Homemade Super Catfish Dough Bait Recipe
If you want to catch really huge catfish, then live, or cut bait is the way to go. But if you just want a mess of eating-sized channel cats, then you might want to try making your own bait. Commercial dough baits are available, but it's more fun to make your own.
Most involve ingredients with, shall we say, a pronounced bouquet. Catfish have an incredible sense of smell, and are attracted to anything strong smelling. Here are a few recipes to get you started.
Catfish Melange
Melt 1 lb. of Velveeta cheese for about 1 min. in microwave. Then chop 6-8 oz. of raw chicken livers. Add to the cheese. Next, add a healthy spoon of minced garlic or garlic powder. Then mix in 1 can of dog, or cat food, and add 1 dozen minnows and enough flour to give a dough consistency. Mix in a food processor.
This bait works best on treble hooks or bait tubes.
Cajun Bait
In a blender, mix about 1 lb. of cut fish (rotten minnows work great). Add 1/3 cup of water, 1/2 Cup parmesan cheese, 1 box cherry Jell-O, 1/4 cup molasses, 3 Toss of onion salt and garlic salt, 1 cup bread crumbs, and.3 Tablespoons of soy sauce.
Remove this mixture to a mixing bowl. Add flour to thicken then work into dough by hand. To use, simply pinch off a small chunk, roll it into a ball and place on a #4 treble hook.
Old Man Liver
In a blender place a pound of chicken livers, a half a box of cornflakes, 1/2 cup garlic powder, 1/3 cup of each: parmesan cheese-molasses-sugar. Blend well place in small dishes and freeze what you don't plan to use as this bait will spoil very quick. Best if used when fresh. Add flour to thicken if needed.
Some other things you can do are to slice a package of old hot dogs into 3/4" chinks. Then, get a bottle of fish oil at an oriental store (Mackerel works best) and fill a glass jar with it. Place the weenie chunks in the oil , seal the jar tightly, and let them soak at least overnight in the fridge. To use, simply place a chunk on a hook and cast it out gently.
Actually, making catfish bait is pretty straight-forward. All recipes have these things in common. Catfish bait consists of 3 things. A base, a binder/thickener/thinner, and flavor/smell. The base is what holds it together and makes it stay on the hook.
Typical bases are flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, and cereal flakes, or any combination of these. The binder is usually water, to make the dough workable, but oil from fish, blood, Kool-Aid, soda, and most any liquid can be used.
Flavorings include meats, rotten and otherwise, the bloodier and smellier, the better, hot dogs, dog, food, cat food, cheese, rotten and otherwise, canned tuna, shrimp and crabmeat, canned chicken, ham, potted meat, Vienna Sausages, etc....
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So does Velveeta mold or not?
I keep reading online that Velveeta doesn’t mold, and before now, we’ve never had a problem with it molding.
In these last few months, it always has some mold on it! Of course it can just be cut away.
Any idea why this is such a recent change though?
My NEW Velveeta has molded in a matter of days. What has changed?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071220173917AAYqvx2
you probably accidently got the low fat kind, and it does mold faster.
other than that, it was probably too close to out of date when you bought it.
check your date on it. I never buy any dairy product unless i check the date.
When cooking macaroni and cheese, my mom has found that when she uses 2% milk to make the cheese, it makes…?
the cheese clump up instead of melting evenly. She uses sharp cheddar Kraft cheese.
Is there something she can add in here to prevent this from happening? Or will she just have to change brands? She says she doesn’t get this problem when using Velveeta brand block cheese.
Robert S, she said your answer is the best so far. If anybody can beat that, please answer, or he’ll get the 10 points!
Yes it will mold if the humidity is high enough to support mold growth. If the humidity is low in your refrigerator it will just dry out. That’s probably why the change, you refrigerator is more humid.
Here’s a little tip I learned years ago. Shred the cheese and sprinkle with a little flour. Toss the cheese to coat it. Add gradually to the milk while stirring. Coating the cheese with flour keeps it from sticking together. I have made cheese sauce with water this way.
What would cause chemical aftertaste in Velveeta macaroni and cheese?
My mom always made wonderful Velveeta macaroni and cheese but never measured the ingredients. Using her estimation of measurements, I made it recently, and there was a chemical aftertaste. Has the composition of Velveeta changed in the last 20 years, or is there a combination of chemicals in ingredients that doesn’t work together? This was the recipe:
one pound block of Velveeta cheese
two cups cooked macaroni
2 tablespoons margarine (I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter)
1/4 cup 2% milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
If anyone knows what recipe to use to have the old wonderful Velveeta taste minus the chemical aftertaste, I would appreciate it.
Velveeta hasn’t changed, but margarine has. Try using butter the next time. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter is all chemicals, and they changed the formula when they removed the trans fats.
My recipe from my Mom is basically the same, but uses butter and heavy cream or half and half.
Have you noticed KRAFT has changed most ingredients for ALL it’s products? And now the don’t taste as good?
Kraft American Cheese tastes different so does Miracle Whip, Velveeta, Light Done Right dressings, ect…
For a FACT I know Miracle Whip was changed because of an email I have with the company. Velveeta because I have the ingrediant list from the “before” and “after” product.
Have you TASTED the DIFFERENCE that they made also?
I think MANY companies are gradually changing the contents to make them healthier and lower in fats and sugars.
We as Americans have become Probably the fattest people in the world, because of the contents of the Prepared packages of food we eat.
When I graduated from High School in 1960 there was only 1 person overweight in a class of 88. Now Huge numbers of us are over weight.
Of course computers and TV makes us very inactive plus the prepared foods. Meats of all types are injected with growth hormones to get to market bigger and faster, we eat them and we get bigger, faster.
AH, IT IS LOVELY TO BE AN AMERICAN, GREAT AND NOT SO GREAT, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
HAVE A HAPPY MOTHERS DAY ONE AND ALL.