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porcupine #7325220
08/08/21 08:59 PM
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ol marshrat Offline OP
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My brother has a problem with porcupine at his cabin in northern Wisconsin. What is a good bait or lure (besides house siding or OSB) to put in a cage trap ? Thanks.


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325259
08/08/21 09:34 PM
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Your best pair of leather boots I found seems to work the best for me.


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325261
08/08/21 09:36 PM
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They like urine. Squirt a bunch of urine on some wool or something and stick it in the back of the cage. They’re attracted to the salt


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325279
08/08/21 09:52 PM
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Like Bob said they are attracted to salt, salt water on a rag works also.

Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325292
08/08/21 10:05 PM
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Salted apples






Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325299
08/08/21 10:12 PM
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Bacon grease!!!


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Re: porcupine [Re: newhouse114] #7325304
08/08/21 10:14 PM
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A heavily used wood canoe paddle should work very well. lol

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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325345
08/08/21 11:05 PM
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Salt is their kryptonite they cannot pass it up.


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325350
08/08/21 11:13 PM
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Urine.
honey.
Salt.


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325444
08/09/21 06:10 AM
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salted apple or bread with salt

Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325445
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like law dog said, plain salt


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325538
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We always put a salt block on a old stump around our deer camp, at night you would hear then grinding away on it. If we were not there it kept them busy and out of trouble working that stump over.


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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7325612
08/09/21 10:37 AM
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Old timers used to complain about them chewing on any leather items left outside. Horse harnesses would be chewed into pieces, same with boots left out on the porch over night. Salt from sweat would attract them.


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Re: porcupine [Re: newhouse114] #7326357
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Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7326361
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The old outhouse at camp would get a chewing around the lip of the hole by squirrels for the salt also.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: porcupine [Re: ol marshrat] #7326400
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We have always had a lot of porcupines , in our area. They chewed the plywood top off my shooting bench, and ate up a plywood top on my portable bush toilet. . Installed a large. steel road sign on the bench. That stopped that nonsense. The last several years , population seems to be down, think that fisher, may have moved into our area. old243

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