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I was told by an exterminator that d-Con mouse bait ceases to kill mice about 15 days after opening the package/container. I find this hard to believe because boxes are not sealed air tight. I couldn't find the answer on D-cons web site.
D-Con or any other bait will last longer than 15 days so long as it is not contaminat ed with pesticides or cleaners and as long a it is kept dry. when placing baits you should use tamper proof mouse baiters. This protects the bait and keeps it fresher. It also helps prevent children and pets from getting to the bait. Be careful when using any pellet type bait for mice. Mice can carry the bait and deposit it in areas you do not want the bait to be deposited, such as in toy boxes or pet areas. It is better to use bait blocks inside bait stations. Mice have a hard time trying to carry a bait block around, so it is a safer bait to use. You can get these on various online pest control supply stores such as http://www.pestcontrolamerica.com or http://www.allpestexpress.com
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I know to bring home the lake water they live in and I know to keep container open to the air and cool, but what do I feed them? I need to keep them alive in a big ice chest for about a week to use as catfish bait the following weekend.
Can't really give ya much info on the perch and sunfish feed without going into some discussion about it, but many fish feeders use sinking fish food pellets.
You should check your local and state regulations concerning keeping them as pets. And what it takes to humanely care for them.
Catfish bait- Got lots of them
Cheap hotdogs (not smokeys)
Cheese and bread- Mix one pinch of bread and one equal size pinch of sharp cheese to form a grape size doughball.
Any cut bait (heads and all)
Liver- Chicken, turkey and beef
Garlic, anise, cayenne, vanilla extract- (Add any or all of these in any combination to the Ingredients above.)
Strawberry Koolaid- (add this to dough balls) Mix unsweetened strawberry kool aid with a little less water as it normally calls for and mix with flour and any other dough ball ingredients such as garlic cheese dough balls.
The stinkier, the better... If it makes you gag, catfish love it.
will they be attracted to a lump of raw meant? or do i need an animal as bait? or a human? and what kind of container do i put them in and how do i get them in it?
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All of the suggestions are good ones, but they may damage the mosquitoes in the process. You might consider collecting larvae or pupae (with a bid turkey baster) from water containers and rearing them through to pristine adults? You will have to feed the larvae (we used liver powder and yeast) and the adult feed on diluted honey or sugar water. Females will need a blood meal if you want them too lay their own eggs too, but it sounds as though you want them hungry!
If you just want a quick collection method, nothingbeats a good old mark 1 human with a "pooter". Use yuorself as bait and as the mosuitoes arrive suck them up into your pooter. See this link for a pooter diagram. Pooters can be bought for a few dollars/pounds andwwould be cheaper than the detailed (but very effective) trapping methods described above.
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You'll need a small cage to keep them in, simply build a wooden or wire frame and stitch fine net curtain material over it. Leave one side with a long sock-like piece of material to act as an entrance. A small dish containing some cotton wool soaked in diluted honey will feed them.
at outdoor or even bad weather?
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this is the best site as i known. It provides all devices that help keep bait alive through our live bait wells and livewell aerator products. it also specialize in bait aeration and oxygen bait systems.
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I most enjoy analogy, and yours describes ALL the components a writer hopes to have in their "Tackle Box."
Without reading the piece, but in a strict sense "Bait" and "Hook" would be the same thing.
Certainly if I don't "Bait/Hook, a reader within the first paragraph, or lines of a poem, I may lose them as they snap the line and escape.
The "Net" may in fact be the keyword, in that what has just been read, if enjoyed, will likely be re-read, time and again.
So then it's possible, in another analogy, that Poetry/Reading, is "Food" for the soul.
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Larva, not lava.
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Done.
Warmer weather getting fish to bite | STEVE FORD COLUMN Evansville Courier & Press
This isn’t science.
No fisheries biologist or ichthyology professor contributed to this report.
The results are purely anecdotal and limited to the field study of one participant (me) during two brief trips to one sampling location or, in this case, pond.
However, the findings are recent, taken on Tuesday and Friday at about the same time (around 3 p.m.) and within the boundaries of Vanderburgh County.
Here’s the skinny on my findings and it’s good news. Fish are starting to move.
Tuesday they were near the surface of the water column and warming themselves in the late afternoon sun. They weren’t actively feeding, but you could coax them into biting.
On an elevated deck about 6 feet above the surface of the water, I had a good view of about a third of the 1-acre pond I was fishing. I could see plenty of fish.
Most of what I saw that afternoon were bluegill of various sizes, but there were also a few bass and two rather large channel catfish milling about near the top.
Please Pass the Meat…the Fresh Stuff
By Ted Pilgrim:
Walleye fishing icons Gary Roach and Doc Samson won’t be giving up live bait anytime soon…
Livebait is back, baby. You better believe it. Despite the buzz about plastics, the reality is, walleyes eat live bait. Period. In the end, all artificial lures lack two potent, inimitable ingredients: organic random movement and instinctive flight response. In the presence of predators, live baits like minnows exhibit a set of natural, random escape maneuvers. These moves represent the single most effective strike triggers in existence. Often, walleyes (and other species) simply will not ingest an offering until they’ve examined it for extended periods. Without all the little shakes, twitches and retreat signals performed by live bait, sometimes you simply will not get bit.
Talk is talk. Yet the truth lives within the boats of master walleye men. Inside the baitwells of anglers the likes of Gary Roach and Bruce “Doc” Samson reside a perpetual, steady supply of fresh live bait. Let’s begin with Mr. Walleye himself.
Walleyes, jigs, rigs and live bait—what could be more natural? Photo courtesy of Northland Fishing Tackle (www.northlandtackle.com) and Frabill (www.frabill.com).
Roach on Rigging
“When the going gets tough, it’s still tough to beat a Roach (live bait) Rig, even after all these years,” states the venerable Roach. “Quick-Change Walking Sinker, ant swivel, fine-wire VMC cone-cut hook, and Roach Finesse Snell—still the deadliest livebait delivery system ever devised.” The real beauty of the rig, Roach says, lies in its simplicity. But it’s a deceptive simplicity, Roach adds.
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