Canine etc Bait recipe's

[backwoodsman]

Heres a few bait recipe's, these arent hard to make but can get a little odorous, proceed at your own risk if your married/not single. You dont have to follow these to the letter, sometimes I'll improvise if Im short an ingredient or two or as a change up. First is a good Grey Fox(coon, rat, skunk, possum) bait. I save the strainings, seeds etc after we can blackberries, raspberries, peach's other fruit jams and jellies in August or so. I'll freeze them until I have a gallon. Its usually fairly thick since the juice is used in the jams etc. To one gallon of this I'll add 16oz of burnt/scorched darkest honey I can find. We have several beekeepers and they save me most of their waste honey. I buy honey for our use from them so its a good deal all around. On occasion I'll add 4oz of oil of spearmint but be careful ,its powerful stuff and will cover up the other scents. One of our coyote and fox baits I use about half a gallon glass pickle jar of meat, type/kind is up to you. Ive used just about everything even stale/bad hamburger in a pinch. I prefer deer scrap from our butchering mixed with 1lb raw beef suet or 1lb of lard or sometimes sheep/lamb scrap's. I poke about 12 holes in the metal lid and cover with fly proof cloth etc if its warmer then 50 out. I'll bury the concoction in the ground for 1 week minimum. I like it to taint enough where your leery of touching it barehanded. It'll get rather greasy/sloppy so adding enough warm melted lard to solidify it helps. Ive used scrap raw pork before too but its seems to be best to start with red meat and add pork in the later stages. After the lard solidifys and its still fermenting you can add sodium benzoate to stop it, I like using as little as I can so to half gallon of bait I'd use 6 tablespoons and watch to see how that works. Thats it, you can add anything else you wish but thats the basic meat base recipe we've used before and had good luck.