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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327112
09/17/18 08:26 AM
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I think it's time to set up the game camera now that I know I can get him to smile for the camera if there's oreos around! At the very least I might get a chance to finally lay eyes on what the heck I'm dealing with.

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327144
09/17/18 09:28 AM
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Sounds like a coon to me.
Put some kind of weight on or around the traps. Or stake them down.


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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327148
09/17/18 09:33 AM
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I've never had a skunk or a possum roll a trap, but if they are not staked down a coon won't mind picking a small trap up and turning in upside down to dump out the goodies.






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Matthew 7:6 KJV
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine....
-OFBA, NTA, FTA, TTFHA-
Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327235
09/17/18 12:32 PM
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The pics above are from a current job I'm working and today I had another skunk waiting on me.
The brick keeps the critter from flipping the trap no matter how much he digs around.
Wally world cheap Oreos and fish oil skunks the skunks. I also use some of Bob Jameson's skunks bait on the hanging marshmallows in the back of the trap.







Sorry for the photo bomb, cookies work


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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine....
-OFBA, NTA, FTA, TTFHA-
Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327289
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I'm dusting off the game camera tonight! Maybe we'll get a glimpse of this sucker and finally verify that is in fact a skunk!

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327293
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Hey Ken, thanks for the great pics!! Do you typically cover the trap when you set it? I used to but I've gotten away from that and wait until the am once I've caught something. The first thought that hit me this am when I saw two of my traps flipped over was to stake them next time. Guess I'll tackle that tonight too! I just want this whole nuisance to be over. Gettin sick of baiting traps every single night and coming up empty in the am!

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327331
09/17/18 03:59 PM
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Yes I do. I use feed sacs and cut them down to size then use wire to attach them to the trap.
This skunk really tore up my bag I'll need to put a new one on after that guy


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Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine....
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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327352
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"Law Dog", has some "Cookie Mix" for them nice smelly Skunks to snap onto! lol, ask him' a ??, grin

He may tell ya' he uses Dirt! maybe! grin

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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327370
09/17/18 05:08 PM
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I think you should get a bigger trap and maybe stake it down and you will have him caught

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327557
09/17/18 08:52 PM
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Wow good luck. Yes you might try a bigger trap maybe he doesn't like to squeeze into that small one for some reason.
Cookies, what an awesome bait idea!
They love a lot of different baits I'm really surprised you don't have him by now.
Got one in a cage once with a handful of fruit loops and a squirt of molasis. We were trying to avoid cats and got the skunk that way.
Jim


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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327655
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Thanks again! I'll keep on trying!!!

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6327866
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No sign of anything last night. Nothing on the game camera, all four traps untouched. This guy is playing with me now!!

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6328555
09/19/18 08:45 AM
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VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!! Finally, after several weeks of frustrations and with all of your help I caught not one but TWO white stripers last night!! These suckers were pretty big too! Hopefully theses are the last two that I'll have to worry about for a while and the same ones that have been terrorizing us lately!!! We'll see!

For the record, Oreo cookies was the ticket this time!!! Unfortunately my game camera never turned on so nothing to review.

I was going to take a photo of these two after pulling them out of the tank to share with the group but then it occurred to me that it might be a tad bit morbid.

Thanks again everyone!!

Jeff in Vermont

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6328598
09/19/18 10:00 AM
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Great job Jeff!
Experience breeds confidence.


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-OFBA, NTA, FTA, TTFHA-
Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6328938
09/19/18 08:19 PM
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Good job

Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6329031
09/19/18 10:09 PM
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I was rooting for u. Thanks for keep us posted.

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Re: Looking for the Ultimate Skunk Bait Recipe [Re: mushmorten] #6329133
09/20/18 06:13 AM
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woo hoo! Success!
nice work!
Jim


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