What is the best way to make dough balls?

The recipes I will mention aren't all dough baits but some of them are worth a try anyway.

JUGGS DAVIS STINK BAIT

Melt 1 pound of cheese for about 1 minute in the microwave

Chop 6–8 ounces of raw pork, perch, or both in combination

Chop 1 head of garlic and add garlic salt

Mix in 1 can dog food

Add 1 dozen minnows and enough flour to give a dough consistency.

Mix in a food processor (and then quickly hide it before your wife sees it

This bait works best on treble hooks or bait tubes.

CAJUN MUD BAIT

In a blender mix 24 dead minnows after they have been allowed to sit outside for 24 hours

Add 1/4 cup of the juice the minnows were in

Add 1/2 cup parmesean cheese

Add 1 box cherry jello

Add 1/4 cup molasses

Add 3 tablespoons of onion salt and garlic salt

Add 1 cup bread crumbs

Add 3 Tablespoons of soy sauce

Add flour to thicken then work into a dough and place in baggies in 1 inch balls use on a treble hook.

I’ve had complaints about catching carp with this bait which is probably due to the molasses and jello.

TRINITY RIVER BAIT

In 1/4 cup boiling water add 3 beef bullion cubes

After beef cubes disolve add 3 oz lunch meat

Add 3 Tablespoons of garlic salt and onion powder

Add 5 slices of bread

Add 4 Tablespoons of of melted peanut butter

Add 20 crackers

Pour in a blender and mix. Place in sealable container in a cool place with lid on tight. Use as a ball on treble hook.

JACK'S CAT ATTACK

Mix 1 lb of aged in the sun chicken livers and 1 package of hot dogs together in a blender and mix (this may be best performed outside or with wife gone).

In a gallon jug place a half a loaf of bread torn into bite size pieces

Pour the liver and hot dog mix over bread

Add 2 cans of nacho cheese

Add 1 can corn

Add 1/4 bottle of Tabasco,

Add a dozen worms cut up

Pour this mixture out and knead good until it gets thick and a dough like consistency. Store in the sun, in a large plastic container, and handle with care.

SHADRACK'S DIP SHAD CATFISH BAIT RECIPE

One use for the left over shad when you got too many at the end of a fishing trip.

Place about 20 small threadfin shad in a blender

Add 1/2 Cup of cornmeal

Add 1 tablespoon each of garlic powder and sugar.

Blend well and place this mixture in a jar and shake twice daily for a week and its ready. Use with dip worms or sponges.

UNCLE DEWEY'S CATFISH BAIT RECIPE

Place about two pounds of leftover shad and a tub of chicken livers with about two cups of bacon grease or vegetable oil in a loosely covered bucket and allow to sit in the sun until the shad turn to liquid.

Add about 6 cups of regular oatmeal

Add 2 cups of yellow cornmeal

Add a cup of brown sugar

Add 4oz package of limburger cheese

Stir carefully but thoroughly and return the bucket to a sunny location for another week for more fermentation. Thicken with flour or cattail fuzz for bait, or thin with water for chum.

CATFISH BLOOD BAIT RECIPE

Here’s two methods of making blood bait for catfish.

Find a locker plant that will let you have a set of beef lungs with windpipe still connected.

Hang lungs up by windpipe.

Pour fresh blood into windpipe.

When full hang in cooler until blood coagulates.

Leave in cooler 24 hours.

Take out of cooler and slice into cubes.

Because of the consistency of the lung, the lung absorbs the blood. When you put the slices on the hook, the bait will stay on the hook, but the blood will still bleed out, putting scent in the water.

My experience with blood, the heavier the beef, the better the blood (bull blood).

ALTERNATIVE BLOOD BAIT RECIPE

Contact a slughter house or butcher for blood. You’ll need enough fresh beef blood or chicken blood (it makes no difference) to fill a large baking pan just below the top of the pan.

Fill the pan just below the top with beef or chicken blood

Place it a refrigerator for approximately one week (it will get somewhat hard like a rubber mat).

Place the pan in the sun for as long as it takes to get a hard cover.

Cut into 2″ squares, put in plastic containers and place back in the refrigerator (or freeze).

CATFISH DOUGH BAIT RECIPE

1.5 cups of cornmeal

1 cup of flour

16–20 ounces of Big Red

Anise oil

Add cornmeal, flour and anise oil to pot.

