This is probably the best response here. Start stocking up now and you'll have plenty by the time season opens.

what if i used sodium benzonite on the crawdads?

I dont know. I always just ground them up and froze them.

You will catch as many on canned jack mackerel.

salt is a preservative you can add flour to canned tuna, sardines or mackeral to go stretch it out a little further also liquid smoke or/ and anise oil can be added or used as lure both bought at the grocery store or general dollar

thank you guys for the help, i found what i needed regarding crawfish but if i mixed ground crawfish with some flour to thicken it then add some liquid smoke then ad some vanilla extract, would it catch coon mink and rats?

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Sardines sardines sardines.

Or if you just have some coyote bait in a hole.

You can alternately salt your fresh fish. Catch the fish. If using something like carp, either chunk it up, or grind it. Put a layer of fish in a 5 gallon bucket, then a layer of salt. Layer of fish, layer of salt until you run out of fish. When I say a layer of salt, I mean like an inch thick layer, not just a sprinkling. Put the lid on the bucket. Your fish will keep and will work fine in your pocket sets. Salt can be had at Tractor Supply for under $10 for a 50lb sack.

Savell, don't get the trapperE buying the most expensive stuff there is at the dollar store.... lol

I use pellet catfish food to thicken up ground fish. I like to get a consistency to were you can form a loose ball with it.

Don't overthink coon baits. They'll eat anything.

I've caught a ton of them off the cheapest canned and dry catfood the dollar store has.

Heck I've even reached into a customer's trash can and tossed chickens bones or pizza crusts in the back of cages.

If you are on a decent location and the critters move through, I don't care what you use, you will get hits.......jk IT IS THE LOCATION!!!!!

You can catch coon on almost anything fishy, meaty, eggy, fruity or sweet. What's worked absolutely best for me is the rest of the frog, after eating the rear legs, microwaved for a couple of minutes and put in a dirt hole. The smell is intense and when placed near other baits, catches first.

Keith

i set traps by a river with dps and the coons knocked over my dps but they didnt want the dry catfood, no clue why

Some syrup or grape jelly is never a bad dp sauce

I don't know how he Mark preserved them, but they were a brown color. They also had a fair amount of golden brown juice in them. Strong crawfish smell when you opened the jar.

This also works well for coon. Be forewarned, this us rough on DPs due to the salt.

Any fish will work as bait. Don't get caught up in the, it has to be this bait or that bait. Use what is available to you. Sardines, Jack Mack, tuna, canned salmon, blue gills, crappie, shad, walleye heads, suckers, carp, and bass etc. will all work just fine. Frogs, crawdads, creek chubs, and shrimp and lobster leftovers work well also.

I had some outdated canned salmon given to me. It worked fine, although I wouldn't buy it but free was good.

Canned sardines and jack mackerel are cheap off the shelf fish.[/quote]


If fish aren’t allowed in the freezer, (roll eyes), canned sardines are probably not allowed in the pantry.