Guys,, I know that nothing outperforms fish for pocket sets and cubbies.. but sometimes fish can spoil if it’s too warm and freeze when it’s too cold… and frozen fish just doesn’t carry the smell like it does freeze.

I thought of grinding up filets and then adding some sodium benzoate and glycerin but I have absolutely no idea how much of either product to use per pound of fish .
I work at a meat market, cutting meat,, and was using the bone dust/meat mixture that would collect in the catch basin for coyotes this past season,,, and I noticed it tainted much quicker than hamburger,, I’m not sure why exactly… so I’m opting out of grinding whole fish to avoid easy spoilage for the fish( assuming the fish bones could cause the fish meat to spoil faster).

Any suggestions or tips on how much glycerin and sodium benzoate to add per pound of ground up fish?

A simple suggestion for you to ponder?

Take one qt. of the bone meal.

Add in some cheap canned in OIL Fish. The amount of fish is your call? Let this mixture age / taint to your liking?? Then preserve with 1/4 cup of S.B. mixed well.

When this mixture settles down. You can add a good trout oil or a bait solution or both? The oil will be freeze resistant, pasty when cold. Hope this helps!

Good fish is a good suggestion. Sounds like your biggest goal is increasing odors. Theres ingredients that can help you in that department including the before mentioned fish oil, shrimp oil, shellfish oil. Just figure out what your target animal is then find out what additives increase odor and attraction. Attraction always ranks higher for me than the odor out put but theres definitely ways to increase both.