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I picked up a wooden catfish box and need bait options

Posted on 3/17/20 at 7:01 pm
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
46269 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 7:01 pm
We had a couple years ago and pulled in a lot of catfish at the house. My old neighbor purchased the bait. He moved away and I don’t know what we used to use,

Now that I have picked up a new box I’m not having any luck catching. I have used some fish pellets and some fish bait from Cabela’s with zero catfish luck.

What should I be using and where can I get it. I live on the Diversion Canal.
Posted by Canvasback
Member since Jan 2016
206 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 7:06 pm to
Cut up shad or stink cheese. Port Vincent hardware may have so cheese.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
46269 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 7:09 pm to
I didn’t think to check there, good suggestion
Posted by boudinman
Member since Nov 2019
6101 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by Bigfishchoupique
Member since Jul 2017
9467 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 8:30 pm to
The commercial fisherman in DesAllemands are switching from cheese to soybean castings due to the weather warming up.
Actually they are using a mixture of it right now.
You can buy a 440 pound drum of cheese or a 30 pound bucket from Marvin Dempster in DesAllemands. ( second driveway West of the old bridge on North side of road). Also castings.
Memphis Net will ship to you.
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
14634 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 8:35 pm to
quote:

picked up a wooden catfish box


What, like you checked someone else’s trap?

You did, didn’t you. You trap thief.
Posted by DTRooster
Belle River, La
Member since Dec 2013
8872 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:03 pm to
That stink cheese or chopped up shad
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
12917 posts
Posted on 3/17/20 at 9:08 pm to
Nets and More in Janesville, LA sells something they call Powerbait. It's a mix of soybean meal and stink cheese. It comes in blocks so you don't get dirty or stinky handling it. That's what I've been using this year and it catches very well. Actually about 25% of my catch is carp that are coming to the soybean meal. The other 75% is Catfish.
Posted by HotKoolaid
Member since Oct 2017
444 posts
Posted on 3/18/20 at 8:18 am to
I use this. It's probably over priced but I don't have to go driving around for bait for a single net.

LINK

My slat trap doesn't get baited but it takes a while to get good and slimy before flatheads will move into it.

Ran my net and slap trap yesterday. I kept one nice flathead from the slat trap and two eater size blues from the hoop net.

Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5535 posts
Posted on 3/18/20 at 8:39 am to
Hang it upside down about a foot off the bottom and your catch will go way up rather than setting it directly on bottom
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
33743 posts
Posted on 3/18/20 at 8:55 am to
cottonseed cake......not even close.
Posted by Captain Ray
Member since Nov 2016
1589 posts
Posted on 3/18/20 at 1:01 pm to
you can sue anything to nothing at all. the slimier and older the box the better
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