It Is A Pleasure To Make The Homemade Fish Bait

The most popular homemade fish bait are probably "Doughballs." They're easy and inexpensive to make, and easy to put on your hook. Doughballs are probably my favorite homemade fish bait. You can simply mix together pieces of old white bread and tuna juice to make tasty doughballs the fish will snap your hook after. Or, buy some cheap, premade dough at your local grocery store. Make up one-inch round balls out of the dough. Then, place them in a sealable container and pour tuna juice over them.

Allow them to soak until you're ready to use them. 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.
　　
You can make and experiment with many different ingredients for doughballs. I've used flour, cereals, peanut butter, hamburger, ground sausage, bacon bits, bologna, cheap canned cat food, and a variety of other ingredients to make my homemade doughballs. Just make sure that, whatever recipe you come up with, the dough is firm enough to shape into balls.
　　
Then, to use doughballs as a homemade fish bait, simply mold one around your hook and cast it into the water. If you don't get a hit within several minutes, the doughball will become soggy and fall off your hook. But, that's usually not the case. Usually, some hungry fish will come along and devour the entire doughball while it's still on your hook.
　　
How To Make Catfish Bait - Homemade Recipes
　　
The simplest of all cat fish bait recipes is the age-old hot dog. Simply cut up the hot dogs into one inch slices and push them up into a treble hook. Now you can stop there, but one of my favorite additions to the old hot dog catfish bait is to get a mason jar several days before going fishing and putting the cut up (one inch slices) hot dogs into the mason jar. Then thoroughly cover the hot dogs with garlic salt. Put on the lid, shake the jar ever so often and keep in the fridge until ready to go fishing. Cats love 'em and I'm sure you will too.
　　
Next on the list of catfish bait recipes is the grand-daddy of all catfish baits, and that is the time-tested chicken liver. People have been catching catfish on chicken livers since the beginning of time. The only problem with using them is that they are slimy and fall off the hook easily when casting out into the rivers and lakes. So here's a simple 20th century fix that will keep those chicken livers on the hook.

If you own a dehydrator, you just cut out some wax paper to fit your dehydrator trays and then lay out the chicken livers flat onto the wax paper on the trays. The chicken livers will take about three days total to dry out. You want them to dry to the consistency of beef jerky, pliable yet dried. For an added plus, sprinkle some garlic salt over the chicken livers as they are drying. Another great catfish bait recipe that will have you cleaning catfish for supper.