AboutMongo Expertise I can answer most basic questions concerning predator trapping and some water trapping. Questions about lures, baits, sets, traps, trap treatment, modification, sizes, equipment, usage, etc. I have been certified by the Okla. Dept. of Wildlife Conservation, First Okla. Trapper`s Assoc., and the Okla. State Univ. Extension Service as a trapping instructor, and in years past have given classes to people wishing to learn the sport...I also have a number of years experience in predator calling and can provide some basic answers to these questions as well.
Experience
Past/Present clients As far as teaching what I know to others. I take this to be what you mean here... I have helped my son, and son in law, as well as a number of others in this area, to get started in trapping and predator calling... I have had personal instruction from professional government ADC specialists, and I have 30 years experience running my own traplines, and over a half century of experience in the outdoors...... I have a friend who is a troop leader with the Boy Scouts. In the past I have done several demonstrations on trapping and predator calling for the boys, and on a number of occasions have helped the troop to set up and run a trapline during the winter, with proceeds going to the troop.
Question mongo can u tell me what can i put my fish oil in to store after i make it .ps. will it keep in milk jugs for a long time. thank u roger
Answer
Hello Roger,
You can store it in most anything...but I suggest either glass or plastic. I wouldn't use any metal containers....... Actually, I always just stored it in clean gallon milk jugs, with the lids on, and a piece of electrical tape wrapped around the lid where it screws on, to make it air tight. Then I kept it in the back of my shed, in a cool dark place, out of the sun light. It will keep for several years this way...perhaps longer..... However, I generally made fresh fish oil each summer and used up most all of it during the following season... Any I had left over from the last season, I just used up by pouring large amounts of it into dirthole sets or pocket sets that I had made for coon along the creek or stream or around a lake or pond...then started using the fresh fish oil.... It can be carried over from one season to the next, but I just always liked making and using fresh each season... As cheap and easy as it is to make, I just preferred to make fresh every year.
If you do have quite a bit left over from the last season, another way I used it up was to put it in a squirt bottle and use it as a sort of "trailing or leading" scent... Where I had two trails along a creek or stream, one higher trail and one lower trail, I'd make a pocket set on the lower trail, and then I'd squirt a heavy stream of the old fish oil from the upper trail down to the pocket set, leaving an invisible trail the coon can follow to my set.
