Catfish Bait Recipes

Catfish Stink Bait Recipes – Mix and Match Ingredient List

OK, so we all know that catfish have a sense of smell that puts ours to shame, right?  Well, stink bait takes that keen sense of smell and uses it against them by mixing together some of their favorite food smells.  Stink bait gets catfish all riled up and sends them in a hunting frenzy, straight for your hook.

Making stink bait is a lot easier than most people expect.  All you need is a blender or a food processor, some flour or crushed up saltine crackers, and a bit of creativity to figure out some killer catfish stink bait recipes.  To give you a bit of a head start, here are some of my favorite stink bait ingredients that get the catfish biting.

• Chicken livers.  Yep, no matter how you use em, the cats go crazy.
• Chicken blood.  Now don’t get squeamish on me.  This stuff adds kick to any stink bait recipe, its a must for sure.
• Frozen shrimp or shrimp paste.  Either one will do.  I like to put about a tablespoon of shrimp paste in my mix, just to add the smell.
• Raw fish.  Don’t splurge on it, whatever’s on sale at the market or sitting unused in your deep freeze will do just fine.
• Stinky cheese.  What would stink bait be without some cheese?  If people think it’s stinky, you know the catfish will smell it from a mile away.  I’ve had good luck with pepper jack, and my brother-in-law swears by havarti.
• Sardines, anchovies, or tuna.  The canned stuff is quick, easy, and very smelly.  Count on the cats loving it.

Pick a few of them, or all of them, or get adventurous and try some of your own ideas in there.  Either way, put the ingredients in the blender, whir them into a soupy mush, and pour it into a mixing bowl.  At this point, you’re going to add either your flour or your crushed crackers.  The trick here is that you want them to be solid enough to stay on the hook, but you don’t want them to get so powdery they fall apart, or worse yet, lose their stink.

Add a bit of your dry ingredient and mix it in by hand.  Keep a hook handy, and when you think it’s nearly dry enough, try making a ball of it and putting it on the hook.  I like to dunk it into a bowl of water to make sure its not gonna fall apart as soon as I try and toss it to the cats.  Keep adding in more of the dry stuff until you get it to a consistency that works for you.  That’s it, you’re done!

If you have any good catfish stink bait recipes that have worked miracles for you, or any other good catfish bait recipes, share them with me in the comments box below and I’ll publish them up for everyone.  Happy catfishing!