Anyone ever make tail oil then use the two year old sludge for bait? It smells like it’d be good and is a little oily still. Might be good to just add to another bait to loosen it up a bit. My dog sure likes the smell.
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I caught 5 coyote in one week on the sludge several years ago (maybe right time right place coincidence) but it was only a few months old. I can only imagine that time would make it better. What I had, didn’t really have much of a smell other than “oil”…but it worked that week for sure.
Got some cooking now. Planned on keeping the bits to shove down a hole.
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After two years the bits are little. It’s like a soupy sludge. It smells a little like the oil but there’s an underlying smell in it too. Not rotten at all. I can’t believe it won’t be attractive and Weeze’s post makes me more sure. I think it’d be good stirred into another bait.
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Is there a minimum time to making BTO? Mine is rendering off good and gotten dark, and has a pungent smell.
No as long as it’s dark on top it’s the oil. I do believe mine was blacker the following year but all oil.
I had never heard of BTO until just a few years ago. It must have been a secret until someone let it out. With you being a mountain man I know they used to render it down in a skillet and use it for several things. I bet you could sell small bottles of it at rendezvous.
Maybe. Course they talk about eating beaver tail too, frankly there is nothing tjerenid want to eat, id much prefer the meat at the hips. If in fact it was the tail that was said to he a delicacy, i suspect it was because of the fat content. The original mountain men and frontiersmens diet was sorely lacking in fat. We know tjat salted pork was brought out to rendezvous and sold high and fast. The remainder of the year thier diet consisted of lean venisons, bison and beaver. Bear was highly sought after as well. Bear grease made up alot of the fat content, as well as protectants for thier skin and gear. Pemmican was made after the native style. The fats used thier got many a trapper and native through the hard winters
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Is there a seperation from the oil and waste liquid? Or is it all oil
The oil will be very dark, about black, on the surface you have to siphon off with a turkey baster or something. Definitely a difference.
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The left over juice and solids would probly make an attractive predator bait
Yep! You are right! Without fat in your diet, you will slowly starve to death; even if eating enough each day that you should be satisfied. I pitched a beaver tail on coals one time, and figured it was done when it busted open from the heat to see what the attraction was to the old timers; and it didn’t take me long to realize that it was all about the fat content! Whew! Took a couple of cokes and peanut butter sandwiches to get the taste out of my mouth! LOL!
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Yep it was all about survival cause it’s just fat. It actually taste better raw, kinda like eating leaf lard but not a pure tasting.
I’m gonna salt cure some tails this year and try them in beans and such I believe it would be good.
Colt
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I’ve heard stories of the Alaskan trappers burning beaver tails in their cabins. Said it burns with a much higher BTU than wood.
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I know coon fat burns HOT
Smell better the cola too!
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This thread might help.
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It would have to burn hot! No way around it!
I have had an old wood stove red hot, and vibrating with coon scrapings in the past! Only takes a hand full now and then to turn a cold room into a sauna quick!
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May be a little late but here goes. The top oil works good alone or in a blend. I do not render my if you will in the sun. I let it break down just in the shed. Get a real nice oil anyway. I was told a very good lure maker out east made his in a 300 gallon bulk tank and used the whole mess in lure after grinding it up.
Jim, is it next year when you’re hosting the PTA. Not this year in June right?