Best Trout Dough Bait Recipe
Trout really like soft dough baits. This dough bait recipe will entice even the
most picky of Lunker trout to bite your line. This dough bait works on all
trout species, but even more so for planter trout. If you are going to fish
with a bobber you will want the bait to sink. You can do this by using a
dough bait hook that has a spring in the center to weight it down, or you
can skip the ingredients below that cause flotation. If you are going to fish
with a sinker on the bottom, you will want the trout bait to float up from the
bottom adding the optional flotation ingredients below. Trout dough bait
works well for rainbow trout, lightning trout, lake trout mackinaw, landlocked chinook king salmon
(kings), landlocked coho salmon, and brown trout, but will also catch the occasional smallmouth bass,
largemouth bass, spotted bass, catfish, and carp.
Trout Dough Bait Recipe
Base Dough Bait Ingredients
3/4 Cups of Flour
1/4 Cup of Corn Meal
1/2 Tsp Garlic Powder, Garlic Salt, Granulated or Chopped Garlic
1/4 Cup of Water
1/4 Cup of Sugar
Dough Bait Flotation Ingredients
Any 1 of the Following if Needed
1/2 Cup of Marshmallows
1/4 Cup of Marshmallow Creme
Dough Bait Trout Attractant Ingredients
Any of the following are optional
2 ounces of processed cheese
3 tablespoons Peanut butter
1 Tablespoon of your Favorite Trout Fish Attractant
Anise extract or Anise Fish Attractant
1/2 Teaspoon of glitter
Drops of food coloring to get the desired color
Optional Dough Bait Recipe Ingredients
Additional Flotation - Mix in some ground up Styrofoam
Additional Thickness - Add cotton ball fibers to the mix
Trout Dough Baits Recipe Instructions
If you are using cheese or marshmallow you will need to warm them up a little bit so they will partially
melt them so you can mix them together easier and set them aside to add to your dough bait recipe
after you add the wet ingredients. In a medium sized mixing bowl, mix together the dry ingredients really
well. Now add the wet ingredients and mix everything together real well. Put 2 tablespoons of flour on
hard surface covered in wax paper. Put the mixed dough onto the flour and mix well together by
kneading it. Now that all of the trout dough bait ingredients are mixed up well, and you have all your
optional ingredients that you want to add, you can place it into ziplock bag or tub with an air tight seal
until you are ready to fish with it and catch some trout.
Keeping the Trout Dough Bait Fresh
It’s important to keep the dough bait from drying out and remaining soft and fresh so that the trout will
not spit it out when they try to eat it. To do so, always keep the dough bait out of direct sun light for long
periods of time, and keep it in a ziplock bag or tupperware type container with an air tight seal.
Berkley Powerbait Trout Dough Bait
Berkley PowerBait gives you that little extra advantage you need to make turn your day of fishing into a
day of successful catching. The scientists at Berkley have spent over 25 years perfecting an irresistible
scent and flavor that fish love. Fish love PowerBait so much they hold on 18 times longer, which gies you
the time and confidence to Feel More Bites , to have more hook sets, and to catch more fish. The
embedded glitter on some of the varieties simulates real fish scales and allows trout to see the dough
bait from a distance.
How to Make Trout Dough Bait Stay On The Hook
Whether you use a homemade dough bait recipe, or buy some store bough dough bait like powerbait,
sometimes it can be difficult to keep on the hook. For your homemade recipe, you can try using a little
bit more flour, but for both types of dough bait, you can use a treble hook with the little spring or wire in
the middle. This wire holds the bait on very well. It also can provide a little bit of weight to sink your
dough bait down below a bobber as well. These dough bait hooks below are exactly what you need.
Trout Dough Bait Hooks
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