Off topic: baiting catfish holes....

[duck38866]

I know several on here fish for cats at certain times of the year. Does anybody bait for them anymore? Is it even legal to do so?
I remember years ago people sinking dog food and such in burlap bags. Does anyone still make burlap bags? Haven't saw one in a long time.
Anyway, would love to hear what you use or someone you know uses and how they do it.
Thanks

["G"]

Cotton seed meal cakes in a grapefruit bag......works great. You can get the it at most feed stores.

[duck38866]

Cotton seed meal cakes in a grapefruit bag......works great. You can get the it at most feed stores.

How long would you sink it for before fishing around it? 6 hours, 1 day, 3 days, a week??

Would Trace feed in Tupelo have them cotton seed meal cakes? What about Scruggs? That's about the only feed stores I know of around the Tupelo area.....

[Speck]

Years ago when my boys were younger, I would go to the local feed store and buy a 25 pound bag of wheat for about $2.50. I'd pour about a gallon of wheat in a 5 gallon bucket then put enough water in it to cover the wheat seed. Let it sit in the sun for a few days until it soured. Then take it to a lake the night before I'd take the boys fishing and throw it out in an area we were going to fish the next morning. Didn't matter what kind of bait you used the next day. The cats were in there feeding and they were hungry!!! My boys had a ball and would catch a cooler full in no time. They thought I was a fish whisperer.

[Speck]

Sometimes it only takes an hour or two for them to hone in on it.

[scrat]

If you can't find the old timey cottonseed meal cakes. You can use what is called range cubes or cattle cubes. They sink like a rock. All you do is just throw them out where you want to fish for catfish later.

[Foxtrot68]

There is usually enough waste/spilled soybeans at any of the oil mills around. Fill a burlap bag with them and a couple of bricks, cut a few slits in the burlap bag and sink them. They rot in a day or two and swell and the cats love them. You can tight line around them for weeks.

[canebreaker]

Look for any spilled grain in your area. I get mine at President's Island in Memphis, corn, wheat, soy beans, milo. Fill a plastic shopping bag about half full and add water and tie it off, leave space. Let it sit in the sun for about week. Tie a brick to it, poke some holes in it and throw it overboard.

I get burlap bags in midtown, used coffee and cocoa bean bags.

["G"]

How long would you sink it for before fishing around it? 6 hours, 1 day, 3 days, a week??

Would Trace feed in Tupelo have them cotton seed meal cakes? What about Scruggs? That's about the only feed stores I know of around the Tupelo area.....

Moores in Pontotoc used to have it.....I have not bought any in several years. Tupelo Farm and Ranch might have it. You can weight it and sink it to the bottom or you can weight it and hang it from a tree limb and set the depth about half way down. I always wait two or three days before I fish it.

[stormcloud]

Check with Nimrod on the Arkansas chapter. He does it every summer. He also does guide trips to the sites he baits. He would know which bait was the most efficient.