bait holder in 220 buckets?

[cflann]

I was planning on having a few 220 buckets and wooden boxes this season for coon and skunks and was planning on baiting them with either fish chunks or possibly some prepared bait.

My question is: what do you bucket/box users use to put your bait in or on to secure it or hold it. Fish or meat chunks aren't too diffucult, just have a threaded nail or screw sticking up in back and impale it, but what about a heaping tablespoon of prepared bait?

[walkercoonhunter(Aaron L.)]

well the buckets just flop it in there....but the boxes(mine is open bottom) i wwould just get a flat stone or even a 4x4 piece of waxed paper and put it on...

[David Kuhlmann]

Hardly use a bucket any more, but to get away from mice stealing my bait i put a threaded j-hook in the roof of my box's. Worked well.. Not sure what to tell ya about the prepared bait's.. Never used em..

[Creek]

Mice, I hate mice. Last year I baited my buckets with mouse poisen, I filled my Griz Getters with mouse poisen, The mice won. I got tired of buying poisen. This year I`m wraping the bait with window screen and hanging it up in the buckets off the ground. I still haven`t figured out what to do on the Griz`s yet. ;)Any Ideas?

[ohiyotee]

When i use fine or liquid baits in my coon boxes i use baby food jars with wire twisted around the neck and then twisted again in a small loop. I can hang it on the nail up out of the water . Another advantage of this is i can prepare them well ahead of usage and all i have to do is grab one from the bait bucket twist the top off and hang it in there and I'm on my way. fast , easy and conserve the bait. also if i want to move the box if the bait is fresh there is no waste i can just put a lid back on and go. greg

[frenchman]

I never tie bait in buckets. Drop it in there, and move on. Bait is cheap, I recycle muskrats, hares, and beavers from the line, so if mice eat it, I replace. Gives me an excuse to change the bait -(Otherwise I would not).

I hear tying bait may increase efficiency (for fisher especially) but time is the rarest commodity around here. So drop bait, guard bucket and move on.

[David Kuhlmann]

Frenchman,
The biggest reason i do it is because i've had (i'm assuming field mice or whatever) get in & pull the bait out & set off your trap.. Bait's cheap, your right, but you still have the problem of the set off trap to contend with if your using chunks..

[musher]

Around here ,if you can get your bait wet, it will freeze onto the surface of your box. When it does, nothing is taking it out until spring!

[Sage Dog]

You might try a plastic golf practice wiffle ball (the hollow ball with holes all around). Enlarge a hole or two to insert the bait. Then if the mice don't chew through the plastic........

[rk660]

A friend of mine put 1/4" hardware cloth front and back of last 4" of bucket, looks time consuming, but it does cure the mice problem. Whole rabbits, 1 lb hunks of carp, etc help.

The rat poison is a slick idea, blue herons migrate through in Nov, and at times will sit and clean a pocket out every day after day once on to your set, leaving it unbaited every night for coon. Damn things usually stand back far enough from set they dont get caught. Ive heard, but wouldnt know myself, that a lil dab of rat poison will take care of the bait robbing herons. ;D

[cflann]

Rich,

Didn't you have one those buckets set up that way at the SDTA convention? That was pretty slick. If I remember right, the top of the bucket in that sectioned off had a "trapdoor" on it somehow also.

Any way you could post a pic of it here?

[Clefus]

1/4" hardware screen made into a basket and stapled in the upper ,back of the bucket....fixed the mice problem.....

[jdp4202007]

if it's a paste bait your using why not wipe it on the top side inside the bucket works for me and also i've never done it but thought about cutting a board and sticking in there about 3/4 of the way on top inside and screwing it to the sides i think that might work but like i said i haven't tryed

[Griz]

How about trying it and reporting back the results?

[braveheart]

Bait is cheap I use ground bait and throw enough in for everything that wants to eat it.Very few time the mice eat it all.I once caught a mouse and a small owl in the same 220.Should of took a pic. of it but was in a hurry.

[maddog]

Yes I agree, MICE are a pian in the @&*.
They can eat alot of bait that's for sure.

[jdp4202007]

i would griz but the coons are kinda startin to rub a little bit and cows are startin to get ready to calve so the traps are gettin put up till next year

[rivertrapper316]

The way I see it is the mice recycle the bait so I haft to put in fresh bait this dose one of two things . One it will keep your opossum catch down ( opossums love old bait) and two coons like mice . Nice fresh mouse smell coming out of your box.

[yelloweyes]

Has anyone got any mouse strechers for sale??

[TurTLe]

So why not just put a sheet of glue paper in the bucket, and then you'll catch the mouse and he'll become the bait?