Well its sad so many people just don't understand the full truth about the blue bucket theory. But in reality almost any bucket will work. Since coons are color blind they can see blue better than other colors with the exception of green. Having forseen an huge uptick in the coming fur markets I am preparing to be in on the ground floor of the next wave. I've hired some specialty people to research blueness and not the blueness of early caught fur. But the blueness a coon can see. Since all the patents haven't been procured yet I can't be too specific about details. Especially since my last venture with my mule breeding program and the SEC shut us down when trying to go public with it. They claimed that I didn't inform the public in our prospectus disclosure that mules don't breed. I barely got out of that mess by the skin of my teeth by giving back at least most of our clients funds. They dropped the fraud charges after I convinced them I honestly didn't know that mules was just too stupid and lazy to breed. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, and before anyone thinks about plagiarism, I have never even heard of MA CAT!

Anyway so that everyone knows just enough to get you caught, no I mean get your money, no I mean get your attention I will tell you the system includes LED blue lights and at least one blue laser that goes in the back of almost any bucket. The rest of which I'm not at liberty to say at this time.
Any way not wanting to lose your attention on unnecessary garble, just start cutting back on your Star Bucks and Big Macks and save up so you to can get in on the top floor when the offering comes out. Be prepared for that next $30 run on coons.

Your the first one to bring up the color blindness thing. And your right but the blue bucket set was mainly a mink set not really used for trapping coon. But a few coon and rats can be caught In this set.

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Oh well, I took a shot at it, lol.

So what are the challenges of north vs south trappers using this breath taking system ?

I hate to burst your bubble Foxpaw but I needed to get every on eon the same page.

Here's a little information on the Blue bucket set.

1- It's basically a water set for mink. And yes mink are color blind.

2- The bucket Is submerged with only about 2" of the bucket being above the water line.

3- The only way to submerge a 5 gallon bucket It to fill It with something. A little dirt mounded up above the buckets edge Is needed. You need a place to bed your trap.


Got to go the wife Is sounding the dinner bell.

Well the main problem with northern trapping is that if our society don't start adhering to Greta's more stringent ways of clean living then as more nitrogen is released into the atmosphere we will have more blue northern lights and that could be a distraction to our blue lighting system. Hopefully the southern folk not so much. So therefore the south could possibly be our biggest market share.

I wonder if Beavs dinner will be served on a blue plate tonight.?

Another question...would some Blue mountain pottery placed in the back be a good attractant ?

Any phase color blue bucket at the bottom of the sea will still kill a possum

Where's nittany when you need him?

I can honestly say I have never caught an Opossum in the Blue Bucket Set, It would be of my opinion that the Blue Bucket Set is Opossum Proof.

A little4 more Info on the B&B set .

The originator of this set placed dry dog or cat food on top of the dirt on top of the bucket. Then birds would come and feed on It knocking off some food Into the water. This dog or cat food would then attract cray fish and other small bait fish. Then In theory would attract mink to the set.
Well once the dog or cat food was In the water you would set the trap. Well that never worked because the birds were still attracted to bucket top. So the thing I did was never put any food on top of the bucket but just toss It In the water to begin with.
The Idea was that the mink would climb up on the bucket top and dive In to catch the minnows or cray fish. Well It actually worked but I think the dirt filled bucket turned out to be just a resting place for the traveling mink. It worked pretty good In front of those wet culverts.
I never lured or baited this set. And you don't need blue buckets.

I did figure out when I used dog food bait containing a mix of salmon added would attract 80% more mink.

I used fish pellets.

Blue is an attractive color

It was so long ago I forgot about the fish pellets.
After a few years I started pushing the bucket back into the culvert. It worked ok but water depth Is critical as you all know.

Yes, so does round vs. square. Shape has a huge impact on value.

So Beav did you try this in ND on the rat boom days ?

I Used a different system out there.
We went out In the fall and Lots of two tracks were rap raped and no place to set a trap. But the rats were all over those rocks.
So when I came back In the spring and being a big ice cream eater I saved up all those gallon containers. I filled up those containers with dirt and would jam them in between those rocks. A little green grass and a bit of lure worked out. Rats were really drawn to those ice cream pails.

I still have some of Nittany's DVDs explaining everything about the blue bucket. I'm thinking many on here don't have any idea about the origin or real story of how the blue buckets are used.. If you want one I'll send it to you just cover my shipping cost. I think I only have a dozen or so though.

Why are you trapping Pine trees? Is there a better market for them rather than skunks ?