Okay, this is just a snippet from an old article I wrote. It's very generalized but may help you get started.
[color:#3333FF]For turkeys, try to find a strutting area in spring. You can usually see feather drag marks in the dirt where they have strutted back and forth over time. Affix the camera only a foot or so off the ground, making the turkey appear larger than life in the photo. Because strutting areas may change, take advantage of any activity by setting your camera to take photos at very short intervals. I have mine set at five seconds between shots. In a week�s time, you may get all of your photos in a three minute span.
If pigs are your fancy, mix up a bucket of 50 pounds of corn with five one-liter bottles of Big Red soft drink. Leave it in the sun for a few days to a week. Dig a hole, pour in the baked mixture, and cover it up with dirt. The buried treasure will keep the raccoons from eating all the bait and should produce a myriad of photos of pigs digging. I�ve also seen recipes calling for Kool-Aid, molasses, rotten apples, whiskey, Jell-O, and even diesel fuel. Some of my favorite shots were taken of tipsy raccoons after they ate some of the fermented corn the hogs had uncovered.
If you enjoy predators, here are some tips. Predators will eat a variety of fruits and vegetables (even ripe tomatoes and watermelons), but fresh meat seems to be the high percentage lure for all canines and felines. If you don�t have access to a deer, a butcher or meat processor should be willing to donate some cull cuts. I have found that bobcats and foxes can�t resist fresh seafood. Shad and skipjack herring top my favorites list because they are easy to catch in a cast net.
Predators, especially coyotes, tend to drag their food to a favorite lair for eating or storing. If you are using small bait like a squirrel, a rabbit, or a small piece of meat, tether it to a tree with duck decoy cord or light rope so you can capture the animal snacking in front of the camera. Make sure the rope is a dark color so it won�t be obvious in the picture. If using large bait like deer innards, cut it up into a dozen or so pieces to keep the animals returning for more meals.
If you don�t want glistening entrails in your photos, spread a light layer of leaves over your bait. An added benefit is that a little camouflage keeps the crows and buzzards from sighting a meal. The predators will have no problem finding it under the leaves.
In the same vein, never set your bait out in the open because scavenging birds will pick it off almost immediately. Set your bait in or near cover along likely predator travel routes. Bottlenecks, gaps in fences, and brushy creek bottoms are all excellent predator travel corridors. Intersections of roads, trails, fence lines, and different vegetations are also fine bait locations.
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