Beef blood bait we used to make works
really great for a trotline or for juglines
It'll sling right off the hook if you try to
cast it
Yep, home made blood bait. Use some salt or brown sugar to dry it out and make a tougher rind on the outside, it will hold a hook better then. Take it out of the freezer just long enough for it to soften and take the hook.
Right ^ ^ ^
Salt and sugar both is part of what my grandpa
taught me to use, but it's still relatively fragile for
casting.
You'd buy the big bucket of blood at the slaughterhouse
and it'd be a big clot and you cut it up into cubes and
cover it all with salt and sugar, and put it back in the
bucket and you pour off the liquid everyday, etc.
This isn't refrigerated the way we did it.
Keeping it nearly frozen wasn't practical for the way
we fished.
