Soap bait questions

[Jeffery8mm]

I really want to try soap as catfish bait. I have even made some with lye and lard. Problem is that all soaps are hard. When you try to cut them or put them on the hook, they crumble. WHAT am I missing??
Is it even worth it to use soap??
JEff

[kyelkhunter3006]

The soaps that used to good catfish baits were old Dove and Ivory.  Then they started putting lotions, perfumes, etc into them.  Not so good anymore.

IMO, use the soap to wash the blood and scales from cutbait off your hands.  Good cutbait will outperform just about anything 90% of the time.  That other 10% is where stuff like liver, hotdogs, and other commercial baits come into play.

[hunt-m-up]

I'd agree on the soap thing. Tried it, wasn't impressed. There are way too many good punch or dip baits out there. Sonnys, Cattracker, Docs, Bowkers, etc.