Any of you folks ever used them? Growing up and reading the old trapping books, it was a common recommendation, and I did ok with them. My wife rendered some pork lard this evening, so I think I'm going to bait a couple dirtholes with them tomorrow.

I'd end up eating the entire bag of bait with hot sauce.

Aaron, my boys and I have eaten plenty tonight. We can spare a couple for the coyotes. I'm going to have to try the hot sauce though.

I have had to power through some bubble guts. Worth it, though.

That’s all the bait I had when I started in the 70’s..

Me too. Caught 1st grey fox on cracklings.

Ants love em too!

Swamp beat me to it. Well the ants usually beat the fox to them as well, lol.

I like them as a bait, and to eat, but I've had more than a few dirt holes turned into ant mounds with them. Better as a wintertime bait than summer for that reason.

Figure bacon grease would make a good bait/lure but I ain't wasting good bacon grease.

still use cracklns as a go to fox bait. burnt cracklns are the best as a call lure

Cracklins , sardines , and a bottle of Hawbakers . Put a lot of fur in the truck for me during that time .

Beaver and skunk make the best cracklins in my opinion ive used them as a base in my paste baits
canines will dig forever to get at it

If i could still trap fur, what Mr. Luderman said I would certainly be trying. never thought of that.

I find the colder it is the more fat/calories critters crave in order to survive. Fats / Cracklings / Pork Rinds are full of calories. How many dead deer you seen yotes on in July? How many you see consume one in Jan?

I buried a 3 gallon bucket of um cut up weeds once, the lid was a foot+ deep, two weeks later something had dug down to the dead center of the lid. I thought that was interesting.

On this subject. When I was a kid I tried everything in my mom's kitchen as bait. I found out that Limburger cheese worked well, but i got my rear kicked for that as that was my Dad's favorite.....jk