I feed my cat fish floating catfish food and they love it. So anyone thought of a way to make catfish bait from it? Maybe grinding it and making a dough bait? The river fish here are caught by the thousands when the graineries load grain onto barges. Seems it may work if I can figure how to get it on a hook. 

On 4/30/2017 at 10:08 PM, WildmanWilson said:

I feed my cat fish floating catfish food and they love it. So anyone thought of a way to make catfish bait from it? Maybe grinding it and making a doe bait? The river fish here are caught by the thousands when the graineries load grain onto barges. Seems it may work if I can figure how to get it on a hook. 

My grandpa used to feed his catfish cat food with holes in the middle. I'd just thread several on a hook and flip it out where he fed them. I've heard of guys tying pieces to hooks or you can use a piece of pantyhose with some of the food in the middle. 

I do it . I have a hard time getting the commercial food/dough to ball  stick on a hook so I mix   it about 50/50 with Wheaties .  It works pretty well .

Tiny dot of glue to hold the hook to the bait. Just make a bunch of them before you fish. However, they will wise up quick getting  caught and fed at the same time!

I'm not trying  to catch the ones I feed. I was wanting  to make a bait out of to use in rivers and lakes I fish. 

7 hours ago, WildmanWilson said:

I'm not trying  to catch the ones I feed. I was wanting  to make a bait out of to use in rivers and lakes I fish. 

Thats what I do . Like i said with the floating food by itself ,it doesnt make a good doughball , the Wheaties helps it to stick together . I've used water , juice from canned corn and beer for the liquid .

You want a dip bait hook:

 

I used to make a dough that mix with all kind of thing like cheese, cat food oak meals. Corn meals peanut butter. Mostly for carp but very often I caught catfish with this dough. The only concern is how to make this dough stick on your hook/treble hook.

to make dough a simplest way is to use white bread, tears into small pieces add a little liquid or vanilla extract add whatever ingredient you wanna mix in. Look up how to make a dough for carp.