Baiting holes for crappie?

There is a guy in Waco, TX that has come up with a bait to use for crappie. I've considered this idea in the past but, nothing serious. I sure wouldn't want to draw in trash fish and that would be a fear of mine.
This guy calls his product 'crappie cakes' and reports some truly amazing results.

I gave him a call yesterday, explained our upcoming 'winter crappie camp' coming up next week and he volunteered to give me some to try. If all goes well, I plan to put out the first batch on Wednesday and hopefully be able to report the results before the end of camp.

I don't have a clue what the stuff is made from but, he claims it will NOT attract trash fish and lasts at least a week. One ingredient is 'glitter' which gives it a flashy appeal to crappie. It actually attracts shad and minnows, which in turn brings in the crappie.

I'm curious what you guys think about a product like this?

If you build it, they will come. I'd never use it but am sure if it's marketed right, there are plenty of folks out there that are not very good who will at least try this product. Kudos to him for making the attempt to live the American dream! If it works, then it's a winner winner chicken dinner.

Could not agree more Reaper except, I'm a crappie hoe and will try anything once!
After little more exploring this morning, Greg is a crappie guide out of Waco. He goes by the Crappie King and has a website 'thecrappieking.com'

I think placement will be important also! Looking forward to your report!

How's about a PM to me and I'll help you report the results? 😝

I heard it was a special blend of peanut butter/shad.

Floyd, how in the dickens did you figure that out already....only thing you left out is bananas!

See the latest Winter Camp update....I have surprise for everyone that attends!

Sweet crappie cakes!

Just weight down a few square hay bales in the fall, you'll be amazed at how many fish you catch around them. Algea will start to grow on them very quickly and start drawing bait fish, plus they lasr 3 to 4 yrs.

You could try it on one of your piles and leave the rest alone and see what happens at that one pile?

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Originally Posted by MrGoodtime

Just weight down a few square hay bales in the fall, you'll be amazed at how many fish you catch around them. Algea will start to grow on them very quickly and start drawing bait fish, plus they lasr 3 to 4 yrs.

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Yep.....alfalfa hay works the best.....also sink a burlap sack with cottonseed meal in it.

My experience with hay bales, alfalfa or coastal Bermuda and/or cotton seed meal work good for catfish but, the idea for Crappie King Cakes is to just bring in crappie.
Supposedly, it does this pretty well. Time will tell. I have no idea why since his formula is secrete.

I knew of a guide on a southern OK lake that would pour a can or two of creamed corn over the brushpiles he planned to fish the next day the evening before. I guess the bait fish would eat the small pieces of corn which attracted crappie to those piles.

and carp and drum

Never cared for creamed corn- I believe that guide came up with the perfect thing to do with it, pour it in the water.

What Greg (Crappie King) said above is absolutely true. It happened just as he said and Dennis and I were impressed.
I know now that others at camp also experienced the bite turning on about the same time that we started catching all around the lake so I don't know how much we could attribute
to the crappie cakes. But, in my mind it was the crappie cakes.
This happened on the fish attractor just south of the marina and we had baited it at least twice after we arrived on Wednesday. We had fished it at least twice a day and at around the same time
the bite started. On previous days we were skunked but, we did not know to sprinkle crumbled up crappie cakes over the area.
I don't think its just a coincidence that within 2 to 3 minutes after spreading the pieces on the water that we started catching fish!
Maybe the jury is still out but, I plan to keep trying them and would recommend others do the same!

I know he gave out several at camp, Just curious if anyone else has had a chance to try, did I understand you right when you say you put these cakes out around the piles 2 days previously with no luck? but when crumbled up you caught a few??

I inspected a cake and found that it barely was able to hold itself together. Placing this in a loose weave bag, I anticipate that it will dissolve and settle out within a hour or two. The cake appeared to be made with small feed grains, meal, and bound by molasses. In my opinion, it will take a significant number of these cakes placed in the water for several days to stimulate the food chain to show any conclusive proof. I have known people to hang sacks of soured wheat in burlap bags over brush to stimulate the food chain and thereby attracting the zooplankton which attracts the minnows. Within a few days, they were able to catch various species of fish off the bag. Periodically, they replenished the feed and sustained the fishery.

FYI: Ck TheCrappieKing is banned for now. I sent a PM and received no response (actually I did receive a response but it was empty) and I found three more posts advertising (here and on the LA forum). Sorry but that's considered spamming, and the ID has been banned so that spamming does not continue. I apologize for the inconvenience but everyone knows advertising is not allowed on any forums except the classified ads forum. And it was blatant advertising with phone numbers and website info and a sales push. It'll get straightened out and it'll all be good, real soon I hope.