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 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.
I hope this helps Roger,
Mongo
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QUESTION: mongo thank u u were a big help. ps, im going to take just the oil off the juice can i use glycerin in it to make it thicker and last longer at the set. and how much glycerin in to it . thank u roger
Answer Good Morning Roger,
Roger, the top oil does not need any glycerin added to it...and in fact, adding glycerin or anything to it (except in the case of adding other ingredients when formulating lures) will dilute it, and it will not be as effective.
The top oil is generally used for making lures. It is mild smelling and mixes well in formulation without over-powering the smell of the lure... It will work as a lure by itself at a set, but, if the idea is to use it as a lure itself, you would be much better off using the entire fish juice. Just strain out the solids and use the whole of the juice, including the top oil. It has a MUCH stronger odor than the top oil alone.
