All it will do is attract catfish and drum. All you need is brush or some kind of structure. 90% of the brush you pull up to has bait on it or near it anyway.

I know a guy that used a cricket container, the cylindrical shaped yellow one. he would hang it off the loading dock at cedar ridge, filled with minnows and swore it worked, .. he always had a stringer of crappie.

Cricket container should drive them wild,...!!! I'm going to actually try that.

I believe I first heard of minnows in a jar about 60 years ago in BOYS LIFE MAG. Never got around to trying it
I belive it is about time. I will make a full report.

I watched my old timer relatives mix chum and bait a downed tree in the river. Then, with no electronics catch trashcans full of crappie (No Limits back then) off one structure! I went to the feed store and found the recipe. I have used the product for years and now produce it and it is available to purchase. it's called Crappie King Cakes. it is designed to draw Bait fish to your structure and hold more crappie on that structure by having food available for the crappie to eat at their house. this product is not soured or stink. it is simply compressed Bait fish food tablets that Shad ghost Minnows and other Bait fish love to eat.when you drop one or two cakes on a brush pile that holds crappie and Bait fish, The Bait fish at that location will start swimming around and eating this stuff like fish flakes. that visually stimulates the Curiosity of the crappie to the movement of the bait fish that were hiding until they started eating. I have many, many success stories on people that were skeptical and that actually used it and saw the results.

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You start bringing in catfish in your crappie hole , good bye crappie

there are several situations where bait will get fish feeding, many times, just like cows headed to the feed truck,they go to pooping and emptying out thier stomach of that partially digested food to get fresh, newe n utrient rich premo. the fish deficate and regurgitate partially digested baitfish and other food items. Like Monster crappie said, I think its all about getting a frenzy started. once you can get that first fish to bite, you can usually keep them going for a while. MANY nights while night fishing when the crappie would stop biting, I would open my bucket of soured chicken scratch , throw a few scoops over the side,. and wham, they would get fired back up again and start biting. Yes it does also attract catfish, which I dont mind catching now and then. Never caught carp though, not even one.
As far as almost any brush pr structure you run up on having baitfish on it, I cannot believe that because if there is bait there, there should be gamefish there. you can fish a thousand trees on a lake and not get a bite, if there was bait on them, there woul;d be fish. Same with brush. new brush will usually do better than old brush 10 to 0ne. as the new brush is rotting, it is giving off nitrogen, and possibly other chemicals, maybe scent, or other chemicals that are attractive to gamfish. I find many brushpiles just watching for bubbles gurgling up from the bottom on hot summer days.
M aybe theres chemicals coming out of the deteriorating trees and brush that attract plankton, that in turn attract minnows and shad. Hardwoods for instance contain lye. which is somewhat acidic. do the plankton and micro organisms like it? heck I dont know. we know that some brush seems to do better than others, take junipers (mountain cedar), its great for brushpiles, but hackberry sucks, willow is great, bamboo sucks.. why? theres reasons, we just dont understand all of it. im my opinoion the only thing that attracts crappie in a bamboo of stick condo is the bucket of cement that they are in.

Cottonseed Meal in a burlap bag was what my Pops used for many moons and talked about how his dad did the same thing. Oh yeah, they caught their fair share.

I've seen this for sale at "Stubby Steve's". Don't know if it works or not. It contains a manufactured fish food.

cooked or raw rice?

uncooked,..out of the box...

My Dad use to do this, and he said cottonseed cake, drill holes in it and fish for carp, they really go after it.

BIG MISTAKE!!

Not if you want some Carp.