20 Best Dip Bait For Catfish (2023 Updated)

Used this for the first time up in Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago with a lot of success. Get back to Texas and placed an order for Cheese, Blood and Shad. Went out this morning with the Cheese and I’m not sure what that mixture was but it was not a dip.

I mixed it for several minutes but no success. It would not stick to anything. Brought it home, mixed with some cooking oil and now its baking in the sun. I checked the Blood and Shad and those have dip consistency.

We’ll wait and see what happens with the Cheese but tonight when I go back out, we’ll give Blood a try. Hoping the Cheese thins out and finds its stickiness. Wisconsin cats love the Cheese. unfortunately the Texas cats didn’t get to sample it earlier today.

I was a total skeptic in the beginning not going to lie, but this stuff works great! This bait is self-chumming and you will have to re-bait every 15 to 25 minutes. If there are any catfish in the area they will come and get it.

Some will fall off when you cast, but this isn’t a “lets see how far I can cast it” type of bait. I used it on a #4 treble hook with a sponge I cut out from home, but it worked better when combined with a tube and the #4 hook with sponge.

If you’re not catching anything then you’re not on the fish. Move and re-cast until you do get a hit. In one spot within 15 minutes I had my first bite and within the hour I had 5 cats. Had to re position after 30 minutes of no bites.

Once I got to another spot, again within 30 minutes I already had 3 cats in the boat and had caught enough for dinner.

I was an avid chicken liver fan for many years. I tried this bait and it repeatedly out fished chicken liver. I am a fan! Using the rubber worms, it stays on the hook well and it catches cats! Hands down the best cat bait I have found.

I’ve bought these several times in the past, but they have gone to thinner leaders – it can’t be more than 6 lb mono. Not a biggie if you’re getting smaller fish and ok with it, but once you get into a catfish above 3 lb you’re running the risk of that leader snapping.

I broke off two setting hooks (they are nice and sharp). I re-threaded them with 30 lb mono for leader and didn’t have any issues after that.

I switched to dip bait from cheese baits about 3 years ago and have had very good luck with these worms. The hooks are very sharp and I have had no problems with the provided leader line breaking on catfish up to 30 pounds.

The bait stays inside the ridges of the worm very good in still water or slow current.

These are great catfish worms, I have bought other worms and the problem with them is the lines are always to short for the rig that i tie. the Charlie worms have just the right amount of line. I have fished catfish for over forty years and these are by the far the best worms.

Even if you can not get the worm out of the fish, it is still long enought after you cut it to be able to reuse it.

I fish for winter trout in a public stocked city lake, which has muck and filamentous algae (green slime) on the bottom; this bait floats well on a light hook, very visible no mess or bad smell. I used a split shot on 4# line to keep it floating about a foot off the bottom out of the ‘slime’.

If it doesn’t float add a little more bait or use a lighter Aberdeen hook. I still use crawlers, as they seem to catch slightly bigger fish, but for action you can’t beat this. Stores easily, eliminates the need for marsh mellows, cheese, corn, liver and other stuff that goes bad and stinks.

This bait doesn’t smell as strong as other Berkley products I’ve used, worms, minnows and shrimp. I’ve actually re-used if from fish I’ve cleaned and still caught fish, LOL!.

Bought this after seeing people using it online with good luck. I dont know if I was given a bottle that has been in the warehouse for a long time or what, but no matter how I work it, it will not stay on the hook after going into the water.

I have not caught a thing on this. I’m contemplating buying a bottle from Walmart and seeing if I have the same issues or not.

I’ve used this for so long I can’t remember when I started. I’ve caught trout up to 8 or so pounds. I always use Rainbow at the beginning and it always produces fish. Over the years I’ve caught more than 1000 trout on this bait.

Most recently a 2 pound and a 3 pound 10 ounce Rainbow on Rainbow Power Bait.

This stuff has been around forever. I finally decided to give it a try and it has not failed to produce fish. You are not going to catch 20lb fish with this but will attract a lot of 5lb or smaller eating size channels.

