I was looking around for different bait recipes today and thought I would throw it out here.
Does anyone have their own bait recipe?
I am not wanting your family secrets, just interested in the variations of bait.

It's simple cause I avoid perpared baits all together. Most of them stink and are messy. I normally use bait that is free for the collecting or cheap. Here is my bait list.

1. Catalpa worms
2. Earth worms
3. Turkey liver
4. Chicken guts (intestines) are great but are nasty!
5. live Bream (perfer green sunfish when targeting Flatheads but will use whatever I can catch.)

pork liver

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big ole live bream

Here are a few that are good for channels and blues...not for flatheads. Good Luck with them!

Catfish Bait Recipes

# 1
1 Gallon of chicken or beef blood
1 pound of flour (not self rising)
5 pounds of cottonseed meal
2 cups of sugar
1/2 small bottle of vanilla extract
Mix all together and if too thin, add more flour, too thick add more blood or water. Use this fishing with treble hooks.

# 2
1 Gallon of chicken or beef blood
Place in refrigerator and after 24 hours, pour off sera (clear fluid). Slice into 1-inch slabs and salt top and bottom of slab while placing them in a large pan. The salt will pull the fluid out of the blood. This may take a couple of days. Drain off any fluid during this period. The blood will turn into a rubbery consistency (do not let the blood become hard!) Cut up into 1-inch squares and either fish it on single or treble hooks.

# 3
8 oz. cod liver oil
8 oz. anise oil
1 bottle of clear Bait Mate from Sporting Good Retailer
Turkey wieners
Mix first three ingredients together. Cut wieners up in 1 inch pieces and soak them in the above ingredients for 24 hours and then you're ready to fish with either single or treble hooks.

# 4
Package of Strawberry or Raspberry instant jello.
Turkey wieners
Dissolve jello mixture. Cut wieners up in 1-inch pieces and soak them in the liquid jello for 24 hours. Use with single or treble hooks.

# 5
1 cup flour
1/2 cup water
1 can sardines packed in oil
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 cup of salt
4 tablespoons flaked tropical fish food
Thoroughly mix all ingredients and cook over low heat until it becomes difficult to stir. The dough should bind on the spoon to form a single mass. Remove and flatten on wax paper to cool. Store in an airtight container. Use with treble hooks. For long-term storage, place in refrigerator.



# 6
4 bars of Ivory soap (Family size)
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of water
sheet of wax paper or aluminum foil
In a small pot, combine sugar and water and dissolve. Shave soap into the water mixture and heat over a low fire. Stir until soap is melted. Pour soap mixture onto paper and pat with wet hands to avoid burning and soap from sticking. Pat soap into flatten mass approximately 1/2 inch thick. Cut into cubes while soap is warm and place in an air tight container or zip-lock bag to retain moisture. DO NOT LET SOAP COOL BEFORE CUTTING - IT WILL BECOME BRITTLE! Soap bait will be pliable and easy to use either with single or treble hooks.

The above baits can be fished on rod and reel or trotlines. Good luck!

-courtesy of Chris "mudcat"

chicken livers & night crawlers.lol

A good friend taught me this

Jug of chicken livers
Vinegar (to harden em up a bit and to make em smell yummy)
Minced Garlic (to make em stink more)
Parmesan Cheese (to make em stink more)

Cut livers into proper portion sized pieces. Mix a little then put in fridge overnight.

Seems to work pretty well the 2 times I've tried it.

I heard it is hard to beat cut up Skip Jack.

I have used this bait for years and it has worked very well for me. Hamburger, flour, wheaties, and garlic vinegar. Make sure you add enough flour to keep it together. Also limburger cheese and burger works real well. Limburger cheese, I cant see how anyone eats something that smells like that.

Take a tub of chicken livers pour them out on a paper plate. Add any seasonings or flavors to them and the microwave for about 2 mins, the put them back in the tub and you are ready to fish. You can use treble or single hook.