Re: Making dp bait
[Re: coonman220]
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06/20/19 08:01 PM
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Marshmellows are sticky mess in sun, I wouldn't use any dry cat food. Or fish. Fish pellet bait sounds good an cheap. Not sure how much order it gives out, if u could get something that taste good yet super sweet smell to put on it , that wouldn't make it wet or dry it out, but pellets have be kept bag or dry out an not as much order, it wsnt everyone likes Fish food and powdered molasses mixed.
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Re: Making dp bait
[Re: coonman220]
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06/20/19 08:39 PM
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Marshmellows are sticky mess in sun, I wouldn't use any dry cat food. Or fish. Fish pellet bait sounds good an cheap. Not sure how much order it gives out, if u could get something that taste good yet super sweet smell to put on it , that wouldn't make it wet or dry it out, but pellets have be kept bag or dry out an not as much order, it wsnt everyone likes No you just leave the bag open over night and they absorb the liquid. Well the way I mix them. Not sticky at all. One thing I do is let them dry out before you add mixture. Just dump them out on the counter or work bench for 2-3 days then put in gallon bag with one box of strawberry jello. Add 2-3 tabl spoons of vanilla extract and shake. Oh did I mention I got about 3 dollars invested in about 30- 50 baits. ( dollar store )
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Re: Making dp bait
[Re: coonman220]
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06/20/19 09:19 PM
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If you want a sweet smelling bait, mix your pellets with grape or cherry jello mix.
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Re: Making dp bait
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06/20/19 10:38 PM
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$1 cheap bag of fish flavored cat food from dollar store, dump it in a large clean plastic container with lid. Add a generous amount of molasses, cherry jello, fish oil, whatever to the molasses mixture. Put the lid up and shake it until it's all coated. Make this in summer and over the summer periodically give that thing a good shake. The cat food will soak up all the goodies and by season you will have a great smelling dry bait for DPs with little cost in it. Anise works great with it, so does vanilla, liquid smoke, caramel, and a jillion other flavors. Jim
Last edited by jabNE; 06/20/19 10:39 PM.
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Re: Making dp bait
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Great thread, thanks for posting up fellers! Got lots of ideas now for my kansas lines. It will be my first year running dog proofs.
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Re: Making dp bait
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If you have access to free apples, dices them into 1/4" cubes. I prefer Granny Smith apples because they do not turn to mush as soon as other apples, and their smell gets stronger with age. Use enough to fill up to the bottom of the trigger. Squirt a small amount of squeeze grape jam on top to glue the apple cubes in place. Grape spread is cheaper and works just a well. I do not like grape jelly because it does not glue the cubes in place as well. I squirt the general vicinity with mixture of 50% honey/ 50% imitation vanilla, and some anise oil as a longer range attractant. A lot of my raccoon trapping requires me to catch ALL of the raccoons, not just some of them. This is my secret go-to recipe. Well, it use to be a secret. The places I trap have raccoons who have so much available food to them that they will walk right past dogproof traps baited with marshmallows, sardines, mackerel, cat food, you name it. They do not walk past this bait very often. It must be the ultimate desert to a raccoon.
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Re: Making dp bait
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06/20/19 11:33 PM
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Just my 2 cents but I would not want the general public to think my bait was pet food. If your a ADC guy, thats a valid idea. Especially when you get the "raccoons/possums/skunks are eating my cat's food" calls.
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Re: Making dp bait
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Marshmellows are sticky mess in sun, I wouldn't use any dry cat food. Or fish. Fish pellet bait sounds good an cheap. Not sure how much order it gives out, if u could get something that taste good yet super sweet smell to put on it , that wouldn't make it wet or dry it out, but pellets have be kept bag or dry out an not as much order, it wsnt everyone likes Fish food and powdered molasses mixed. Where do you get powdered molasses ?
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Re: Making dp bait
[Re: coonman220]
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U mean just dry powder, mix with fish pellets? Yes, the dry powder. If you want it to stick to your pellets better, you can, lightly, most the pellets before mixing in the jello powder.
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Re: Making dp bait
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The fish food bait in 50 lbs bag , sound best, u go though lots bait, it to expensive to order trapline supply, taking a spay bottle with lil water an moisten a lil. Am shake some powdered Kool aid mix over it, an let dry in open, for half a day, then put closed container, a good idea? How much order well it give? Well it be string at all ? To smell from a fee foot away ?
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