Well I learned something in the last couple weeks. Gator hunters use lung for bait. A wooden dowel gets placed on the line above a chunk of lung. The lung floats. Gator grabs lung, gulps in, and gets peg lodged in throat. Then you arrow it, harpoon it bang stick it, or whatever.
Was reading on another forum about meat processing plants getting overwhelmed with requests from gator hunters for beef and pig lungs
So when I cleaned that pig today I saved the lungs in a ziploc and threw them in the freezer. I called a friend of mine who is a gator guide and asked if he wanted them. Told him they were small as it was a small pig.
He spun the wheels off his truck to get over here and get them.
So if yall kill a pig while gator season is going on, you might save the lungs and give them to a gator hunter
Just a thought...
i just call Amos Moses "lol"
i just call Amos Moses "lol"
Just knock'em in the head with a stump! :rockon:
My experiences are beef ,goat and then hog.
Ill thread a bunch of lungs till a few till i get a glob a little bigger than a canelope.
Before I do ill let the lungs sit out for a couple days .Ill use the same 5 or 6 baits all season ,they make it pretty far till they become nothing and slime away.
The last two years I have retrieved bait from a harvested gators and reused it..
Run your paracord through each lung four or five times to hold the ball tight.
When they swallow just let em pull you around while keeping tension.When he drops down ,pick up the slack .When your right over him ,ram that harpoon home and hold on.The games just begun.
