Using Real Bait Will Work Best

Our not-so-secret catfish bait is a little concoction I read about in a sports fishing magazine when I was a kid. Its assembly is very simple:




  •    Take a package of cheap hotdogs (catfish aren’t picky). Chop them into bite-sized cubes.

  •   Fill a Tupperware container up with water. Make sure it is one your wife won’t mind you running forever. Once this Tupperware is designated for catfish bait, that is its sole purpose in life.
     
  •   Add the Koolaid. Flavor doesn’t matter too much; we use strawberry or watermelon.
      Stir in a container of minced garlic. That’s right, the whole thing. Catfish aren’t vampires; quite the opposite, the stinkier the bait, the better.
     
  •   Add your hotdog cubes.
     
  • Throw the lid on her and let it sit for a week or two.



Take out and enjoy the aromatherapy while you fish! Works like a champ on a circle hook with something like a Santee-cooper Rig. This sort of bait can also be thrown in a blender until a frothy shake is made and then absorbed by a sponge or stuffed into a dead fish you’re using as bait to kind of “chum the water.

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