Carp Baits

I am looking to take my kids carp fishing down the river. I have mainly fished corn for carp. I would like to make doughball(family activity). Hoping to learn a couple recipes to try. Thanks

Doughballs were the best carp bait growing up. My dad use to make a recipe he got from field and stream. He died when i was only 8 years old though and i was never able to duplicate the recipe. About 6 months ago  I was surfing the web and i tried to search for the article. To my amazement I found my dads recipe on google books. It was In the July issue of field and stream 1972. I was able to grab the page using pixlr grabber in Firefox.  It's called L.C page's jello bait. I will attach the page. I hope it goes through. Everyone in the family was very happy. If you follow this recipe you can roll them up into balls then refridgerate them.

I'll give up the one I came up with.  Been years since I made it and I never really tracked amounts of ingredients so I'll have to guess a little (you might have to adjust the wet and dry ingredients to get the right consistency).  1 cup of cornmeal, 3/4 cup flour, 2 egg yolks, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, 1/4 cup of sugar, 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.  Mix the dry ingredients then add the wet.  Mix well.  The batter should be relatively wet at this point so if it is dry add more wet ingredients.  If it is too wet add more flour.  Once you have ot to where it is relatively thick (sticks well to a spoon) but still moist, spread some cornstarch out and start kneading the dough in the cornstarch until it is mostly dry (still a little tacky) on the outside but will roll up into a a firm ball.  That's about it.  Really simple.  I tried to duplicate a good commercial dough I used to get years ago that I don't see anymore (by the way, there are some pretty poor commercial doughbaits out there).  We always did very well on this dough.  I also made a variant by adding some (2 teaspoons maybe) of the paste chicken bullion (the kind in the plastic jars with a lot of salt).  We tried to determine if the chicken worked better but they seemed pretty even.  One would work better one day and then the other would do better.  With this basic recipe you could probably make unlimited variants.  Add anise extract, substitute jello mix for the sugar, etc.  I never tried to make "boilies" out of it but I imagine it would work for that too.  Hope this helps.  Good luck. 

Thanks for the info guys. I made a cornmeal, flour, sugar and strawberry jello doughball. We did not catch any fish but they had fun.