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Well, I got one for you. Back when I was a freshman in college I worked at a bait shop a couple of days a week after class (more for the free bait and discounts on equipment than for the $$) and being part of group of guys who understood the importance of fishing we decided to go for an all night bullhead / catfish trip at Candlewood Lake in Danbury CT. Needless to say I was in charge of the bait which we decided by much debate was going to consist of a couple flats of crawlers and as much dead bait as I could accumulate from all the bait tanks over the course of a week which I diligently placed in a covered bucket in the back of the shop. This mixture consisted of all types of minnows, old worms, eels, crayfish etc that I scooped out of the tanks or when dispensing bait from the fridge and by the end of the week I had most of a 5 gallon bucket filled with this brew which we thought would surely catch some monster catfish because the stench would attract them from all over. Come Friday night we can be found tooling down the road to our chosen spot in a van belonging to one of the guys parents. Everything was fine, we were all having a good time telling lies and knocking back a few when one of the guys thinks that it would be a great idea to sit on the bucket instead of on the floor with the rest of us. Needless to say the bucket split and 3 of us are in the back of this van wallowing in the most vile smelling mixture I have ever had the displeasure of smelling!!! All of us got sick and added that stench to the mix. I am gagging again and it happened close to 20 years ago that's how bad it was. We ended up at a car wash cleaning out the van and spraying our clothes until we could tolerate each other but it was awful. The trip was not a total loss, we caught close to 100 bullheads and maybe 20 catfish but it was pretty nasty there for a while. The things that you do when you are young and foolish. And from what I have read catfish would rather take a fresh bait than an old bait
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