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Re: Muskrat bait/lures [Re: Mnmatt88] #7000687
09/26/20 07:31 AM
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MnMatt88, you mentioned toothpaste in your first post. FYI for several seasons I did very well at ponds and small creeks on rats at pocket sets and other sets with a couple cheap tubes of minty toothpaste. We bought ours for a buck a tube at dollar general and get something in mint or spearmint. A squeeze onto a finger and smeared it on a grasswad in back of a small pocket set put a lot of rats up for us. The mrs never complained about our lire smell on our hands either.
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Re: Muskrat bait/lures [Re: Mnmatt88] #7000942
09/26/20 01:15 PM
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The rat lure that stands above all others Is Lennons rat all call. And Hudson seal Is a close runner up.
You get some wet weather and that tooth paste Is history.


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Re: Muskrat bait/lures [Re: jabNE] #7002803
09/28/20 11:13 AM
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Thanks for the ideas. If you mixed the toothpaste with patrolium jelly wouldnt it help it become more water resistant?

Re: Muskrat bait/lures [Re: Mnmatt88] #7013517
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The first week of the 2004 season I caught a little over 200 rats and 16 coon on a small river in northeast Iowa. The lure-bait was sliced potatoes and peppermint oil from Blackies Blend. A fake rat slide was about the only set used. That pull out-fake slide has to be best rat set ever on moving water. Another simple rat lure is grind some rat pods ad a drop of Tonquin and mix with glycerine. Or just get Lenons as Beave said its great stuff.

Re: Muskrat bait/lures [Re: Mnmatt88] #7013602
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Originally Posted by Mnmatt88
Thanks for the ideas. If you mixed the toothpaste with patrolium jelly wouldnt it help it become more water resistant?



Vaseline just seals In the odor and makes your lure less effective.

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