| The one thing about catfish fishing is the smellier | | | | well the soap balls work. The fish will be fight over |
| the bait the better it is to catch a catfish. It might | | | | getting to your stink bait. This recipe works well if |
| smell as if something died, but the catfish will | | | | placed on a circle hook. You can use some other |
| strike it. The stinky bait recipes only require one | | | | ingredients that will work great as stink bait as |
| main thing, stink. The catfish has an incredible | | | | well. |
| sense of smell and taste. If you want to attract | | | | Cheese has been a favorite. It has to be the |
| the catfish, you need some more powerful than | | | | smelliest cheese you can find. Use a blender and |
| what they have underwater. Here are some | | | | make mush out of the cheese. The best cheese |
| recipes for stinky catfish baits. | | | | for making the mush is Limburger cheese. The |
| The dough balls are stink bait for catfish. You | | | | mixture might not be able to be held together, so |
| take the smelliest thing you have in the house, | | | | you can use a dough ball to encase the stinky |
| maybe a chicken liver or rotten spoiled meat and | | | | cheese bait. The raw fish is another mixture you |
| wrap it in a dough ball. Make the dough with flour | | | | can use. Go to your local meat market and ask |
| and water as if you were making a piecrust. | | | | for the fish guts and scrapes. Anything they |
| Instead of flattening out the dough ball, make a | | | | would throw out in the garbage will work great. |
| hole and put in some smelly spoiled meat. Then | | | | Beware, this is going to be horrible smelling and |
| reform the dough ball over the smelly ingredients. | | | | can cause people to become ill. |
| Some anglers will cook the dough a little so it | | | | However, the catfish loves it. |
| holds together better once submerged in water. | | | | One can only wonder why a fish would want |
| You can put this dough ball on a circle hook large | | | | something so stinky, but the catfish are the only |
| enough to hold it and still hook the cat. This is a | | | | fish that will attract to this type of bait. You will |
| popular recipe, but there are a few more | | | | never hear any angler tell you that they caught a |
| ingredients to use that stink just as much as the | | | | walleye or a bass with this type of bait. The |
| dough ball with chicken livers and spoiled meat. | | | | catfish is a bottom feeder and may just prefer |
| Soap for some reason attracts catfish. It is a | | | | garbage rather than something tasty like a mayfly |
| mystery to everyone, but for some reason | | | | or a sunfish. They will eat these fish or insects, |
| unscented soap works great. You could use a | | | | but the sure way to bait a cat is to give it |
| knife and cut the pieces up small, then add them | | | | something stinky. |
| to a dough ball. You will be surprised as to how | | | | |