It's Fishing time! Anyone here got any good Carp/Catfish dough bait recipes?

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[chance33_98]

Well, the wife and daughter are out of town for 3 weeks visiting grandparents in Bakersfield so I am heading out to do some fishing. Spin casting for bass and crappie and bait fishing for Carp or cats. Ingredients I am working with are cornmeal, semolina, chicken livers, and a few herbs and spices. Any idea on making some good dough - not just flavor wise but cooking directions (getting that stuff to the right consistency can be a bear at times!)

[chance33_98]

Two years ago I made some really good bait. Everything under the sun was hitting it, used pancake syrup mixed with above ingredients. Since then have not been able to duplicate it or get the right consistency to mold it :( Working on some tonight though, so any suggestions would be appreciated!

[jgrubbs]

Carp Dough Bait

Ingredients:

• 1 pound of corn meal or soybean meal
• 1 can of cream style corn
• 2 tablespoons of cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons of texas pete hot sauce
• sugar corn pops
• any kind of liquid flavoring you wish such as buttercream, vanilla, banana, strawberry, etc.

Preparation:

1. Combine all of the ingredients above and add just enough liquid flavoring to get it to make a dough ball that feels like it will stay on hook.
2. First put a sugar corn pop on the hook then wrap mixed dough around the pop.
3. Sit back and reel in the Carp!

[jgrubbs]

I forgot to add corn syrup to the list, the corn syrup makes a good dough ball.

[chance33_98]

Texas Pete Hot Sauce eh? Would have never thought to try it. Making up several test batches of dough, will try it out!

[Johnny Shear]

Here's what we use...

Frosted flakes mixed with water. Add the water slowly to make the needed consistancy. Very easy to do. I supose you could use this mixture and add some of the other stuff mentioned in this thread.

Also, have some nice sweet corn on the cob for dinner (Hard to find right now) and save the cobs...Cut them up and use them.

I assume you use a trebell hook??

And PLEASE tell me that you don't actually EAT the carp??? You practice catch, kill and release, RIGHT??

Ps...I am a BIG fan of spearing. We go out most every summer, weekend night. We spear some MONSTERS!!! (Carp, Gar, Dogfish, Suckers, etc...) Which brings up a question...I have been spearing carp for a long time and I have NEVER seen a small one...NEVER! All of them are at least 10 - 15 pounds...Many much bigger. Every time I THINK we've gotten a small one, it's turned-out to be a Sucker. Anyone know why this is??

[Texaggie79]

MMMMMM carp.......... (gag)

[chance33_98]

And PLEASE tell me that you don't actually EAT the carp???

Naw, release them. But I did post an article, LONG LONG time ago about the government doing a fish canning project somewhere down south - they said it was cheaper then Tuna and more plentiful, and the taste tests supposedly went well...

[Tennessee_Bob]

Nah, you don't eat the carp, but they're a fun to fish for, and when you hook one, you've got a fight on your hands. Try it on Mickey Mouse tackle and see how good you are.

[w_over_w]

Ping! for my fishing trip in July (I need every tip I can get).

[chance33_98]

Try it on Mickey Mouse tackle and see how good you are.
Last big one I had I fought all the way to the shore. And as I went down to grab him the line broke, 6lb test. I never made that mistake again!
Also fun - I was using a bank line, no reel or rod, testing out some bait. Hit a carp and pulled him in. Lucky I did not get my hand cut off! You can have up to 50 bank lines here as long as they are tagged and secured. I never got the chance to secure that one...

[Dawgsquat]

I quit using dough bait a long time ago. I've never found anything better for channel cats than good ol' nightcrawlers.

For bass (largemouth) I prefer a shallow running rattlin' crank bait. Works all year long in my lake.

[andysandmikesmom]

I am not a fisherwoman, but my dad just loved to fish...we kids could always tell when dad was taking the family over a weekend of camping, swimming, and fishing fun....because he was at the stove, cooking up his 'stinky fish bait'...at least that is what we used to call it...

