Good experience with commercial Stinkbait?

Has anyone had any luck with the commercial stinkbait purchased at a local baitshop / wally world?

I purchased some Premo Super Sticky Original (Cheap kind from Wal-Mart) the other week and used it on some cats one night with a friend. We caught about 6 in 3 hours. The lake we fish gets lots of fishing pressure and that was the best luck we have had in awhile.

Since I had such good luck I decided to purchase some of the expensive 'Secret 7' that's all the rave lately and give it a shot the past weekend. We didn't have crap for luck compared to the cheap stinkbait I purchased, we didn't even get a bite.

I have googled alot of catfishing tips, and ran across people using cut bait more than anything. Which we haven't tried.

Anyone have any experience with these stinkbaits, or have some general tips?

Don't give up on the secret 7. Its a good bait. Cut shad and skipjack is a good cut bait. You might want to try some shrimp soaked in garlic powder a couple of days. Don't be shy on moving to different spots on the lake or rivers you fish.

try cherry chicken or cherry shrimp its good stuff....eating size will tear it up

I will try those ideas, we had tried chicken liver and night crawlers with no avail that night and decided to try the cheap Premo. To our surprise the Premos is all they were hitting.

We also went Wednesday after a storm and got skunked all day, I had assumed because of the morning storm/cloud cover the temps were alot cooler than usual which gave the fish plenty of time to feed.

Mullet is a go to bait when everything else fails. Try it you will like it.

for farm pond or small lake fihing, dip baits are hard to beat. the hog wild in catalpa is great. I also like sonny,s super stickey if you can find it. believe it or not, ivory soap has worked for me in the past. But if you fish in much current, the dipbaits wash off. I gave up on the little guys, so all I use for bait is skipjack, shad, perch or shrimp.

Secret 7 is dang good stuff. If they're around it gets a bite. If they're not around, you won't catch 'em. I find good stink baits bring them in and will hold them in the area while you wear them out. Check the cooler full of blues and channels in my picture here:

South Carolina's Hot Shallow Water Catfish

Also it'd be worth the read for some tips, the pattern can be found anywhere.

Dip baits, and stinkbaits work, and will catch plenty of eater sized fish. Sometimes it will outfish anything in the boat, I always have a wide variety of baits when going after channels. For big fish, you need live or cut bait.

Catfish Charlie - Blood or Cheese

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Hard to beat natural baits such as Catalpa Worms . Best thing is they can be collected for free. Channel Cats usually are'nt picky feeders. I do well on Shad , Minnows, (Chicken or Turkey) Livers, Shrimp, worms and some luck with prepared dough or dip baits. I do not add any Garlic, Koolaid, or any other flavors or scents to my baits. Catfish smell better than any bird dog there is . If they are hungry they will find your bait.
Try baiting a hole ahead of time and you can really boost your catch. Soured wheat or right out of the sack sweet feet works great.;)

This is a trip where ,my buddy WW and I limited out one day last week. We limit out quite often.

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I have several containers of Secret 7, I only seem to get nibblers on it. I have tried the tubes with J hooks. tubes with circle hooks, and treble/furry thang combos and seem to catch very few fish but get LOTS of nibbles. Switch to cut bait or shrimp and don't get nearly as many nibbles but the fish that hit it I usually catch. Am I doing something wrong or does the stink baits attract smaller fish (too small to be hooked). I always carry several types of bait, and change them out when they don't produce. Saturday night I had the nibblers on liver but caught fish on shrimp. Go figure??

Decided to fish the Madison classic the last of june. Got my boat prepared, caught some bait and froze it. Packed my clothes and headed down to the motel. Spent two days scouting the river since it was my first time on the Ohio (didn't put a line in either day. Day of tourament, pulled one of my bags of cut bait out of the freezer and headed for the lauch area. After take off, went to my first stretch to driff. Plulled out my bag of bait and found that I had picked a bag of filet catfish that I froze so that I could pull the day that I was throwing away my trash.

Problem, in a tournament, 1 mile away from ramp, could not leave boat, cast net in truck, what am I going to do for bait. I then remembered that I had bought a jar of dip bait at wally world a few month before. Found it, changed my hooks and began fishing.

First was a 2-3 lb channel, the next my pole was almost jerked out of the holder. I was my first blue channel which wieghted 16lbs.

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For the two day total, I ended up with 62lbs. Placed 24th out of 74 boats. Not bad for my first tournament, catfish, in 50 years.

Dip bait acceptance by the fish, is like cut and fresh bait. Same as colors with fish somedays. You need to be able to present my products to see what they preffer.

That's why they call it fishing. Makes it more fun.

Good luck and thanks for sharing.

Chuck

Secret 7 is good stuff I have goten lots of fish with it, used with the right hook and bait holder it will getem if they are there. You can use other live bait like chubs and worms at the same time and see for you self :cool:

hey chuck. at that classic did jeremy leech and beecher fish it?

Dad and I went out. I prepared special chicken-livers & shrimp, marinated in garlic salt for him, about $15. He caught two fish.

I used Walmart Sticky-Bait (about $4), & caught a twenty or so...

You tell me which works. All fish were less than 16in.

i havent but if you want to know how to make mine send me a pm (dont wanna hijack yo thread)

Jeremy and Bleecher did fish it. They beat me by 3 lbs. Great experience. Great group of fishermen, just like those of CC. I don't like crappie fishing in IN in the summer, so I rig my boat for catfish. I am going to KY lake next month for a get together of catfishermen. Looks like a lot of information will be shared. You should come. I have a camp site reserved, but I am not going to use it. If you want to share, come on. Just need it to park.

Jeremy was going to speak on drifting, had a sick spell and had to use his vacation time.

Chuck