Does anybody bait out crappie on here?

If you have had success baiting them out how do you do it? I've made bait stations with 4 to 6" PVC with holes drilled in it and a removable top to add the bait. We have tied these in cedar tops at around 16' deep in 18-25FOW. I can't even remember what we baited them with though. I've heard alfalfa, dog food, rabbit pellets. So what do you guys use and have you ever heard of using cotton seed cake?? I've heard you can draw crappie 1st then the cats move in and your crappie move out? I've also heard all you need is brush.

I found a hole years ago in Texas. Loaded up on crappie and the occasional catfish with milo spewing out. I have tried it a few times with alfalfa range cubes, dry ole Roy in panty hose, or canned dog food. Can't say I have ever been successful in making a hole this way. I have sunk rice on the end of the dock here at the port of little Rock before. After a couple of days we caught many catfish. They were so full of rice it was spewing out of every oriface. We don't handel rice any more or I would be in the commercial business.
Do a search on cottonseed cake. I saw it a few years ago.
DP

i know some boys that put out a couple of bags of deer corn every year about june....then have a fish fry of catfish for 50 people or so......they don't need hushpuppies cause the catfish taste like fried corn

I have my doubts about it working..

Never heard of it

Never baited crappie, but I heard a pretty cool idea about baiting bream and catfish.. Roadkill hung from a limb a foot off the water.

I baited a hole for crappie and ruined my trail cam trying to see if there was any fish on it.

Now Bream you can bait up...
Sack of sweet feed and you can catch all the trotline bait you want!

My buddy used to put out cotton seed cake while we fished. I don't really know how well it worked but it sure attracted baitfish.

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Originally Posted by JigginPoleJoe

Now Bream you can bait up...
Sack of sweet feed and you can catch all the trotline bait you want!

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Now this I'll have to try cause we had a terrible time catching trotline bait here a week or so ago and I had a perch trap out and everything!
The dead critter hanging from the limb thing I'll have to try also, I love some big bull bream, course you might need a gas mask just to fish the area after the critter has been out a few days, lol. My luck an old buzzard would come along and steal it the 1st day I put it out.

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Originally Posted by constructskeeter

Now this I'll have to try cause we had a terrible time catching trotline bait here a week or so ago and I had a perch trap out and everything!

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Get a 50 pound sack of all grain with molasses. Rip it and sink it!

Will do thanks

The dog food works for bream..........if you have trouble finding 'em.

I used to try putting minnows in a big fruit jar, put holes in lid, tie to a rope, and hang it over the side where I was fishing. Never could say it worked, though. I heard it did on some internet site, so I tried it. :biggrin

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Originally Posted by Buckrub

The dog food works for bream..........if you have trouble finding 'em.

I used to try putting minnows in a big fruit jar, put holes in lid, tie to a rope, and hang it over the side where I was fishing. Never could say it worked, though. I heard it did on some internet site, so I tried it. :biggrin

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!!ROFL!!
I've heard it all now!

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Originally Posted by jigginpolejoe

!!rofl!!
I've heard it all now!

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Minnows in a fruit jar. That's funny! I wonder what the fish were thinking...

It's not the crappie seeing the minnows in the jar that attracts the fish. A crappies sense of smell is 100x that of a blood hound. The fish not only smell the minnows through the holes in the lid, the minnows run into the sides of the jar causing a ticking sound that is the dinner bell for a hungry crappie. I actually did this one time and noticed the line with the gallon jar going crazy. I pulled it up and a bass had swallowed the gallon glass jug halfway down. Of course, with the jar being slick, he came right off. I would have had a shot at landing him if I woulda let him swallow the jug a couple inches deeper.

i have never dun this but seen it dun 50lb burlap bag of rice throne out seen it dun at santee caught crappie and cats off it