Re: Cicada oil
[Re: wetdog]
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05/27/21 09:34 AM
05/27/21 09:34 AM
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loosegoose
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When I was a little kid, like 5 years old, one day it rained really hard, and there were nightcrawlers all over. I thought I might save them for some unknown purpose, so I put probably 200 of the things in my backpack. Of course, I forgot about them, and threw my backpack in the closet, where they festered for several days. I can still remember the smell. I imagine nightcrawler oil has got to be pretty terrible smelling stuff, and I imagine cicada oil might be just as bad.
Back when we lived in Illinois, one year a giant brood of cicadas hatched. The dog went crazy for them, and ate them all day long. He loved them, couldn't get enough of them. He'd eat them till he barfed, and then go eat more. They may make a good coyote bait.
Last edited by loosegoose; 05/27/21 09:35 AM.
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Re: Cicada oil
[Re: wetdog]
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05/27/21 10:45 AM
05/27/21 10:45 AM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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I am envisioning a meat grinder small plate and about 5000 cicadas
that should make an interesting sound worth recording
maybe make a game out of it , fill the bucket get a ice cream cone get the kids involved in the catching of the cicadas
I can still remember catching tent caterpillars , neighbors garden had a mess of them one year he had a metal pail he had poured Kerosene in and we ran around collecting them up by the hand full so we could toss them in the bucket , then he lit the bucket on fire and we ran around and go more so we could watch them burn, probably not kosher these days but I assure you not one of us kids turned into a serious criminal.
The neighbors was the town barber and you could have any haircut you wanted as long as it was short and he did not cut women's hair period , he had been an Army Barber in WWII
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Re: Cicada oil
[Re: wetdog]
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05/27/21 11:49 AM
05/27/21 11:49 AM
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talking about a smell only a trapper could appreciate , a rabbit died in my front yard back in winter I saw it in about march ,it was flat and not smelly I kicked it under some bushes so I could mow a couple weeks ago well it made it back out into the grass probably neighbors dog and I hit it last night with the mower the hole front yard smelled like a lure.
the whole front yard also had bits of fur with the grass
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Re: Cicada oil
[Re: wetdog]
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05/27/21 12:39 PM
05/27/21 12:39 PM
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Lugnut
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I know almost everything likes to eat cicadas, including my dogs. I think it would be an interesting change up attractant for canines.
Eh...wot?
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Re: Cicada oil
[Re: wetdog]
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05/27/21 01:38 PM
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MikeTraps2
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I knew I had read about a similar bait before - its in The Trapperman Book Volume II
Grasshopper Bait Here is his grasshopper bait. Let me know where you can find a gallon of ground grasshoppers.
1 gallon ground grasshoppers 1 quart beef fat 1 ounce beaver castor allow to ripen one week then add 1/3 ounce zinc valerate
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Re: Cicada oil
[Re: MikeTraps2]
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05/27/21 09:33 PM
05/27/21 09:33 PM
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I knew I had read about a similar bait before - its in The Trapperman Book Volume II
Grasshopper Bait Here is his grasshopper bait. Let me know where you can find a gallon of ground grasshoppers.
1 gallon ground grasshoppers 1 quart beef fat 1 ounce beaver castor allow to ripen one week then add 1/3 ounce zinc valerate That sounds like it would work. I do have some area's with lots of grasshoppers but they are wee tiny now. Throw an old wool blanket over the front of the 4wheeler and drive slowly through the weeds. Their back legs get stuck in the blanket. I made grasshopper oil before, it didn't work for nothing.
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