Magic Bait

I stopped reporting all the small channel catfish I get on magic bait but the one last night was almost up to my 2 lb cleaning limit (probably was but I didn't weight it before I released it :) :)

AnyWho - I may make big magic bait for trotline tonight - since bream fishing is really slow this week and I haven't baited trotline very much (or very well - no good bait)

But one thing I'm beginning to prove (already knew it) - is that baiting the hooks every couple hours works best. I'm catching all these channel catfish after I re-bait just before I go to bed (usually around midnight) e.g. the turtles must be full or sleeping by midnight (or catfish have finally moved around more to find the bait) - in any case all trotline people know you should re-bait ever couple hours - after dark to improve your chance of getting a catfish and not loosing your bait but many (like me) are too lazy to keep going back to re-bait a trotline (read - I'm not so lazy I will not re-bait the yoyo's on my fishing pier - but do not re-bait the trotling :)