I agree 20dad...11 bucks does seem high for a duck call. I suppose if you're handy you could fashion your own duck call using a few ordinary items from around the workshop...
...and before you know it...you've got yourself a duck call!
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And as for the catfish bait...may as well make your own! Here's some winning recipes...
UNCLE BOB'S STANK BAIT
Ingredients:
- 5-10 shad or 2 dozen minnows.
8 oz. Limburger cheese, cubed.
Wheat.
Flour or cotton seed mill.
Instructions:
- In a 2lb. coffee can put the shad and cubed cheese. Be sure to remove the coffee first.
Bury the can in the ground next to your IRA that you withdrew from the bank last month.
In another 2 lb. coffee can put about 2 inches of wheat. Put in enough water to cover the wheat.
Cover the top and let it set until the water is good and sour. You'll know it's sour enough by the twisted face on whoever you have designated as taster. This usually takes one to two weeks. And don't worry...your taster's face usually takes only a week more to untwist.
Try to remember where you buried it and then dig up the first can.
Pour in the water and add flour or cotton seed to thicken. Resist the urge to drink this.
Mix it all up and use as sponge bait, or as the basis for a really good practical joke.
Note: This stuff will knock a buzzard off a cr@p wagon. And it catches fish!
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STRAWBERRY DELIGHT
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast or pepperoni.
1 pack of strawberry flavored JELL-O©.
1 spoonful of garlic powder.
Instructions:
- Just put all of the ingredients in a Zip-Loc© bag.
And let it sit in the sunlight for a day.
Note: For those of you residing on the coast in the Pacific Northwest you'll have to take a pass on this recipe...there just isn't enough sunlight during the course of the year to fully cure this recipe. Sorry.
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VANILLA BURGER
Ingredients:
- 1 lb. hamburger meat.
One small bottle of vanilla extract.
3 tbsp. garlic salt.
Instructions:
- Put the hamburger meat in a bowl and add the small bottle of vanilla extract along with the 3 tbsp. of garlic salt and mix it up...mix it up real, real good.
Once mixed up real, real good then roll it all into little balls about the size of a quarter.
Put it in the Kelvinator©.
After about an hour take the netting from a potato bag and wrap the little balls separately. Put a small rubber band on each to seal it up so it won't fall off your hook.
Note: Great for flatheads. I've caught 30 pounders on it!