Anyone try it. I'm going to make a gallon to see how it might work.
I made nightcrawler oil 2 years ago, not a good trapping lure but it was good for fishing.
Just curious if anyone's tryed it.
Thanks

What would you use it for? Pardon the stupid question.

When I was a little kid, like 5 years old, one day it rained really hard, and there were nightcrawlers all over. I thought I might save them for some unknown purpose, so I put probably 200 of the things in my backpack. Of course, I forgot about them, and threw my backpack in the closet, where they festered for several days. I can still remember the smell. I imagine nightcrawler oil has got to be pretty terrible smelling stuff, and I imagine cicada oil might be just as bad.

Back when we lived in Illinois, one year a giant brood of cicadas hatched. The dog went crazy for them, and ate them all day long. He loved them, couldn't get enough of them. He'd eat them till he barfed, and then go eat more. They may make a good coyote bait.

A change up lure on the k-9 line.
And maybe in some mink boxes.
But I'm sure it will help catch fish When added to a lure
I just like to tinker with all things outdoors. Trapping in particular.
Someday I might find something MAGICAL. LOL

I used them in the summer for coyotes when they was heavy but I just pounded them down a dirt hole,never saved any.

I am envisioning a meat grinder small plate and about 5000 cicadas

that should make an interesting sound worth recording

maybe make a game out of it , fill the bucket get a ice cream cone get the kids involved in the catching of the cicadas

I can still remember catching tent caterpillars , neighbors garden had a mess of them one year he had a metal pail he had poured Kerosene in and we ran around collecting them up by the hand full so we could toss them in the bucket , then he lit the bucket on fire and we ran around and go more so we could watch them burn, probably not kosher these days but I assure you not one of us kids turned into a serious criminal.

The neighbors was the town barber and you could have any haircut you wanted as long as it was short and he did not cut women's hair period , he had been an Army Barber in WWII

Thanks GCP I hadn't thought of the grinder idea.
Grandsons are gonna love this.

And LG as far as smell, I've noticed that most things I make changes it's smell over time.
The worm oil smells very little like rotten worms. Same with eggs. I think they smell better after 4-5 months fermenting.
But I'm also one of those people who love the smell of skunk in the morning. Lol

talking about a smell only a trapper could appreciate , a rabbit died in my front yard back in winter I saw it in about march ,it was flat and not smelly I kicked it under some bushes so I could mow a couple weeks ago well it made it back out into the grass probably neighbors dog and I hit it last night with the mower the hole front yard smelled like a lure.

the whole front yard also had bits of fur with the grass

I know almost everything likes to eat cicadas, including my dogs. I think it would be an interesting change up attractant for canines.

Maybe you could mix cicadas and cannonball jellyfish that washed up on shore on some island in Georgia. That should make a good smell, for what I don't know, maybe to get you ran out of town, lol.

put some on your corn flakes , keeps you regular !!!

I knew I had read about a similar bait before - its in The Trapperman Book Volume II

Grasshopper Bait
Here is his grasshopper bait. Let me know where you can find a gallon of ground grasshoppers.

1 gallon ground grasshoppers
1 quart beef fat
1 ounce beaver castor
allow to ripen one week then add
1/3 ounce zinc valerate

LOL .

That sounds like it would work. I do have some area's with lots of grasshoppers but they are wee tiny now.
Throw an old wool blanket over the front of the 4wheeler and drive slowly through the weeds. Their back legs get stuck in the blanket.

I made grasshopper oil before, it didn't work for nothing.