Re: marten bait
[Re: Fergustrap 2]
#7472659
01/25/22 03:05 PM
01/25/22 03:05 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,365 Interior Alaska
Oh Snap
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,365
Interior Alaska
|
Grouse less breast’s, moose/bear fat rolled up in soffit screen Pre wired about size of your thumb. Tainted to the point you can barely stand to smell it..lol. Dried split fish tainted and beaver didn’t work well where I trapped and I was a died in the wool beaver trapper…lol I also used just a grouse wing and lure no bait worked well until someone (human)started taking the wings!
I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
|
|
|
Re: marten bait
[Re: Fergustrap 2]
#7472910
01/25/22 06:48 PM
01/25/22 06:48 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,580 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,580
james bay frontierOnt.
|
Grouse or rabbit is ok before it gets real cold.Same with cheap sardines or fish oil. After the cold sets in a good sized chunk of beaver in the box works well.If it gets frost dried on the outside I chop it in half and its giving off the smell again for a week or more. After that i change it out for fresh chopped beaver,and throw the old chunks in a snow hole beside my trail and snare it up,or collect it up and add it to a jackpot for cats and fox on down the line. Moose butcher scraps is real good too,and beef scraps from the butcher is also top notch if you can get some. Never heard of pork being any good,but never tried any pork butcher scrap.
Salted bait was worse than useless even the small mammals wouldnt touch it.The only thing it attracted was the odd moose come in to lick under the box. Never had much luck with fish(suckers) here for marten. Sucker chunks are good mink bait in late fall early winter.When mink prices were good way back we would net,trap or snag a bunch of suckers during the spring runs and freeze up a bunch in burlap bags for mink sets in the fall.
Last edited by Boco; 01/25/22 06:56 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
|
|
|
Re: marten bait
[Re: nooksack]
#7472914
01/25/22 06:55 PM
01/25/22 06:55 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,365 Interior Alaska
Oh Snap
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,365
Interior Alaska
|
Snap, grouse here too. I would make 4 baits or more from a carcass. Duck was also better than beaver. Marten here don't climb often where I'm at either.
I think FT was a grouse guy too. Made a lot of small baits like you mention Larry. Oh yah a meal and bait, can’t beat it. Better than any chicken! The year we went to the ground because they weren’t climbing we got 25% more. Our version of a tip up!
Last edited by Oh Snap; 01/25/22 07:56 PM.
I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
|
|
|
Re: marten bait
[Re: Fergustrap 2]
#7473434
01/26/22 02:57 AM
01/26/22 02:57 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 9,249 Alaska and Washington State
waggler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 9,249
Alaska and Washington State
|
I used to say beaver, because every meat eating animal loves it, and it is available. But now I would have to say number one is duck and grouse carcasses hacked into a few pieces.
I know old timers in Washington who trapped in the 1930's through the 1950's used a lot of salmon scraps. They used salmon for two reasons, it worked okay, and it was more readily available than beaver at that time. Trappers were not allowed to trap beaver in Washington until 1963, prior to that time only State government trappers were allowed to trap beaver.
When they used salmon, they would generally fold the chunk of fish (often a little ripe) inside a piece of hardware cloth and then nail the packet to the inside of the notch in the tree that contained their trap. I still occasionally find remnants of these old sets. The hardware cloth protected the bait from birds.
"My life is better than your vacation"
|
|
|
|
|