Salt Cured Bait

[Critterslayer51]

Tony and I cured about 20 gallons of coon bait this afternoon, put up in 5 gallon buckets with chunked fish covered with rock salt...First time either of us have tried it, so we'll see how it goes!

[jeremybrua]

i planed on doing it this summer but never got the time.  should work good, i would rince it off first in the creek before i through it down the hole.

[Critterslayer51]

I haven't smelled it yet so can't be too bad  ...hopefully I can rig myself up a grinder and make some paste out of the next batch of fish for use in pvc elbow sets, so much to do!

[Renny]

I've read on more than one forum that coon will refuse heavily salted bait.  Me...... I like salt and would be buried to my elbow.

[cooncrazy]

don't throw out any juice that floats up,it works good also!

[Critterslayer51]

haha me too renny, i'd be screwed for sure if there was middlesworth chips or salt with a side of french fries in the back of a pocket haha...so I hope it works, if not i've got a lot of chunked fish in salt...although, the jone's video shows them guys puttin half a cup of pickling salt to 2 gallons of ground up bait to hold it better at the set...and they seem to be piling up coon...wolernation was where I got the idea after watchin one of clints vids...maybe they're only catching the coons with low enough blood pressure to take on the extra salt