I wonder if anyone here has any info on this, It's new to me.
This guy from nebraska has been bragging on his catfish bait for some time. This weekend we went fishin. Put out 2 trot lines with goldfish,shad sides chicken liver etc etc. No catfish were caught on the trotlines!
1 catfish was caught off the bank on chicken liver. Very slow fishing to say the least. 5 catfish were caught on his special bait that we couldn't figure any way to use it except his method.
His bait is cow blood (dad knows butcher). And I dont believe he knows exactly how it's made but he claims if you cool the blood realy fast after draining from buchered cow. It coagulates into the jello blood we were using. Thats just what this stuff was like jello. You take a sguare piece take a trebble hook with a leader on it. take a piece of wire and poke a hole in the delicate square and pull the hole thing through to rest on the hook. I had no luck trying to cast it. Flew right off the hook
But we had succes in the boat (after dark) drifting in the boat dragging this stuff along the bottom. It doesen't seem to fall off that way.
Of course this is where blood bait probably originated from, but if I had to choose over modern day blood bait and modern day chicken liver I would choose chicken liver every time.
Can anybody elaborate on this stuff ( sorry I didn't search)
Even if it's already been covered it oughta be covered again
