Catfish Stink Bait Recipe (note: this takes a few days to get really stinky – USE LATEX GLOVES WHEN HANDLING)Items you will need, and where to get them 

1. Limburger Cheese or similar stinky cheese (1 carton – ¼ pound is plenty) You can find this in the cheese section of your grocery store. You only need a small amount due to the powerful smell this cheese has.

2. Ground Hamburger Meat (1/2 pound – uncooked “raw”) 

3. Regular Corn Flakes (For thickness) Add more corn flakes to make the bait thicker if needed.

4. Beer (of any choice 1/2 can) Catfish don’t care what brand, or if it is Lite, Bud, Coors, etc.

5. Garlic Powder 

6. Chicken Liver Blood (1 container of only the blood – 2 pints) You can find this buy going to the meat section of your grocery store, and buy a couple of pints of chicken livers and drain them for the blood. 

7. (Secret Ingredient) Longcut Copenhagen (1 pouch) This can be found in most any tobacco section of a grocery store or convenience store

.Now let’s put it together 

1. Grab a large bowl for mixing

2. Mix Limburger cheese and ground hamburger meat together. 

3. Add Garlic powder (just enough to cover the top of the meat mixture – sprinkle over the entire surface) and then add beer. 

4. Add the chicken liver blood 

5. Empty the pouch of Copenhagen into the bowl. 

6. Add the cornflakes and mix together to a good thickness (this will usually take 1/4 of the box of cornflakes) If a thicker mixture is needed just add more cornflakes.

 7. Put in a bowl or can with a lid. I use big coffee cans with lid sealed good. 

8. Set away for 2-3 days. I set it out in the sun out on my back porch. 

9. Keep this smelly mixture in the sealed can in the refrigerator for a few weeks. Keeping in mind that some of the ingredients will continue to spoil and become really smelly. And most of all, don’t open the lid inside the house!

Has anyone mixed this stuff up and used it with success?

I mixed some up, still letting it spoil...stuff stunk pretty bad, especially when the beer hit the garlic powder...I think I saw smoke (chemical reaction)...almost scared to open the container after it ripens...

Get some Sonny's Super Sticky and some Team Catfish EZ load dipbait worms or Furry Thangs and you're good to go, forget about all that headache. Better yet, catch some shad or bluegills and chunk them up into cutbait and forget all the stinky stuff, you'll catch more big cats with the real thing. 

They just recently reintroduced Channel Cats to the lake I fish.In May they dumped 1500#'s worth of channels in this lake.Unlikely that any were HUGE...probably just average eatin size...I'd throw em all back anyway...

It sounds like a good recipe but what is one pouch of copenhagen gonna do, unless you mean the whole can?

They just recently reintroduced Channel Cats to the lake I fish.In May they dumped 1500#'s worth of channels in this lake.Unlikely that any were HUGE...probably just average eatin size...I'd throw em all back anyway...

I doubt they stocked anything much smaller than a pound, that's still plenty big enough to get a smaller chunk of cutbait and a 1/0 hook into it's mouth. One of the lakes I catfish gets stocked several times a year with 1lb and bigger channel cats and those little guys drive me crazy eating my bait before the big guys get to it and trying to stick me when I'm unhooking them. Just cut the bait into thin strips and you'll have no problem hooking them. Hotdogs and grasshoppers are both really good baits for smaller channels too without having to mix a bunch of junk up. If they just stocked them they're not going to be real hard to catch anyways and will probably bite about anything.