You can make cheap bait hooks buy superglueing small squares of course sponge to your favorite hook and really craming it in. Even if I’m fishing differen bait I always bring Charlie’s. It smells like death though.

I use dip bait for my community pond cat fishing where they stock catfish every two weeks. Last 3 years I was using Premo blood dip bait. After watching youtube video I ordered 1 tub from walmart. com it was bright yellow creamy color.

In my first day, I caught 10 good size catfish in 1 hour. Another day I caught about 14 fish in one and half hour. I thought, I got my magic bait and will not use any catfish bait other than secret 7 in future.

I ordered another one from walmart. com. This time the bait was dark yellow color. Bait consistency is the same as the first tub. But when I want for fishing there is NO bite. I use 3 pole for fishing with my kids.

With the first tub I took off 2 pole since bite was so frequent, i couldn’t keep up. But with the second tub, there is not bite on any of those 3 poles in the same spot. Then I change one of the pole with my leftover premo bait and keep two pole with secret7.

With premo bait I cought 4 fish in one hour. I rebate every 20 min when fishing. I think there is a serious quality control issue in the production line. I love the bait when it works but i was very disappointed with the second tub.

I was expecting better quality for this price. .

Do not buy this product!!! I purchased this because they did not have Sudden Impact which is amazing. I was informed that the Sudden Impact was only available online. Anyways, I figured since the Team Catfish made this as well, it should be good.

Boy was I wrong. this stuff is junk. It is slimy and does not stick on anything other than your fingers. I used the Furry treble, the furry circle hooks, I used the red dip tubes, all recommended on the bucket, heck I even used a hog wild dip worm bait holder, thinking i could load it inside the mesh.

I could not get the stuff to stay on the hook long enough to catch anything. If it did not come off the hook as it flew threw the air, It would come off the hook as soon as it hit the water. God forbid you don’t cast in the right spot, because if you have to reel it in you have to rebait.

I fished for 2 days with this exclusively and did not catch a thing. I had a few nibbles, but they would not hold on to the bait long enough to set the hook. Oh and if you did get a bite. the bait would come off the hook.

That last one is a assumption, because when i did get a nibble, it would be once and then nothing again. Do not buy this, save yourself the money. Buy Sudden Impact, you don’t need special gimmicky hooks that are worthless, and unlike the secret-7, it actually works.

For starters this is an unsolicited review. I fished the Coosa Lock And Dam for 6 years trying a multitude of baits. I was told about Secret 7 and the Team Catfish tube holders so I tried it last weekend.

I caught 5 catfish and a Carp and lost 3-4 other. As the video states the bait does come off however the fish find the tube. The video also states that you don’t get any of the bait on your hands however after time you will get a little.

It’s easy to use, I picked up a stick and used that to mash the bait onto and into the holes of the tube. I will never go back to the days of tying liver in panty hose again. I highly recommend this bait and the Team Catfish tube holders.

Received this in the mail on 8-18-22 upon opening the box I found the product in a clear container with no label and wrapped in a plastic bag, the contents in the container was melted to a liquid and leaking from the bag getting all over the other things that were in the box.

After getting everything out of the box and cleaned up it was discovered that the lid on the container wasn’t screwed down ( was this done on purpose??) and only about a 1/4 of the bait remaining due to it leaking out everywhere.

This ended up being a total waste of money and a big stinky mess. The thing that bothers me the most is I’m still not sure what was even in the tub , why no label ?? And the fact that the lid wasn’t screwed on like it should have been.

I’ve never seen a stink bait liquified like this stuff was and I use a lot of different stink baits in the summertime,,, Very disappointed….

I was going to bad mouth this bait intill a freak accident happend my wieghts broke off and the tube with hook was floating in the middle of the river a catfish about 12-14 pounds jump at the bait. Am guessing the bait sound has well has where am fishing i must have been using the wrong rig/jig.

This bait dose work now 10 catfish cuaght after changing set up and about a 1 week learning curve. Sorry new to fishing but bait dose an amazing job just get pointers if your not catching with it.

