Any idea's , ground or chunk -- fresh or tained. Let me know if you have used it , any help at all.

I like ground fresh preserved.... then pureed...

If you can get your hands on some QUALITY fish oil, try frying a few slices in it. Don't over cook. Then freeze. Thaw it out as you need it.

I chunk it and let it age in the back of my truck using it as I need it.

There are many ways for using liver. Hard to go wrong with it. It is very susceptible to mold however.

I like to put deer liver in a glass jug, drain off the juice that bleeds out of it and continue aging until the putrid odor turns into a mellow musky odor. Then I will add a quantity of beaver castor, some ground oil sacks that were preserved in salt and a good dose of civet musk. A dash of a mint (spearmint) OR catnip OR anise added until barely detectable makes a nice optional enhancement. This concoction gets better with aging. A good smear the size of your thumb nail is a potent application for fall trapping.

Thanks for the help, a lot of idea's

Don’t overlook cooked and then dehydrated beef liver. I’ll say no more.

I cube it up and get all the blood I can with it then add salt as a preservative and freeze proof. Put in a dirt hole with a little blood pored around mouth of hole. It works well, but I’d run it side by side with a good rebuttable paste bait. Sometimes they want fresh sometimes the paste baits seems to outperform

“Reviving” an old thread here but I like to keep my liver usage very simple. I take raw deer liver, cube it up, and freeze fresh. I will thaw jars and use a chunk as needed down a stepdown dirt hole. Absolutely deadly, even by itself. Always remember that liver has it’s own “smell” that is irresistible to most predators.

I've tested and worked with liver quite a bit. As a base or natural bait i find it mildly attractive in comparative testing. It positives is its pretty available and can be put up in a thick paste. And not all liver is equal and not everyone's standard of what is good is equal. One advantage to natural baits is a lot of time it's used in larger quantities and that does have advantages most of the time.

interesting discussion!

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I agree with you. I test all my bases as is just to have a starting point and haven't found a food base that comes close to a prepared bait or finished lure. I do think in some special situations with special coyotes a simple single food bait has its uses. Generally I'm talking control work where your dealing with a especially spooky coyote.

I guess I am from a life of different experiences. Food / curiosity lures have been very productive for me over the years. They have been my work horses and my preferred lures for the large percentage of my combined sets. The rest I mix up with gland, urine and bait set ups.

I have caught fox, coyote and cat on beaver and deer livers fresh cut / and preserved just to experiment with it years ago. I find it wasn't any better then a good lure or prepared bait which is easier to handle and use.

Our bases all have had good responses in field tests in their ready to use form. Bases are the foundation and should compliment the lure and give it substance thru its life in a finished product.

Just to be clear my last post was referring to just the food base by itself no other ingredients. Most of my formulations whether it b a lure or prepared bait has a food base with other curiosity ingredients added to up the attraction. What i was saying is i haven't found a food ingredient (such as liver) by itself to have the attraction as a well formulated prepared bait with other ingredients added or a finished lure. Not saying you can't catch some coyotes with just a piece of liver or a chunk of beaver but them by themselves aren't going to have the attraction of a good prepared bait or lure. Now that is not to say some coyotes can't get wise to a prepared bait or lure with exotic ingredients in it, as they sure can, and that's were a plain junk of bait could come into play.

I still like to go by the statement I heard one time, "If your dog won't eat it, it is doubtful that a coyote will." Haha. I've found that to be true in a lot of cases...