Has any one used soap for catfish bait. I have got some recipe for some soap and thinking about trying to make some soap.

I sure do. I wash the stinking shad smell off my hands with soap. . I tried the soap deal for channels an didn't have much luck. But I'm not much of a catcher....more of a fisher

Heard about IVORY for years never tried it though.

My theory is if you can catch em on a piece of soap, there’s prob a lot of fish in the area and you’ll catch a lot more with shad or punch bait

I stayed In a house right On the Little Pee Dee river In SC and this old dude use to put In his boat there. And he told us that he just used a chunk of Ivory soap on his hook. Don't know If he ever caught anything or how he kept It on the hook but he said It worked.

I use Fels-Naptha soap and have caught plenty of cats using only a thumb-sized chunk suspended below a jug. They will blow bubbles if ingested long enough.

Basic soap is animal fat and wood ash's, I have caught Cats on it.

I used Ivory soap about 10" stop with an Egg sinker.

I got some recipe that is lard soap and add some cotton seed mill or some corn and soybeans to it or maybe add some fish flavor to it

Using set lines in eastern Arkansas's White River when I was growing up I and others caught many catfish on chunks of white soap. We used it mostly when water was discolored from spring flooding. Whether fish were attracted to the color, odor trail washing off in the currents, or what, I do not know. I think main ingredients in the soap were animal fats and lye.

beaverfoot,

I have never used soap for catfish bait, but I do know others that do and they catch fish. They use Zote soap. I think its something used pretty often in Mexico and is found in just about every dollar store down here and also walmart. I think it is made a lot from tallow (animal fat). If so, I don't see any reason why a catfish would not eat the heck out of it.

https://www.thespruce.com/zote-laundry-soap-product-review-2146774

When my friend had a cabin on the Mississippi we would bait trot lines in the summer with Irish Spring soap. Caught fish.

I seen guys on the Red river in Texas use Ivory soap and catch cats on trot lines.

I’ve never tried it. But I’ll get back to you in a day or so. Lol