I'm starting to look at old tires differently now!

one i used for coon take some off a friends bait pilke was a few stick shaped as a v with leaves on top kinda and a marshmello or two in back i used a mashmelo lure i made myself just bored one day and next day caught one prety big ive never trapped before and it took only a few minutes besides having no stake and chaining with tow chains to a tree

30+ years ago me and my buddy wanted to catch a coon,we were in 6 grade,he set the trap on bare gruond and put a frozen fish stick on the pan with a rubber band tied the trap to a tree with rope. Next morning we had a very large coon. Dont seem right.But its the truth

thats hilarious nice ruber band trick dumb coon must have been oin sumthing

for my first coon i set a #11 on the ground. covered with a few leaves then a pile of marshmellows and mini hershey wrappers. 3 days later i had a big coon. not an effective set tho.

Used to have a feed lot that had tires piled off of there silage pile coon used one for a toilet,that had a piece of angle iron sticking up.Just threw in trap next to angle iron just to see what would happen ended up with 7 coons all caught on the back foot.Guess they used the angle iron for toilet paper

lol keep um coming

another one is wrap aluminium foil around pan in clear water I think coons think it is a fish or shell and grab it

Yep, I've heard guys swear by it.
It cetainly would reflect any moon light in running water...almost like a beacon!

dont know if this was mentioned but a cheap dog proof set is to take a piece of plywood (not real big about one foot by one foot) and drill a 2-3 inch hole in the center, dig a trap bed deep enough the jaws will still close under the plywood, and set the trap down in there with cotton ball or something under the pan or next to it, put the plywood over top and make sure the hole is centered over the pan, dogs wont reach down in there but coon sure will.

oh yea you might wanna stake the plywood down so a coon doesnt pick it up and then walk away with an exposed trap for someones pet to get into, and you can even camoflage the board into the surroundings

Wouldn't a staked down piece of plywood then become an entanglement for the trapped 'coon? I would think you would want a groove cut,( toward the hole in the plywood) so the 'coon could pull away...

you know lt i have never tried that, very good idea, and thats why we keep you around lol thanks

i did kinda same thing but used a cool whip container didnt fit right so used adjustments

wifes old metal cooking bowls just big enoungh to fit a 1 1/2 under stake the trap and the bowl and you got a dog proof trap thats how i bought my dog proof trap's. there wasn't a metal bowl any were at any of my famlies houses that didn't have a hole in the bottom covered in fish oil


any day is a good day trapping

I'd like to see a picture of that!

they have somthing like it on ebay now my wife laughed wish i you would have sold them

I dont know if its been said yet in this thread,but i like to use natural cubbies for coon and mink.it looks natural to both man and animal.and doesnt need built.

although ther'll be times when you cant do this.

I used to take a large flat rock and lean it at a 45/ on a straight bank and set a trap on each end. Caught a lot of mink and muskrats that way.

Bobcat / grey fox set.

OK, where's the guy with the tire set!