Ok so I have been as basic as it gets with bait. Just cutting off some beaver, ground hog, or mice ECT and putting it down a hole.
90% of my k 9 is dirt hole and pro choice lure with some fox p. Works well enough to make me happy. My limited beaver trapping is snares on trails and caster mounds with
Backbreaker. Again workes very well. Love
Backbreaker.
But I got brave enough to extract skunk essence, have a few caster glands and would like to read up on basic lure making, gland harvesting, and preservation. I toss a lot of meat that I could turn into bait from some catches. I'm limited on time at home now but want to get educated on the process so when I do get time I can try to get more involved than tossing some meat from a catch down a hole .
It would be nice to use more of the things I discard in the future. Now I'm thinking about bait for k 9s and glands and such to add to it harvest to sell ECT. I don't need a beaver lure Paul has me covered on that, but I do want to use more of our catches.
Been reading all the questions here and picking up some things but since I'm starting with zero knowledge I'm missing a lot.
Is there a basic 101 post or series of them anyone can point me to. And or good books to buy?
Edit; I guess a good coon bait may be fun to make also since my boy really seems to like targeting them. ( May be a volume thing) yes anything works for them so a k 9 bait sould be fine there also.
Anyway. I guess I'm just toying with the idea of of using things I toss out and making things with the boys.
Looking down the forms further and I see the bait archives
Sounds like I should just chunk whatever meat I run across mix in some boss man's bait solution let it sit and shove it down holes next year. I guess I could try getting more involved and add caster or some skink juice but need to do some more reading yet.
Still not sure what the bare solution is other than preserving agents. More reading to do for sure.
