As i posted in the Catfish Fishing section, i've been trying to find a use of tuna fish juice in making dough balls for either catfishing or carp fishing. While i used corn meal mix, flour, veggie oil, buttered corn and honey along with the tuna fish juice. It didn't seem to attracted the carp to it. Several times i saw large carp swim by it and pass it up. On a very sunny day with a light wind, the water clarity pretty clear (for Nebraska), carp are usually swimming near the surface and in packs of 4 - 6 sometimes. After just having a large piece hanging on a hook about 12" from the bobber, just enough so i could visually see the bait in the water, like i said, carp would not touch it.

So i guess i will try a different recipe, more than likely one that does not consist of tuna fish juice and corn meal. They were either not interested in eating yesterday, or they didn't like the offering.

The difficult lesson was trying to keep the doughball on longer, as it would get soft in the water and fall off after 5 min. I usually rolled it up into the size of the golf ball and put it on there, left it out in the sun to dry out and that seemed to keep it on there much longer than just 5 min. The size of the dough ball was another concern of mine, i was starting to wonder if the ball was too big for them. But i don't know, these carp are well over 20". After the bobber didn't work, i tried taking it off and just letting the doughball sink to the bottom and see if that would work. Nope.

The bluegill and green sunfish seemed to like the pea size dough balls i was throwing into the water though.