Hollow tree base with a 6 - 8 inch opening facing the creek bank trail. I bedded a 1.5 coil in peat moss that was anchored with a berkshire earth anchor just offset in the opening. Squirted some fish oil on the rotted core wood inside and added a dash of red fox gland lure. Total take:
1 grey, 2 XXL coon, three possum and one red fox. One check had coyote tracks but the trap was three inches or so in front of them. The set went dead with the red fox; it was totally mange bare.

One little device, I saw, was used by bow hunters. It involved a film canister,( not real common in the digital age) black electrical tape, a 'gator stle' clothes pin and two small strips of velcro. Anyone ever use these for call lure?

LT,
I have used the film cannisters for making mock scrapes near my wife's treestand. A few holes drilled or punched into the plastic container, cotten in the bottom, a smear of deer in estros lure, cap it and hang it. I use a piece of wire to fasten them to a limb about 6' high. I usually place them the week before our antlered season. Seldom has she or one of our daughters not harvested a buck the first morning comming into the scrapes. I have been thinking of using them with some gusto or other loud lure to attempt to draw canines that regularly run a high visibilty locale further back into the brush this year. You are correct, with the advent of digital photography, the containers do not stock up near as quickly around the house. They are effective in keeping the lure working a long time, rain or shine.

Yep, it works wonders...and I use them with sheep wool and a skunky type call lure. When I'm done, I just pop the back lid on!

hang a snare and it might up your odds think i'll have to try this one.

Sounds like the old "Northern brush trapper's set" I read about as a kid!

hmm....... car rim. i think i have seen one of them sitting at one of my set locations might have to try it

Car rim? Who uses that one?

Its illegal here now,but Ihave heard of puttin two roosters in a coop. Set the coop up bought waist high and cover the top.set traps on drags or stake away from the coop. The roosters talk to eachother all day and start croin early every mornin, Old guy claimed he caught everything like that. every couple days give em a hanfull of corn and a little water. I always wanted to try it.

Well on a similar note, I read where a trapper took two seperate roosters in cages, set them apart in cat country....The crowing, he says really got the cats attention!

A 2" augered out hole with a brace and bit. Scratch area done with a kitchen fork (to emulate a fox sratching). Sheep wool, bait and or rabbit tail down the hole with lure.

You might be surprised at how many fox I caught at a set like this. Not your "text book" dirt hole, but none the less effective!

You wouldn't have to anchor the trap.

Im not suprised, I make sets ike that all the time and catch everything in em, The hole looks real and a critter will stomp all around it workin the hole till hes caught.

I agree....Looks more real than some of the pretty ones trappers make..not that they don't work too, but at times, coyote and fox will shy from the "textbook" sifted triangle.

Probably easier to make, speed wise.

You would be disgusted at the amounts of yogurt I have been eating since you posted this for the cups they come in. I have high hopes for this set when cage trapping urban coons.

Man, and I like the vanilla kind the best... This way you get to add your own fruit....ummmmmmm, peaches!

Feel free to donate all your empties to me LT. Washed out of course.

Oh, and this is the only garbage I'll ask of anyone here.

I luv yogurt but ya cant have my empties.

LOL

LT I am beyond broke, still want the goods, will get the $$$ to ya soon as I have it. May have to take it as castor if ya sell the other !


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