Prepping corn for chum and hook baits

[MoCarp]

 

[Old plug]

Down at Clearwater we used to use feed corn. Would drill  holes for the hook in it then soke it in coolaid 

[MoCarp]

feed corn works great, a baiting needle makes it easy to put on a hair rig "posted how thats tied"

 

[MOPanfisher]

Good fresh sweet corn out of the patch is good bait, canned corn works too.  Many years ago we used to make dough bait out of wheaten and strawberry jello or occasionally cheap bourbon.  When I was a kid we would trotline for carp, with pieces of cottonseed cake and a treble hook on each side of it.  By far the most poundage of fish I have ever seen come off of a trotline, and we pressure coozed and canned the meat.  We didnt know we was  poor we just thought it was good fun and eats.

[rps]

Years ago, in Tulsa, we ran a Take a Kid Fishing tournament for children who resided in homes/institutions that no longer exist. We had to give it up when we could no longer get insurance. One year in the late 70's, I baited a boat dock cove on Keystone with sacks of weighted deer corn. I got permission from the dock owners to put my youth on the dock. I made a batch of strawberry soda and wheaties dough. The bottom of my boat took weeks to clean out since the fish totally exceeded my livewell.

[Terrierman]

 

Good fresh sweet corn out of the patch is good bait, canned corn works too.  Many years ago we used to make dough bait out of wheaten and strawberry jello or occasionally cheap bourbon.  When I was a kid we would trotline for carp, with pieces of cottonseed cake and a treble hook on each side of it.  By far the most poundage of fish I have ever seen come off of a trotline, and we pressure coozed and canned the meat.  We didnt know we was  poor we just thought it was good fun and eats.

I have personally canned and eaten a fair bit of carp.  Fillet, get the red off, cut into one inch or so chunks, one bay leaf and a tablespoon of ketchup in every pint packed as tight as you can get it, then pressure can.  Good stuff Maynerd.

10-4 on the cottonseed cake.  There are a lot of carp in Pomme.  That's where a lot of it came from.

[Terrierman]

Pre-bait a hole with feed corn that has soaked a week or so and gotten sour.  Bait the hole three days in a row before you fish.  Save a little of the sour corn for bait.  Four or five kernels on a hook.  Your arm will get tired.

[MoCarp]

Small carp by small its relative 6 -10 pounds, from clean Ozark waters can be very good, had a guy at a fish-in make "carp rib fish sticks" 

[MOPanfisher]

I always thought it was better than salmon.  Have had it canned, pickled, smoked, fried, baked etc.  Very rich and sticky, but tasty.  I don't think there is a lake around that doesn't have plenty of carp.  If memor serves me, we used to trotline over on the river above stockton.  Still remember the guy that helped us one year, he ran a hook into his pinky finger and way as the barb.  Mom was a RN, and he said, ma'am if you are willing to pull it through I can take it.  A pair of pliers, and old pocket knife to cut the skin, and a pale while feller who never made a sound.  Wrapped an old hankie around the finger and went back to running lines.  Tough old river rat, I suspect his version of tetanus prevention came out of a bottle from kentucky.

[Terrierman]

 

Small carp by small its relative 6 -10 pounds, from clean Ozark waters can be very good, had a guy at a fish-in make "carp rib fish sticks" 

I frequented a fish house near Jefferson City years ago.  Top of the menu was buffalo ribs, fries and sweet / sour cole slaw.  And beer.  Lots of beer.  They fished the Missouri with hoop nets.  Good times.