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#5801 - 01/02/08 03:42 AM alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
WV Grinner Skinner Offline
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Registered: 12/30/07
Posts: 10
Loc: West Virginia
Does alluiminum foil on trap pans catch good numbers of coon quick?

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#5802 - 01/02/08 12:58 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
Newt Offline
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Registered: 07/31/00
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Loc: Port Republic,South Jersey & C...
NO

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#5803 - 01/02/08 01:06 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
ingvalsone Offline
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Registered: 12/14/07
Posts: 98
Loc: southeast Minnesota
i tried it and caught ZERO coon, so no

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#5804 - 01/02/08 03:35 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
WV Grinner Skinner Offline
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Registered: 12/30/07
Posts: 10
Loc: West Virginia
Thanks guys I won't try it now. I just heard that alluiminum foil on a trap pan was a good way to trap mink and coon.

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#5805 - 01/02/08 04:13 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
Hal Online   content
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Registered: 07/17/00
Posts: 10227
Loc: Blue Creek, Ohio, USA
I'm curious. Why does this technique remain so notorious? There are any number of better ways to catch coons, but this "tin foil on the trap pan" keeps popping up all the time. I don't know of any serious trapper who has ever recommended it, or of anybody who has had more than passing success with it.

So why does such a sub-par technique keep getting passed along? Any ideas?

quest -- Hal
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#5806 - 01/02/08 05:52 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
skipper Offline
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Registered: 06/28/05
Posts: 676
Loc: .Manheim Pennslvania
At the risk of being the odd man out here, I don't know if it's the way I set it up or it would work without the foil. but I have good sucess with the set but I use it in calm water (mud puddles in tractor lanes )the pan is JUST above water level with shellfish oil n it. I seem to do OK with this set up.

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#5807 - 01/02/08 06:42 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
ingvalsone Offline
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Registered: 12/14/07
Posts: 98
Loc: southeast Minnesota
i think trappers try this set because coon are a curious animal and can grab things with there hands, so by this theory it should work.

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#5808 - 01/02/08 10:19 PM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
Dktfireman Offline
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Registered: 07/13/05
Posts: 338
Loc: New Hampshire
I think it comes from the book "Where the Red Fern Grows". It is kind'a how the kid caught a coon to train his new coon hounds. It is a good book so it's got to be true, right? LOL laugh
Dan

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#5809 - 01/03/08 12:34 AM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
Grinner Offline
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Registered: 01/25/01
Posts: 110
Loc: N.E. PA USA
Hal, over on Pauls site a few weeks ago there was a thread about it and it kind of got out of hand with people joking about how well it worked, to a person new to the sport I could see how they may have taken it the wrong way that it really might work. Whenever it seems to pop up over there it starts all over again with the joking on how well it works.

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#5810 - 01/03/08 01:02 AM Re: alluiminum foil on trap pans for coon
Newt Offline
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Registered: 07/31/00
Posts: 508
Loc: Port Republic,South Jersey & C...
In creen stream beds.You can find choke points,and make blind sets.I have often cought coon in traps set in a creek.
In tide water,at low water. Some times you will find coon tracks going up a creek.(Fresh water creeks too)
Set your trap where he's walk'n. Use a little block'n,to make him place his paw on your pan.Just like a blind trail set.

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