Salmon oil question
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06/20/19 04:30 PM
06/20/19 04:30 PM
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Usally get a gallon every season an use glycerine if needed for antifreeze, I was reading a coon trapping book, long ago where austin passamonte , was using vegetable oil with a lil shellfish added, said it was as good as salmon oil, smell vegetable oil. Smells quite simlar, was looking for some feedback on this
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Re: Salmon oil question
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06/20/19 04:39 PM
06/20/19 04:39 PM
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I don't know how salmon oil tastes, but due to a very unpleasant day, I do know that shellfish oil tastes horrible. I don't think I would use it where a coon could taste it.
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Re: Salmon oil question
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06/21/19 02:20 PM
06/21/19 02:20 PM
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Garold Weiland of Longliner fame used to sell a shellfish lure, of which I still have some bottles of it. It has it's own unique odor as you know it is not fishy. It is strong though and Mr. Passamonte was quite genius in figuring out how to make tincture or emulsion of cheap bulk oil with a more expensive product. There is chemistry involved in this in long chains and how things bind, as oil and water do not mix, no more than petro oil and veg oil do not mix, although they do not separate out. The short of this is providing your vegetable oil, which was probably corn oil, which had very little scent when it was fresh, would be a wonderfully cheap substitute to extend shellfish. Raccoons will eat about anything that is food, so maybe a stronger odor of olive oil might work, but at 28 bucks a gallon, that defeats the purpose of a light vegetable oil. The main obvious point would be if canola or rape seed oil which does have an odor, could be overpowered by the shellfish, that the target animal would trigger to an easy meal. Then like corn oil, you would have a perfect extender for a 3 to 5 dollar an ounce bottle of lure.
As the coons are not going to be tasting it or eating it, the veg shellfish would work ideally for something Carroll Black used to do, in he kept fish oil in a squirt bottle and said he would make a set in a good location away from the water's edge, and squirt a trail of lure to his set. For the young trappers or the older ones who have never considered it, in this method you can squirt a line across gravel road if you see coon tracks, and they will follow it to a culvert, bushes or brush in a set where no one can see.
To put your post where my words are, I will be using your Passamonte idea with Black's this year, as cheap good lure is what dealing with lots of cheap fur raccoons is all about.
Thanks for asking that question in sharing that old information, as this genius takes too long for others to figure it out again. It is a great teaching point on Trapperman.
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Re: Salmon oil question
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06/23/19 06:22 PM
06/23/19 06:22 PM
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Blue Ridge Outdoor Supplies, Elkton,Va sells a fishy smelling menhaden fish oil. I love that stuff, I like to use it straight.
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