anyone have a good recipe for a homemade coon paste? that they would like to tell me im only 12 and need to have a paste for next season.trapper12

Mix equal parts of a cheap fish based cat food and jack mackeral in a jar. Stir until the consistancey you want. It works good for me. Tom

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add used cooking oil and or bacon grease to get it to smear really good. I use an oil based tuna that works real good as well.

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A bit of castor in there will improve it.

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Here's one that works really good. I use it in my pipe set and almost all my pockets. Will take coon and mink.
1- 16 oz can Jack Mackrel
1/2 cup corn meal (this thickens it)
2 Tbsp Fish Oil
1 Tbsp Shellfish Oil

Mix ingreadients, smash Jack Mackerel firmly with a fork until it forms a paste. Cornmeal thickens the mix and makes it sticky. Fish oil keeps it from drying out and crusting over. SHellfish oil add long range oder.

We also have streams and creeks around my area that are trout rivers on these streams and creeks I use the same mix except instead of Jack Mackeral I use canned salmon. I carry 2 bait containers one with Jack paste and one with Salmon paste.

Kev

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solidified lard... especially after cooking up fish or chicken

Take the kids fishing and keep every perch you catch. Freeze them whole. When the season opens toss them out so they thaw and cut into chunks on the line. I do it right next to the whole because it leaves smell there. I also buy pressed fish oil and squirt that in a line on both sides of the hole. Works good here in Oklahoma and we have basicly the same weather. Good luck

I love sardines. So, every time I eat some, I pour off the oil into a jar and freeze it. When trapping season comes along, I thaw it out and mix it with the contents in a jack mackeral can. There's enough juice in the mackeral and the sardines that it makes a paste "to die for", as far as the coon are concerned. They can't seem to lay off it.

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I use peanut butter, fish oil, and vanilla.

I don't catch hundreds....but I catch my limit purdy quickly, and rarely find evidence of a walk by....

i think i might make this

3 tbsp. of fish oil
can of jack mac
2 cans of fish catfood
1 tuna can

boy, this all sounds pretty "fishy" smelling, round here if i use fish i usually double my coon catch with possums...anything sweet out there? also could u include amounts? if not thats fine, its not my post, but what i like is, 1/2 contaner of marshmellow paste, 3 tablespoons anise oil, and 2 whole pieces of jack mac smashed with a fork then put in, mix it up and the anise oil does the calling, marshmellow gets em investigating(also sight if u us it in the open) and the jack mac finishes em. sorry for the paragraph lol.
also, i use mostly bucket sets, so i dont know how this handles early in the season with your footholds(i didnt get a chance to trap the early part of the year this year)but when the water freezes up, put out ur coni-bucket and wait for a thaw, when that hits the coons should be laying there.

Molasses, Maple Syrup, and Vanilla. Good sweet smelling stuff, and most kitty cats avoid the sweet stuff.

Bacon grease makes a pretty good base, too!

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