Help with hog bait mix
 

This is what I did based on some advice I read on here:

I've got 50 lbs of corn in three 5 gallon buckets, each bucket is about 2/3rds full.

I put four cheap beers, four packets of yeast, and three packets of strawberry jello in each bucket. Then I poured water in until you could just barely see standing water at the top of the corn.

Its been about 4 days and it isn't doing much and doesn't smell too strong, but it hasn't been too hot or sunny here either. Maybe I have too little yeast, or the wrong amount of water. Any advice?

If done right, how long does it take for this stuff to start stinking sufficiently to attract hogs? I kind of wanted to go tomorrow night, but I don't think it will be stinky enough.

I don't know anything about hog bait, but that sounds like it could make for a pretty powerful drink. Distill that and it might still work out for the best.

I don't really know that the stinky corn actually attracts hogs. I think its primary benefit is that deer and raccoons won't eat much of it, so it stays around until the hogs find it.

I think the hogs prefer plain corn, just like other animals, but they will eat the sour corn if they're hungry enough. Of course, just about everything in the forest will eat corn. That's why sometimes you have to sour it, just to 'protect' it from the rest of the animal population.

My opinion is that plain corn works best to attract hogs. The problem is getting the hogs to find it before it disappears.

IME hogs love the soured corn and its smell makes it easier to find. Deer dont usually eat it but florida coons and bears darn sure will. Stonewall, stir it around with a stick and i bet youll smell it. Thats more or less my recipe except for the jello never tried it but it soundss like itll work.

The worse it smells the better they like it. I use just plain water and let it sour, you can put in strawberry jello that's fine, beer is fine.. It's the stink that attracts them.

I also us soured Milo or rotten potato's.

Ask the rev what aftershave he uses...add some of that and that will draw them! stuffs so nasty it knocks buzzards off gut wagon!:biggrin:

Just leave it a few more days and it should be good, But heres somethin i learned last year by my Dads buddy while Hog hunting with him. Just about every time he goes out to his spot he takes packets of coolaid and puts them in water. He says that it keeps the Pigs comin back to the spot just to drink the water because of the taste/smell.
Hope i could help some with Baiting,
Good Luck!

Good grief, and this is from a friend!:eek2:

Best bait and lure I have found ranges from diesel on a towel around a tree to keep the bugs off of them after they rub on it. Also with it getting hotter use google earth to your advantage, all animals need to drink, bait around H2o or at least in an area. A hog like any animal wants to take the easiest route possible on natural lines of drift. I have heard of people mixing diesel in with the corn but I have never tried it. I have 2 five gallon jugs and what I do is put about 3 gal of corn in there and through out the week I put ALL egg shells, vegetables, coffee grounds, meat, bacon fat and any thing else that if you put in the sun makes a smell that will make you want to puke. The thing with sour corn and rotten food is not only that they like it more but just easier for the hog who's sense of smell is second to none to find. Be sure to be baiting them in an area easy to access with a short walk from a vehicle and if possible an area that can be seen from afar. If you walk up on or shoot a hog they will run like hell and not be back for a while. Also if you are a tree stand hunter like myself be sure that there is a great tree to put your stand in. Also after you bait be sure to keep up everyday on if the corn is taken. A lot of hunters think hogs are eating the bait but a trail cam might reveal another culprit (coons, deer, etc.). Consider a trail cam if area is safe to put one up with out a chance it will get stolen. Back to the making sure it is in fact hogs taking the bait if the area is not rooted up they are not there. Good luck let me know what happens.

Get som sardines and sour buttermilk they will go crazy over that I promise

My gawd!!! Add all of that together and if the hog eats it, not only will it get drunk, but marinate the meat as well if you let it sit for a minute!!!!!!! Talk about taking advantage of the intoxicated!!!!!!! :guiness: ROFLMAO!!!!!!!

go to a local restaurant, ask them if the dish-kid can scrape the plates into a bucket or two. its amazing the amount of food that is not eaten.

Hog Bait
 

If you want to speed up the fermenting add some sugar. This is what I found works for me. Let the corn sour and dump it out there they will find it. I use this after setting up a new feeder. It attracts the hogs, they find the feeder and keep coming back. The one thing I found that does make a negative difference is changing things at my feeder. If I add a new oder like coolaid or that store bought hog juice the hogs wont come in that day. Once I set things up I leave it alone, I only use strait corn and it works fine. You will go nuts trying everyones "secret" formula here.

In tests between plain corn, soured corn, and diesel-corn; nothing beats plain corn. Hogs will eat it first.

Like others have mentioned, soured or corn treatred another way will deter manty other animals from eating your bait.

Peanut butter and Black gold mixed with corn work good too. Black gold alone works good as an attractant and poured on a rub. If the bottle had four legs and two ears, boars would marry it.

Everyone around here uses sour'd corn. Let it sit in a bucket for 3-5 days with some water in it and your good to go. You could also try making a wallow with used motor oil. Just dump your old oil onto the ground where they frequant or pour it down the side of a fence post so they can rub on it...

I used to just soak the corn in water until it was soft. That's how we baited our traps. I didn't worry about stink. Hogs eat the heck out of it.

Two years ago, my landowner wanted to plant corn in the food plots (just over a half acre). He thinks if we have corn we'll have more deer! He's the landowner... I just do the work for the hunting privilege! I planted 300 pounds of corn with my tractor. Disced and dragged it in. It started to pop in about 4 days. On day 5 (rather the night between 4 and 5) the hogs came. In one night they consumed every single dad-gone piece of corn that I had broadcast, and I mean every one! Not a single corn plant remained. Later, when we saw the "herd" it was a mama sow and 7 shoats. I can't imagine how those few pigs turned up so much soil in one night. I have always hunted hogs on the ranches where I have worked as they destroy the patures (you Texans ALL know that), but I never considered how FEW hogs can destroy so very much. I always figured we had been visited by every hog in the county!