Fishing Rod and Reel Store

When the males of my family used to go fishing back when I was a kid, we mainly used worms and minnows for bait. My Dad and I were competitive and usually had a friendly fishing contest going on. This led me to dig deep into the worm container in an effort to try to find the biggest worm for bait. After all, bigger bait, bigger fish, right? That is not always the case. Dad usually caught the most fish as well as the largest every time we went fishing. He refused to reveal his “fish-catching secrets”, so I decided to create a secret of my own. I learned how to make homemade fish bait.

Catfish are bottom dwellers and are scavengers. They will eat anything that doesn’t eat them first. They seem to be the least of the picky eaters when it comes to lake or pond fishing. They’ll go after most anything if they’re in the mood. There are many homemade fish baits made especially for catfish, but you’d be surprised how many other types of fish will bite on the same bait.

When I was a kid, we would take biscuits or sliced bread and roll it into a ball and put it on our hooks and head for the lake in our recreation park nearby. These doughballs are probably the most popular of the homemade baits. They’re easy and inexpensive to make, and easily loaded on your hook. Doughballs were my favorite homemade fish bait. We always had leftover bread. You can use it plain, which we mostly did or mix together pieces of old white bread and tuna juice to make tasty doughballs hoping the fish will rise to your hook. Or, you could buy some cheap, premade dough at your local grocery store. Make up one-inch round balls out of the dough. Then, you place them in a sealable container and pour tuna juice over them. Let them soak until time to use them. If you want to make a tastier treat for the fish, mix in some cheap shredded cheese. It also gives the doughballs a nice, bright orange color that will help attract the fish by sight.

Good luck and good fishing.

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