Cut Bait

Fishing this morning in the cold windy conditions of Lake Lanier. Wind was at about 14 mph and the air temp was in the 40s.

Using trout on free lines first, meaning I just rigged up the trout on the hook and let it swim, well it tuckered out and died. So, I decided to cut it up into sections and use it for cut bait on the bottom.

For this I used my 1/2 oz Carolina rig setup for bass that I bought from Cabelas a while back. Thought this would be ok for weighting purposes. I tied that into the main line and then a 2 ft leader of my main line along with a 4/0 circle hook on the end with a sliced section of trout.

Let the bait sit after casting it a long distance and letting it fall a good 15 to 20 feet.

Well it wasn't a striper that picked it up and made my line strip off my reel it was this big catfish! Enjoy the pictures.