Pocket set bait
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02/19/24 10:27 PM
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That.darn.coon
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What bait do you guys use in pocket sets when you want to catch coon and mink? And what trailing scent do you guys use?
******* I save my sick days, because come winter, I'm gonna have a bad case of trappin fever *******
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/19/24 11:05 PM
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KeithC
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I liked using frogs, after I took the back legs off for eating, split in half and microwaved some. The stink is very strong after microwaving, almost overpowering. In a good location, most of my sets would catch coons next the first night. Even just the juice, from the gallon bags I froze and heated the frogs up in, worked well.
Keith
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/19/24 11:12 PM
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KYBOY
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fish, oily fish of some kind.. carp and sucker are good and fun to shoot
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/19/24 11:49 PM
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I liked using frogs, after I took the back legs off for eating, split in half and microwaved some. The stink is very strong after microwaving, almost overpowering. In a good location, most of my sets would catch coons next the first night. Even just the juice, from the gallon bags I froze and heated the frogs up in, worked well.
Keith That just sounds too nasty.
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/20/24 07:26 AM
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Gary Benson
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Canned mackerel from the grocery store works fine too. I caught a coon in a box trap set for skunk baited with rotten banana and oreos. They'll ear anything. Also like anise oil in ground fish. Anise smells like black licorice.
Last edited by Gary Benson; 02/20/24 07:28 AM.
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/20/24 08:17 AM
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Any kind of fish will work. My favorites are shad, crappie heads, blue gills and bullhead catfish. I use whatever I have access to. Walleye heads work well also.
Muskrat meat is great on mink and coon also. Beaver meat and female mink carcasses also work well.
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/20/24 01:43 PM
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For mink & coon I use minnows, chubs, & crayfish which i either seine or catch in minnow traps. I freeze until needed & sometimes have a minnow trap out on the lines
Till that day.....
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Re: Pocket set bait
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02/20/24 02:18 PM
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I liked using frogs, after I took the back legs off for eating, split in half and microwaved some. The stink is very strong after microwaving, almost overpowering. In a good location, most of my sets would catch coons next the first night. Even just the juice, from the gallon bags I froze and heated the frogs up in, worked well.
Keith That just sounds too nasty. Especially to catch a coon, lol. Hope he has a dedicated frog microwave.
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02/20/24 02:28 PM
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Flatlander94
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I've used cheap cans of tuna in oil. I just buy it in bulk and put it in a separate container and spoon it out as needed.
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02/20/24 09:48 PM
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Chopped up carp. Cheap and fun to catch. Freeze chunks in ice cream pails. Worked awesome for pockets for coon and mink. Later in winter when the creeks froze I reset the old pockets like they were dirthole sets baited them up with more carp chunks and caught a lot of coyotes and fox at those old pockets. Got the idea watching the old pockets get dug out after freeze up must have still been some interesting dish and lure odors coming from the pockets. The dirt thrown out onto the ice looked like bombs went off. Jim
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Re: Pocket set bait
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Flatlander94
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Where do buy tuna in bulk at? I just buy multiple large cans from the local grocery store.
"Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land."
-Aldo Leopold
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