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Old 03-20-2003, 09:27 PM   #1
 
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For a long time I' ve seen those bags of doug balls that are labeled as catfish and carp baits. They' re in flavors of blood and liver and shad, made by Berkely (Powerbaits). I was thinking of trying some this year and was wondering what kind of results you' ns have had with ' em. Are they worth trying or a waste? Gracias.

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I tried the doughball years ago and got nothing, if you don' t like using liver try hotgog for cats. grassyass to you too!
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Old 03-21-2003, 04:53 AM   #3
 
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When I lived in KY I tried the doughballs, and didn' t have much luck either. I liked using liver with a dash of garlic.
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Go to the grocerie store and buy beef liver- cheap and works great.
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ive never tried dough balls but i have made my own bait with cotton balls burger blood tooth paste to keep the balls together and what ever else you think is really nasty and they worked great me and my cousin caught a bunch of cat fish that night maybe it was just dumb luck but it worked
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Old 04-03-2003, 01:34 PM   #6
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corn is hard to beat for carp it seems around here.....and channel cats chicken liver works good...flatheads usually need live bait..all depends waht cat your fishing for.....i dont like dough stuff much either...channel cats hit some of it but somes a waste of money and time....liver will get them all...
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Ryecrisp crackers work killer on carp here in Ohio. Caught about 10 in a bout 2 hours at Buckeye Lake this past summer. And I will agree, livers for cats
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I have never tried the (doug) balls, even though I carry them with me every place I go. LOL
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hey man...I tried the berkley dough balls in blood flavor, and I caught several decent-pretty good sized catfish on them. I think the smallest one was about 3lbs, maybe 16-17 inches long. I guess it all depends on where you are fishing. My aunt uses crow and chicken liver as well as skwerl guts, and she' s pretty successful at it.
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Old 04-06-2003, 09:22 PM   #10
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For catfish, fresh cutbait works better then dough bait.. Unless you fish for farm raised catfish. such as at pay lakes. then try bejays catfish bait mixed with hamburger.
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