Was wondering if anybody knows how the commercial oils are made? Are they using freeze dried bait and simmering them in oil. Fresh bait and simmering in oil? You cant just squeeze a shrimp and have oil...can you..hehe. I have made some reel oils in the past from heating livers up of ratfish. Is this how they make herring / sardine oils. If they are adding a commercial oil to a stinky additive..What oil is the base?
Anybody have access to a freeze dryer or plans to make a homeade one? Thanks for the input. Maybe a book recommendation on making your own scents? RT need a new chapter?
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Marty
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You got me on that one. Sorry no help to ya.
Never really thought about it but you brought up a good point! Who knows where that stuff comes from or how they make it?
Maybe they put a bunch of whatever bait they are making a scent for, into a blender then strain it and ta-da!! scent!!! lol
I really dont have a clue! sorry

Marty, one the first posts I made on this BB, back around March '00, was how to make custom homemade baitoils. Use the search feature to find it; it's too long to re-type (or if you find it and know how to copy and paste go ahead and post it under this thread). There are a number of ways the OTC oils are processed. Cold pressing to extract oils from baitfish is one. Then it is filtered and refined by some (Mike's) and not filtered by other's (Pro-Cure). I think I mentioned way back in that post that I discovered the very best base oil for homemade scents is Spectrum Essentials brand Flax Seed oil (found at health food stores; I experimented with it after tasting it). It is very purified, full of omega-3 fats, and even taste a tiny bit fishy (not as bad as cod liver oil though). If you put 8 oz. of this oil in a clean blender with a rounded 1/2 teaspoon of powdered sodium sulfite and 1 teaspoon of MSG, you can toss in one or a combo of such as sardine/herring/anchovie filets, salmon eggs, sandshrimp tails, crawfish tails, prawn tails, squid are underated excellant, albacore tuna filet (or oil packed canned tuna in a pinch), or about anything the fish like. Just puree it real well and you have a better and thicker scent than many of the OTC oils. For some varients to try in some of your concocktions, use a few drops of Cravex Plus &/or Dr. Juice concentrate &/or anise oil &/or quality garlic oil &/or vanila extract. For an experiment: in targeting hatchery Kings and steelhead, try to obtain the exact pellet feed from the hatchery that the fish imprinted on while growing into releasable smolts and pre-powder it to put in the blender mix. E-mail me with your results with that one. - RT

To get the "reel" thing in concentrate it's as easy as boiling water. Most every living thin on earth contains oil. Determine what sent you are looking for and find the source. If you want herring oil use herring. Get yourself a big pot put your herring in whole, fill the pot with water and boil it. from there just skim the oil off the top. Don't burn it. The oil you get will be very concentrated. Mix this oil good light vegetable oil and a small amount of WD40 and fish. A little time consuming but well worth it worth it. I have used this method to extract oil from a number of different species. The amount of oil you get will vary dipending on a number of factors.