Extracting Oil

[catfishvince]

Extracting Oil: #1

This was told to me by a person who prepares Catfish Baits for a living ( Name With-held ).

Exert of conversation:

Fish oil can be extracted from almost any fish, “Use what is most readily available for profitability”, and the concentrated oil is very potent and can be spread to many tubs of bait. Cheese or other cheap filler is used to produce the volume needed to ensure the customer feels they are getting a good value.

Requirements:

Readily available supply of baitfish
Large Igloo Cooler with a drainage plug located at the bottom
Rock type salt from the feed and seed store
Mason Jar’s

Note: After fish have had oil extracted they are preserved and can be placed in ziploc bags, then you can use a bag sealer to seal the fish and sell to bait stores for additional income. Fish when hooked, will still show signs of blood, perfect looking preserved bait fish, especially when taken out of the freezer.

Note 2: Don’t by frozen shad from bait shops, you could be getting shad out of the freezer that a bait preparer done extracted most of the oil from.


Methodology of extraction:

Place igloo on floor and prop up the side opposite of the drainage plug. Igloo has to be elevated so Mason jar can be placed under plug.


Place a light layer of rock salt on base of cooler.

Layer of bait fish

Than a light layer of salt just to cover the fish..

Repeat process.

After approximately 48 hours, your Mason Jar will be filled with liquid gold.

I have tried this one time and was not patient or had enough shad, but it did work, pure shad oil.


This is the basics of a lot of prepared catfish baits. Some will be more affluent and include diced shad in the mix to offer more catch-abilty for their bait.

[Sinker]

If ya wanta save even more money, use th shad fer bait fresh. Dress th resulting catch and use th carcasses and red meat instead of th shad. My friend used this stuff all his life, and I know it worked. *He did eliminate most of th innards before salting as he sed it just caused excess gas ta form an tended ta blow th lid off!

[catfishvince]

Oil like this is one of the basic amino acid enhancers that is used mainly to trigger the catfish senses to bite. Not used as a bait by itself.. There is another way that will give you a much more pure oil without the salt content.. Takes much more time.. Scale the bait fish, cut off their heads and gut them.. Then chunk them and put in a large pot to cook them down. Slow cook them trying not to bring to a boil. The oil will float to the top and skim off into your jars. Best to do outside on your camp stove down wind from your house! Go ahead and keep the meat content and make into softball size clumps that you can add blood or other amino acids to use for chumming..

[Sinker]

I useta make fish oil by chunkin up surplus bait an trash fish, puttin th mess inta mason jars an buryin it just under ground. Th scientific name is "smellis horribilis" er sum sucha thing. I found that I done just as good with frozen chunks used fresh.

This was used fer somethin sides fishin, so I won't pursue that subject no farther!

[famfish]

Sounds like you need rubber gloves to use it or your hands will fall off!