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What do you use? how do you make it? any homeade recipees?
I use hog wild and a product called triple sweet

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5 gallon bucket, fill half way with corn then put some old bait cheese (from a fish market) in and top off with water. set in the hot sun for a few days and dont open untill you are ready to use it and make sure you stand up wind... pour in a few beers to ripen it up a little more also. We also pour strawberry koolaide mix (powder 4 packets) on top of a pile of corn. We have used all sorts of stuff but these to seem to work very well and keep them coming for more.

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50pds of whole corn and one can of Red Devil Lye.

1. Dump corn in 55gal drum
2. Dissolve Lye in a 5gal bucket with water
3. Add the dissolved lye and water to corn
4. Add water to drum, just above corn
5. Put a lid on drum and wait till it becomes Hominy.
It will swell up the corn like Hominy Grits and makes it soft.

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One thing we do to make the hogs stay around longer, is dig a hole and pour any of these souped-up corn recipes in. The hogs will work and dig a crater trying to get to this stuff. Lots of fun to watch. The red jello or red soda pop works real good.

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ive also heard if you dig a hole put half a bag of corn 2 beers then fill the rest with corn and cover hogs cant stay away from it

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Back in the 80's I use to go to theCamden Grain Plant which was close to the Budweiser Brewery. They bought all the waste from the beer making process and sold it as cattle and hog feed.

You would have to take your own 55gal drums to be filled and it was $10 a drum. That was the best hog attractant anyone could buy.

When the brewery was closed and moved to Jacksonville, Camden Grain closed down too![:@]

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Hey Rebel Hog, is a drunk hog easer or harder to hit than a sober hog?

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dhays if they r easier i want to try that on my next trip i book at your place.the hunting was great the last 2 trips but my eyes r getting really bad

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Nah! They just find a shady spot and sleep it off!:D:D:D

My chickens would get into it and they would Wobble all over the yard! That was hilarious to watch.:D

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MMMMMM.....I am hungry!!!! HCH

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So, all of you are saying that most of the hog's are addict to beer. LOL:D
And what does the cool-aid do or is it the smell of it that thay like?

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I think anything with a sweet taste or strong smell would attract them. I also was told pour deisel or oil on a log or on the ground and the hogs would waller in it to keep flies and biting insects off them. I was gonna try that, then somebody asked me if I had ever skinned a hog coated in deisel or oil. Changed my mind about that one. Don't want no drunk hogs covered in oil on my ranch. Just muddy ones with cool-aid lipstick.

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The kool aid also gets on coons and such...they bring the "koolaid smell" around the woods and the hogs pick up on it faster.

Dont laugh at that. I know it works.

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I have a whole bunch of attractants on my webpage for sale. Too many to name.... www.razorbackoutfitters.com

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I have some corn that has been souring for five months... I am afraid of getting near it.:D:D

I just take corn add water and plenty of hot sun, works great. Sometimes if I'm in a mood I use milo, that way I can also use it to bring in carp when I am want to bow fish. Store bought stuff "Hog Wild" works too, I put a pin hole in the gallon bottle and hang from a tree. It will also attract whitetails.

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do carp really work? Im an avid bowfisher when its not deer and turkey season. We shoot plenty of carp and gar. Just leave the fish out?

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phall2,

How'd you know I was laughing? :D I'm gonna send this thread to my buddy so he can read it and try it!

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reed2404,

I send you a PM!

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Corn & molasses works godd, but corn and an attractant called Black Gold works even better. My friend & I poured Black Goldon a tree rub, and the hogs took bites out of the bark!

Black Gold; they'll eat it, rub it, roll in it, hogs can't keep away from it!

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JoeA,

Really is that so....

I'm always looking for bear bait testimonials (homemade or packaged) to add to my product line.
What else works?;)

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One of the best methoids Ive ever used is simply corn and strawberry Jello. I dig a hole in the ground, with post hole diggers, as deep as possible. Fill it halfway with corn. Pour a pack of dry strawberry jello on it, then top off the hole with corn. I also like to mix a second pack of jello in the top of the corn. I put out a few holes in spots that have wallows, rubs, etc.. Depending on the ground conditions, the hogs will root at the holes for a weeks.


Corn is always a winner, no matter what you do with it.

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this is gonna seem like a dumb newbee question but when you dig the Holes to bait the hogs, you put the corn an whatever else, do you put dirt back on top of the bait or do you leave the hole open?

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Ive always left them open. The smell travels better.

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That is exactly what I do, and why I do it. But if you put them out where they have already been routting, they will find it. They have great noses, but leaving it open will make it even easier to find. Besides, if you dig it as deepas you can, it will take them days to dig up completelty. I have had wholes hold corn up till a month. But that was when it was real dry, and in west Texas our ground is all clay, so when its dry, a bulldozer cant hardly cut it.

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Open eh? Makes sense....:D

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Same here!

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i've been takeing a 50gal drum pouring in 50 lbs of corn and all the apples or crab apples i can get ahold of. then adding water and sugar. letting it set for a few days in down next to the barn in the sun mixing it once or twice to mix it all up good then when i've had enough of it sittin there i'll take it and put it out 5 gal at a time in different places adding a little off road diesel to each 5 gal bucket. just remember it don't take much fuel though that is mainly to keep everything else away from it, but the hogs will not only eat there they'l wallow around once they've ate the bait. i also soak rags in the diesel and tie them to trees or sometimes i'll soak ropes in the fuel and wrap them around trees to make good rub trees

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go to a local resturant and get their bacon grease, usually they'll fall over backwards to get rid of the stuff. Many times you can get old fryer oil too. Dig a hole 3'x3'x 3' add 100# of shelled corn and pour the fryer oil over it,smear the bacon grease on the trees then throw what's left of the grease in the hole on top of everything else (the sun will melt it). Doesn't hurt to pour on a couple cans of beer if you want ( me I just drink the beer ).
There isn't a hog or bear in the area that can resist that mixture.
There's alot of bears around my camp and when we get families that like to watch bears we setup a bait like this down in the meadow below the cabin. Once hogs or bears get on it they stay on it so you'll go thru about 200# of corn and 2 5gal buckets of oil/grease a week easily.