Make Catfish Bait

Catfish use their senses of smell and touch to look for food because they spend much of their time at the bottoms of waterways, where visibility is poor. Baits with a strong odor appeal to the catfish's particularly powerful sense of smell. Many anglers have favorite homemade recipes for making catfish bait. Here is a method for making what's known as stink bait, plus some suggestions for devising your own bait recipe.

Steps

Making Stink bait for Catfish

1. Dice 5 lbs. (2.25 kg) of overly ripe cheese. Many anglers recommend orange-colored cheese, such as American or cheddar.
2. Place the diced cheese into a large plastic bucket or trash can.
3. Cover the cheese with hot water. Mash the cheese until a paste forms.
4. Pulverize 2 to 3 lbs. (1 to 1.3 kg) of raw chicken livers and blood in a blender. Anglers suggest buying chicken livers in a small tub because this type of package includes the most blood. Blood attracts catfish and it is an important ingredient in many bait recipes.
5. Add the pulverized chicken livers to the cheese-and-water paste. Mix thoroughly.
6. Top the container with an airtight lid.
   • Remove as much air as possible before closing the lid by depressing the sides of the container. As the mixture ferments, it will create gases, and removing the air from the bucket will keep it from exploding.
7. Let the bait ferment outside in a sunny spot for 2 to 5 days.
8. Knead in enough flour to the fermented mixture to form a dough.
9. Bait your fishing hooks with pieces of the bait dough.

Creating Your Own Catfish Bait Recipe

1. Make a base mixture by blending water with flour or bread to form a sticky dough. Add other ingredients, experimenting until you find the mixture that works for you.
   • Raw meat and blood or cooked meat leftover from meals.
   • Lunch meat or hot dogs.
   • Entrails of fish you have caught and cleaned.
   • Pet food. You can use dry kibbles or canned food.
   • Cooking oil or the oil leftover from canned tuna and sardines. Fish oil is particularly pungent and thus appealing to catfish.
   • Dark, sweet varieties of carbonated beverages. Other options are berry-flavored powders from dry drink mixes.
   • Fresh garlic, garlic powder, or garlic salt.
   • Other ingredients, which may include pig brains, coffee grounds, doughnuts, insects, bran flakes, ground-up bars of soap, chewing gum, candy bars, earth worms, peanut butter, eggs, seafood, hot pepper sauce, french fries, cheese puffs, licorice whips, or marshmallows.
2. Blend your mixture into a sticky paste. Place it into an airtight container.
3. Place the container outside and let it ferment for several days. Be sure there is ample room for expansion and swelling as gases form.
4. Form dough balls from the fermented mixture.
   • If the bait mixture is too runny to form balls, you can put dabs of the mixture into pieces of pantyhose or cheesecloth and tie those to fish hooks.

Things You'll Need

• Cheese
• Plastic bucket or trash can with lid
• Raw chicken livers
• Blender
• Flour or bread
• Meats and seafood
• Pet food
• Cooking oil or fish oil
• Carbonated beverages, dry drink mixes
• Garlic
• Cheesecloth or pantyhose

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Sources and Citations

• http://www.catfished.com/bait.html
• http://www.fishingloft.com/homemade-catfish-bait.html
• http://www.catfished.com/unusual.html

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