Chicken livers

Does anyone have any good tips on keeping chicken livers on the hook? I have a lot of trouble keeping it from flying off during the cast.

its kinda like hooking worms, i usually just try to put the hook through the liver as many times as i can.  i've also tried freezing the entire container of livers, then just cutting off a chunk and putting it on the hook while its still frozen, seems to work well.

stupid question will the fabric and panty hose stay with in the fish or will they spit it out later on i dont wnana harm them or killt hem any on ever have a issue with that

I vote for magic thread and a small treble hook!

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I vote for magic thread and a small treble hook!

wrap the hook first

well i was thinking that if they swallowed the hook and it was still on the hook and you had to cut line that. per say. i did not knwo if anyone ever had them say die form it i guess i shoudl of better explained

chickenliver in ur chew definately doesnt enhance flavor

Freeze your liver....I mean freeze your chicken livers.If you freeze them they "seem" to get tuffer.It's all relative when you talking about slimy livers.They seem to stay on the hook durn the cast better.Don't try to hook them while their froze soiled, but 1/2 froze works best.Get yourself a good treble hook (size 1-2)large enough to get like 1/2 an liver on.Now lob cast this set up where you want.Often you'll get some of your liver back (connective tissues,etc) just bait over this til it builds up enough you'll want to clean your hook.When you do reel in, the liver that does fall off becomes a good chum line... 

when using fresh chick livers carefully cut a nice chunk off with a sharp knife  gently hook it and don,t try to cast across river it will stay on liver will turn to mush if you just try to hack a piece off and try to run the hook through it half doz times  I used liver for 40 yrs only problem i ever had dinks steal bait ocasanally  

Use circle hooks in the 2/0 range and stick the hook threw it a couple times but dont make it mush an dont throw it hard.I fish without any weight and can throw about 40 yards with a good piece.

use a long shank hook and snell it near the bend with the line passing through the eye, put your liver on the hook and pass some through the space provived by your line. cinch tight and cast, or make "nut sacks" with netting ala egg sacks.

I just put half a tub of liver in my blender and made juice out of it. I poured in salt, a touch of garlic and a whole 3-4oz bottle of Berkly Gulp fish attractant.  Stir it up and then thicken to a sticky paste with flour. 
 
It was my first attempt at making dough bait and I smashed the catfish with them.  My average soak time was one third of my best day ever!! 
 
Total cost of the dough bait was around $4, and I had like 4 cups or more.  That will last WAY longer than even 2 or 3 tubs of regular liver. 
 
I believe the pureed liver has a much stronger scent trail and the flour will allow it to "time release".  The fish attractant adds a hefty dose of "cut bait" odor to it.  I could not be more pleased with how well it worked, considering I have never even gotten a bite on the 5 different packaged dough baits that I have tried.

I really didnt have too much trouble.  I was using a treble hook with a spring on it, a "dough bait hook".  I wasn't super impressed with the hook b/c I got snagged a couple times,  but if you wrapped the dough around the spring, it stuck well enough to cast it as far as I wanted. 

The next time I go, I will try to use a single hook and see how it works.  My longest stretch between fish was a 5 minute soak time and at that point, about half my dough was disolved.  I dont mind rebaiting frequently with the dough though, because the ball is small, about the size of a grape, and half a tub of liver, mixed into the dough makes ALOT more bait than just a tub of liver.

I hate losing liver b/c there aren't that many in a bucket and one liver can fill up a smaller fish, probably.  The bait goes alot further, with better success it seems, when it is in dough form. 

I made up a concoction similar to Hillbillies (What a gooey mess!!) I wrapped a wad in sacing material and when I hook it up I use a minnie threading needle. Tie a loop on the end of the line, hook it in the eye of the needle, run it thru the wad of gunk, put on a treble hook and cast away. Seems to work pretty well.