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01/17/25 03:48 PM
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I think I posted something about this a while back but thought I’d throw it out again. If you have trouble keeping bait (any bait) on your hook (especially chicken livers) they make a product that will solve that problem. It’s elastic fishing thread. You make several wraps around whatever re using and it’s hard for a fish to get it off. You can often catch 2 or 3 fish on the same chicken liver bait. It works great on dough bait…especially for carp and buffalo. I use it if I’m fishing with Danny King punch bait. You can catch a half dozen on the same bait. I get it from Amazon in a package that has 2 rolls and a dispenser. That’s over 1,300’ of thread. Since you use no more than a foot at a time, it lasts a while! I started using it because there are more yellow bass in Eagle Mountain than there are stars in the universe and they are expert bait thieves. ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2025/01/full-20037-256318-img_3737.jpeg)
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Re: Elastic Thread
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01/17/25 04:29 PM
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rickt300
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Been using the cheapest dollar store thread for years, works pretty good. If you could come up with a less messy way to handle chicken livers........
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01/17/25 05:38 PM
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Hmm. I never thought about looking for it elsewhere. Good idea. Chicken livers are too nasty for me to use since I don’t keep any fish. I puréed some livers once and mixed it up with Wheaties to make a dough bait for buffalo and that wasn’t too nasty. I caught some pretty big (15-18 lb) buffalo on it but usually the catfish wouldn’t leave it alone long enough.
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Re: Elastic Thread
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01/17/25 09:36 PM
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I use guaze pads with chicken livers, and just curious. How do you use the thread with punch bait? That'd be like nailing jello to a tree.
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01/18/25 04:08 AM
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I use guaze pads with chicken livers, and just curious. How do you use the thread with punch bait? That'd be like nailing jello to a tree. It has to punch bait…not dip bait. Punch bait has enough cotton or cattail fluff to make it stay on a treble hook fairly well. If you wrap it, it’s not coming off without a fight. In fact, I’ve put Danny Kings bait on a #6 single hook, wrapped it, and let kids fish with it. You can wrap fresh chicken liver on a single hook, drop it on the deck, and it will bounce a little. I went back and found my original post on it. I was killing time catching yellow bass (they’ll eat anything) when a big school of 12”-15” blue cats moved in. I caught them suspended at 7’-8’ in 25’ of water till I got tired of messing with them right under my boat. This is the pic from that post. I was using punch bait on a #6 single hook wrapped with that thread. When I took this pic, I had caught 17 catfish (mostly small) on the previous bait just as fast as I could drop it. I put this bait on and decided that was enough for one day. If someone else told me that I’d raise an eyebrow but it’s the truth. ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2025/01/full-20037-256384-img_3745.jpeg)
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Re: Elastic Thread
[Re: PrimitiveAngler]
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01/18/25 01:30 PM
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Ahhh! I had my baits confused. That makes sense now. Thanks for clarifying! (There's a master baiter joke here somewhere but I'm not going there) 
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01/19/25 04:54 PM
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rickt300
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I use guaze pads with chicken livers, and just curious. How do you use the thread with punch bait? That'd be like nailing jello to a tree. It has to punch bait…not dip bait. Punch bait has enough cotton or cattail fluff to make it stay on a treble hook fairly well. If you wrap it, it’s not coming off without a fight. In fact, I’ve put Danny Kings bait on a #6 single hook, wrapped it, and let kids fish with it. You can wrap fresh chicken liver on a single hook, drop it on the deck, and it will bounce a little. I went back and found my original post on it. I was killing time catching yellow bass (they’ll eat anything) when a big school of 12”-15” blue cats moved in. I caught them suspended at 7’-8’ in 25’ of water till I got tired of messing with them right under my boat. This is the pic from that post. I was using punch bait on a #6 single hook wrapped with that thread. When I took this pic, I had caught 17 catfish (mostly small) on the previous bait just as fast as I could drop it. I put this bait on and decided that was enough for one day. If someone else told me that I’d raise an eyebrow but it’s the truth. The synthetic fuzz that comes in dog toys helps greatly in holding punch bait. Never hurts to put a little peanut butter in the punch bait to get the best sticky and texture.
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01/19/25 07:43 PM
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Neat idea. I will say that I don't have any problem keeping punch bait on a size 4 or even a size 6 treble hook, but then again that's not chicken liver.
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01/21/25 02:53 AM
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Neat idea. I will say that I don't have any problem keeping punch bait on a size 4 or even a size 6 treble hook, but then again that's not chicken liver. Yeah, it usually stays on a treble pretty well. I just don’t like fishing with treble hooks. They’re entirely too hard to get out of a fish’s mouth that I’m going to release anyway.
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