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Post by luked on Mar 9, 2012 16:24:19 GMT -5
I'm am just getting started and working on a list of things to get traps and everything I'll need to get started. I have read the starters thread that Dale put up here over and over and I got a pretty decent list made up. the thing I'm needing some help with is bait and lures. I know nothing about this stuff and was hopeing some of you might be able to suggest some brands and particular baits and lures to start with. I'm sure everyone has their favorites and would love to hear them so I can figure out which ones to start out with
it would really help a lot
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Post by krank on Mar 9, 2012 17:04:56 GMT -5
What sort of critter are you after?
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Post by hopalong on Mar 9, 2012 17:13:37 GMT -5
Winner's and Loser's thread by Ozarkmountainman!  |
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 9, 2012 17:19:02 GMT -5
Anything thing that smells fishy for coon bait.
Bait for cats should be as fresh as possible.
Tainted baits for yotes.
Any gland lure will do for k9's and cats. Get 3 or 4 different kinds and mix them up on your sets. I use Hawbakers lure just because that is what I used in the past. I did hear tho, a yote will come to fox gland lure and urine but a fox wont come to yote gland lure and urine. Don't know how much truth there is in that, but that is what I heard.
To me all the lures for coon kinda smell sweet. I don't use a lure for coon, I just bait for them.
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Post by southernstyle88 on Mar 9, 2012 19:36:07 GMT -5
To me all the lures for coon kinda smell sweet. I don't use a lure for coon, I just bait for them.
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x2, some sort of canned fish goes a long ways, i like sardines
, but this year i'm thinking i'm gonna try just using marshmellows and fish oil, and see what happens, maybe save a little on the packing..
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Post by krank on Mar 9, 2012 20:09:34 GMT -5
What kind of critter are you after?
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Post by 76michael on Mar 9, 2012 21:00:40 GMT -5
Coons best thing is Mackeral I add a little shellfish oil and salt so it don't freeze, I really don't use lures for coons, The only bait I use for yotes, fox, bobcatsand will catch coons is Caven's Terminator , Lures I use Cavens, all of his lures are good in my book Gusto , otter lure , Volator 7,Feline Fix those are my favorites , I have have good luck with Dobbins, K-9 lure , Blackiesblend, Ranger is also a reel good lure
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Post by krank on Mar 9, 2012 21:10:13 GMT -5
I do real good with field corn....
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 9, 2012 21:27:23 GMT -5
Hey krank, what kinda critters he afta?
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Post by krank on Mar 9, 2012 21:30:19 GMT -5
well, that aint been said yet. When I was a kid. my Dad taught me to use an ear of corn. Everything eats corn including fox and coyote. I get a big kick out of all the exotic imports people think they need to catch local varmits that are looking for anything to eat.
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Post by southernstyle88 on Mar 9, 2012 21:33:03 GMT -5
well, that aint been said yet. When I was a kid. my Dad taught me to use an ear of corn. Everything eats corn including fox and coyote. I get a big kick out of all the exotic imports people think they need to catch local varmits that are looking for anything to eat. fox and yote on corn.. i'll be dam guess you learn something new everyday.. |
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 9, 2012 21:33:30 GMT -5
Left overs from last nights dinner sounds like good bait to me...
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 9, 2012 21:34:42 GMT -5
But then again.... I perty BLEEP hungry right now....so BLEEP the yotes... letem find they own dinner...
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Post by southernstyle88 on Mar 9, 2012 21:37:40 GMT -5
But then again.... I perty BLEEP hungry right now....so BLEEP the yotes... letem find they own dinner... nothing better than feedin a yote a chunk of lead ;D |
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Post by krank on Mar 9, 2012 21:39:14 GMT -5
Back in the '60s, I checked out a library book about Coyotes. It was written by a US trapper and referenced US records. Stomach contents of coyotes revealed grasshoppers and persimmon seed and acorns and chunks of rubber and tinfoil and feathers and fur and bottlecaps and mice. Rodents were like 90% of yote diet. I use mice in pocket sets but I catch them. They are not a cavens or hawbaker product.
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Post by mofotrapper on Mar 9, 2012 22:03:36 GMT -5
I think you made half that sheit up krank, but anyway....
Back when I lived in IL, my house was always infested with mice in the winter time. So I had mice traps goin off left and right, had like 50 of those little bass turds in the freezer. Told the older feller that I was trapping with back then about it and he laughed at me. So I used them on my own line. Didn't catch nothin but a field rat with em. I think the rat was trying to hump my bait myself, but. It did look eye appealing to me tho. A mouse size dirt hole with a trap in front of it with a dead mouse in the hole, what could resist that.
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Post by southernstyle88 on Mar 9, 2012 22:42:17 GMT -5
I think you made half that sheit up krank, but anyway.... Back when I lived in IL, my house was always infested with mice in the winter time. So I had mice traps goin off left and right, had like 50 of those little bass turds in the freezer. Told the older feller that I was trapping with back then about it and he laughed at me. So I used them on my own line. Didn't catch nothin but a field rat with em. I think the rat was trying to hump my bait myself, but. It did look eye appealing to me tho. A mouse size dirt hole with a trap in front of it with a dead mouse in the hole, what could resist that. every set i did that with got worked, i kept getting misses, but come to find out it was a grey fox.  i've already started putting back mice for next year, idk if it works or not, but figure it can't hurt none |
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Post by luked on Mar 9, 2012 23:01:41 GMT -5
sorry guys never thought about puttin the critters in.
mainly Coon, Cats,yotes, Foxes and Cats mainly
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Post by beaver6 on Mar 10, 2012 0:03:47 GMT -5
Grawes Gray Ghost- ITS AN ALL CALL(RED, GREY,COON) DRY LAND SETS ALONG power LINES tHE 6
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Post by krank on Mar 10, 2012 10:04:48 GMT -5
I was telling Bigjohn about a lure I made out of eggs. Scrambled in a jar and aged for two monthes before season. Didnt have a putrid smell but it was loud. Caught two yotes with it
Also read on another forum where alot of guys grind mice up for a lure/bait. I was using them whole in a pocket set. Caught one yote on that. I like the 6's idea of an "all call" lure. Definitely a "different strokes for different folks" deal.
Oh yeah, coons. Dont take much.....fish and fish oil. Maybe a marshmellow for a visual. I trail them Mmw's all over the place so my coons know what a mmw is and are looking for them.
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