Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share?

Posted by: Anonymous

Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 06/30/18 08:31 PM

Hi,
I'm new on here so hello everyone! I'm looking for coyote, grey fox, bobcat, coon, skunk, possum, and badger bait and lure recipes, can anyone help me out?
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Posted by: Utk1

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 07/01/18 10:50 AM

I would get a pint of someone's bait solution and use different meats at different stages from fresh to slight taint. You can make a gallon of bait with a pint. Also, make use of those rattlers down there.
Posted by: Seldom

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 07/02/18 07:26 PM

A Tracy Truman Recipe-
4-5lbs of burnt bacon and all it's grease
1lb lard
1 pint honey
4oz of beaver caster
Heat all to melt, mix, and jar

Because of this recipes' set-to-catch ratio compared to other baits I've used, pushed the commercial baits of two extremely well known lure & bait manufacturers off my late fall canine line.
Posted by: Utk1

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 07/04/18 10:03 AM

I know a couple of guys that use a lot of bacon grease and catch a bunch of critters.
Posted by: Ric

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 07/08/18 09:05 PM

I have used one similar to Seldom's suggestion.

~5lbs "ends and pieces" bacon
~2 oz raw castor, scraped from pod
~1 lb lard

Fry bacon till meat will just crumble when cooled

Re-heat fat, mix in crumbled meat/cracklins and add castor.

Let cool till it starts to stiffen. Then stir well.

I keep it frozen till needed packed in 1/2 pint jars

If there is something that doesn't like bacon. I haven't found it yet

This mild bait does not attract nearly the number of non targets that louder commercial baits do
Posted by: Seldom

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 07/11/18 12:59 AM

A couple years ago I added 2oz of O’Gorman’s ‘Old Minks Death’ lure to it and belive it kicked it up a notch in effectiveness. The last batch I added 2oz of mink glands instead of the lure but I couldn’t see any advantage one way or the other. Last season I added some tinctured skunk to my jars for cold temp carrying purposes but I saw no uptick in effectiveness.
Posted by: JRBB00

Re: Anyone have Bait or Lure Recipes to share? - 12/18/18 05:17 PM

I have had good luck with mixture of cultured eggs and bacon grease equal parts. Then I add 4 drops of skunk essence to a quart of mix. Everyone tells me I should clean up on opossums but I normal catch young coyotes on it.

I plan on mixing a batch up and using it in cubby sets for bobcats shortly.

I may have caught a few skunks with it also.