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BAIT - Egg Baits.......Opinions Please #1358604
05/27/09 11:19 AM
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Are "cured" eggs better than "fresh" eggs for bait?



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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: HobbieTrapper] #1358663
05/27/09 12:00 PM
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Fish eggs???

Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: James H.] #1358666
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Chicken eggs.


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: HobbieTrapper] #1358668
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I would just use the shell's and not the egg itself...JMO

Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: James H.] #1358670
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what are you trying to catch?

Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: Andrew N.] #1358671
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Visual or scent?


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: HobbieTrapper] #1358673
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Mighty broad subject. Depends on about a hundred variables, like what it is for, do you expect the animals to eat it, is it a lure base, a bait base, and about 993 more questions lol. A whole egg has sight and food appeal, egg shells have the same sight and food appeal, they also have very little odor to stop an animal that does not or cannot see the egg. Eggs have been used for about forever for canine lures that attract other animals as well for a lure or bait base, most of the time well tainted or rotted down and well aged or sometimes just plain rotten, but other additives are usually used as well to create a odor that is much chaanged over just the rotten eggs. Eggs alone has never been my thing, eggs rotted with meat, fish, glands from some other furbearer and or various musk is a different story, those can be quite good. Wolfer on here has a good egg based lure, bob jameson has one, so do many others, if fresh eggs were the thing then luremakers would be marketing them in baits and lures.


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: possum5676] #1358677
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So, you have no idea which is better? LOL! laugh


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: HobbieTrapper] #1359138
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Hobbie...if you like skinnig skunks then by all means use eggs...fresh, or even better rotten.


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: bad karma] #1359195
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Asa knows a good skunk bait recipe using eggs. PM him.

Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: Andrew N.] #1359210
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How'd that work for you Livetrap?


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Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: Blackdog] #1359322
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Properly cultured eggs have a very pleasing sweet/musky egg odor. From this state you can develop a very good lure or bait beginning with this base.A well cultured egg material is not what most associate the odor is with aged eggs.It is a good bait just as it is without any other ingredients.Certainly a mild odor but none the less attractive to predators.Formulate other ingredients such as glands, musks etc. you will have some good bait or lure.

The consistency of cultured eggs is a heavy mayonaise type consistency if worked and aged to term.When you add eye appeal to this odor or use some egg shells its potential is even more attractive.I did many years of testing with eggs and egg cultures and finally worked up what I have today.

To answer your question, in my experience cultured egg material is much more attractive then fresh broken egg yolks and whites.

Eggs are a prime food opportunity if found by predators of most any specie.Coons, fox, coyotes, skunks, opossums,crows and snakes to name a few all will seek out nests of ground and tree bird species.For eggs or newly hatched young.

For cage trapping eggs are great eye appeal just as empty shells. But add an odor to the presentation and you have a great combo opportunity for most animals on the prowl.



Here is our egg cracking day.It takes a few hours for two men to crack a few thousand eggs and separate shells from the meat.One of my buddies is shown helping out with this process.

Re: Egg Baits.......Opinions Please [Re: Bob Jameson] #1359470
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After reading an article in Fur Fish & Game back in the late 70s or early 80s, I started using eggs in dirtholes and pocket sets. Great eye appeal. And the fact that most animals will break the egg attempting to get it out of the hole will keep them working the set, until they get caught or they've cleaned it all up, appeals to me.

I caught my first coyote, my first red, and my first grey(along w/numerous others) using whole fresh eggs down dirtholes and caught plenty of coons too.

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