Your fishing 🎣 dough recipes: I recently watched several YouTube videos about a young boy, in a foreign country, catching fish in various ways using a home made dough bait. In one...

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

I recently watched several YouTube videos about a young boy, in a foreign country, catching fish in various ways using a home made dough bait. In one video he even mixed it up with water from the river, but they never showed what it consisted of?
So I'm asking your advice on a good catch all type fishing dough
Thanks 👍
Commander Bell out

NJ219bands Loc: New Jersey

Mix a cup of flour with a cup of yellow corn meal. Add vanilla, water and sugar. Then put quarter sized dough balls in boiling water for 3 minutes. It’s much easier to use canned whole kernel corn instead of making dough balls.

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

NJ219bands wrote:

Mix a cup of flour with a cup of yellow corn meal. Add vanilla, water and sugar. Then put quarter sized dough balls in boiling water for 3 minutes. It’s much easier to use canned whole kernel corn instead of making dough balls.

I very often use whole kernel corn, when fishing 🎣 under a float/bobber.
Commander Bell out

Jeremy Loc: America

NJ219bands wrote:

Mix a cup of flour with a cup of yellow corn meal. Add vanilla, water and sugar. Then put quarter sized dough balls in boiling water for 3 minutes. It’s much easier to use canned whole kernel corn instead of making dough balls.

Sounds like something at the Fair. Interesting dough though

holford24 Loc: central Indiana (elwood)

Çornmeal flour strawberry jello put in white sock boil. Another one dry cat food and hamburger and strawberry jello

Billy Bob Loc: Terre Haute,IN

This isn't for all species, but for carp, Take 40% Bran flakes, crush into a fine mixture, add small amounts of warm water a little at a time. Until you have a sticky mixture. Add some Red pop, jello or some type of flavoring to sweeten it up. (I prefer some type of Red soda they really seem to like it.) If Mulberrys are in season, they are great also. Take mixture and roll into a tight ball to keep moisture in. Pinch off enough to make a tear drop ball and cover hook.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Commander Bell wrote:

I recently watched several YouTube videos about a young boy, in a foreign country, catching fish in various ways using a home made dough bait. In one video he even mixed it up with water from the river, but they never showed what it consisted of?
So I'm asking your advice on a good catch all type fishing dough
Thanks 👍
Commander Bell out

CB
One of the quickest I've found is instant oatmeal. Whatever flavor you want or get plain n add your own.
You can easily make it as you need it.

Squeeze some in your hand n stick it in water. Just enough to from a ball.

Put it on the hook wait a minute or two n cast it brother. 👍

Over many years of cats n carp I've tried many of the recipes 👍

Lockman54 Loc: Alliance,Oh

NJ219bands wrote:

Mix a cup of flour with a cup of yellow corn meal. Add vanilla, water and sugar. Then put quarter sized dough balls in boiling water for 3 minutes. It’s much easier to use canned whole kernel corn instead of making dough balls.

Another thing that helps is mixing cotton balls in the dough to help hold it together. I remember my dad did that when I was a young boy.

Jeremy Loc: America

All of them sound like good ideas. It seems that if a dough is boiled then it has to stay on hook better. For cats chicken liver with magic thread or elastic string with a nightcrawler on hook before the liver gets tied is very effective. Dough will stay on hook during the bite better with string too.

WiBob Loc: NE Wisconsin

Haven't done it for years, but as kid I would just take a piece of bread down to the river and knead some cardamom into it - because that's what we had laying around. Caught lots of carp, though they would play with it a long time before committing. Great "lazy" fishing days.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Jeremy wrote:

All of them sound like good ideas. It seems that if a dough is boiled then it has to stay on hook better. For cats chicken liver with magic thread or elastic string with a nightcrawler on hook before the liver gets tied is very effective. Dough will stay on hook during the bite better with string too.

Jeremy the instant oatmeal sets up real nice 👍

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

WiBob wrote:

Haven't done it for years, but as kid I would just take a piece of bread down to the river and knead some cardamom into it - because that's what we had laying around. Caught lots of carp, though they would play with it a long time before committing. Great "lazy" fishing days.

Back in my early boyhood days I used to go to a local park that had stunted Blue Gill. I would take a piece of bread and pinch off enough to make a small dough ball and place it on a small hook. No sooner did it hit the water 💦 A gill grabbed it and was hooked. All my friends did likewise.
Today the pond has been drained, cleaned up and restocked with channels via the DNR.
This was done two years ago. They should be worth fishing 🎣 for by now.
Thanks 👍 for the trip down memory lane. It was a blessing.
Commander Bell out

Jeremy Loc: America

Grizzly 17 wrote:

Jeremy the instant oatmeal sets up real nice 👍

Any that comes off in a current will get em moving towards your hook.

Grizzly 17 Loc: South central Pa

Jeremy wrote:

Any that comes off in a current will get em moving towards your hook.

True Jeremy.
I never did any chumming but know some that did.
I haven't targeted cats or carp for many yrs.

Tommyboy Loc: Indianapolis

Commander Bell wrote:

I recently watched several YouTube videos about a young boy, in a foreign country, catching fish in various ways using a home made dough bait. In one video he even mixed it up with water from the river, but they never showed what it consisted of?
So I'm asking your advice on a good catch all type fishing dough
Thanks 👍
Commander Bell out

I use to mix molasses and bread for my carp bait. Not the best to stay on the hook, but it caught carp.