Re: Bait solutions
[Re: ceb7972]
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09/02/20 08:59 PM
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KeeperOfTheCoons
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Rotten eggs and rotten fish will get a possum. Fresh cut-up minnows are a free way to get bait for many different animals, or a big carp or sucker. I've heard foxes and coyotes like fresh eggs but i've never tried it. Deer meat, muskrat meat, beaver meat, groundhog meat, mice, skunk meat, porcupine meat, or bobcat meat, any of those, be a good meat base with your solution. Using meat baits too early will attract less foxes and coyotes, and more possums coons ect. Once its gets colder, they will work better. Of course, bobcats like catnip like any other feline. I bet you could mix some catnip essential oil to a container of petroleum jelly, or simply just mix some castor oil and catnip and use that as a lure for bobcats.
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: wheelers]
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09/02/20 11:03 PM
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Paul Dobbins
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Dobbins' Bait Solution This is an enticing mixture that, when mixed with your chunked or ground bait, is irresistable to the canine. Order #LBS $25.00 - One pint
Dobbins' Bait Solution #2 This is the same bait solution I've always made, but without the addition of skunk essence. Some trappers prefer it without skunk. Order #LBS2 $25.00 - One pint There are other quality bait solutions on the market. Jameson's, Locklear's, Marsyada's, Reuwsaat's, Dunlap's, etc. Experiment and find out what you prefer.
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: KeeperOfTheCoons]
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09/02/20 11:05 PM
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Paul Dobbins
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Using meat baits too early will attract less foxes and coyotes, and more possums coons ect. Once its gets colder, they will work better. I'm not sure about other bait solutions, but mine actually turns the meat into more than bait. It's more like a lure than a bait. The meat is just one part of the whole formulation. With the addition of essential oils and other ingredients, it gets a lot more than just a hunger response.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, � I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: Paul Dobbins]
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09/03/20 12:32 PM
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KeeperOfTheCoons
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Using meat baits too early will attract less foxes and coyotes, and more possums coons ect. Once its gets colder, they will work better. I'm not sure about other bait solutions, but mine actually turns the meat into more than bait. It's more like a lure than a bait. The meat is just one part of the whole formulation. With the addition of essential oils and other ingredients, it gets a lot more than just a hunger response. Interesting, I never have really checked out a lot of information about bait solutions and how exactly they work, I will have to look into it especially since I'm taking trapping more serious this year compared to last year. It sounds pretty cool, thanks for the input Paul!
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: ceb7972]
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09/06/20 11:44 AM
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danny clifton
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A lot more coons possums and skunks per square mile than coyotes. They don't really like cold weather. Thats why you catch them early season. I can't find any effective coyote/bobcat scents they are not attracted to. If your trapping early, in places coons possum and skunks habituate, your going to catch them too.
Catnip is over rated as a bobcat attractant. I wont use it in fact.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: ceb7972]
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09/14/20 08:10 AM
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The hammer
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All good advice, I’m also considering making a fruit based since our season open up mid-late October in Pennsylvania. I figure coyote and fox will probably respond to that. I know that some people are going to say I’m gonna catch all the others, but I don’t mind. I actually started trapping bc I noticed a decline with turkey in some areas, and started to find nests that were destroyed by different critters. My old man during the fur boom years said he would use wild grapes. He would take a hand full smashed up and throw it down a dirt hole with urine on the top of the dirt hole. Would catch alot of red fox that way early in the season.
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: ceb7972]
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09/14/20 09:46 AM
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danny clifton
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Possums really like grapes. So do coons. I'm not sure about skunks.
Your going to be time and fur ahead to make multiple sets at each location. Even when you dont anticipate coons skunks and possums
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Bait solutions
[Re: ceb7972]
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09/14/20 09:47 AM
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williamsburg ks
danny clifton
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By the way: if your goal is to reduce turkey egg depredation you want to kill as many coons skunks and possums as you can anyway.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Bait solutions
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09/22/20 05:35 PM
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Southern Michigan
trappergbus
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Southern Michigan
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Just a suggestion as someone who was in your shoes about 4 years ago. I started to trap and immediately wanted to start trying my hand at bait making. You will start to see very quickly that there is a steep learning curve in BOTH trapping and lure/bait making. Don't tackle both curves at once. The professional lure and bait makers have that curve mastered. You will save time, money, and head ache using their stuff. They put it all in a nice clean easy to use jar and sell it to you at a good price, with a description of how/when to use. If youre not sure which one to buy call them or ask here. The time, effort and money you will save would be better spent getting permissions and finding tracks and turds so you know where to stick the lures and baits. True statement!!
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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