Best bait recipe for hogs?

What's the best in your opinion.

I'm going to try some spent grain from a local brewery. I'll report the results after labor day.

Plain old corn has always worked best for us.

Corn...anything else is taking money out of your pocket and putting in someone elses...

I would say "acorns" but nobody sells acorns and even if they did, they would get stuck in my feeder.

CORN.

Sweetfeed is a decent alternative so long as the weather stays dry and depending on corn prices, may be cheaper than corn.

50lbs of Corn
Pour...

This ^ I've soured countless pounds of corn and tried different additives like flavored jello, hog wild, etc. Plain ole corn has got more than anything

Plain corn, tried all sorts of stuff but always come back to plain old corn.

We have tried:
Beer with corn
Soured corn
Beer and raspberry Jello with corn
Molasses with corn
Diesel with corn
Hog Wild

We would even corn one side of the road with corn and the other side with the lasted greatest new mixture. They came to corn.
Sometimes I think we may have run them off with a new scent that they were not accustomed to.

It hard to beat just regular corn, works better than all of the above, in my experiences.
But then we may have had them picky "no additives" type hogs.

Exactly...

I've spooked more than I've attracted with that stuff, a little bit goes a long way. I finally gave up on it all together & went back to plain corn, always worked best for me.

I strongly agree that changes to your bait will freak them out for a while.

We feed corn and roasted soy beans all year long out of the feeder the pigs can get to. We dont have tanks, but also water our troughs all year long. I think year round feeding/watering is the best thing you can do.

Upside down pineapple cake with pink candles.

don't know about hogs but will work for me

Just corn with strawberry soda poured on it, apparently they like
the smell of strawberry.

We have poured strawberry coolaid packages on it too.

my hogs are skitish when its to much of a change. I use generic peanutbutter and big red soda poured around ground corn. Then when the feeder goes off it lands on top of the goo.

I have had luck with plain corn like everybody else, but also with diesel and corn and then pouring some big red with corn in a bucket and let it sour.

Okay, so we know hogs eat anything with corn in it, be it corn by itself, big red, Koolaid mix, jello mix, beer, fruit juice, wine, molasses, sugar, diesel, etc. etc. etc. They eat it all. It all is reported to "work great!"

But come on...can anybody really show where going to the additional time and expense to make these special recipes or blends actually makes one iota of difference? Do such concoctions "really draw them in"?

I really enjoyed on of the Pigman episodes where he was hunting hogs on his own place. He put out some special, high price hog attractant bait and sure enough, some unspecified time later, a hog came in and Pigman shot it. Then came the promo monologue about how well the bait works. Never mind the fact that the bait was put under a feeder that had been in place and attracting hogs for a long period of time already. That is how most of these recipes read.

I have tried maybe a dozen variants. It all got eaten, but usually not by hogs. I didn't ever see a particular increase in any sort of traffic because of the bait, though the deer and coons seemed to dine longer on the bait once they were there, but I didn't get more animals. I never managed to draw in a hog with special bait even when I had hogs in the area. They weren't coming to regular corn either.

Notice that nobody ever talks about how their special recipes don't work? Yet they certainly don't seem to get hogs any more often than the rest of us either despite using special recipes. On occasion, you will hear the normal excuses like, "Well, the hogs just weren't moving." That is always a funny one, like the hogs were at home watching TV for the day. Or, "They must have winded us." Those are the same excuses folks give for when no bait is used or when corn is used and the hogs don't show up.

Put another way, I have had better luck with attracting hogs by me simply showing up at the stand than I have had by using special blend baits. Maybe I am bait as my presence "really draws them in."

It is a lot of effort, but do your own tests and keep track of how much more successful you are with using special blend baits versus not using them. Try to keep the situations of your controls similar. If you put the special blend bait where you are already feeding with corn, your study is already blown because you already know the hogs are coming to that locality anyway, right? It is a feeding station and smells like a feeding station already.

I think when hogs circle in from down wind and they smell something different it can put them on alert and may even push them off. Even if it is an attractive smell to them.

Just corn

Patiently waiting for the same such evidence.....

Hog wild is what got our hogs coming in.