My personal favorite is either a bolt rig or a slip sinker rig. Share your favorite. Post some pictures of rig and fish caught on them!

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The rig in this picture is what I use...

I mainly use basically a  heavy Carolina rig.

slip bobbers

I use a three way swivel with 1ft of 12lb line out on one for a 1oz sinker and the other with 30lb braid with a circle hook and usually live shad or bluegill. Caught this 30lb Flathead using such method.

Depending on what type of water I'm fishing I either just tight line on the bottom with about eighteen-twenty inches of line between the sinker and the hook or use some sort of float or bobber.

50lb braid main line uni-knot'ed to 30lb. mono leader 16" to an Owner octopus hook. Always used live bait.

I mainly use basically a heavy Carolina rig.

x2.I have had alot of luck while using live perch with a large carolina rig.

Yeah this is a picture of one I caught a few days ago. ;D

Oh here's another question for all of you. What is your favorite bait? If you have some personal secrets, let us know. I will share one of mine. Of course I fish for bass more, so I have all kinds of lures and accessories. Something I like to do is dip the tail section of a piece of cut bait that I use in some of the garlic Dip n Glow. It gives it a pretty pungent garlic scent and also makes it a little more visible.

Plain and simple with this one....piece of fresh chicken liver on a 1/0 hook or live bluegill with a bullet weight.  Always fished on bottom.

whats the best way to keep the livers on the hook?  I always seem to have the livers fall off very quickly unless I using chicken gizzards

whats the best way to keep the livers on the hook? I always seem to have the livers fall off very quickly unless I using chicken gizzards

use a treble hook. you can also tie it on the hook.

whats the best way to keep the livers on the hook? I always seem to have the livers fall off very quickly unless I using chicken gizzards

put the livers in a 3"x3" piece of pantyhose(or other mesh like cloth) tie it up real tight by balling up the livers and tying up the excess material , trim the excess material , then put a good size circle hook thru part of the liver "ball" and you have a bait that will stay together and will stay on the hook !!! it is best to make a bunch of them before hand , then just keep them in a big ziploc bag , so you can bait your hooks really easy . also , the mesh material will hold some bait dip if you so choose 

put the livers in a 3"x3" piece of pantyhose(or other mesh like cloth) tie it up real tight by balling up the livers and tying up the excess material , trim the excess material , then put a good size circle hook thru part of the liver "ball" and you have a bait that will stay together and will stay on the hook !!! it is best to make a bunch of them before hand , then just keep them in a big ziploc bag , so you can bait your hooks really easy . also , the mesh material will hold some bait dip if you so choose   

Thats GENIOUS.  I would never have thought about doing that before, but that sounds like a problem solver.  Appreciate it

You're a Hokie?

I'm a Wahoo myself, or at least plan on being one. haha

Ha not sure I can condone any wahoo's but since you're a fisherman I will cut you a little more slack I guess

Likewise my friend   ;D

Trotline.

keeping chicken livers in the hook is easy.....just get some sewing thread and bait your hook with the liver....then wrap the sewing thread around the baited hook about 10 times....and its that simple 

The pantyhose trick is awsome, I have used it for a while now and very seldom do I loose my bait.

Infact there are many catches you can fish your bait back out of the mouth of the cat and re use it.

And my wife always has pantyhose (Before the fishing tirp).