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Old 03-06-2014, 09:49 PM
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Just skinned my first otter and notice they are quite greasy! Got me thinking that these might be good for bait! Has anyone used otter meat as bait? Or is it a waste of time!

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Old 03-06-2014, 09:53 PM
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It's a waste of time, the last thing ever eaten at my bait stations.
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Old 03-06-2014, 10:05 PM
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Any meat will attract ravens or magpies and every coyote, fox, wolf
will come around to check out the bird noise. Snares will do the rest.
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Old 03-06-2014, 10:20 PM
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Any meat will attract ravens or magpies and every coyote, fox, wolf
will come around to check out the bird noise. Snares will do the rest.
I stand some what corrected, yes the bird activity will bring them in to investigate.
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:15 PM
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Once when we were baiting bears, a trapper gave us an otter carcass. We put it at a bait, and the bears never did touch it.
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Old 03-07-2014, 06:40 PM
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Noticed this was your first otter. May I suggest you read page 26 of this :

http://www.nafa.ca/wp-content/upload...al_2012-02.pdf

Important info to know about skinning and handling otter. Extra care needed regarding singe.


As far as the otter carcass, make soup. haha. Serve to inlaws.

Or put the carcass in a warm area and in a few days harvest the maggots for fishing bait.
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Old 03-08-2014, 07:54 AM
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From what I have seen a coyote won't even eat an otter till it is good and rotten. Throw it in the bait station but be sure there is something else more appetizing with it
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Old 03-08-2014, 10:50 AM
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When I used to snare coyotes, the bait was to attract them so it didn`t matter what the bait was. On a fresh snow fall watch the tracks close to the bait. The tracks are 6-8 inches apart, that means he is slow and very careful and checking every thing out, making him very hard to catch. If you back track him 100 yds you will find the tracks 12 inches apart which means he
is traveling and his mind is probably on the sounds of the magpies up ahead
and this makes him much easier to catch. You can catch coyotes 1/2 mile or
more from the bait, because of where the bait is. You could tie the bait 10ft
up in a tree and still catch coyotes off that bait, not saying thats good but it would work. Catching the pups is easy, which will happen close to the bait
but the fur is not worth same as mature harder to catch adults. A feedlot even with no dead animals is a good bait and you can catch coyotes a mile away because of where the feedlot is. I have pictures of one winter where
I put 120 coyotes on the sales, I don`t know how to post the pictures
Took me a few years to learn all their habits but after that it was easy, I
probably have forgot a lot by now, it was more than 20 years ago.
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Old 03-09-2014, 06:07 AM
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Not good bait for anything. Ravens don't like them either. They lay there until they rot.
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