Normally for freshwater, a friend of mine told me some fish would be quickly attracted to very stinky and smelly baits e.g. some food for bait you keep in some storage area (and to make it even stinkier, but some egg whites!) for a week - use that for bait.
Lord I don't know if this is true - is it?
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by runnersgo
Catfish and other rough fish love stinky baits.
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by deadeyi76
How stinky is stinky here?
What kind of rough fish are we talking here?
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by runnersgo
My grandpa would make a chum that you couldn’t stand within 10ft of. And if it got on your clothes??? Might as well burn em right there before it hits your skin
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by OkayBoomer10
Jesus Christ ...
What's the recipe of making it super stinky?
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by runnersgo
I don’t know what all went into it, but I know it was made in a 5 gallon bucket. Included wet dog food, any ground up leftover meat trimmings, cheese of some sort, water, and Mountain Dew. Plus a whole of a lot more. Think he bonded it all together with rice or some kind of deer/animal feed
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by OkayBoomer10
Ahaha! He's awesome - someone told me to put marshmallows or candies.
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by runnersgo
Marshmallow would be good
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by OkayBoomer10
Why is that actually?
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by runnersgo
Sticky. I assume it would keep the stink together lol could be used similar to cheese bait on a sponge and treble hook too
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by OkayBoomer10
Check out the song Big Whiskers by Otis Gibbs
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by JaketheSnake8888
Just to give my input, I have used various baits for catfish, some much more rancid than others, and in my experience there is a diminishing marginal product in how awful the bait smells. At a certain point it's not that much more effective, you're just torturing yourself.
I have had good luck with punch baits, CJs and Sudden Impact, I think shad flavor for both.
Again I wouldn't consider myself an authority but that's my experience.
Edit: cut mackerel works as well as anything I have used. Much more successful with it than rotten chicken liver, which I assure you, as fishy as mackerel is, there's no comparison to that liver.
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by anglerofthewest
I'm not an expert but I know catfish love rancid rotting bait like dead fish and I think carp and suckers also like somewhat stinky bait.
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by deadeyi76
We used rotten chicken gizzards for catfish. Horrible smell. Could catch them on fresh gizzard but I think the rotten smell carried further
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by bluelinewarri0r
Catfish love any strong smelling thing some people have even started using bar soap because it smells better than regular catfish stuff
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by mmmmmmmmslurpppp
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