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Post by adksasquatch on May 27, 2011 19:51:53 GMT -5
I've got a groundhog issue in my garden, so I'm trapping them out. The question is, am I correct to assume that keeping the meat from the ones I catch to use as bait would be a good idea? Should I leave any little ones intact, or skin and chunk everything?
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Post by jdpaint on May 27, 2011 20:28:46 GMT -5
Good job on the garden and keeping the chucks out.By following k-9 tracks in the snow I have observed that k-9 like to check out woodchuck holes.You could possibly drop 1 in the hole and set trap and see what happens. Beaver tails may be another option in the hole. Get em down there good ,remember the birds of prey hide it from above .You could try hair on and off ,your choice. I f you have a dog and dried beaver tail give it to the dog and closely watch. No way it can eat it in one day and it will go back to same spot everytime where it left it.I have also seen where bait was thrown down a hole ,bed the trap good ,sprinkle hay or straw in hole and around set and light it on fire. Of course be mindfull of ground conditions ,and all the better if white is on the ground.Good luck to ya and have fun.
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Post by Itrapny on May 27, 2011 20:34:25 GMT -5
Woodchuck makes excellent bait, especially for K9's. You can freeze and use it fresh, but I like to give it a slight taint and then then stop the rotting with some sodium benzonite and then adding a few other goodies to it to make it more appealing. You can leave the hair on or take it off, your choice...I like to have just the meat, no hair in my bait.
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Post by jdpaint on May 27, 2011 20:37:34 GMT -5
By the way how is your garden doing? i planted radishes and peas too early and they drowned.Felt sorry for them. Potatoes and tomatoes are good, the new peas and stuff like this heat and the corn is growing.An oldtimer trick at least to me- plant your tomatoes ,drive 3 or 4 stakes around plant ,slide a feed sack or bag over stakes ,make sure cut open both ends, ,the bag stops are colder winds somedays and the plant generates its own heat inside the bag , they will be 3 times the size of unbagged plants.
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Post by adksasquatch on May 28, 2011 7:39:49 GMT -5
By the way how is your garden doing? i planted radishes and peas too early and they drowned.Felt sorry for them. Potatoes and tomatoes are good, the new peas and stuff like this heat and the corn is growing.An oldtimer trick at least to me- plant your tomatoes ,drive 3 or 4 stakes around plant ,slide a feed sack or bag over stakes ,make sure cut open both ends, ,the bag stops are colder winds somedays and the plant generates its own heat inside the bag , they will be 3 times the size of unbagged plants. Our peas got washed out as well. We haven't put anything in the ground yet. It's all growing inside in planters. We're looking to transplant asap. The only good news, with all this wet weather, the berries ought to go gangbusters...
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Post by nyfur on May 29, 2011 19:12:22 GMT -5
I mixed up a batch of woodchuck meat and other goodies and gave him some to try, had multiple catches on red fox.... ;D ;D
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Post by papabear on May 29, 2011 21:17:02 GMT -5
Dear Friend, You could chunk up the woodchuck and place in gallon jars about 2/3s full. Allow to taint until a froth forms on it. Then add a pint of good bait solution from a reputable lure maker. Regards papabear
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Post by adksasquatch on Jul 16, 2011 17:47:11 GMT -5
Okay, sounds good. I'm assuming the froth is the gasses release by the decomp?
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Post by ecgreen on Jul 16, 2011 17:52:03 GMT -5
Eat the little ones, you wont be disappointed.
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