Five Strange Catfish Bait Recipes

Catfish fishing is exciting because you never know what size cat you are going to bring into the boat. If you are done with those artificial lures with no success and you want to use homemade bait that will have the catfish coming to you, then you will appreciate these five catfish bait recipes.

Recipe 1 - Dough Ball with peanut Butter

This is a strange catfish bait recipe, but it can work. The way you make it and present it is what the cats enjoy about this particular bait.

Enough flour to make as many dough balls as you need
Water
Sugar
Peanut Butter
Lemon Juice

Make the flour dough balls by adding peanut butter to a bowl, a little sugar and a little lemon juice as well as the water, Mixture will be a little runny. Then add flour to make the dough mixture thick. The mixture should be thick so that it hardens and will stay on the hook. Divide the dough up and roll into little dough balls. Place in zip lock sandwich bags and place in the refrigerator to harden.

When it is time to fish, take a pair of nylons and make little pouches to hold the dough balls on the hook. This works great and you do not lose the dough ball if it softens a little in the water.

Recipe 2 - Cheese and Catfish Inners

This recipe requires some strong smell senses. You can use some old cheese and some catfish inners that you have leftover from the last batch of cats you caught. You do have to have a strong stomach for this recipe.

Five-gallon bucket with a lid
Old cheese cut in small chunks
Water
Flour
Catfish guts

In the five-gallon bucket, place the chunks of old cheese and add hot water.
Mash the cheese and make a paste. Then add the catfish guts to a blender andgrind up into a pulp. Add this mix to the five-gallon bucket and place the lid on tight. Place the bucket in the sun for about five days and allow it to get hot and smelly.

After five days, remove the lid and add enough flour to the mixture to until it turns into a doughy mixture. It should be stiff enough to divide into individual dough balls. Then use a pair of nylons to make holders for the dough balls when you drop them in the water.