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I'm 45 minutes from Mobridge SD in a little town called Hosmer.I'm getting to be more and more of a bait trapper for canines,baited dirthole or flat set.For baits I like mild one in early season with a muskrat gland/tonquin edge to it,then go to mink gland/sweet skunk type and for cold weather mink pushed by hot skunk.I use a perservative that they will eat unlike sodium benzoate.Never was a big fan of beaver meat or bobcat meat as a base for bait.
Got a nephew,high school kid,who is hard on the muskrats and coons with legholds.He wants to learn to catch coyotes bad.That's my goal this fall is to teach him canine trapping.He has a bunch of permissions for a lot of sloughs,small lakes,a river and some streams with adjoining farm/ranch land.He's got lots of coyotes and a fair fox population to work with.This kid is smart and a real hard worker.When his buddies were playing video games he was building muskrat floats patterned off some I made and setting cage traps for coons in old barns.He'd rather trap than eat or sleep.I gave him a 4oz jar of Lenons Muskrat lure and he cleaned house on rats last fall.Learned pocket sets for coon/mink real quick.Bill
