Crawdad Fishing

[Guest]

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Given people's natural dislike of rules, I had very few when I ran the Trout Farm. One of them was "No corn". (Soft canned corn was just as bad as field corn).

I eventually had to add "No throwing rocks in the water" too, much to the chagrin of all the perfectly normal little kids. Fed trout will eat anything hear the size of a food pellet... quickly, before another fish can get it. To them there's no difference between a handful of chat peppering the suface and a handful of feed. To their digestive tract, it's another story.

The solution was to keep food handy, and the kids would rather feed daddy's quarters into a gumball machine for it than use the bags I offered for free. It was also the best bait by far, 95% of the tons of trout I sold were caught on trout feed (much to the chagrin of the fly-flinging grampas).

SEC Crawdads. :-)

Did you run the trout farm in Johnson?

It's the little creek running past James at the Mill

[bfishn]

No, I was in BV. I did keep James at the Mill (and others) supplied with fresh trout though.

[Guest]

One of my favorite Carp/Catfish baits is made with corn products

2 cups cornmeal

2 cups dry dog food

6 slices of bread

1 can cream of corn

Mix in a 1 gallon ziplock bag to the consistency of pie dough add water as needed.

I made this but added beer and karo syrup.

Maybe it will work on Saturday.

Simple and very effective.

[9LB]

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