Anyone have a knock 'em dead hog bait. All suggestions will be considered and appreciated.

Fill up a plastic bucket w/ corn.
Put in a garage (or somewhere where nothing can get it.
Boil a big pan of water on the stove and dump some fleishmans yeast in it.
Get a couple of quarts of the cheapest malt Liquer you can find
Add 1/2 gal of milk
Piss in the bucket
Let it sit and ripen for a week
Works best to transport it in a p/u bed or on a hitchhaul !
Add jello or koolaide if you have obama supporting hogs

I leave out the piss and add rhasberry koolade.

Plain old shell corn works just fine. Problem is deer and other critters will help themselves before the pigs show!

obama.hilary etc

Corn and raspberry jello works well if you are trying to attract them, plain old corn works great (or too great if you have deer feeders)as does corn soaked in diesel fuel (sounds crazy but for some strange reason the hogs really like it...dig a hole with post hole digger, fill with corn and douse it with diesel...they'll root a hole 3 feet across trying to get all of it).

Thanks guys, gives me something to try. I was going to sour some corn and 1/2 open a can of sardines. I'll try these other baits also. Corn soaked in diesel should be an easy bait to fix up. I'll try the raspberry jello or kool-aide. I like raspberry enough if the hogs don't come I might just eat it myself.

If you were in the southeast instead of southwest, I would just tell you to take the leftover corn from the moonshine mash and it will work great. I know folks that swear by it.

It is interesting to me to read all the recommendations for soured corn--my experience is that they like plain old corn better than anything else. I've tried watermelon, pears, dog food, soured corn, fish, and nothing works like corn for me. But, YMMV so good luck and kill 'em all.

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If you've a place to hunt and can go back there from time to time here is what I do.

Set up a spin cast feeder. Let it throw twice a day for five seconds or so. Say 7 AM and 7PM. or as the seasons changes, just about shooting light in the morning and an hour or so before dark-thirty in the eve. Should use about 100 to 150 lbs per month with a regular spinner plate and coon cage. Less if you have an "eliminator" on your 12volt motor.
Do not hunt it for a couple months. Won't be long those critters will have it in their piggy lil' noggins that this is where the groceries are. I've been shooting hogs off the same stands for 10 years or so. Course it helps if you've a goodly number of hoglets.

JAPPFT,

GWB

I don't have the advantage of being able to set-up a feeder. Ranch is 500 miles from my home. No feeders or box blinds set-up. Trying to bait, attract and shoot ASAP. Problem with pure corn is deer, birds, raccoons, etc and cattle.

Gotcha!

Some thoughts. Hogs are smart. They are also creatures of habit. They range. Where I hunt you yery seldom see them after 8:30 in the AM and before 5PM (confirmed by multiple years of 24/7/365 game camera photos).

If possible, find a wallow or a place where they lay up.

You could set up a pig pipe. Put in corn and something that is odoriferous like hogwild/jello/protein. Anchor so it can't be mis-located.






A burlap/gunny sack soaked in burnt motor oil wrapped around a tree/telephone pole and wired into place.

Set up game cameras at holes in fences, at a wallow, along trails.


If you can hunt at night one can corn roads in the afternoon then come back and drive the roads.

Good luck on your quest.

JAPPFT


GWB

Corning the senderos and coming back at night is what I planned on doing.
If I use raspberry jello for bait do I mix it with corn?

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Originally posted by swampshooter:
Corning the senderos and coming back at night is what I planned on doing.
If I use raspberry jello for bait do I mix it with corn?

If the ranch hands or guides corn the senderos on a regular basis, the hogs will already be accustomed to the corn. In that case I don't know that I'd do anything other than corn the senderos.

In regards to mixing it with corn, Jello is cheaper than "hogwild". One could always use straight corn at one location and "sweetened" corn at another.

GWB

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This is totally undeveloped property. No previous baiting, no stands set up or anything. My present plan is to corn the ranch roads with soured corn, raspberry sweetened corn and plain corn, all in different locations. If we can find the proper place we will try corn and diesel fuel, I don't want to dig any holes on someone else's ranch. Then we'll come back at night and the next day and see what it produces. We're going to hunt this for 3-5 days.

