First let me say I Love me some Catfish. Now here is my question. If you were to make up a catfish bait recipe from scratch what would you put in it? It would need to be firm for tight lining and jugging.
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First let me say I Love me some Catfish. Now here is my question. If you were to make up a catfish bait recipe from scratch what would you put in it? It would need to be firm for tight lining and jugging.
Do a search. You will find a lot of good suggestions.
Not to poopoo your idea but I've found that it's not worth making when there are some excellent products on the market that work and are pretty durn cheap. Sonny's is my favorite.
Have not heard of Sonny's. My making it is just something to play with. I am retired so I get to play with just about anything I want to. Within reason (if I have the money. LOL).
I agree with chuckauten, do some searches online and you will find many different recipes. I like to watch the YouTube recipes because you get to actually see it better versus just reading a recipe and trying it..
Check out catfish connection on line. The sell sell items to make bait with. They used to sell cheese scraps by the 5 gallon pail. Also oils to add. I would use some cattail fibers to make it stick together also. It seems lots of dip bait companies add that. Can not go wrong with ground up shad bodies. Good luck. It is always fun to catch fish with product you made yourself.
Stay simple pure blood bait , poultry liver , or cut fish. Never understood everyone wanting to make smelly concoctions ?:twocents
I've got a friend who swears by her "liver loaf" bait. It's pretty simple. A container of chicken livers (about 1 1/4#), a 1/4 cup of molasses, and a loaf of white bread. Chop the livers and toss with the molasses. Tear the bread into large pieces, then use your hands to work it into the liver until you get a uniform mixture that can be formed into balls. I've also heard of using melted velveeta with livers, garlic and flour.
Well I had planned to start with some chicken liver,garlic maybe add some corn flakes or flour as a binder. So I was just curious about what others would add to it.
Limburger (spelling?) melt in a pot with a little milk, add enough flour to make a it stick, you can also add some oats to help kneading it together. Will flat out load the boat with channel cats. Been fishing with it for years.
Boarbuster; here is a site with a lot of catfish recipes, it was called lake-online and now they started a new site hope this gives you some ideas. Be safe and good luck fishing:fishQuote:
Originally Posted by BoarBuster
http://catchthebigone.com/category/c...-bait-recipes/
I used this catfish recipe a few times in the catfish ponds. The only thing bad about it is if he bites and you miss the hook set, the hook has to be baited again. You also need to use the treble hooks and even better the ones with the spring in the middle. The channel cats did like the taste and it doesn't have a really bad smell like most recipes. At least the buzzards aren't circling over head when using this one. If only a way to make it firmer to stay on the hook better.
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2Table spoons of peanut butter 3pinches of garlic powder 1cup of vinegar 1cup of oats (oatmeal) 1cup of corn flakesMixtogether until it looks like stuffing, or until thick. If it doesn'tthicken, or is too thick add vinegar, or more oats to the recipe. Trythis out
i would have to agree with that. accept i like dannykings blood best.lol small treble and a stick is all ya need. poke & cast, its still there when you unhook the fish. dont need too much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tracker22
Many years ago I fished with some 4'x 16' hoop nets. Baited them up with some 5 gallon bucket cheese we bought from a net company in louisiana. The fish that we caught in them stunk so bad that we had to throw them away even after we cleaned them. After that we just used the nets without bait. Just saying don't use something that stinks so bad that the fish will stink also.nonono
Use to put a tub of chicken livers in a jar of pickle juice and let it set in the sun a day or two worked really well. Also put livers in a peanut butter jar and put a lot of garlic salt on em. Used plastic jars cuz they don't shatter in the back of the truck and the salt kinda cured the liver it was a good way to have bait all the time
Many years ago, when I was a youngster... one of the neighbor's Grandfather showed us how to make a stink bait using rotten chicken eggs and flour. We had chickens back then and sometimes did not remember to gather all the eggs each day… I don't remember any other ingredients but do remember that we had to bury the eggs in a metal can in the ground at least two feet deep (probably to keep the smell down) for two or three weeks. I don’t remember much else about it other than it worked better than the store bought stink baits – that is if you could stand to use it!
No expert here but I can't get the cats to leave my hook alone. I catch more nice 2-10 pound cats when fishing with red worms and nightcrawler pieces for redear and gills. I never go catfishing anymore. Don't need to. Always have good luck with half a crawler and a piece of shrimp tail or any fish meat. I have never caught the first cat on any prepared bait. Bought em all when I was fishing hard for em. Fresh meat is my favorite
Do it outside unless you want mamma really upset with you! Now, my wife makes a soft dog treat that has chicken livers, whole wheat flour, garlic and salmon oil. Chicken livers go in food processor, garlic powder is added and all is pureed together, she adds the lour and salmon oil to get a paste which is spread on waxed paper and baked in 250-275 oven until firm. They are refidgerated or frozen. I've put 4-5 on a treble hook and done well with catfish and carp but have often thought you could add some gelatin and make a paste bait and use with a bait bag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Locator79
I'm a regular fishing on canals and river systems,,if ya wanna just catch channels to eat don't waist your time trying to invent something,,,Keep It Simple,,,,,Sonnys blood stink bait for tight lining and on the jugs a good size live Minnow,,I catch hundreds of cats a year with these two baits and don't run your leads on the jugs and longer than 15 inches,,,good luck