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FRESH SHAD GUT
After catching the shad and removing the gut, you can begin to fish with this bait immediately. The fresh shad gut gives off an odor and a flavor that catfish feed on readily. Although this bait will work anywhere at anytime, it seems the most productive in tailrace areas.

FROZEN SHAD GUT
Put the guts from a large number of shad in quart or pint Ziploc freezer bags. After sealing the bags, place the shad guts in your ice cooler for transport home.Put the guts in your freezer, and take them out when you're ready to go fishing. Don't unthaw the guts all at one time. Instead fish with them as they unthaw, and keep the extra guts in the Ziploc bags in your cooler until you're ready to fish again.

FRESH SHAD GUTS
Seal in a Ziploc bag, and leave in the sun for three to six hours, depending on the temperature, so that the guts become rancid but not rotten. Next, put the bag of shad guts in your ice cooler, take them home, and freeze the bags. The next time you fish, let the shad guts gradually thaw out. They'll have a strong smell to them. Keep the guts you're not using in the ice cooler with the bag zipped shut.

POSSUM BAIT
The next time you are on you're way to fish, watch for dead possum on the road. Take the possum and skin it and cut it into small piece's and use it on your trotline or your rod and reel. It's reported to be some of the best bait you can get for free.

GRAPES?
You'll find yellow raisins an inexpensive bait that works well just as the water begins to warm up or cool down. This bait pays the most dividends when you fish with a trotline, jugs, limb lines or other types of tackle where you must leave the bait out all day or all night. Put the raisins onto small hooks. As the raisins stay in the water, they'll begin to rehydrate,swell-up, ferment and give off a sweet plum-like smell that will cause cats to come running. Remember, you must leave the raisins in the water long enough to swell and ferment to increase their effectiveness.

SCRAP PARTS
Take odd pieces of cutup fish,clams,minnows,crawfish and eels,and put them into a loosely-coverd glass jar. Leave this mixture until it turns to oil. Then mix one part oil of anise with five parts of the fish oil. Use this on catfish baits. Or you might cut up some hot-dogs into one inch pieces and put them into the jar and let soak over night and use them for bait

PEANUT BUTTER
Stink bait that uses 80% cheese,at least three years old,5% calf starter that you can purchase at any feed store,5% dried animal blood,5% peanut butter and flour. Mix the cheese,calf starter,dried animal blood and peanut butter together,and blend until creamy. Slowly add flour a little at a time,and continue blending until you achieve the right consistency. Then dip Cat Tracker Catfishing Worms,either the Egg or the Tube,in the mixture immediately before you fish to catch plenty of cats.

SMELLY SWAMP CAT BAIT
Get a suitable leakproof jar and add the following:
3/8 pint of chopped livers
3/8 pint of chicken parts {entrails}
3/4 pint of "moldy" cheese
Mix and mash up the stinky concoction thoroughly with a beater. then add enough peanut butter to make the mix stick together. Thicken the mixture with a suitable amount of flour: For good measures, add one or two raw eggs and stir. To "age" the ingredients, let the bait sit in the sun for a couple of hours, and you're to go. Remember the stronger the smell, the more productive the bait is. Vary components until you find the best "flavor" for your catfish.

LIVERS AND KIDNEYS
Buy inexpensive beef kidneys and chicken livers for a productive catfish bait. leave the kidneys and/or livers sitting in the sun for three to six hours before you begin to fish. As you fish, cut off small pieces of the organs that have by now become rancid and will call catfish once in the water.

DOUGH BAIT
Mix flour and water to form a pasty dough. Add your favorite flavoring, anise oil, commercial catfish scents, rotten fish, blood, rancid cheese, etc. Then roll it up into balls and store in a sealed container.You might try this to, which will also chum in carp. Put flour, cornmeal and creamed style corn in a large mixing bowl. Pour pineapple juice into the flour mixture, mix it, and make a dough. Continue to add flour and pineapple juice until you form a large ball of dough. Next pour in uncooked rice, and squeeze into the dough. Put the dough in a large Ziploc-freezer bag, and take it to where you plan to fish. Or, you can mix together canned sweet potatoes or yams with the pineapple juice and other ingredients.