HOW TO USE CORN FOR BAIT

[lrs]

Are there any suggestions for using corn for bait.  I heard if you soak deer corn in water until it is sour, hogs really like that.  Any truth here?

[lrs]

Well I have had 80 pounds of corn soaking in water for a week.  Smells kind of bad!  I will try it tomorrow.  Oh yeah, I'm also going to use a .22 lr.

[kp!]

That's a good way to go.  I'd recommend digging as far down as you can with a post hole digger, pouring the stinky stuff in the hole, and then covering it up with dirt.  Have fun.

kp

[LEO]

Try adding 10 pounds of sugar and 3 packs of yeast to about 150 to 200 lbs of corn put in a clean garbage can with a lid set in warm place and let sit a week or so.  After that add corn and water to the mix as you use some of it up.  You can use this alone or poor over your other corn as a scent enhancer.  If you have a lot of bait sites you may want to set up several ferminting barrels but that probably goes without sayin.   Works real good but stinky and messy so heads up.  Also if you are in an area where there are bears, it will also draw them in which could be good or bad depending on local laws.  Good hunting

[Land_Owner]

Put 1/2 gallon of corn in a 1-gal. plastic milk jug. 
Cut a hole in the face of the milk jug to pour in the corn.  Maybe a 3" diameter hole. 
Tie the milk jug from a stout limb about 4 feet off of the ground. 
Pour water in over the corn. 
This will ferment the corn in four to five days.  The stink will bring them in if they are prevalent in your area.
Add a 1/2 cup of sugar and a tablespoonful of yeast to the mix if you like.  They are not necessary though.

This method can be used across a wide area and is very effective. 

It is unlikely that you will want to stay with the corn jug for 3 to 4 days until a hog ambles into range.  Once the hogs make the scent of and find the hanging jug with fermented corn, there better be something else there to keep them coming back like a timed corn feeder, stationary corn pipe, burried stash of corn, mineral block, molassas lick, or other concoction. 

[markc]

Plain corn straight from the bag.  We don't add anything just corn and we use feeders.   Like deer, if there is  a better natural food source available, they won't pay much attention to the corn.  Once the acorns are gone, they will hit pretty regularly.  Good luck.

[cooper]

How about this  -  I have heard that a great bait is to soak the corn in diesel fuel!!!  Don't have any experience with doing it.

I've also heard about some people spraying their fishing flies with WD-40.

I guess for some reason, the petroleum odor is attractive to animals.

[markc]

diesel is to keep the coons from eating up the corn before the hogs get to it.  tried it with no noticable improvement in hogs visiting the bait. 

[Dee]

diesel is to keep the coons from eating up the corn before the hogs get to it.  tried it with no noticable improvement in hogs visiting the bait. 

Yea, that's what the diesel is for.  Digging a post hole, add a little corn, then a little dirt and so on until the hole is full. Several of these works pretty will. Also, a peice of latteral line plugged at both ends and tied to a post works real well. Every time it's nugged a little corn falls out. Just be sure and hide it from other hog hunters.

[dougk]

I just made a pig tube feeder out of 4 inch PVC pipe with caps on the end and holes drilled in the pipe to let the corn out.  I also used 180 lb coated wire to attach the feeder to the tree.  The corn I used was lightly treated with diesel to keep the cows and critters off of it.  I need to check the trail cam tomorrow to see how it did...

[Dee]

I just made a pig tube feeder out of 4 inch PVC pipe with caps on the end and holes drilled in the pipe to let the corn out.  I also used 180 lb coated wire to attach the feeder to the tree.  The corn I used was lightly treated with diesel to keep the cows and critters off of it.  I need to check the trail cam tomorrow to see how it did...

That will certianly work but when you build another one, consider using lateral line (like is used in septic tank lines). Same materal, but the holes are already drilled and the perfect size too. Works like penecillin used to.

[dougk]

As I am cheap, I only drilled 6 holes in the 5 foot PVC pipe that was left over from another project.  I figure this will make those pigs work.    And will ration out the corn. 

[Dee]

Yea, I know what you mean. I wasn't trying to be a know it all. It's just that if they don't get enough to holdem, they'll move on. They are not territorial, like a deer.

[markc]

dougk,  I won a pig pipe like that at a hog/dog hunt one time as a door prize.  I've used it a few times and the pigs do eventually get after it and knock it around.  The one I have is a pain to remove the cap to add more corn.   Maybe a screw on cap would be better?

