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     Andrew Baird (Old_yeller) BOC INITIATE Username: Old_yeller Post Number: 13 Registered: 2-2004 Rating: N/A |
I am thinking about taking zote soap and melting it and mixing in anise oil, vanilla, and garlic. Any suggestions? Has anyone done this before? Will the soap resolidify ok? Will the garlic conflict with the other flavors? thanks | ||
| Andrew Baird (Old_yeller) BOC INITIATE Username: Old_yeller Post Number: 14 Registered: 2-2004 Rating: N/A |
Ok, I remember someone telling me that you can melt and add to zote soap, but I am having no luck getting it to melt. I just made a test run and threw some chunks of it in a skillet to try to melt it on a low heat. No luck. So I added water and it sort of dissolved a little. So I added more and brought it to a boil. Still didn't melt. I let it cool and now it is just sticky. What's going on? | ||
| Bud Still (Bud1110)  BOC ROYALTYUsername: Bud1110 Post Number: 2836 Registered: 5-2003  Rating: N/A |
Andrew, The problem your having is: Chunks.. You need to either grind up the soap, or use a cheese grater to make it fairly fine. Then add water and let it soak for a while. Put on very low heat making sure you still have some water in it. Then add your anise and garlic, or what ever you want to it. Keep stirring till it's mixed well, then pour contents into a plastic container that will hold all of it, and let set for a day to firm back up. Now empty contents out on to a cutting board and proceed to cut your soap into strips about 3/4 to 1" wide. Depending on how thick your soap is, will determine if you need to turn the strips over on their side and make another cut. I like to add garlic and bacon grease to my soap. The more oily the better for leaving a film, when you use it as bait. Catfish will follow the film it puts off, to the bait. Remember that soap is a slow bite type bait, and should be put on trot and jug lines. It works great for me. Don't expect large fish using soap. I normally catch them from 1.5# to 10 using soap. Good luck with your bait, keep trying till you get it like you want it... All good things come from above... Keystone4 June 2,3,4 2006 | ||
| Andrew Baird (Old_yeller) BOC INITIATE Username: Old_yeller Post Number: 15 Registered: 2-2004 Rating: N/A |
I had cut it in fairly small little chunks, but I will give the cheese grater a shot. I left it out overnight and it has firmed up a bit this morning looks like time was a key factor. Thanks a lot Bud. | ||
| Andrew Baird (Old_yeller) BOC INITIATE Username: Old_yeller Post Number: 16 Registered: 2-2004 Rating: N/A |
I just mixed some up, but I have no cheese grater. So, I cut it into chunks and mashed with a fork when it got soft in the hot water. Worked pretty good. I have it all cooling and setting now. Seems to have worked perfectly. | ||
| Jerry Trew (Jtrew)  BOC EMPERORUsername: Jtrew Post Number: 5633 Registered: 3-2002  Rating: N/A |
I melted down 4 bars of Ivory soap, adding only bacon grease and water. Adding 2 cups of grease to 4 bars of soap seemed to work well for me, so starting with 1/2 cup per bar might be a good place to start. Remember, you aren't stuck with the result till you decide to quit messing with it. After adding 1 cup of grease, I let it cool, only to find it was too crumbly to stay on a hook; nor would it soak into loofa pieces. I remelted it and added another cup of grease. Same thing. I remelted it again and added water till it thinned out some and got more creamy. I kept adding small amounts of water till it would soak into the loofa pieces nicely. Then I layed the soaked loofa pieces on a piece of tinfoil to cool. Why the loofa? It holds the bait for a really long time, and also won't come off the hook. After soaking all the loofa pieces I had, I had enough soap mix left to just about fill a plastic pint container. After cooling, it was a little firmer than Velveeta cheese. I've only tried it on 2 or 3 hooks overnight; didn't catch anything on it. I have caught both blues and channels on plain Ivory, though. Bud is right about it being a slow-bite type of bait, but nothing else but cats will bite it.  Jerry, Little Rock, Arkansas |
