Thread: Baiting holes

Originally Posted by bpatch

When I was a kid, my dad worked at a Safeway store. He would collect the unsold (stale) bread.
We put it in burlap bags, weighted it down, and dropped it alongside treetops (also weighted and down).
We did this at Lake Nimrod and would always limit out with 3 1/2 - 5 lb slabs...course that was 60 years ago.

-bpatch

You talking about Catfish? Never heard them called slabs.

Originally Posted by bpatch

When I was a kid, my dad worked at a Safeway store. He would collect the unsold (stale) bread.
We put it in burlap bags, weighted it down, and dropped it alongside treetops (also weighted and down).
We did this at Lake Nimrod and would always limit out with 3 1/2 - 5 lb slabs...course that was 60 years ago.

-bpatch

Must have gotten lots bigger in the old days. lol lol

I know that soured corn works great,but something else you can use without the smell or mess is range cubes available from your farm store about 10$ per 50lb bag I use them all the time! If you are fishing a good area it usually takes about 30 min. to start working. I throw them out by hand about a gallon jug at a time . Last week I went to and only baited one time and ended up with 31

If you don't want the smell, try Sweet 10 Horse feed for about 6.00 a 50# sack. Pour it in the water dry. Fish will get on a spot within a day, but more days you bait ,the more fish pile in if it's a good hole. I start with a bag and then 1/2 bag every day or two afterwards. Just open the sack and pour it over the side. It helps to throw handfulls out while your fishing every few minutes.

I use sweet feed, or some feeder corn. Let them sit in the sun in a bucket full of water and let it get right. The longer it sits, the better. When you bait a hole, you can't just throw it out and expect fish to come. You must put it in a place where catfish will be, a place with cover or a ledge and so on. Baiting a hole ever couple days is the way to go, and will pay off more the more you can keep the fish there. I do not have that luxury, its an hour to my favorite lake. So I will usually bait two or three spots first thing in the morning that I know will hold fish. Its takes a while sometimes, but it will bring them in. We have had some days catfishing I'll never forget doing this. Its trial and error like anything else, give it a try and it will pay off as long as you stick with it.

thanks guys

ok so i just filled a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 up with deer corn and covered with water and left it in the sun is there any thing else for me to do with it and how long should i let it sit in the sun. What kind of area should i dump it on

Originally Posted by finchaser4ever

ok so i just filled a 5 gallon bucket 3/4 up with deer corn and covered with water and left it in the sun is there any thing else for me to do with it and how long should i let it sit in the sun. What kind of area should i dump it on

Until you can't stand the smell, or your nieghbors start to complain. Dump it in an area you know holds fish.

thanks locator. Im also going to get some sweet feed also and give this a try. I love fishing for flat heads but would like to take the wife some times and she looses intrest real quick much like a 3 year old so im going to rig up my 13 ft bream busters with 12 pound test and small hooks and look foward to catching some.

how would this work on the big muddy? i always considered baiting, but figured the current would wash away the hours of work. perhaps behind a wing dyke, but in my experience, fishing is slow there except for little cats. does this work for larger blues or flats? i've considered going to the butcher shop and getting a barrel of beef waste and guts. put it in a gunny sack and weight it with rocks. i think this might work for big blues if I can get it to stay put in the currents blues like.