Recently started using dip baits along side chicken livers. This bait is the only I’ve found to even come close to chicken livers. One tip is to make sure you use a hook with some type of material to really hold the bait on the hook.

Otherwise it falls off easily. Let it soak for 15-30 seconds in water before casting and you’re set! I’ve only used the original version and found it to work well. On hot nights, bring a small container of ice to sit this in or it can sometimes become too thin.

Would have given this a 5 star but it didn’t meet the success of chicken livers, which is my benchmark for performance (high bar to beat!). Works well with channels and bullheads (sadly).

i’ve used a lot of it and it used to be real good dip bait for channels, I could go thru a container every 2-3 weeks. but it’s been totally ruined. the color originally was a real light tan, now it’s a dark crappy color and looks to be about 40% of some kind of grain, has a weird smell and gets real runny in the least little bit of a warm day.

I sure won’t be buying anymore and will not recommend it to the serious catfish hunters. DEFINITELY not the same original bait formula. save your money.

I live in Northern Oklahoma and the last few years for fishing hasn’t been to awesome for us. I saw the Premo Blood online with awesome reviews so i bought it at walmart and hit the river. Not even 5 mins after my first cast i reeled in a nice blue.

We had bites left and right and reeled in 8 cats in that time. Definitely recommend to anyone! Going back out first thing in the morning.

I purchased this a couple weeks ago. When I went to use the first time I was trying to put it on a treble hook with spring, but it wouldn’t stay on it. I purchased sponge treble hooks and it works. Yesterday I caught 3 blue catfish and missed a few more do to taking fish off one pole.

All three fish swallowed the hook it was so good.

I used these hooks with great results all last summer. The only problem I had was the line that came with the hooks. They would get tangled up all the time. My fix was to get rid of the line and install my own steel leaders.

With the steel leaders they are also better to remove from the fish.

I love these worms but I hate the hooks. I usually take the treble hook and use my own. I wish i could buy just the worms and skip the hooks.

I have no agenda in writing this review, just sharing my experience. After talking to guys at my cat fishing spot who were catching more cats on dip bait than I was on natural bait, I decided to try it.

They were using secret 7 and Hog Wild. I couldn’t get those locally, so I bought a jar of Berkely catfish dip bait. I then ordered Hog Wild and Secret 7 online. I used the Berkely with great results.

I didn’t have nearly as good results with Secret 7 or Hog Wild. The thing that stood out to me, other than that I caught more and bigger fish on the Berkely, was that it stayed on the bait holder much longer.

I tried Berkely by default because the store didn’t carry the two brands I really wanted to try. My unplanned comparison of the three brands resulted it the Berkely catfish dip bait being, in my experience, superior in every way.

I was very impress with this stink bait. Honestly first time trying it. Before was using cut bait exclusively. Was surprise to caught a double right a way. I won’t use a different one. Awesome product.

Highly recommend it.

One of the best times of year to catch large numbers of eating size cats( 1 1/2 # to 10#) is in the fall on flatland reservoirs when the water temperatures are 45 to 60 degrees. Fast fishing and catches average 20-40 per person in a 4-5 hour trip when you know how and where to fish.

Best bait is fresh cut shad but thought I’d try this bait because shad start getting harder to find as the water cools. This bait doesn’t stay on the hook or on bait holders worth a darn and the cats won’t eat it when the water temperature is 53-55 degrees.

After trying on prime spots and never getting even a nibble, left the fishing area and went to find shad. Cast a net for a couple hours and caught 25 small ones(shad), but it was enough bait to catch 19 keeper cats out of the same spots where we couldn’t get a nibble with this prepared bait.

Quit at sundown but we spent most of the half day trip getting bait. Lots of hype and maybe it will work during warm weather but it is worthless for the fall fishing we do.

Campfire was hot and the shots were lots and to my surprise i woke up with the taste of this bait plastered over every tastebud in my mouth. Even washing my mouth with everclear was not match. Absolutely heinous taste, would not recommend as a snack.

