My wife was fishing this weekend and hooked a nice channel cat. After about 2 or 3 minutes of battle, the line went slack. She reeled in and firmly attached to the hook, beside the chub she was using for bait,was a deermouse.Apparantly the cat had swallowed the mouse during the nite and also swallowed the chub on her line. Instead of the hook grabbing the cats inards, it hooked the mouse and, during the fight,both were pulled from the catfish's stomach. Saw that once before ,15 years ago, with a smallmouth and a baby grey squirrel. At least she knows where a hungrey channel cat lives now....WF

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Cool! Would loved to have seen her face when she realized what she had on the hook!

I will have pics...WF

Thats is great! Haha! Watched a squirrel get gobled by a sky up in NY once.

I used mice for bait a few times in the past, mostly for muskys. I bought a few at the pet store "snake food", tied a worm hook on, then used superglue along the belly of the mouse to put the hook on. I lobed it out against the dam wall and waited it out.  The mouse would swim along the wall until a musky or bass took it out. Worked almost every time. Kinda cruel but was always a sure bet for a big bite.

When I was a kid of 8 or 9 back in the late fifties...
my parents, brother, & I went to Port Loring, Canada.
Stayed in a cabin on an island for a week My Uncle Harold
wired live Baby Ducklings to his line and caught some huge Muskies & Pike early AM & PM.
Mike

I think its a great idea. I've used pinkie mice for ice fishing.

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agreed, it is cruel.... and stupid..

use a lure...

It's not like the musky isn't going to eat something alive anyhow. What's cruel about it?

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agreed, it is cruel.... and stupid..

use a lure...

 
Is it then cruel to use minnows?  How about millworms/wax worms?