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Strangest bait used successfully

Posted By: EatenByLimestone

Strangest bait used successfully - 02/19/19 09:27 PM

Let's have some fun.

We've all been caught unprepared at least once on a job and had to scrounge for bait. What's the strangest, goofiest bait you've used, and caught the target animal? Why do you think it worked?

I think the strangest one for me was Swedish fish candy on a woodchuck. I stacked it and tied it in the upper back corner of a single door trap and placed it in a flower bed where the woodchuck was browsing.

I think it worked because it mimicked a red flower that might be worth eating.
Posted By: 52Carl

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 05:00 AM

I had a homeowner show me how he was catching garden robbing groundhogs in his cage trap. He'd catch them and payed me to dispatch them for him.
He wore them out on Reece's Pieces.
E.T. phone home.
Posted By: TDHP

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 12:34 PM

Coon jobs using ghost sets, which is no bait and is solely dependent on the cage for eye appeal and odors associated from previous catches that were trapped in the cage to bait/lure them in. Strange to some, but I use it quite a bit.
Posted By: MChewk

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 04:27 PM

Arby's Horse Radish sauce has hammered the cottontail rabbits for me....and catches a good amount of coon, possum and skunk in the Fall when I'm short of my usual baits.
Posted By: Bob Jameson

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 04:27 PM

I found I was left a bait bucket in one of our trucks I took for setting up a coon and ghog job one day with some near empty bait and lure bottles.

I had lunch at McDonalds just earlier and had the lunch bag and lunch refuse on the truck floor, so I rolled up the sandwich wrap papers and tore up the boxes and placed the remnants in the back of the cages.

I had catches later in that day with a ghog and a couple of coon the next day. I wasn't real surprised really. Eye appeal and some trace odors works just fine if you are set on the feeding or travel areas.
Posted By: NE Wildlife

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 05:16 PM

I have caught many rabbits on plain old dollar store hot
Dogs.
Posted By: Michigan Trappin

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 06:11 PM

Strawberry licorice for groundhog
Posted By: ACP

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/20/19 10:35 PM

Like Bob, using fast food refuse. Bojangles chicken bones are deadly on skunks
Posted By: Vinke

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/21/19 03:47 AM

poop
Posted By: TRapper

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/22/19 08:06 PM

Love few days old moles for possums
Posted By: NE Wildlife

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/23/19 04:52 PM

joepennanti , I think it was his own 💩💩 lol
Posted By: backroadsarcher

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/24/19 03:48 AM

Used licorice on a coon problem in town plus have used rasberry filled rolls for coon also.
Posted By: Northof50

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 02/24/19 07:15 PM

One spring I was short some coon bait so I used some Drummond Camel meat ,it really stunk to say the least, but it worked. You could smell the sets 100 yards downwind when approaching.
Posted By: run

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 03/20/19 01:28 AM

Raspberry rolls sounds good to me and my taste buds.
Posted By: traprjohn

Re: Strangest bait used successfully - 03/23/19 02:55 AM

Pc of cherry pie with BBQ potato chips
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