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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