucky catch old duder melhorn was putting out videos right and left about chicken he was throwing these small pieces on there 15 rods out the back of the boat dragging up and down the lake and he was catching fish on it and i think one day he caught a fish around the 30 pound range on it you know i'm still not convinced that this can be as good or any better than what i'm using for bait skip jack to me is the king of bait around here so i kept fishing for my skip jack and i just dismissed it well after a while i noticed a guy tagging dieter melhorn this guy landed a 75 pound blue cat at a sandy cooper reservoir sandy cooper cooper's the mecca of catfishing so here again i'm not too concerned because there's a lot of catfish in sandy cooper you know sooner or later one's going to eat a piece of chicken you know if you do it enough well i got into this argument with this guy on facebook you know he's my age half my size he's going to meet me up at the catfish conference and beat me up because of my theory on chicken not being a real bait for big catfish to me these guys were making these videos for click bait you know lower the masses lower the crowd for views uh preaching false information so i set out i finally got tired of it and i set out to debunk the myth about all this chicken breast nonsense yeah i'm going to get a number three original recipe uh dark meat what's your drink uh shoot i don't need a drink uh can i get some well [ __ ] can i get some of them fries sure thing that's all i need dag blasted chickens expensive anymore old cheap bird you think you're buying gold eight dollars for a few pieces of dark meat some fries i mean you can buy a whole 20 pound bag of potatoes for six bucks i paid eight dollars and some change and got about 20 cents worth of food what are you doing bud going to chase fish [Music] thank you sir [Music] y'all i haven't went to the grocery store for catfish bait for many many many years i used to do it back in the days when my biggest catfish was eight pounds but i'm fixing to do it again all for this video not sure how much i want to spend money on chicken that i'm not even gonna eat but i guess i'll do it for the sake of this video [Music] well my yeti cooler is still in the boat but i can tell you that i'm awful broke because this jag-blasted chicken breast [Music] was 15.94 for a pack of tyson chicken breast you got to be kidding me [Music] i mean you can get two large skipjack but big fish outfitters for that price and you got real bait fifteen dollars nine dollars i got twenty four dollars in chicken i hope i get a lot of views on this video to help me pay for that chicken i've got some skipjack i've got some gizzard shad but i'm going to try to catch a little [Music] more [Applause] [Music] well that chicken leg right there was about three bites for what i paid for that that's about a dollar a bite that foley spoon right there is only about three dollars i can catch hundreds of skipjack on that foley spoon [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] whoa i caught that skipjack way quicker that i went in that grocery store and bought that chicken three dollars for the foley spoon and i even got my spoon back to catch another [Music] about five minutes of fishing and i've already got as much skipjack as i do [Music] chicken [Music] wow [Music] and for your information it was a lot funner catching this skip jack than it was parking my truck walking a couple hundred yards into that grocery store paying 15 for some bait that i really ain't got much faith in and to beat it all the old gal that rolled me up was dog ugly this is much funner right here another good thing about using natural bait fish for bait is you can catch them right where you're catfishing you don't have to make a separate trip all fish including the bait fish live in the water we've officially got as much skip jack as we do tyson chicken so i'm gonna go ahead and go with that get set up before dark [Music] do [Music] i'm not gonna do like these other guys do because i know most people are interested in big fish so for one i didn't go through the trouble of the strawberry kool-aid crap that people puts on it and number two i'm gonna run a fairly thick piece fairly good-sized piece to attract a bigger fish i mean after all that's what lures people to catfishing in general as far as channels like mine is the fact that they're interested in the bigger fish so we got a pretty good sized chunk of chicken breasts going on there and we're going to see what happens well we've got skipjack on the left chicken breast on the right we're gonna sit out here a few hours and see who wins this fight i'm putting my money on the skipjack things started to turn sour next thing you know i was hung up having to break my line that dude's hung up suspending this must be a nasty spot now i can tell you that i have seen catfish caught on chicken joe jellison of chat cats uh he likes to freeline chicken in the summer in the after spawn uh below watts bar damn he has caught a 50-pounder blue cat free-lining chicken that was the biggest fish i had heard caught on chicken for a few years until recently a guy over in sani cooper boated a 75 pound blue catfish on chicken here again it was during the warm water period as far as chat cats joe jellison you all seen me go down there and as soon as it got dark i boated an 82 pounder and i left that's what i refer to as the magic kingdom down there as far as the tennessee river you start getting chickamauga and nickajack basically it's what fort loudoun used to be in the 1980s they still got some fish how long that'll last i don't know people go making videos down there everybody flocks to it as far as sani cooper reservoir man i've always heard of santa cooper reservoir sani cooper reservoir was the very first catfish mecca i mean that's where everybody went to to catch catfish if you were after trophy catfish people for years and