I surely do not remember all what he put in it...I know it was flour, cornmeal, kernel corn, hot sauce, and something else, which really smelled...I dont know what it was, but it sure did stink...then he mixed all that around, and cooked it until it formed into a thick doughy mess, and then he packed it into tin cans...

It smelled terrible, and he made it days before he needed it, saying it would age and smell even more terrible...he kept it covered in the basement fridge, so we would not have to smell it each and every time we opened the fridge door...

Then at night, he took all us kids, to a local park, late at night, and there we would all dig up nightcrawlers, big, fat and juicy ones...

I think dad put a big old ball of that smelly dough onto his hook, and then topped it off with a big old nightcrawler...

All I know is, dad caught lots and lots of carp, crappies, buffalo fish, and catfish...and dad never ever fished just for sport...all those fish came home with us, for mom to cook up, and for the family to eat...to this day, I cannot stand to eat any of those particular fish...I had my fill as a kid...

Dont get me started on 'smelt' fishing...we spent every weekend in Chicago springtime, lowering our nets at sundown off the piers into Lake Michigan and during good runs we came home with hundreds and hundres of smelt...Yep...we had to eat those too...my hubby no longer asks me to make him smelt occasionally...he values his life too much

Good afternoon there, Mr. Dawgie...

[andysandmikesmom]

I am not a fisherwoman, but my dad just loved to fish...we kids could always tell when dad was taking the family over a weekend of camping, swimming, and fishing fun....because he was at the stove, cooking up his 'stinky fish bait'...at least that is what we used to call it...

I surely do not remember all what he put in it...I know it was flour, cornmeal, kernel corn, hot sauce, and something else, which really smelled...I dont know what it was, but it sure did stink...then he mixed all that around, and cooked it until it formed into a thick doughy mess, and then he packed it into tin cans...

It smelled terrible, and he made it days before he needed it, saying it would age and smell even more terrible...he kept it covered in the basement fridge, so we would not have to smell it each and every time we opened the fridge door...

Then at night, he took all us kids, to a local park, late at night, and there we would all dig up nightcrawlers, big, fat and juicy ones...

I think dad put a big old ball of that smelly dough onto his hook, and then topped it off with a big old nightcrawler...

All I know is, dad caught lots and lots of carp, crappies, buffalo fish, and catfish...and dad never ever fished just for sport...all those fish came home with us, for mom to cook up, and for the family to eat...to this day, I cannot stand to eat any of those particular fish...I had my fill as a kid...

Dont get me started on 'smelt' fishing...we spent every weekend in Chicago springtime, lowering our nets at sundown off the piers into Lake Michigan and during good runs we came home with hundreds and hundres of smelt...Yep...we had to eat those too...my hubby no longer asks me to make him smelt occasionally...he values his life too much

Good afternoon there, Mr. Dawgie...

[andysandmikesmom]

Duh...double post...all this fishing talk addled my brain...

[Dawgsquat]

Good afternoon andysandmikesmom! That reminds me of my dad leaving chicken liver out in the sun for a few days to ripen it for catfish bait. WHOOOOOO-WEEEEEEEE!!!!

[balrog666]

You need a touch of molasses in their pardner!

[24Karet]

Corn Meal, Dark Molasses and Anise extract works well and is very stinky.

[Constitution Day]

Haven't tried any dough bait since I was a kid... my grandfather used to make it.

Although I have a large farm pond full of crappie, bream & some smaller bass in my backyard, I seldom have time to fish anymore.
When I do fish in the pond, I use nightcrawlers. Since the pond is almost never fished, they'll hit just about anything.

My dad & I also used to go surf fishing down at Oregon Inlet (NC) every fall but haven't done so since my daughter was born about two years ago.
That's the fishing I love most.

CD

[chance33_98]

Thanks to all on this thread! I made up some dough bait last night and hope to use it this weekend. Will report back to you all soon (Hopefully with photos of giant fish)