Use however much anise oil you need.

Add almost 3/4 of a bottle of big red.

Cook this over medium heat constantly stirring until most of the liquid soaks up and the dough is stiff and sticky. Flour a counter surface and transfer the sticky dough on top of it.

Here is the important part, knead the dough, just like you would with a loaf of bread incorporating more flour for at least ten to fifteen minutes. This allows gluten to form in the dough and prevents the bait from just coming off the hook. Knead more flour into the dough until the dough is not sticky.

Use a treble hook and good luck.

Bells Of Hell Stink Bait Catfish Bait Recipe (Dip Bait)

This bait recipe belonged to a Texas angler who’d been making it for many years. He sold this commercially in Texas stores for years and it’s somewhat legendary.** It’s even appeared in the Wall Street Journal at once point.

This is a proven and successful recipe that I know works, if you want a dip bait. I personally know many anglers make and use this bait and it works very well. Getting the ingredients can be tough, it takes time to make and you’ll need somewhere you can get it away from your house or you’ll regret it.

The comments listed are all of his notes and information that he has provided for making it. You will see below when you read through it that he explains you can make this a dip bait or a punch bait.

Before proceeding with making this please note the following:

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Bells of Hell Weapons Grade Catfish Bait Recipe

This is the complete Bells Of Hell Catfish Dip Bait Recipe including all the secret ingredients.

This is not something try to make unless you are part buzzard, it really stinks. However if you like to catch lots of channel catfish , then make it.

Don’t try to make this unless it’s hot outside. (The guy that made this lived in Texas and said he waited until at least July to start).

Bells Of Hell Bait Ingredients

36 lbs hog brains

40 lbs cheese (use 60 lbs for thicker bait)

1 gallon shad or other small baitfish

Use what ever kind of cheese you can get. Cheddar, Colby, Jack have all gone into it in the past. 40 lbs is the least amount of cheese I would use and it will be runny at that. 50 or 60 pounds will make better catfish bait for warmer weather. Keep in mind that bait will thin when hot and thicken when cool.

Put the hog brains out in the sun for 2 or 3 days. If you start with soured brains , it will speed the process up.

You need to have the cheese grated in some way. I have a friend who runs it through a meat grinder.

Put everything in a large plastic barrel (trash cans with flat bottoms work) .

This is very important!

The container must be three times the size of the quantity you’ll put in it. For example If you’re going to put ten gallons of bait the container must be at least 30 gallons. The bait will swell and needs the space to expand.

Blend everything together with a paint stirrer on a drill motor.

Cover the barrel in some way to keep out flies , dogs and cats.

Set the barrel in a warm spot (away from neighbors)

Stir the catfish bait every other day*.

If the brains were real funky before you started it will take about 2 weeks before the fermenting slows down. If maggots get started , no problem , they will die quickly.

When there is little swelling between stirrings , dip the bait into quart jars ONLY HALF FULL, the bait will swell again in the jars.

Notes On Making Bells Of Hell Stink Bait: Weapons Grade (and Fishing With It)

Use sponge bait hooks (the smaller the better) to dip in the bait. Make sure to wring any water out of the sponge before redipping or the bait will become runny. Bait the hook again about every 20 mins.

To make a punch bait instead of dip bait you can add cattail fuzz until it becomes the consistency of peanut butter. If you make punch bait take a small bare treble hook (#8 treble hook works real good) and push it into the punch bait. It stays on the hook for a long time.

I make this bait every other year and it’s always better the second year. This makes a lot of bait and you could try cutting the amounts back.

In the 20 or so years I have been using this , I have never caught anything but channel catfishon it.

A meat market can order the brains for you.

Finding the cheese is a little trickier. I found a wholesale cheese distribution company and they sell me moldy or out of date cheese for 50 cents a pound. If you have to pay full price for brains and cheese you’re talking a bunch of money.

all them baits sound good but here is a simple one that will catch fish i was surprised by not seeing it you will need 1 pound hamberger a 1 pack of soft limberger cheese you can usually find it in the dairy section of the grocery store 1 egg and one box of wheaties crush the wheaties mix everything together add a little water keep mixing when you can form little balls that hold together its ready use a number 6 or 8 treble hook and go catch some fish

Pretend like you're gonna tickle the pillsbury doughboy, then rip his balls off.