any of you guys still do this?? I have a batch of yellow bass that I gutted and froze his past year and never got around to doin it...was gonna salt em to cure in buckets and throw em in coon boxes............just wondering how long you guys figured they need to stay salted in the bucket before I took em out.

A layer of fish a layer of salt till you run out of fish salt or bucket. It won't take long for the fish to absorb he salt. And when happens the fish will dry out and will be preserved and some what freeze proof.
They will work as coon bait.

As Beav said.

What I do
After the bucket is full of fish and salt. Cover them in water. Leave the fish in the Brine till you are ready to use them.

I do. A couple boxes of canning salt, a couple big carp, and a bunch of clean ice cream pails with lids.
Carp...fun to catch, fun to catch with. The gift that keeps on giving, I call em.
Best pocket set bait I've used for years, for coon, salted carp chunks.
Later in winter that is a great bait for dirtholes and trash mound sets for coyotes, too. And, if you rebait the old pockets along the frozen creek beds...that works well...we took a lot of coyotes at old pocket sets with salted carp too. They run those frozen weedy ditches and creek beds like little hidden sidewalks all winter long. Cant tell you how many old pockets I saw dug out and dirt flung across the ice from coyotes trying g to get whatever still smelled like fish and lure in old pocket sets from fall. Light finally went on for me and I started setting them as sort of like horizontal big dirthole sets. Great winter canine and cat set around here, and you will pick up mink or two also at those too. Love salted fish for trapping bait, and so does everything on our line evidentally.
Jim

I had terrible luck with salted fish as bait years ago. It preserved it nicely but the coons and mink did not seem very interested in it. Went back to fresh frozen and wouldn't try the salted again. These days, I don't use either but that was my experince from back when I did. FWIW

I killed the coon with It but mink didn't seem to be interested In It.

thanks guys.....i'll prob start the process Tuesday{ my next day off} ..........should be good to go by nov 10th ya think??

Yes it will

Use fish but never salt it I just add to it the next trip.

I have only salted river herring for consumption. Layer of salt, then fish. Repeat until the container is full. Top layer is salt. After ten days, pour off any liquid and recover with salt for another ten days. After 20th day I made a brine that would float a fresh egg and stored fish in the brine. Knew a trapper that did the same for bait. I always soaked mine in clean water overnight and fried them the next day.

if you have black bear, they could become a problem. A friend caught a cub twice in connibear. Momma had left fortunately. Both were in Eastern NC along Scuppernong River.

how much salt per gallon of water for a good brine?? 3 lbs per gal??