They say, “too soon old, too late smart.”

After decades of dying body grips I’ve finally decided to start painting my body grip traps. Any thoughts on favorite colors for water trapping body grips?

I do my snares lightly with khaki and army green flat spray paint.

I spray painted mine dark blackish green and they look good.

I use a dead grass type color, and usually go back over a little with black striping. They seem to blend in well.

I go with the flat black spray paint on 330's for beaver.

160s for coon in grass trails get tan/dead grass color.

Water bodygrips get dark brown.

I use the same on bodygrippers as snares and anything I want camo. Three different camo colors, the three cans goes a LONG ways.

Brown or black for me on my mink & beaver lines

If mostly underwater....match your water color....brown or black.

Flat black or dead grass color in tan.

I camo’d all of my mink blind set 110s and my coon trail 160s and 220s.
Mostly to help hide them from people so they can blend in better.

This is with a rattle can of flat tan rustoleum and a few swipes with can of flat dark brown rustoleum. They blend very well in dead grass and brush in late season around here. Nothing fancy. Good protection and still easy to set. The coating lasts several catches/seasons.

Jim

Here is what the coon body grips look like. Cabled to stands and ready to go.




And here is a tote full of 110s for mink blind sets.

I dip those suckers in rusty metal primer and mineral spirits 40/60. Then hit them with a couple lighter colors of necessary. Most I just leave the brown.

I've started mixing the Rust-Oleum paint with 2 part acetone and one part paint. 50/50 I've decided is a little bit thick. I then stripe with tan and black rattle cans

All of my bodygrips are coated in Rust-Oleum/acetone mixer. Than they get a swipe or three of at least one other color, normally 2 colors. Its not so much to camouflage, but to break up the shape. Animals push through multiple colored items all day long. I believe that when the see something that is a solid color in a shape that does not occur naturally they are more opt to hesitate and not fully commit.