Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
[Re: Flipper 56]
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01/04/24 09:54 PM
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Not burying traps will grow on you and the DLS's really shine in that roll.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
[Re: Flipper 56]
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01/04/24 11:39 PM
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
[Re: Flipper 56]
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01/05/24 10:23 AM
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Well nothing the first night, just glad a deer didn't mess up the set. We will let it soak and see how long before a catch.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
[Re: Flipper 56]
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01/05/24 12:06 PM
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Looks pretty promising hopefully you get one!
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
[Re: Flipper 56]
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01/05/24 02:54 PM
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I'm watching also. I plan on doing a few similar sets but been trying to wait to get a little snow. Keep us posted thanks
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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01/05/24 03:02 PM
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire. They were steady, I wanted to see if it would catch with the straw covering and be freeze proof. Do you cover the bacon with the straw? Like in the mounded-up straw where I put the bait?
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire. Interesting! Can you explain what that method does for success for your catch?
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire. Interesting! Can you explain what that method does for success for your catch? I believe it adds more appeal to the set.Also in certain areas around here,,they are used to digging through old camp fires looking for scraps of food.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire. They were steady, I wanted to see if it would catch with the straw covering and be freeze proof. Do you cover the bacon with the straw? Like in the mounded-up straw where I put the bait? I don't cover the bacon.Toss on top and light the hay on fire.Walk away.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I will see if anything happens for a few, then maybe a chunk of beaver and or bacon. I will hide it so I don't catch a bird. I should see any interest or refusals on the cam. Not many coyotes around, at least 1 though, they don't get any respect around here.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I do a similar set.I bury the traps a little better,,put a couple strips of bacon on the hay,,then set the whole thing on fire. Does the bacon come out crispy.....or chewy ?
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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I will see if anything happens for a few, then maybe a chunk of beaver and or bacon. I will hide it so I don't catch a bird. I should see any interest or refusals on the cam. Not many coyotes around, at least 1 though, they don't get any respect around here. Hay sets work on their own for sure.I just find a little added appeal with the camp fire set.And the meat melts down into the hay once burned so is not an exposed bait.Keep us posted.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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Add some grain so the mice move in. If it is full of mice a K-9 is going to work it.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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01/07/24 03:04 PM
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My experience with that set was always hit or miss.I've had first night catches with it,I've had refusals.I used straw because of the amount of deer around here.I always used a bait like O gormans powder river paste bait,and a good gob of it.I've never caught a wolf with it but have had them work it.
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Re: Hay set with #4 double longsprings
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01/07/24 04:37 PM
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Isn’t there a mousey smelling lure you can throw on there? I thought I saw it in some catalog.. Yep, called "Just Mice" I believe. I always thought a hay set would have a ton of eye appeal with snow on the ground and would be a Bobcat magnet but I have never tried it.
I have nothing clever to put here.
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