years and they still do travel from states around to fish sani cooper reservoir the catfish are stacked you don't even have to wear a life jacket in sandy cooper and you don't have to be able to swim because you can literally walk on water because the catfish are so thick in sandy cooper reservoir so when a guy says he fishes all summer and sandy cooper and he caught a few cats on chicken well there's so many catfish in sandy cooper and this guy's dragging baits all up and down the lake with planer boards that fish just could have been sitting there with his mouth open and that bait went right in it because the guy is covering so many miles so many hours with them planer boards and baits with 15 rods out the back of the boat another youtuber promoting this chicken is old hi folks dieter melhorn here uh you know he's doing the same thing he's got 15 rods out the back of his boat and he's dragging this reservoir up and down up and down and i don't think of it i think one time i seen him catch a 30 pounder on chicken usually it's fish that really aren't big enough to flow fort loudoun is not the catfish mecca it's not the magic kingdom but there are some catfish here and where i'm at now there should be some near that old bird over there he's upset because i'm using another bird for bait hey shut up bird dag blasted bird what i don't like about handling this raw chicken is if i go to grab me any snacks my hands are now facing possible salmonella contamination raw chicken is notorious for salmonella and i have got it all over my hands so i have to be conscious of that anytime i go to eat or drink something that's never been a worry with me using fresh skipjack or gizzard shad i've never heard of anybody getting sick handling fresh skip jack or gizzard chad there are plenty of dead people from raw chicken last time i checked being dead wasn't good for you hard to catch fish when you did hard to do anything for that matter skip jack on the left chicken on the right both baits are relatively the same size and weight so they can be considered a comparable bait i mean if i catch a 50 or 70 pounder on this chicken tonight i ain't gonna complain i just can't believe it's as good as this skipjack a sandy cooper rig is simply a catfish leader with the float on it to suspend the bait off the bottom two rods will skip jack two rods with chicken one smells like fish the other is finger licking my money's on the skipjack i get reset up get everything all tied and then i hang up two more lines all right y'all both of them suspended baits are hung up well i'm getting frustrated now so i pull anchor and i move upstream several hundred yards into the mouth of this creek because i don't want any more problems i'm trying to make a video here you know i got this chicken i got this fresh skipjack and uh you know i need to get this done so i get set up on this other spot get everything re-tied baited up and i keep seeing these storm warnings on my phone now when i had went out there was hardly any chance of rain so sure enough i look at my radar and these storms are almost right on me here i am a couple miles from the ramp out there in the dark with no bills bump holy geez i've got a bunch of thunderstorms moving right in on me like right this second and uh man you got to be kidding me sure enough and i'm a i'm a good ways from the ramp so i head on back to the ramp i'm frustrated now i've got this great video started you know i'm out here to set the record straight to debunk the myth i need a video myself i'm a youtuber i pull up to the ramp and there's old justin johnson of kayak catfish me and hims friends we sat out there and talked a good hour so yeah i'm getting rained out man it wasn't supposed to rain tonight and if you look there's a whole load of stuff on the way after a while he pulls out his phone and said man this rain's going around us he showed me the radar and sure enough it had just split and right where we were standing it had went all around east west up north and just soaked everything well he went down the road and i got in my truck and it was late and i was kind of depressed you know that i was going to have to go out the next day to finish this video as i got to thinking about it i've had so much trouble with weather and video making this year i realize you cannot depend on the weather i said well it's not supposed to rain tomorrow but they said that about tonight i said if it's clear i need to go somewhere tonight and finish this video so i headed south to wattsbar reservoir i'm in a lot better situation here i've got good water flow so i've got all four rods going out my boat is staying nice and straight i am determined to find out if chicken's any good for bait i'll sit here a while i'll sit here and wait my videos are about information not click bait my opinion this is all a bunch of click bait using cluck bait it's 11 30 p.m looks like it's gonna be a late night i hope it's a decent bite i've got four rods out but i've really only got faith in two of them and that's the ones with the skipjack on it as far as a big fish now i know chicken can catch fish i've seen it happen but i'm convinced it's not the best bait to use oh that's on chicken that's on chicken [Music] that's on chicken believe it or not [Music] believe it or not that's on the chicken [Music] i got a lot of lines out here this is going to be kind of a hassle getting around the boat this is on chicken [Music] first fish of the night blue catfish on chicken [Music] i was here maybe 10 minutes for that fish [Music] oh my god [Music] there she goes there she goes chicken [Music] it's on [Music] not a big fish by any means but it is on the chicken same rod making me wonder if it's a depth thing [Music] i'm not even going to use the net on this one we're just going to power him in the boat a little old blue kit [Laughter] [Applause] [ __ ] there goes the chicken again there goes the chicken again that fish