How to Make Fishing Bait for Catfish

Big catfish

One thing about catfish bait: It has to be stinky! A number of very smelly ingredients can attract catfish like crazy. What's stinky to you, smells like heaven to a catfish.

Things You'll Need

• Large bowl
• Chicken livers
• Moldy cheese or Limburger cheese
• Old, raw fish
• Canned tuna
• Chicken blood
• Unscented soap
• Knife
• Blender
• Flour, cornmeal or bran flakes
• Refrigerator or freezer

Instructions

How to Make Catfish Bait

1. Get a big bowl, and throw in some chicken livers and the liquid from the chicken livers.

2. Add some old moldy cheese or Limburger cheese or some other cheese you find particularly stinky.

3. Add in some raw fish that you've aged in your refrigerator until it's nice and smelly. Fish that you have caught works well.

4. Throw in some tuna from a can. Catfish love a fishy smell.

5. If you can acquire chicken blood, add that in, too.

6. Cut up an ordinary bar of soap, unscented, into little pieces, and add it to your mixture.

7. After mixing everything, throw the mixture into the blender and blend it until it is one stinky, nasty mess.

8. Pour the mixture back into the big bowl.

9. Add some flour, cornmeal or bran flakes until the mixture is solid enough to roll into dough balls.

10. Roll into balls.

11. Refrigerate the balls if you are going fishing in the near future; freeze them if it's going to be awhile before you head out on your fishing trip.

Tips & Warnings

• Use a looper rig to hold your stink bait. A looper rig is a hook designed especially for hard-to-hold bait. If your stink bait won't hold together, you can cook your dough balls a little bit to make them firmer.

• You may want to dedicate a blender and bowl especially to make stink bait so your ingredients don't accidentally get mixed up with regular household cooking ingredients.

References

• How To Make Your Own Surefire Catfish Stink Bait

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish