Catfish/Carp bait question.
03-20-2003, 09:27 PM
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Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toledo Ohio USA
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Catfish/Carp bait question.
For a long time I' ve seen those bags of doug balls that are labeled as catfish and carp baits. They' re in flavors of blood and liver and shad, made by Berkely (Powerbaits). I was thinking of trying some this year and was wondering what kind of results you' ns have had with ' em. Are they worth trying or a waste? Gracias.
Brandan
04-02-2003, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: naples maine USA
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RE: Catfish/Carp bait question.
ive never tried dough balls but i have made my own bait with cotton balls burger blood tooth paste to keep the balls together and what ever else you think is really nasty and they worked great me and my cousin caught a bunch of cat fish that night maybe it was just dumb luck but it worked
04-03-2003, 01:34 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Catfish/Carp bait question.
corn is hard to beat for carp it seems around here.....and channel cats chicken liver works good...flatheads usually need live bait..all depends waht cat your fishing for.....i dont like dough stuff much either...channel cats hit some of it but somes a waste of money and time....liver will get them all...
04-05-2003, 04:40 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sheridan Arkansas
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RE: Catfish/Carp bait question.
hey man...I tried the berkley dough balls in blood flavor, and I caught several decent-pretty good sized catfish on them. I think the smallest one was about 3lbs, maybe 16-17 inches long. I guess it all depends on where you are fishing. My aunt uses crow and chicken liver as well as skwerl guts, and she' s pretty successful at it.
