To keep my trap from freezing, I use salt mixed with dried cow manure. If it happens to get wet, it then has a cover scent of wet cow poop.

Interesting concept!

crude mmhh. catch a female coyote in heat and whack it.take her out the trap then cut ham snapper and bloody tail.swish this around and bury it deep.you cant be sex as an attractant and one of the boys will be danggling there in front of you,Guarentteed. later charlie

Charlie, I once knew a guy who....
..would to live snare a female coyote and collar her with a "stopped" 1/8th cable and stake her out and set snares all around on every trail!

(Go tell that to ye'r Tennesee buddy!)

I have been using a version of a dug-out nest/egg set...no lure, just on sigh... it's been working real well this spring.

Now that's about as crude and simple as it gets.That's what ya call survival take no prisoners trappin!!!!!!!!

Good post Charlie!

( How's the hip doin'? )

Well I aint lookin forward to gettin a new one in 15 years,lol.I'm walkin more and more everyday,pushin till it hurts then relaxin.I'm a walkin weather forecaster,only more accurate!!I threw out all helper gizmos last week and cowboyed up.I'll be in fine shape come oct.and really lookin forward to the big show.

later Charlie

LT Grey

Is the ASPEN SPICE a commercially made lure or something available at the grocery store?

Actually I make that lure, it is made from a ground aspen cambium as a base, with some other essential oils...so it's a food lure.

I like to collect mussle shells and throw em in my bucket when water trapping...lightweight..free...and have a great eye appeal for coons..ANYWHERE...I will use one large one or two smaller ones per set..If the weather is gonna be dry for awhile they also work well to hold the lure or bait...I just dig a small trap bed out...bed the trap...use the shells as backing

Good point! I use them in my cage traps for both 'coons and squirrel trapping in ADC work. They are great bait holders and have tremedous eye appeal.

Native mussel shells are forbidden to be owned or collected here in Ohio. I use ones from salt water.

You talking about turtle nests? I see alot of them dug up and egg shells scattered around. Do they sale a turtle musk smell lure one can use for dirtholes?

That should have read: just on SIGN.

No, but I make a natural egg that would probably work well in that situation.

USEFORE THE OLD #2 VICTOR COILS... I TIE BEAVER SCRAPS TO THE PAN AND SET THEM IN A WEASLE BOX WITH SHAVINGS COVERING ALL BUT THE MEAT. IT WILL KILL A WEASLE AND WORKS WONDERS...

Why the shavings? Most weasel trappers don't cover their traps.

AL Perry old tire set. Take a car tire add rice wheat any thing that mice like attach traps to drags set 2 or 3 traps around tire on the out side area make mouse hole under tire the longer tire set out the more mice will be eating the rice. Have land owner premission to put tire on and pick up when done for the season.

They had a similar one in American Trapper magazine by Major Boddicker.

I seen that . He use lure and attached the trap too the tire.