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Fishmeal #6484304
03/08/19 03:12 AM
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Can anyone tell me where I can buy fish meal? I understand it is mixed with chicken feed a lot and I’d like to get a couple of pounds to mess with but the chicken feed offered around here is mostly cracked corn. Any help would be appreciated.


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Re: Fishmeal [Re: Teacher] #6484343
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coop can get it for you. if they wont call omega protein in st louis. they are bulk sellers but can tell you who to contact. straight up fish meal is not a real good animal attractant. those pellets of fish food have other stuff in them. I don't know what all but I know blood meal is one. another product I didn't think was real good. blood meal is flash frozen red blood cells. all the plasma has been removed. alone fish meal or blood meal either one wont catch much.

elk/deer blood poured in a dirt hole is a decent coyote bait. whole chunks of fish will catch a lot of stuff not just coons. for whatever reasons those meals need a lot of stuff added. I didn't try it just quit fooling with it but I suspect a good fish oil (not that pressed junk) would really kick fish meal in the pants


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Re: Fishmeal [Re: Teacher] #6484853
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Like Danny said the meal has a very subtle odor and is best used as a filler, binder or supplemental ingredient. When it is rehydrated to has a very soft odor. You need to doctor it up to bring it to a higher standard for a better result.

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I think fish meal is under rated. I believe any bait would be enhanced with it. I use it to thicken baits and what animal not attracted to a fishy smell? Especially early season. Take it and put it down a dirt hole and see what happens. I'll tell ya , it will get dug out ! like DC and BJ says Dr it up, experiment with it. you can't go wrong with using it.

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I obtained a 50lb bag from a dog food plant! 5 years later I still got 30lbs it makes a ok thickener in coon baits.It never tripped my trigger as a yote attractor. I plan to use the remainder of it on mater plants this spring

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Maybe i should of specified what likes to dig out fish meal in dirt holes. FOX-COONS . For me there's other critters than yotes. But yet yotes aren't repealed by it . So use it in a bait to dry it out , use as a filler to extend a commercial bait. I don't think you can go wrong using it. Now there's a bacon bait recipe here on TM, that people say good things about. Look it up and add fish meal to a consistency you like .

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Originally Posted by cat4fish
Maybe i should of specified what likes to dig out fish meal in dirt holes. FOX-COONS . For me there's other critters than yotes. But yet yotes aren't repealed by it . So use it in a bait to dry it out , use as a filler to extend a commercial bait. I don't think you can go wrong using it. Now there's a bacon bait recipe here on TM, that people say good things about. Look it up and add fish meal to a consistency you like .
Sorry Cat4fish I wasn't implying that to offend anyone! Coons are hard not to attract lazus's bacon bait with a splash of fox urine is death on boar coons late in the season. Found that by accident couldnt keep big boar coons out of my fox sets so I coupled them.And started using it as a dp bait worked surprisingly well


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Re: Fishmeal [Re: TONY.F] #6489412
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LOL.. Tony.F I wasn't offended in anyway !! Just clarifying what i found that was attracted to fish meal . I did put fish meal in dirt holes though to see what kind of a response it got.And fox uselessly found it quick and dug it out. Did have one hole that fox had dug and a yote took a dump in it . Removed that turd and a week later there was another one, dead center of the hole again. Made me laugh !!
It's funny you say coon like the bacon bait. About 5 yrs ago, local store had #20 box of bacon on sale for $15 dollars. so i got the idea to try and water proof cat food for DP's. Ground up the bacon and cooked it until it started smoking then added cat food. It didn't keep the bacon odor long, and the opossums were quit fond of it ! LOL

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lol the only thing ive found that opies aren't fond of is 22 shorts! Fish meal yes, will make a decent coon bait That's what I used to thicken a fresh mussel bait. It caught coons but cant say that id waste the resources to duplicate

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Re: Fishmeal [Re: TONY.F] #6490602
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Looking for shed's the other day and got attacked by an opie( that's my story) I won !!! I dislike them beaver dam things !!LOL Did you try and preserve them mussels ???? Well when i went to a sweet dry bait for my DP's, the opie catch went from around a 100 to around 20. I quit the fish base bait . Now , I hadn't tried mussel or shell fish base yet, but i'm contemplating it.

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I have found bone meal very attractive to skunks.


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Re: Fishmeal [Re: Teacher] #6514633
04/10/19 11:25 AM
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I just found out from Cameron Kelsey that LeRoy Renno has it in small quantities (2, 4 pound packages). One thing I’m going to do with it will be pre-baiting with cracked corn, Jonesie style. Trapping season is 6 months out and since I have time on my hands, I’m already toying with ideas. Being retired sure has its advantages.


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I like the idea of using fish meal. I don't have any experience with it.


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