When I was growing up, my Uncle had a pig farm just north of Philadelphia.
Pigs will eat ANYTHING, AND I MEAN ANYTHING.. However, one of the places Uncle John used to pick up garbage from was a blue crab place.. those pigs would fight over the leftover bits of crab along with the dead ones they couldn't sell.
If you have access to any seafood waste, thats what i would be using.. and the good thing is, the deer won't eat it!

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Originally posted by Pa.Frank:
When I was growing up, my Uncle had a pig farm just north of Philadelphia.
Pigs will eat ANYTHING, AND I MEAN ANYTHING.. However, one of the places Uncle John used to pick up garbage from was a blue crab place.. those pigs would fight over the leftover bits of crab along with the dead ones they couldn't sell.
If you have access to any seafood waste, thats what i would be using.. and the good thing is, the deer won't eat it!

I am in Texas hunting hogs, three days ago we put out about 50 lbs of over ripe pears. Not a one has been eaten.
Is this typical or do we have strange hogs here?

Mark

Mark,

Not trying to be a wiseacre, but do you have hogs where you are hunting, and how long since they were last hunted. That can make a huge difference in the success rate if it's not a "put and take" operation.

Don't know what part of Texas you are in, but I hunted north of Uvalde at my lease between Thursday the 5th and yesterday the 10th. I had no hogs in the morning on any day and only two groups of 3 hoglets after dark. One Thursday eve and one Saturday eve. I shot three and recovered one. I''ve quit tracking after dark through the runs. Several of my feeders looked as if the hogs had not visited in a couple days. Very unusual. May have something to do with the acorn crop and the high winds over the weekend.
Just Sayin'

GWB

I was near Cross Plains, SE of Abilene, on ranch land. The place is overrun with hogs. I watched from a tripod stand the hogs smelling the pears and not eating any.
Did not shoot that time as I wanted to see what they were doing and we had two hanging and was told to hold off shooting another until they were done butchering.
I did get a big one, pic.
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Mark

I've had success with old donuts. Hogs will eat dang near anything. Blood is one of the smells that seems to draw them in. I try to go back and hunt a gut pile in the evening when I can, almost a guaranteed coyote or hog(s)

We have a bunch of old wood coke boxes, buried level with the ground and fill them with corn..The hogs and deer have to work to get the snout in those squares so the corn lasts a lot longer..corn is all we have ever used..Some of our feeders are on timers and scatter twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening again with corn.

I make hog toys out of five gallon buckets for tours in new territory. Drill three 3/4 inch holes around the top of the bucket 3 inches down and put some form of swivel set up for the lid with an eye sticking out. I Sometimes use a piece of plywood to reinforce the lid. Fill the bucket up a couple inches below the holes with corn. Poor one of the 1 ounce packages of strawberry jello into if then pour a quart of used cooking oil over it. Put the lid on securely and use a screw gun and several screws to secure it. This can sit for a while or you can use it immediately. Leave the handle on the bucket and spill some of the corn out in a spot easy to get a good shot at and then chain or rope the bucket to something solid. I have never carried one of these buckets back to the truck with any more than what little the hogs couldn't get out of the bucket. Anyway I also have cabin fever and may head out to the lease Wednesday.

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Originally posted by Mark Clark:

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Originally posted by Pa.Frank:
When I was growing up, my Uncle had a pig farm just north of Philadelphia.
Pigs will eat ANYTHING, AND I MEAN ANYTHING.. However, one of the places Uncle John used to pick up garbage from was a blue crab place.. those pigs would fight over the leftover bits of crab along with the dead ones they couldn't sell.
If you have access to any seafood waste, thats what i would be using.. and the good thing is, the deer won't eat it!

I am in Texas hunting hogs, three days ago we put out about 50 lbs of over ripe pears. Not a one has been eaten.
Is this typical or do we have strange hogs here?

Mark

Been my experience too--corn, corn, and more corn. Paint the trails, senderos, and trap bottoms gold!!

One place I hunt is really productive now--4 w/bow in the last 10 days, but the other place, I've got one boar visiting infrequently (4 nights out of 15) and always between midnight and 3 AM.