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<blockquote data-quote="Deer Slayer" data-source="post: 1556832" data-attributes="member: 8855"><p>wkenneth- There are several ways to make blood bait. The method I use is to go to a meat packer and ask him if you supplied a 5 gallon bucket and lid would he catch the fresh blood when he has killed a cow. Tell him to please catch the fresh hot blood as it is draining until it just starts to get watery. Pull the bucket out from under the cow and immediately put on the lid and place it in the cooler for a day. This allows the blood to clot into a big chunk of "jello". Place the bucket on a piece of plywood or similar surface and gently ring the bucket with a fillet knife or hack saw blade to release the clot from the bucket. Now gently tip the bucket over and allow the surface water/material to drain off. Gently let the clot slide onto the board and start slicing the clot into "pies". The clot will remind you of a giant can of gelled cranberry sauce. I cut my slices approx. 2" thick and lay the piece on the board and slice into strips approx 2" thick. Now you have a 2" X 2" strip which I cut into pieces approx 3" long. Place the chunks into a empty ice cream bucket or plastic pail and frezze it until I am ready to use. The freezing and thawing process dehydrates the blood drawing out additional liquid.It toughens the bait. You can use and refreeze the baits several times and it will continue to toughen. You can add some rock salt/ice cream salt too and this helps.</p><p> To drift fish these blood baits buy some #1 or @ #2 treble hooks and find some flat dacron fishing line. The dacron line does not cut the blood bait like mono does. Next take a piece of bailing wire or I use a piece of wire from survey flags(thin wire) and bend a tiny hook on the end with a pair of needle nose pliers. Next tie on a 8 - 10" leader of dacron line to the treble hook and then add a real small swivel to the end of the leader. To install the blood bait chunk on the hook just skewer the chunk with your wire bait needle and hook the swivel on the hook. Pull the swivel thru the blood and slide the chunk down onto the treble. Now push the hook completely into the blood completing the package. DO NOT CAST THIS or it will fly apart.</p><p> To drift fish the blood gently lift the chunk out of the bucket into the lake with your hand and pay out your line some 80' or so depending on the depth you want to fish. Hold on to your rod the cats thump the bait pretty hard and you set the hook immediately. Remember where is the hook? at the bottom of the bait. How do you know the fish has fully engulfed the bait? Catfish have no hands. The blood will stay on the hook quite well while you drift. I use a drift sock or two to slow my drift if the wind gets above 10 or 12 mph. I have drifted in 25 mph winds dragging a sock and and an anchor and clobbered the channels in a shallow lake in Nebraska. BTW I set my plastic pail in a plastic dish pan so as not to spill or drip blood on my carpet when I am baiting up. Trust me you do NOT want to spill your bucket of blood in the boat. Been there and done that.<img src="/images/smilies/eek2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":eek2:" title="Eek2 :eek2:" data-shortname=":eek2:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deer Slayer, post: 1556832, member: 8855"] wkenneth- There are several ways to make blood bait. The method I use is to go to a meat packer and ask him if you supplied a 5 gallon bucket and lid would he catch the fresh blood when he has killed a cow. Tell him to please catch the fresh hot blood as it is draining until it just starts to get watery. Pull the bucket out from under the cow and immediately put on the lid and place it in the cooler for a day. This allows the blood to clot into a big chunk of "jello". Place the bucket on a piece of plywood or similar surface and gently ring the bucket with a fillet knife or hack saw blade to release the clot from the bucket. Now gently tip the bucket over and allow the surface water/material to drain off. Gently let the clot slide onto the board and start slicing the clot into "pies". The clot will remind you of a giant can of gelled cranberry sauce. I cut my slices approx. 2" thick and lay the piece on the board and slice into strips approx 2" thick. Now you have a 2" X 2" strip which I cut into pieces approx 3" long. Place the chunks into a empty ice cream bucket or plastic pail and frezze it until I am ready to use. The freezing and thawing process dehydrates the blood drawing out additional liquid.It toughens the bait. You can use and refreeze the baits several times and it will continue to toughen. You can add some rock salt/ice cream salt too and this helps. To drift fish these blood baits buy some #1 or @ #2 treble hooks and find some flat dacron fishing line. The dacron line does not cut the blood bait like mono does. Next take a piece of bailing wire or I use a piece of wire from survey flags(thin wire) and bend a tiny hook on the end with a pair of needle nose pliers. Next tie on a 8 - 10" leader of dacron line to the treble hook and then add a real small swivel to the end of the leader. To install the blood bait chunk on the hook just skewer the chunk with your wire bait needle and hook the swivel on the hook. Pull the swivel thru the blood and slide the chunk down onto the treble. Now push the hook completely into the blood completing the package. DO NOT CAST THIS or it will fly apart. To drift fish the blood gently lift the chunk out of the bucket into the lake with your hand and pay out your line some 80' or so depending on the depth you want to fish. Hold on to your rod the cats thump the bait pretty hard and you set the hook immediately. Remember where is the hook? at the bottom of the bait. How do you know the fish has fully engulfed the bait? Catfish have no hands. The blood will stay on the hook quite well while you drift. I use a drift sock or two to slow my drift if the wind gets above 10 or 12 mph. I have drifted in 25 mph winds dragging a sock and and an anchor and clobbered the channels in a shallow lake in Nebraska. BTW I set my plastic pail in a plastic dish pan so as not to spill or drip blood on my carpet when I am baiting up. Trust me you do NOT want to spill your bucket of blood in the boat. Been there and done that.:eek2: [/QUOTE]
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