How to rig live bait in river's

[rockbass]

That was last year....haha
Like I said, I don't say it's the right way, but for most of the river areas I fish, it works the best for me. Sometimes in slack water areas i'll go with a tail hook, but with as many channel cats as I have hit live baits in the river, I end up tearing the baits off more times than I wanna count. At least when a channel short strikes a gill the way I usually do it, I'll at least get my bait back and know what happened instead of the what if's.

[Varmint_Sniper]

Rock......with all this rain i might try to slip to the lake sat night and try for some flatheads a a bigger channel for the online tourney just hope the weather hold's out for sat?

[Smoothkip]

Ive never really had problems with baits dying in the river other than the dead of summer when the water temps are real high. I usually run big baits in the river to deter the channelcats and smaller flats. I hook all my big baits up through the bottom lip and out thrugh the nose and smaller baits through the back right behind the dorsal fin. I believe if you having baits die soon your hooking them to deep. You might just not be taking care of your bait well enough also.