Thinking outside the "box" for scent for crappie

[mikey16335]

Don't give up on this paragraph until you read the last line.



Mike

[CrappiePappy]

"Baited" with WHAT ??

[mikey16335]

I'll see if I can contact the PFBC and see what they use. It may take a couple days because the time of year.

Mike

[BobC]

Yes, that would be good to know if they’re saying.
Bob

[mikey16335]

As luck would have it, I contacted the office and one of the guys answered. Now is where you need to sit down. The first thing that they tried was a cheese log. That produced mediocre results. The best results came from ---a bar of Dial soap. You can't make this stuff up. Wonder how they came up with that. That wasn't even in my top ten choices.

Mike

[deathb4disco]

The best results came from ---a bar of Dial soap. You can't make this stuff up. Wonder how they came up with that.

Soap contains animal fat. (Ever watch Fight Club?)

Animal fat is a good attractant. Soap has been used as bait on trot lines for ages.

[NIMROD]

Could have drawn bait fish to the trap

[Slow Poke]

Fished Lake Fork with a friend using a trotline. We used Zote soap and caught some large channel cat. It smells great and you can wash your hands after handling the fish.

["G"]

My father in law and I used to bait trot lines with ivory soap and also old stale cheese.....the channel cats liked it. Flat head catfish like live bait tho.

[TheRo0sTer]

Hmmm dial soap! Time to flatten and make nibbles out of it.