Works great for catfish though.

Went fishing and caught 9 chanel cats while my friend caught 2

This stuff will just fall right off the hook if the stream/river is moving water. Washes off in like 10 ten seconds. I have also tested this in a dam where it holds on better BUT will fall off in about 2 – 5 minutes of being in the water.

It seems to bring the fish nearby when you use it but they don’t got enough time to even take your bait. Also, the jar isn’t like the picture for how full they show it. It’s only half as full and smells very bad.

I have used this bait sconce I can remember and I am 71 years old. I found it to be great for channel catfish.

Just started using the dip bait with good results, the dough bait has been around for years and is the go too when nothing else works.

This stuff really works! It out catches non-scented lures and Powerbait 3 to 2 in my use. Now, there actually has to be something there to bite, but I and my buddies use this scent religiously.

The Berkeley garlic mint trout dip is an excellent product. I highly recommend it.

I bought this about a month ago. I bought all three flavors, mint-garlic, roe, and corn. THEY DO NOT WORK!!!!!!! I’ve tried this stuff on stocked trout, natives, bass, and not even bluegill will touch it.

I Am extremely disappointed. I have had the utmost faith in Berkley products until now. $50. 00 down the drain!.

First time ever having luck on fake catfish bait. One after another below a raging dam on the flambeau. Came here looking to buy more. Hope theres a tub of it you can buy, cause 1 bag wasnt enough for me.

I am an Academy outdoors employee. I have use it several times on treble hooks made for catfish dough and it works great! I throw it out with a little weight and a bell on the end of the rod. Sit and wait and catch cats!.

caught a nice 4lb catfish on the very first piece of bloody chicken I used

I did some research on using punch bait before coming across CJ’s punch bait. I watched some YouTube videos of CJ out with his family using his own product and catching fish after fish. I bought the catfish crawdads bait to try and I love the stuff.

I never had much luck with any other bait and at one point decided maybe the river didn’t have any fish in it. I’ve caught many small channel cats and today caught a nice 5 pound blue. Rarely do I ever have to rebait the hook without getting a bite.

I use to fish with more than one rod but found that I catch more fish with this bait when I hold the rod and can set the hook on the first tug. If your thinking about trying this bait you should go ahead and give it a shot.

I can’t wait to try the other baits CJ’S has available.

This is a great bait. The longer you fish a spot, the better the bite gets because the scent draws fish in. It is tough to use in current or where there is wave action because it falls off of the hook.

One tip- use a mechanics hand cleaner like Fast Orange to get the smell off of your hands. I keep it in the boat.

It have bought and used wild hopper, monster and minnow in both 14oz & 45oz containers. The three 45s weighed 39oz each or less. The 14oz weighed 10oz. Just don’t enjoy getting jipped. It’s a shame since Cjs makes great baits.

Academy or CJs is aware of the problem as they blacked out the weight on the 45s. Only way to get around this would be to carry along my digital scale to the store. I will continue buying bait, only from Sure Shot.

I took into consideration the empty pail weight.

I used this stuff, on the recommendation of a friend, for the first time. I was amazed with the results. I was worm fishing for trout on a small local stream, also a recommendation of the same friend.

I had never fished it before, and when I arrived, the water was extremely low after a weeks long drought, and the stream was not very big in the first place. It was only about 6-7 feet wide on average.

Much of it was 6 inch deep riffles leading into a small hole, then back to riffles again. I wasn’t expecting much, and was wishing I had gone to one of my usual streams. I cast into the first hole I came to, and did nothing.

I went to the next hole down, and did nothing. I decided to walk back upstream and see what was around the bend. In passing the first hole again, I remembered the Power Bait. I put some on my worm, cast in and WHAM! A nice 13 inch Brown.

I went back down to the 2nd hole, used the Powerbait, and immediately got a tap-tap-tap. I struck, and reeled in a 12 incher. I got 9 trout that day, all using Berkeley Powerbait. I’m a believer.