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Bait Dye?

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laker24taker:
X2 on the pautzke... I order mine from fish USA.. And normally just use the chartruese

esox_xtm:
Just came across some powdered food coloring in the shop I bought, mmmm, maybe a coupla years ago. Gotta give that a whirl, supposed to be very concentrated. Came from Lorann oils.

Seamonkey84:
I don’t have any in the local stores, but at the prices I saw when I looked them up, I’d only bother using them if I were fishing in a derby or tournament. I suppose you could just measure out and only use half the bottle, and just dye fewer bait at a time. For some people that only get a few dozen shiners at a time, that’s a lot of money to alter your bait per trip.

Water Wolf:
I dye my frozen baits from time to time, and when I do, I use regular liquid food coloring, in a few different colors.

Red and blue seem to be the colors that has worked for me, but, it can vary from day to day.
Some days they prefer the dyed baits other days the natural colors.
You never know until you try them all. ;)

WW

Kevin23:
I tried the fire brine in orange. I dyed some shad and fresh froze them figuring they would work great for pike. Never had a nibble on them, ended up using the rest of them for catfish and even a catfish wouldnt touch it. Weird. Maybe I screwed something up in the process but it was pretty straight forward. I think I would try again, using the dye and fresh dead shiners.

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