This might be the dog-gonest bait you have ever tried partner. Easy too! This is how we do it if we are out for a weekend of catfishing - and it works well on trott lines too.
- ferment a 5 lbs. of milo in a bucket with lid...away from house
- a double handful of cotton seed meal
- a big box of wheaties [Breakfast of Champions]
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup Karo syrup
Extract a large mason jar w/lid of the grain. Mix the other items together and make a ball. If it does not make a ball, add a can of biscuits - there was to much cotton seed meal. Then mash up the remaining grain to pulp - which we will use for chum. Use treble hook to load your bait on and use a scoop to spread your chum. Make sure it's mashed well - we don't want them full before they find our hook!
So once your hook is baited, dip that dude in the jar for a couple minutes. You may want a spoon to help push them fermented seeds in the dough bait. That also helps to not get the smell of your hands on the bait. Fish the flats - 4 cats. #1 most important ... mix the bait in all in your wife's best bowl and don't wash them so when she screams you get to go fishing to let her cool off!!
Sam "Walkingeagle" Davidson - Kansas City, MO