Always available at any time of year, in every area of the nation, works in open water or ice fishing.
What is it? Sour pork!
You take lean (no fat) sliced pork (like a pork steak with all bone and fat removed) and cut it in small chunks.
Put the chunks in a small bowl, salt it moderately and stir it around. Leave it set out on the counter until it smells slightly sour. About 8-10 hours in most cases.
You then scatter it out on a cookie sheet and freeze. Gather the frozen chunks and store in a zip lock bag in freezer until needed.
(You tray freeze them so you only have to thaw what you need.)
For ice fishing you will want them cut about 1/4” square, for summer slightly larger. They will expand some when wet.
Can be used on a bare hook or a small tear-drop jig.
Stays on the hook very well and you can catch several on each baiting.
Give it a try, man do they catch bluegills!
Homer Circle was a good man and writer, he will be missed.
Bluegills bite like crazy on plain bread.