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Offline bbeavereater

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Coon trails?
« on: December 02, 2004, 05:44:15 AM »
How often to coon usually run their trails.  Every night, every other night or even less often.  I set a killer coon trail last night with 4 220's and had no catch this morning.  I really expected at least a double.  Also it was a half moon and a clear night last night, but this doesnt ususally discourage them on feed trails like this.

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Coon trails?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2004, 01:03:42 AM »
Couldn't say for sure...there are so many other factors affecting traveling times and frequencies that you don't cover in your post.
Weather is huge. A clear night here this time of year could mean temps in the teens...and if that is the coldest night so far then they may not venture out at all. However a clear night only down in the 30s would be "warm" and they would definitely move.
trails go somewhere, too. home to food, food to home, they are the little sidewalks and roads of a coons domain. if the food source is gone at the other end, that smokin hot trail will soon go just as cold.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2004, 05:01:58 PM »
I'd make a baited dirt hole set near the trail and keep the conibears where they are. Coon are very oppertunistic critters and the baited set may be all that is needed to get them using the trail again. Worm
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