For mink, what works for me is half a blue gill and a spritz of mink urine.

Hard for me get that , how do u apply food grade mollases, ? I am thinking a messy and idea that attracts non target. I afraid fish is about only good mink bait, oftentimes stole from pocket in coon sets. Found down or up creek or other side. Or in front trap , mink steal bait at coon sets

It was molasses from the feed mill, not food grade. I pay about 20 cents per lbs. I took an empty ice cream bucket down and got a $1s worth. You can make some high moisture corn by taking dry whole kernel corn and add some water to a bucket and cover. Stir so it does not rot etc. Not as good as high moisture. If you know a farm with a sealed silo they use for grain they may have HMSC.

Yes you stir that up. Messy? maybe, not much different then carp chunks, fish heads, muskrat carcasses etc. I freeze in plastic bags and use a large spoon. I did state I don't use much for bait anymore. Now I mostly use a narrow PVC pipe pounded in the ground. I fit a large marshmallow down about half inch or so in the pipe and that holds my home made lure. I use this mostly on the water line. I slowed down bait use on dry land sets because it lowered my non coon catches. Probably lowered coon catch but really lowered the non target catches.

Bryce

Fist size chunk of carp is all I use. Told you that years ago, Dave when you'd come buy my house in Blue Grass/Buffalo, Iowa.

Half a duck or rat carcass pinned up in the back of the hole

Hopefully can get some fish bought

Fish. KISS. LLL

I have most bag of dry crack shell corn I got farm fleet, would that work ?

So if decide make some speacil homemade bait, what is cheapest. When buy fish at Walmart or wherever. ? Jack mckranel at Walmart for cheap generic can water down stuff is over $1.50 a can, about enough for 2 pocket sets in can unless. Mix other stuff, I intersested fish mink bait , what is cheapest route to go an what store

You'll not buy canned fish that is worth a crap for mink. You need fresh fish imo. Coons, it wouldn't matter.

I use muskrat.

Thanks for let me know that, some construction guy on bs.told me that either a teaspoon of jack or some other stuff in can was best mink bait, I stupid enough believe it, water rats or just mice would have teaspoon gone well bfore dark, muskrat meat then, should save last year's. But I don't know if freeze well

It keeps just fine in the freezer for a year, chop each one into your chunks and put each rat into a ziplock type bag and squeeze out most of the air and drop them in the freezer. Put the bags in a 5 gallon bucket with a lid for even more protection.

I always did well with the rest of the frog, after the back legs were cut off, split in half and microwaved for 4 minutes from frozen. The smell is very strong and I usually connected on most sets the first night, in good locations.

Keith

Nearly every mink I ever checked had frog parts in their stomach contents. Coonman would only be able to be in possession of 12 bullfrogs legally, but they would be pretty easy to collect on most any pond around. Leopard frogs would be high limit but harder to come by around here.

I don't think get frogs. I wouldnt have heart to kill them really, need more 12, I very hard on bait. I find frogs hibernate in water, sometime but not often, snakes

Using muskrat as bait near water will get you some incidental rats which is not a bad thing when mink are about the same price.

When I said the smell was very strong, I kind of understated it. The smell of microwaved frog tops and guts was strong enough I could find my sets by smell too.

I sell tons of other animals to a company that makes food for reptiles. They make a slurry like frog juice, from imported Chinese frog legs, that they sell in tiny bottles, for putting on other animals to get reptiles that prefer frogs to eat them. It only takes a few drops.

Keith

I had good luck using canned mackeral. til I had some rat carcus to use. I would use a big pinch full in my fingers in back of the pocket and wipe the roof down with my fingers as I pulled my hand out. It probably out-did the rat for bait by a little. I surely wouldnt use fish or any meat with molasses corn or cherry mixed in with it if I wanted mink.

I'm not sure why you would put corn In pocket set.