Looking for a bait recipe that uses bacon, castor and honey, this is all the ingredients I can remember. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Try the Archives.

You sir are a genius! I didn't get the original recipe on T-Man so the archives never crossed my mind. Took me about 2 minutes to find it on there. Thanks!

sounds like the one from Lazarus

Good luck. I too will try it this Fall for the first time.

So, what is the receipe?

follow the info trail Michael....Archives.....Lures/baits/urines......then put either Honey or Bacon in the Search window........MIGHT have brought it up for the OP.
Or find one posted by Lazarus.

I remember it was an entire photo tutorial.

John, I did just that and it didn’t return any results. I’ll try it again though.

The Search didn’t return any results but I found it by just looking for a post by Lazarus. That’s a pretty good recipe. I think that it was on the second page if anyone is interested

Your lucky, I wrote it down you should do the same. memory gets worse with age! Here you go 1. Buy 4 lbs of cheap bacon ends and pieces grind them to the consistency of burger meat 2. get two lbs of lard keep this equasion 3.one cup of honey for every 4 lbs of bacon 4. 2 oz of ground castor. On medium heat cook bacon till almost done. Once cooked add lard and honey heat till completely melted. Let cool add in castor,4 ozs glycerine 1/2 cup of sodium benzoate. Jar and keep cool till season P.S thank you laz for this killer bait recipe simple and perfect as is

Didn't Laz say to freeze it as the fats will go rancid, or will the SB take care of that?

Im going to make a batch this year- something different to try!

Tom

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3378883/1/BAIT_...Making_Bait

Rickey

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I read the entire thread to find the answer, but I have one question. Do you remove the bacon grease once the bacon has cooked or do you let that in there and add the lard in ADDITION to the grease?

I'm assuming that you leave it because that wasn't specifically addressed, but still the question remains.

Also, I did think that the "why not just buy sausage instead of bacon to grind" question was a good question. Now don't get me wrong, I know that we can try absolutely anything that we want. It's a recipe that anyone can make their own.

Leave the grease!

I think bacon ends are way cheaper than sausage would be. Also, isn’t bacon cured in a more sweet manner than sausage.

Laz stacks up the greys so I’m thinking it must be working.

Tom

I know that is the reason I want to try it. Especially when a guy can go through a couple of gallons of bait a season. It's cheaper. And to be honest, who or what wouldn't like bacon? Amiright? LOL

Yes Laz says to freeze it but I never seen any ill effects from leaving it on the shelf. I've even carried it over till the next season. F.Y.I it will hammer more than just greys! It can and does do a bang up job in d.ps as well. Honestly I don't think theres a land furbearer that can resist it! When I make it I do a triple batch. It cares over fine the bacon settles to the bottom, during high temps but never once did a batch go rancid

Tony, do you add SB to help preserve it or just allow the cure in the Bacon to serve as a preservative?

Well cooked up a batch of this today. Wally world only had a 3# bag of ends so I added a pound of pork trimmings from the freezer. I used bacon grease instead of lard also. Figured the extra odor of bacon couldn't hurt. Gonna put a few punch holes out this eve and see how much digging I get. Expect good things. Thanks for all the info