Best bait for trap in freezing temps

[superchemicalgirl]

I think the title says it all... what bait do you guys find works the best in traps in freezing temperatures? I find wet cat food works great except it freezes and I'm not certain the smell is as attractive to beasties when frozen.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

I'm not certain the smell is as attractive to beasties when frozen.

They can still smell it.

I like sardines packed in oil myself​

 

[CMV]

Any oily meat will work. Oily fish is the best, though. Nice and stinky.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Thanks, guys! I never thought of oily fish! I'll have to go this weekend and get some nasty canned oily fish.

 

[sourland]

Sardines in oil work great for coons, possums, cats, mink, and even weasels. They would probably even work on martens and fishers, but I have no experience trapping them. I have caught 4 red fox in box traps using sardines-3 kits and a starving dog fox with a broken jaw.

 

[Rammy]

Thats what I used to trap the possums in my barn was sardines. Got the cheapies at Dollar General. Worked like a charm.


Rammy

 

[chickortreat]

Whutcha trapping? Bait could vary widely, depending on quarry. Marshmallows work for coons and won't freeze, or not enough to matter.

 

[pringle]

Something came and attacked my chickens at about 7:00 pm this night,I accidently forgot to close them and my dog started barking.I ran outside in pajamas and a t-shirt with my pellet gun and saw a dark shape running away.My dog started chasing it but since shes only a corgi I called her off.Anyway it attacked my barred plymouth rock who I thought was a gonner becouse of all the feathers everywere but she came wondering back.I set a live trap with bread smeared with jelly and a handful of hamburg thrown in and a little scattered everywere.Ill let ya know if I caught anything in the morning.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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What I usually do is put dry cat food, then wet cat food and a half a peep on top. However at negative whatever the concoction freezes solid and I've had no trapping luck. Don't know what I'm trappin' yet... all I've ever caught is skunks but I now have new (non-skunk) foot prints. Something set the trap off today (daytime) but didn't get trapped. Also I have some type of small rodent at night that gnaws at the peep but doesn't trip the trap. I put a mousetrap out last night (in my infinite wisdom) right next to the big trap. There was a few specks of blood in the snow where I placed the trap but the trap was GONE this morning. Sigh.

 

[aprophet]

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if you go to wal mart and buy a small bottle of glycerin and mix it into the fish it will freeze at a lot lower temp, this time of the year I use a lure with a little skunk musk mixed into it, it is one of the things that will really pull a fox into a trap if you google "gusto fox " the top link is one of the lures I use as well as a few I make myself.