04-26-2019, 01:41 PM
[#0000FF]Quite a few years ago (too many) I was fishing on Irvine Lake in southern Cal. My fishing buddy made his own custom bait from several ingredients and the big trout loved it. He kept it in a small Skippy peanut butter jar.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]On one trip we were really catching a lot of fish and the "sharing" anglers in other boats started crowding in around us. But they were doing very poorly compared to our catch rate. When they got surly and irate...and demanded to know what we were using...my buddy just held up the peanut butter jar, rebaited a hook from it and kept catching fish. It was a funky looking stuff that wasn't too far off from peanut butter in appearance. When our fellow tanglers asked how we were able to keep it on the hook my buddy volunteered that he had to mix it with some flour...to make a dough.
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[#0000FF]The rest of the story? In the fishing report of the local paper the following week it was announced that anglers were hammering catfish on Irvine Lake with peanut butter doughball baits. Laugh time.
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[#0000FF]On one trip we were really catching a lot of fish and the "sharing" anglers in other boats started crowding in around us. But they were doing very poorly compared to our catch rate. When they got surly and irate...and demanded to know what we were using...my buddy just held up the peanut butter jar, rebaited a hook from it and kept catching fish. It was a funky looking stuff that wasn't too far off from peanut butter in appearance. When our fellow tanglers asked how we were able to keep it on the hook my buddy volunteered that he had to mix it with some flour...to make a dough.
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[#0000FF]The rest of the story? In the fishing report of the local paper the following week it was announced that anglers were hammering catfish on Irvine Lake with peanut butter doughball baits. Laugh time.
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