Reddit mentions of Team Catfish TC97Q Dip Bait Treble

I'm just gonna add personal tips/ideas based on my 10+ years of fishing experience. Just a small warning I haven't fished a whole lot of different areas just local stuff so my range of experience isn't "huge"

Okay, patience is the biggest thing. I've let my pole sit for two hours before moving it or reeling it in. You gotta let it sit there much longer than 10 minutes.

For baits, any live or fresh cut bait is amazing. I use bluegills, shad, and ESPECIALLY skip jack if i can get my hands on it. I also use chicken liver, cherry garlic hot dogs (literally take a pack of hotdogs cut them in to 3 or 4 pieces put 2 packs of cherry jello and a bunch of garlic powder in the bag and shake it up) Raw shrimp with the shell and tail still on, occasionally chicken liver, and you can't go wrong with a night crawler from time to time.

Also I HIGHLY reccomend secret 7 from team catfish. It slays catfish no matter what. It just smells extremely bad, so if you have a strong enough stomach I'd use it. Heres a link to the bait and here's a link to the hooks I use with it personally I don't like using treble hooks so I swap those out for a size 6 circle hook and take a sponge and cut it up into squares and add that to the bottom of the hook to soak in a little bit of extra secret 7.

Weights wise, it depends on the river. The rivers I fish here aren't too strong so I can get away with a half ounce sinker. I use egg sinkers with a split shot about 16-18 inches away from my hook with a small bead in between the splitshot and my hook to protect my knot incase the split shot breaks or comes off. I'm not too experienced with stronger rivers but the biggest tip I have there is don't cast against the current

As for fishing with floats, i do not recommend it for catfish unless you're on a lake or a pond. It doesn't really work with catfish in rivers. However if you do I recommend using slip bobbers so you can adjust the height that the bobber will hold and it's a lot easier to cast than a normal float.

Fishing line: I have one pole with 25 pound test and a second with 40. You don't really need to go higher than 25 to be honest because in the event that you hook into a fish bigger than that you're gonna spend some time fighting it and wearing it out anyways so you just have to be patient and use your drag to your advantage.

That's all the basic stuff I can think off the top of my head, I'm about to go fishing myself so feel free to ask me any questions and when I get back I'll answer them to the best of my ability!