Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: BlakeTheTrapper]
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03/25/07 05:07 PM
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add used cooking oil and or bacon grease to get it to smear really good. I use an oil based tuna that works real good as well.
Paul R. Ellsworth
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: BlakeTheTrapper]
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03/25/07 05:16 PM
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A bit of castor in there will improve it.
It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, but only 3 for a proper trigger squeeze.
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: BlakeTheTrapper]
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03/25/07 08:56 PM
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Here's one that works really good. I use it in my pipe set and almost all my pockets. Will take coon and mink. 1- 16 oz can Jack Mackrel 1/2 cup corn meal (this thickens it) 2 Tbsp Fish Oil 1 Tbsp Shellfish Oil
Mix ingreadients, smash Jack Mackerel firmly with a fork until it forms a paste. Cornmeal thickens the mix and makes it sticky. Fish oil keeps it from drying out and crusting over. SHellfish oil add long range oder.
We also have streams and creeks around my area that are trout rivers on these streams and creeks I use the same mix except instead of Jack Mackeral I use canned salmon. I carry 2 bait containers one with Jack paste and one with Salmon paste.
Kev
Running and Gunning at break-neck speeds. Because we would rather crash and burn in a marsh, than live a dull existance on this earth.
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: JBMan]
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03/26/07 03:25 PM
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Take the kids fishing and keep every perch you catch. Freeze them whole. When the season opens toss them out so they thaw and cut into chunks on the line. I do it right next to the whole because it leaves smell there. I also buy pressed fish oil and squirt that in a line on both sides of the hole. Works good here in Oklahoma and we have basicly the same weather. Good luck
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: caveman]
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03/26/07 03:54 PM
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I love sardines. So, every time I eat some, I pour off the oil into a jar and freeze it. When trapping season comes along, I thaw it out and mix it with the contents in a jack mackeral can. There's enough juice in the mackeral and the sardines that it makes a paste "to die for", as far as the coon are concerned. They can't seem to lay off it.
I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: DanielE]
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03/26/07 05:25 PM
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i think i might make this
3 tbsp. of fish oil can of jack mac 2 cans of fish catfood 1 tuna can
2007/2008 Trapping Season Coon-5 Possum-16 Bobcat-2!!!!! Beaver-1
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: YouthCooner901]
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03/26/07 06:06 PM
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boy, this all sounds pretty "fishy" smelling, round here if i use fish i usually double my coon catch with possums...anything sweet out there? also could u include amounts? if not thats fine, its not my post, but what i like is, 1/2 contaner of marshmellow paste, 3 tablespoons anise oil, and 2 whole pieces of jack mac smashed with a fork then put in, mix it up and the anise oil does the calling, marshmellow gets em investigating(also sight if u us it in the open) and the jack mac finishes em. sorry for the paragraph lol. also, i use mostly bucket sets, so i dont know how this handles early in the season with your footholds(i didnt get a chance to trap the early part of the year this year)but when the water freezes up, put out ur coni-bucket and wait for a thaw, when that hits the coons should be laying there.
Last edited by baker; 03/26/07 06:10 PM.
~Evan~
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: TrapperJake]
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03/26/07 06:08 PM
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Bacon grease makes a pretty good base, too!
It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, but only 3 for a proper trigger squeeze.
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: BlakeTheTrapper]
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03/27/07 05:48 PM
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i have my mom save up all her bacon grease and put it in a jar.Get a good amount ad it makes a good conn bait/lure , just smir it on bridge abunments,culverts,etc.Loxcation of trap is 3in. from attractor.
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: Tomcat 30-06]
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03/28/07 01:55 AM
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If you fish this summer,Dont throw the small perch and bass back, freeze em. When I clean fish, I filet the bigger fish and scale or skin the smaller brem.Save the skin,scales and heads, No guts. I put the trimmings and small fish in a plasic icecream bucket or a coffe can with a lid.When Iget through cleaning fish I just open it up and put what I have on top of the frozen stuff.When ya get ready to use it just add a little water or fish oil. Scatter some scales around the edge of water and set. Make sure your trap is well secured,drowner recomended as otter sometime will get in your traps. Also save some egg shells and put in whatever you use for eye appeal/
Gotta spread your arms and hold your breath and always trust your cape. ~ Jerry Jeff Walker
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Re: homemade coon paste
[Re: playin4funami]
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03/29/07 03:01 AM
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I'll share my favorite coon bait
1 - 5 gal pail of fresh netted gizzard shad. other small fish will work also but the gizzard shad really has a kick to it. put on a lid and cut 1, 1/2in. hole in it and put somthing like a cotton ball or two in the hole to keep out flies/bugs. Put this in a shady spot so it renders off slowly where animals can't get to it and people don't have to smell it.even better if you can dig a hole to put the bucket in with the lid at ground level them put something heavy over it so animals can't get to it. wait 3 months or so get your bucket and another one and pour off the oil that has floated to the top. or use a ladle.this is rendered fish oil. too this rendered fish oil add 1 ounce of anise oil(in the baking section at the grocery store) If you can get some or have some a 1/4 ounce or so of skunk essence is nice but not needed. I only use this sometimes and it doesn't seem to make much difference,just makes the smell carry further. get a cheap bag of cornmeal when at the store getting your anise oil and slowly mix in cornmeal until it starts to thicken up a little but not too much.put a lid on the bucket and wait a couple of hours for the cornmeal to absorb the liquid open it and check its consistancy if you want it thicker add more cornmeal and stir,if you want it thinner add some vegtable oil to it.
I put this mix in squirt bottles so I can just squirt a dab out when I need it.
At the bottom of your original bucket will be millions of tiny little fish scales. these can be used with some water about 50/50 in a squirt bottle around the set for eye appeal too. will look like glitter at your set. Here's how I use this for coon. Along a creek find a likly looking spot with coon and/or mink sign. with your foot form a 6" wide, 18" long trench in the mud so it fills with about 2" of water use a spade if you have too, at the back just above the waterline form a upward angling hole and put some bait in the back about 8 to 10 inches deep. set a 1 1/2 coilspring on a sliding drowner set up and press the trap gently into the mud about 4" from the hole. I usually put the top stake right under the trap and the bottom stake or weight goes in the deep water at a slightly downstream angle so that debris grass twigs etc. from the stream collects out there instead of right at your set. All the trap equipment is underwater.Just before I leave I like to squirt some fish scales on the ground at the points of land right where your artificial channel meets the stream. just a little bit will do. I don't really know why the scales help but maybe they glitter in the moonlight or somthing,but they do seem to increase the catch rate a little.
I don't claim to know it all and there's alot of people on here with much more experience than me,so if anybody has something to improve this set or bait please chime in. Also you may have to modify this set with/to your habitat / terrain conditions. good luck
Do it with what you got and you wont need what you do not have
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