I've got three of Wyshinski's and Carmen's. Carmen's is easier reading (other than a plethora of typos which drive my wife nuts
) but some of his info and opinions disagree with Wyshinski's. Wyshinski gives a good overview and is probably more helpful as a basic overview but his "recipes" tend to be like cooking recipes from your grandmother; start out with Y and add enough X until it looks right. Also Wyshinski is mostly geared towards eastern furbearers with a heavy leaning towards coons, beaver, muskrat, with some fox and groundhog thrown in.
In fact I just finished rereading them, and while I like Carmen's better I think Wyshinski's is probably more dependable even though he gives the impression of being much less scientific and exacting in his own lure making.
yep, I have them all and agree. Kaatz gives specific ratios/recipes amts.
Using Nicks basic info and metering to your spec shortens ones learning curve greatly
Johnny Thorpes dvd is good as is Leonard Pavek's lil book
I've gotten data from every book on the market
RiversNorth13 posted 13 pages of lure/bait recipes on here but I don't think it made it to the Archives somehow, so if ya can find that it would help greatly too!
I got all books FREE too!
How????…., I circled them in trapping supply catalogs and gave catalogs to loved ones to get my birthday/anniversary/Easter/Christmas gifts.