A short while ago someone was talking about using blood meal in lures and baits to make them thicker. I just got a bag and the guy told me it was just straight nitrogen. It looks like very fine dirt. My question is this - Is this the right stuff to be mixing in lure and bait or did I get the wrong thing?

What I was looking for was dried blood, not blood meal.

Yea, this stuff doesn't look like anything you would want to mix in a lure.

Blood meal looks like fine black dirt, Sounds like you got blood meal...Don't know if that's what you wanted. It's used as a protein supplement in livestock feed. You could mix it, don't know if it'll make the lure thicker though?

blood meal is dried blood ... please elaborate on the "difference" between the two

The dried blood I had was a very fine powder and was a dark maroon in color. Dad had some, and when Dave Edwards passed away, I found more at his place identical to the stuff dad had. I believe Dave gave it to dad, because the bags were indentical.

Should be available at most Garden shops and organic places like Wormway.

This bloodmeal is dark as dirt with a dark maroon tint. You would think if it was fed to cattle it wouldn't hurt anything. Very fine powder.

Blood meal does give off a blood odor. When you fertilize with it, you have to worry about dogs trying to dig up your garden, looking for whatever they're smelling.

Jim

Blood is flash dried in a kiln, same as any other wet product you want turned to a meal form and not take the oil or fat from it. Soybean meal is done a bit different as its dried much the same but a large amount of high quality solvent is used to pull off the oil, the solvent and oil are seperated in a chamber and the solvent used again.