is pulling dragged that fish is pulling drag [Music] that fish is pulling drag on the chicken same rod i've actually got the skipjack through out to the right this time that head just to see if that's what it is because all three of these fish have come on the same rod this is obviously a bigger fish here [Music] brothers [Music] it's obviously a bigger fish and it is a respectable it's not a bad fish at all [Music] do [Music] he's still pulling drag uh i see it it's a respectable fish come on come on up he ain't wanting to give up we got you buddy oh yeah yeah golly wiper status right there boys i know people are gonna want some weights just out of curiosity 41.8 so i traded places the skipjack rod is now on the right because it's going the most towards the right i'm trying to see if it was the actual positioning of the bait or the bait all three fish have come on chicken all three fish were on that same rod either way no matter what the position they did come on chicken including a 41 pounder you can't deny that it's right here on film dag blasted dog hey shut up dawg stupid dog chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken just got nailed it did get hit though and this time the chicken rod is where the skipjack rod was same position obviously a smaller fish that's just the lucky rod tonight there he goes again oh shoot he's on at that time number four on the chicken this ain't the first one that fit this one's a bit bigger here i don't think it's no 41 pounds [Music] but it don't feel like no dink not a bad fish not a bad fish [Music] my net is caught up here you gotta be kidding me [Music] i'm having trouble doing this nick ah my net was caught on my so [Music] do [Music] it's not a bad fish there he's over fish is close to 30 i'd say it's a long fish long fish yeah yeah not a bad fish it sure ain't [Laughter] same rod this is the lucky rod tonight now i'm not doing this old strawberry chicken garbage and jell-o chicken garbage i sure don't believe in that just putting on old plane tyson chicken breasts and so far chicken four skip jack zero surprise in me i might have salmonella after all this but i'm catching fish somebody needs to give that dog a bowl of antifreeze dag blast there goes the chicken there goes the chicken same rod man did he come off no he's on there small one y'all wondering about how big a hooks you should be using on blue cut see how small that fish is that's an 11 hot mustad demon catfish can eat pretty good sized bait chicken five skipjack zero [Music] well i'm well i'm convinced these fish will eat chicken i'm limited on uh camera card time here i've got about an hour left so since i've seen a couple good fish on the chicken and that skipjack head's been sitting out here since i've been here about two hours and since i've caught five fish on the chicken i'm gonna switch out that skipjack head and i'm gonna put a big piece of chicken on there [Music] putting the whole chicken breast on i had my sonar on and wasn't thinking about it but now i've heard that sonar can spook catfish and those two rods are straight below uh my depth finder there so don't know if that's had anything to do with it or not i just turned it off we are no longer using the skipjack i haven't had a bite on it so now i've got three rods with chicken and one with the gizzard shed i've done established that blue cat will eat chicken and even a 30 and a 41 pounder will eat chicken so see what happens this last hour i'll pay five hundred dollars for anyone that can bring me that dog's head on a platter that bite was on chicken he didn't stick but it was on chicken obviously a dinky fish uh oh uh oh old chicken breast oh shoot sounded like he about broke the rod holder man that's the whole chicken breast it seemed like about broke that rod holder another big fish man i'm gonna get these other rods out of the way [Music] i think i am [Music] he started peeling drag [Music] okay [Music] all right [Music] it's a good fish [Music] i don't know if he's as big as that 41 or not he's a good one though [Music] there he is [Music] feisty fish [Music] do [Music] whew [Music] hmm i don't think he's as big as the 41 man but he hit hard he's a nice fish he could be we'll see here in a minute come on up it's hard to net these fish in this current by yourself come on up oh [ __ ] um i need a shorter rod or a longer net get in there i don't know he might he might go around 40. he's got a lot of girth you see all these guys using this chicken breast and they're throwing on these little pieces man soaking it and kool-aid and all this garbage jell-o and putting on these little pieces i'm like if i try this i'm going to use some real size pieces man this one here was on the whole chicken breast the way i look at it is it's not a good bait if it's not a good big fish bait and big fish like big baits this one weighs 40.8 so it's one pound less than the other one yo there it is a couple of 40-pound class fish a 30-pound class fish some dinks all on chicken breasts well people that's good enough for me it's something i wanted to see i've been hearing about it i've seen guys on videos catch them uh you know had to see it for myself i laughed at it at first but out here tonight it was the only thing that could get a bite several hours out here after a little bit of a rough start several dinks a 30-pound class fish two 40-pound class fish hey i'm a believer fifteen dollars and something for the bait i used half of it considering the night i had hey that was worth 15 bucks i got some fresh skip jack i'll trade somebody for some chicken breasts [Laughter] [ __ ]

Channel: Catfish Dave

Views: 156,624

Rating: 4.8644643 out of 5

Keywords: Catfish Bait, Blue Catfish, Fishing, Fort Loudoun, Watts Bar, Skipjack, Chicken For Bait, Santee Cooper Resevoir, Dieter Melhorne, Kayak Catfish

Id: QD4owAdLVC4

Length: 52min 30sec (3150 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 27 2020