How to Make Your Own Fish Bait

Curing Salmon Eggs

If you are fishing for bigger game fish, cured salmon eggs are the perfect bait. Largemouth bass, pickerel, lake trout, and other large fish species enjoy them.

Here's how to cure salmon eggs to use as bait:

After you remove the eggs from a salmon you are cleaning, keep the egg sacs--also named skeins--intact. Cover a large, flat,moveable surface with 1/4 inch of borax. Cut the egg sacs (skeins) across the membrane in incisions of 3 to 4 inches. Lay the egg sac (skein) sections 1 inch apart on top of the borax. Dust more borax over the top to produce a light coating. Be sure all egg sacs are covered.

Move the large transportable surface that the eggs are on into a protected spot that has sufficient circulation all around. The eggs must not be in direct sunlight and must not get wet, so be sure they are invulnerable from dampness. Let the sacs to dry for 2 to 3 days, being sure to turn them every 12 hours.

Pick the egg sacs out of the borax and shake any excess them in plastic bags or storage containers. The egg sacs are set to utilize when they are completely dry and feel leathered, but pliable. If eggs are well cured, they can be saved in the plastic bags or containers to be used on anticipated angling trips.

Cheese Bait

Cheese bait can be used to catch catfish, bream, and carp. As a matter of fact, carp especially adore cheese bait. So if you're searching to catch any of these species or a huge carp that's been lurking around your fishing hole, here's how to construct your own cheese bait:

Use 10 ounces (284 grams) of pie pastry and roll it flat on a cutting board or counter top. Smear the pastry with cured cheddar flavor. Add 6 ounces (170 grams) of grated cured cheddar cheese and 4 ounces (115 grams) of crumbled Danish blue cheese. Be certain it's crumbled to fine grains.

Fold the pastry over the cheese so it's wholly covered and roll again. Proceed in this process until the pie pastry and the cheese are blended completely and the cheese is absorbed by the pastry.

Form the paste into a large ball and knead by hand. Add 10 drops of the mature cheddar flavoring to a freezer bag and arrange the cheese paste ball into the bag. Put in the freezer.

When it is unfrozen, this bait has a very attractive consistency and texture, and an extremely strong cheesy aroma. Roll the thawed paste into cheese balls and put into a container for your next fishing trip.

When you place a cheese ball onto your hook, adjust the hook's point into the center, cast and wait patiently for the fish to nibble. Optionally you may add a couple of drops of red food coloring to the paste, but it isn't necessary.