[Dee]

dougk,  I won a pig pipe like that at a hog/dog hunt one time as a door prize.  I've used it a few times and the pigs do eventually get after it and knock it around.  The one I have is a pain to remove the cap to add more corn.   Maybe a screw on cap would be better?

Mark you are exactly right. I missed that. Glue a screw-on collar with a threaded plug into one end. The other end glue a cap AFTER you put in an eye bolt left a little loose so it will swivel. Other wise the line will eventually knot up (or could). I throw a little loose corn on the ground to get them interested in the pipe.

[dougk]

Dee Great points.

I was building mine with material on hand.  I even use 3 inch caps which fit perfectly inside the 4 inch pipe.  One end I screwed in the other end has an eye bolt on the end to pop it out, I have used wire to loop through the eye bolt to to hold the cap in.

I put more corn out tongiht that was soaking in diesel for the day.  I looked at the pictures from the trail cam and found deer feeding on the corn that was lightly seasoned with diesel.

Doug

[Dee]

I had rather have the deer, but then again the season is over. I'm surprized they would eat the corn even with a little deises on it. Where is Driftwood?

[Swampman]

My friend adds a can of beer to the post hole full of wet corn.

[dougk]

Driftwood is west of Austin.  I am fortunate that we have an extended anterless season that runs until Jan 21...

[Dee]

I have been thru that area numerous times.

[TrenchMud]

Pour a couple of 6 packs of cheap beer over a 5 gallon bucket of cracked corn. Add a gallon of hot water that has a couple of cups of sugar disolved in it. have a empty bucket handy and pour it in that bucket the next day to kind of stir it up. do this for several days before putting it in the field.
Do not carry it inside your vehicle! Whew ! and spills may never go away !

[rockbilly]

I put two bags of corn in a plastic 30 gallon garbage can, add a gallon of agricultural molasses, then add two gallons of hot water wiith 3-4 packages of yeast added,  and let it set for a week or so.  It begins to smeel quite loud after a week.  I then dig a couple of 3-4 foot deep holes with the post hole digger and fill them with the mixture.  It does attract the hogs.  You can usually buy agricultral molasses at a feed store, it is used to make cattle feed, or to feed as a supplement to cattle, it is fairly cheap.

The hogs will continue to root in the and around the holes until they have ate all of the corn.

I think one of the best hog hunting trips I ever went on was back in 1964, North of Macon, Ga ,in the Oconee National Forest.  Bootleggers has dunped a large amount of mash along a creek, the hogs stayed on it until it was gone.  You could shoot one and it didn't seem to concern the others.  Aolder man thaat hunted with us said that was not uncommon for them to be attracted to a pile of mash, get drunk of it, and hang around untill it was gone.  I wounder if they had a head ache the next day?

[Dee]

I've seen cattle do the same thing at the base of silage pits where the water was draining. The silage had fermented naturally and the cow were a bunch of four legged drunks. Funny to watch.

[S.S.]

Silage, Now there is a term I have not heard in a long time.
You can also find some of the best fishing worms in the world under those
fermenting bails. Catfish love them. Flavored by fermenting I guess

[Dee]

Are you saying that I have dated myself as someone long in the tooth, S.Sumner?

[rickt300]

An easy to carry pig toy is a five gallon bucket with 4 5/8ths inch holes drilled around the top of the bucke an inch or so from the botton of the lid. Fill the bucket with corn just under the holes, then pour half a 6 ounch package of strawberry jello powder evenly on top of it, then pour half of a 48 ounch container of pure corn oil on top of the jello corn mix. Stir well. Put the lid on the bucket and run some screws thru the lid into the bucket to keep the hogs from gettin the lid off. Tie this to a post or a tree with some tough nylon rope. Don't smell bad and once the hogs find it they will come back regularly. We put em out and sneak up on the pigs after dark while they are knocking the bucket around. Full moon clear nights are best, just get down wind and turn your spot light on the hog when you are ready with the rifle. I do this alone but most like to have one guy hold the million candlepowe rechargable spotlight while the other shoots.

[qajaq59]

That pig pipe sounds like a neat idea and if someone took it the loss wouldn't be as expensive as the loss of a mechanical feeder would be.
If I read it correctly, it's essentially a capped pipe with holes in it that the hogs can roll around so that the corn falls out? And you hook it to a tree with a sturdy cable and hang some fermented corn mash above it? It sounds so simple. Does it really work that well?