catfish bait

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

I thought I would share my recipe for catching big channels.

Here it is:

1 pint whole milk

1/2 tbsp. garlic salt

cornmeal

4 ounces limburger cheese

1/4 cup ground chicken livers

Bring milk and salt to a boil over medium heat. Add cheese and chicken liver. Reduce to low. Add enough cornmeal to where the bait thickens up and remove heat. Store at room temp. To thicken add more cornmeal. To thin put in a warm place.

[WebFreeman]

Cool. i guess it comes out like dough bait? How bad is it going to stink up the kitchen? I don't want to have to sleep in the garage....

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

I will say it stinks to high heaven, but I have caught a lot of good fish using it. I guess you could try making it on a campfire or grill.

[Stuartwp]

You say you have caught a lot of cats on this recipie, my experiance is that dough bait works great on the smaller cats, 3-4 pounds and less. What has your experiance on the bigger cats with this?

[MrsDucky]

I'm not as worried about stinking up the kitchen (put a small dish of vinegar next to the stove while cooking...it absorbs the stink!) as I am about stinking up the pan. I guess you could always use baking soda on that...Does the pan stink? Have you ever noticed a lingering taste afterwards?

[jdmidwest]

Size 4 streamer hook, purple marabou for tail, purple estaz and purple hackle for body. Tyed wooly bugger style, works great in ponds and creeks, weight it down to get it deeper. Same fly tyed with black material is a close second. Talk about a fight, Channels on a fly rod. No stinky fingers and has out fished chunks of liver in the past.

[MrsDucky]

Toss it and wait? Or do you strip it a little? That would be a blast!

[jdmidwest]

Cast it, let it drop a little and then short strips on the way back. It helps to see what they are doing as they sometimes just nudge it. Learned this trick a few years back while fishing a pay pond for bass on Memorial Day weekend. Just like Montauk, I caught a cat and the guy down the levee came running up and plunked a hunk of liver into the same spot. I caught 4 before it was so crowded that I could not cast. Fly fisherman 4, rude bait slingers 0. I use the same technique when I see a cat cruising on a stream and it works great.

[ToPwAt'R GuY]

Flem: The average cat I catch on this recipe is about 5 pounds. My biggest on this recipe went 12 pounds.

MrsDucky: I use an old pan or pot that really has no more use in the kitchen. I wouldn't recomend making this in a pot that you cook in.