Ok, The way we catch mudcats here is we let liver set out and get real ripe, making sure we save the juices to plop them in right before baiting the hook. With that in mind let's hold a piece of said rancid liver between thumb and palm when extending outstretched hands. Two things might happen: One. ya met a fellow mudcatter, two, folks will run fighting and screaming to get away from you and you'll probably wake up in an asylum.