i would like to hear some of yalls recipes for diffrent animals

marshmellows, corn, and corn syrup all mixed up with a shot of coon lure or fish oil. mmmmmmm.....!

Fish Fish and More Fish.
For alot of the big trappers it's all they use.

For something sweet though any of the thigs above would work by themselves.

I made a lure from cherries.

canned catfood, sardeans, smoked oysters, and ground fish.

I made a couple lures that need testing.

One has ground crawdads, molasses, and mullberries.
The other is molasses, cherries, and a little anise. I may add enough ground fish to fill the jar.

The cherries and mullberries were fermented.

I wish I could find enough crawfish to make a bait with some shellfish and fish oil.

I think that would work well.

any veggies bended with vanila for muskrat,
i call it barf

Peanut butter

i like taking sardines and mixing peanut butter

i also took a jar full of bacon grease and added a can of sardines and a couple crawdads


works good for coon

3/4 a jar full of baccon grease, ground crawdads, and 4 ounces of pure fish oil. im a hard core coon trapper, and that is the only bait i will use.

ive been thinkin on this for a while, do yall think that baby shad would work for a good coon bait?

i dont see why it wouldnt work.

yup they should work

Yes, shad work very well for coon, especially if your trapping near a lake or stream that has them in it...Tom

where i will be trapping there isnt any shad. there are perch, crappie, bass, and catfish. ive thought about using perch but i can buy shad at a store in town 25 for like 3 bucks and figured that would be easyer than havin to catch fish for bait.

I don't think I'd take that easy route but you can do what you want.Go get a couple of your friends and catch some fish.To me there is a certain satisfaction that comes with catching and putting up my bait the way I want and then using it to catch some fur.

Shad do work good.I've taken shad that were 3 or 4 inches long and mixed them in a bucket with some flake fish food and it worked really well.Not sure if the fish food helped but it sure didn't hurt.

the reason i was just gonna buy them is cuse in te winter when im trapping i aint got time to go catch fish, ive thought about catchin some and grindin up and putin it in the freezer before season. but when you grind the fish, do u grind it bones and all or what?

just catch the perch and get the fillets off em because thts a waste of good meat if ya dont and use the scraps tht are leftover after filleting

I don't grind mine up.The shad I use whole.I shoot a bunch of carp and catch a bunch of dogfish,gar and whitebass.I gut them and then cut them up in chunks.Last year I froze them all and then me and a buddy chopped them up with a sawsall and a hatchet.Fun times!

I also have filet them out and cut the filets up in 2" chunks.I only do that with the carp.

If you don't have freezer space or want to run a freezer all summer just for that you can put the fish in a bucket with salt.I've never done this but want to try it so I can shut my big freezer off in the summer.You put a layer of salt in the bottom of the bucket,then fish,then salt,alternating until the bucket is full.End with salt.Get the softener salt or livestock salt that is granular type stuff,not the pellets.

I plan to grind some this year but I only have a small hand grinder.I don't know how big of bones they will cut up so it will take some experimenting on my part I guess.Good luck with your bait making.

Shad makes for very good bait. Very oily !

Ground fish will dry out far faster then chunks. I prefer to freeze fish whole and then cut them for bait just prior to the season. Often only a couple nights before. They are easier to handle when they are still partially frozen. I most often use a folding limbing saw.

A chunk just a little bigger then a golfball is all I use. A little Anise Oil in my bait bucket is all I add to spike it just a little.

Usually several of us MN guys will buy a volume of bait and split it several ways.

that looks like it will smell rank

i think i might just freeze some whole perch, thanks for all the help guys

man 2poor is tht abunch of em bullheads

Anything less than about 1 pound can be ground whole in my small hand crank grinder. Anything over that is hard to get through the head and backbone.

I do both, grind and Chunk. For the smaller fish I leave them whole and use a hand axe on the line as needed. The ones I grind, I add molases to it. It sticks well and has a good odor. Tom

where do you buy it from Tim was my instructor and he told me some people id that alays wanted to know where you colu buy it from