Skunk- skunk lure/bait
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I posted this in the trapers forum and realized I might get a better responce here. I'm wanting to make my own lure / bait for skunk. I have my own yote and coon lures that wrork great for me... Just wondering what you guys use that you made yourself for skunk? Didn't see much in the Archives..
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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That seems to be a popular idea... I'll try some mixtures of FE and other scents ... Thanks Anyone else have any magic ingrediance? I'll be nice and share my test with ya...
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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Little Debbie Cream Cakes Okay, now you guys are just making me hungry...
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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Burnt Bacon works good also.
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I just want to reiderate (sp?) that I was just asking this as I have used other baits, but wanted to make my own. When I do skunk jobs, I usually have my truck full of cinder blocks and plywood and 1x1 wire and 1/2x1/2 wire (and some traps too)... Bait is not necessary most of the time, but I do use a little lure or bait as well... sorry felt like I told too much so I edited that...
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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hot wings,peaches & cream, are good bait / lures for skunks. home made lures normally aren't as good. summer bait use wasp nests( larva)under trigger/pan of trap. peanut butter will catch some but it's better too use commercial products. bob
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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not sure on this, but how do cats and dogs react to SFE and eggs for bait? thought about trying them, that is where sardines has turned into a bust for me.
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315 rats 24 coon 14 mink 7 grinners 15 beaver 1 weasel 2 otter 3 red fox(1 released) 10 coyotes 1 wolf (released)
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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I agree with your post whole heartedly, and I use tried and true lures on all of my jobs, without fail. Either bought from a professional source or carefully prepared from years of expirience. However when I read this next part... Many try initially to home remedy (lure or bait )an animal which can be done to some degree as witnessed by some of the posts I read. I need to come clean. The fever that I have that pushes me to be a trapper burns just as hot or hotter to tinker with baits and recipes and lures and such. The drive for self-reliance that pushes me to learn to trap also pushes me to not "want" to be dependant on a lure maker. I understand that there is no way in this lifetime I will be able to amass the knowledge of even a % of alot of the lure makers. I consede that the Dobbin's and the Lenon's and the Jamesons and the Jepson's of the lure industry know more about lure making then I and mosty likely would if I dedicated the rest of my life to it. However reason aside there is a burning passion inside me that is only quenched when I hear that early morning jingle that is a direct result of my personal blend and brand of lure. That is my personal problem with insanity... but didn't God invent "Fur" trapping season for the year round ADC guy to do research and development? Besides who knows... maybe a well known lure maker that I have become dependant upon will up and sell his recipe to some guy in Witchata and he will never make or market that recipe again Then what?
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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Bob,
I agreed with your post I just have an obsession with tinkering with baits and lures, have had since I was a kid. I guess it gets in your blood or something. At times is seems more like an infection.
I guess if I was trying to make any point other then just confessing it would have been that I aknowledge that it would certainly be a lot cheaper and easier to just use commercially prepared baits and lures. (most likely get better results too.)
But I just cannot do it. LOL The best way I can relate it is the same reason I did not kill a bear while bear hunting in California. I was living out there as a software trainer/developer and decided to go bear hunting. In CA at the time you could not bait bears but you could use dogs. Well, as a software trainer/developer it was a little short on bear dogs. I could have paid a guide to let me ride in HIS truck while HIS dogs ran and HIS dogs treed a bear, then I could get out of the truck walk up to the tree and shoot the bear. Yeah!!! then I would have been a big time bear hunter/killer, look out Davy crockett.
Instead I went out every weeked after work and spent the weekend camping out of my truck and scouting for bear. I found alot of bear sign, and had the time of my life spending the weekends in the Sierra's... (which was alot of fun for a midwestrn farm boy)but alas I was a failure as I did not get to shoot my guides bear. Note the sarcasim in that last sentence.
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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I was just curious on the eggs because, if cats/dogs were not interested I was going to try these for targeting skunks early in the fur season. Also use these around farm buildings where cats can be a problem, but coons and skunks need to be removed.
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Nothing is fool proof, but sweet lures and baits are even better than eggs for coon and skunk IMO... Bob makes some good skunk lure... I have only bought coon lure once and it worked fine but not better than my own stuff so I just use it. Have caught 1 cat only in the time I have used it, and I have used many "other" things that most people have tried for coons, including cat food, but obviously I don't use that stuff anymore.
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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I use what works- for me. It may be a commercial bait; it may come from the grocery store; it may be something of my own formulation; or, it may be no bait at all. Some peanut butter, sunflower seeds, oatmeal, (maybe some nut oil) and food coloring mixed together and put into a non-labeled (or computer generated labeled) jar will work for many species of rodents. However, I probably do more "no-bait" cage trapping than I do using baits or lures. I don't have any woodchucks in my area. I understand that many folks recommend various fresh vegetables to catch them though. I would think that it is difficult to disguise broccoli, cabbage, clover, etc. Yes, there are commercial baits available, but do they work better? Other folks use body catch traps (with no bait); still others use unbaited cage traps. I have very few skunks here too. If using bait, a chicken or fish based bait is hard to beat. Again, I seldom use bait for skunks. Problem skunks, around here, are found under homes. If they went under, they have to come out. I close all potential entrances except the main one. The setup only allows one way out- into the trap(s). I have heard though, that the best skunk set-up is make the best coyote, bobcat, or fox setup that you can. Use the most expensive bait or lure. Use absolutely scent free procedures. Leave no indication that a human has ever passed that area. In the morning you should have a skunk or opossum. Ron Fry
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Re: skunk lure/bait
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I would think that skunk scent would work the best. Back when I fur trapped in skunk country I would often move into a new area and have skunk problems so whenever I caught a skunk I would make sure that it sprayed then remake the set. Every skunk in the country was attracted to the set and often I would catch a skunk each night for 5-10 nights until they were gone.
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