Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: Make Smelly Bait
• Method 2 of 2: Come up with your own catfish bait recipe
• What do you need

Catfish use their senses of smell and touch to find food because they spend most of their time at the bottom of the water, where visibility is poor.Strong-smelling baits attract these fish with a particularly developed sense of smell. Many fishermen have their own favorite homemade catfish bait recipes. Here's a method for making stinky bait, plus some tips for inventing your own recipes.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Make Smelly Bait

1. 1 Dice 2.25 kg of overripe cheese. Many fishermen recommend orange-colored cheeses such as cheddar or American cheese.
2. 2 Place the sliced ​​cheese in a large plastic bucket or waste bin.
3. 3 Pour hot water over the cheese. Press it until a smooth paste forms.
4. 4 Stir 1-1.3 kilograms of chicken liver and blood in a blender. Fishermen advise buying chicken livers in small barrels, because such packaging contains the most blood. Blood attracts catfish and is an important ingredient in many bait recipes.
5. 5 Add the chopped liver to the cheese and water paste. Stir well.
6. 6 Close the container with an airtight lid.
   • Release as much air as possible from the container by squeezing the sides before closing the lid. As the mixture ferments, gases will form there, and venting will prevent the container from exploding.
7. 7 Place the bait outside, in a sunny place for 2-5 days to allow the mass to ferment.
8. 8 Pour enough flour into the fermented mixture to make the dough.
9. 9 Place the bait dough on your fishhooks.

Method 2 of 2: Come up with your own catfish bait recipe

1. 1 Prepare the base by mixing water with flour or bread to form a sticky dough. Add other ingredients, experimenting until you find a mixture that works for you.
   • Raw meat and blood or leftovers from cooked meat.
   • Ready-made meat products or sausages.
   • The insides of the fish you caught and cleaned.
   • Animal feed. Use dry pellets or canned foods.
   • Cooking oil or oil residues from canned tuna or sardines. Fish oil has a particularly pungent odor and is therefore attractive to catfish.
   • Dark types of sugary carbonated drinks. Another option is dry powders for making berry-flavored drinks.
   • Fresh garlic, garlic powder, or garlic salt.
   • Other ingredients such as pork brains, coffee beans, donuts, insects, bran, soap bars, chewing gum, candy, earthworms, peanut butter, eggs, seafood, hot sauce, fries, cheese balls, licorice, marshmallow.
2. 2 Stir your mixture to form a paste. Place it in an airtight container.
3. 3 Place the container outside for a few days to ferment. Make sure there is enough room for the mixture to expand and swell, as gases will evolve.
4. 4 Make balls from the fermented mixture.
   • If the mixture is too runny to make balls, you can wrap the pieces of the mixture in tights or gauze to attach them to the hooks.

What do you need

• Cheese
• Plastic bucket or waste bin with lid
• Raw chicken liver
• Blender
• Flour or bread
• Meat and seafood
• Animal feed
• Cooking oil or oil from fish
• Carbonated drinks, dry mixes for preparing drinks
• Garlic
• Gauze or tights