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I tried the marshmallows with Kool-Aid this weekend. No dice. Will try the honey bun/vanilla deal next.
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Where I live we can dip smelt out of the streams in the spring. Several hundred smelt,cleaned and gutted makes for a lot of fish heads and "Fish smell."
It's no problem to draw a coon out of a corn field, or away from a lot of other sweet baits with a "good fresh fish smell," and some fish oil. Set up wind.., and they will come.
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I tried the marshmallows with Kool-Aid this weekend. No dice. Will try the honey bun/vanilla deal next. Ya gotta use the Kool-Aid they are serving in D.C.
"I'd rather have an Army of Asses led by a Lion, than an Army of Lions led by an Ass." (George Washington)
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What type of traps are you using Lil-griz are real good no pull outs and no non targets. Try minnie marshmallows spiked with anaise oil and molasses. mix anaise and molasses one small bottle of anaise with a pint size bottle of molases.This smells just like comercial coon lure and costs a lot less.
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I tried all manner of mellows - all I ever ended up getting were possums which were dispatched shortly. Buggers eat too many bird eggs for my liking...
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I'm writing all this down. Good advice. I just started trapping again to get rid of all the critters killing the birds and need help as well. Funny story: I just set a trap for coons for the first time in years. I did the "Where the Red Fern Grows" trick and just wrapped the pan with tin foil. Next day, big ol' coon looking at me in the trap. who'd of thunk that would actually work.
Keep your powder dry and stay frosty my friends.
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I have coonhounds and catch one about any night I please for training, with a honey bun with a pack of grape cool aid on top...
I have a running record of 21-1 coons to possums, and never a skunk....
Stay with the sweets and you will stay away from the unwanteds
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i've had good luck with nilla wafers in live traps.
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for a live trap dig a small hole under the trap in front of the trigger plate and place your bait in there. also for a xl coon like in the picturer make sure to run a piece of rebar as a stake down thru the fllo as he'll knock the crap out of a live trap
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Cossatotjoe, That's awesome
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