blackjac Had the same issues with wet sticks as you are having. Started to discontinue the water bath and it solved the wet stick issue. With cold weather I put sticks in a plastic tub outside for 15 minutes and that dropped stick temp fast. Sure works for me in South Dakota winters.

Jonathon, Clark is a great place for hunting and fishing. Hope you got on the ice. I live pretty close to Clark, if you want to get into spectacular spring walleye fishing let me know.

Crazy amount of water in this area, going to continue with the snow we have and the blizzard going on as I speak. Anticipate a terrific spring on these shallow walleyes.

Make a small 5 lb batch to test for flavor several weeks ago. My Testers, grand kids said they were good but needed more dill pickle flavor. This past weekend I made about 100 lbs of deer products including the second round of the Dill Pickle stick seasoning. Went for the gold on this seasoning. Ground up a jar of dill pickles and added the juice to the block. My gosh! those kids ate 10 lbs of sticks already. This seasoning is unreal good.