The famous Skookum cast was obtained using fruit bait piles. Has any one tried setting up "footprint traps" with food bait in the middle? Has anyone had success using this method? By success I mean captured possible Sas tracks or imprints in the mud? If so, what kinds of foods yielded the best results? Some say apples, peanut butter, bannas... What say you?

DTK

Well I have never done it, But I would say anything that they might find in the area would work really well.
If it is a area where they might find apples then I would think a pile of them would work really well.
If I was going to give it a try I would look around and see just what is around the area.

I have used food on numerous occasions. The food that works best are complex carbohydrates. It seems the bigfoot burns a lot of calories bounding through the terrain and needs starchy foods to replenish his power reserves. The only times the bigfoot appeared was with the use of complex carbohydrates although he only sniffed the food. Trust me on this - this food group logically is the most useful to the monster in terms of nourishment.

When you are out in the wild lay out some bread for the bigfoot taking care to keep it away from the birds and other animals. You may need birdseed/food to appease the birds/animals. The birds/animals may also act as bait for the animal drawing him closer to you.
Hope this helps.

Doctor Blakerz

I have used apples and oranges mixed, mainly brings up deer. Based on what I have read elsewhere about Bigfoot having a taste for deer, I am going to acquire some deer livers from the slaughterhouses during deer season and leave them out on rope high enough off the ground (about 5 foot) and set my trailcams out. If anything, might get some good shots of bear and other predators trying to jump up to it. Even thought about leaving salt blocks out.

thevapredator, bread? Do you leave any butter or jelly with it? I don't recall seeing bigfoot at any of the classes in school where they taught us about the four basic food groups and how to eat right.

OOOOhhhh. I like the idea dw. Deer liver tasty.

The Ohio reports of deer being opened and their livers extracted is a good reason to try this. You might try frying some as well as using uncooked bait . The cooked meat may last longer and not turn rancid so soon. Good luck and let us know the details.

I haven't tried making a footprint trap yet, and anything I deem as success is very much open for debate. That having been said, I have had some very interesting things happen by putting a cheeseburger in a net bag and suspending it about eight feet above the ground. I also put some popcorn in a plastic bag and tied it to a tree. It took five days for anything to happen with that, but the way the bag was taken off the tree and opened up was very interesting. It looked as though something used very big thumbs to open the bag into two halves. Apples with a small bite out are fun to leave around, but I noticed a gray fox really liked me a lot for doing that.

Popcorn and beer. Don't laugh until you try it.
Pop the top on the beer enough so you can smell it and start out by setting one on the ground. You can then hang one from a limb or set it up off the ground.
Same with the pop corn. Put a bag in a white plastic shopping bag and tie it up about 4 feet high on a limb to start with.
I have had the beer cans torn to shreads and some with just the tops or bottoms torn off. Some are just gone.

Is a bigfoot getting this stuff? I am not sure what it is but whatever it is, it is big and fast and makes alot of noise going through the brush as it runs off.
No tracks found as to date.

Mike (watch1)

Which leads me to inquire, has anyone ever used alcohol (for the bigfoot) as a means of aquiring evidence?

You could try sand-trap instead of mud. Put an area if fine slightly damp(?) sand where your bait pile is (or on a suspected route).

Why do you suggest sand? Just wondering. My thought is that it will lighten the ground and be too obvious.

More than a few people I suspect.

I'm guessing fluff n' nutter.

BF Likes beer? Closest proof to him being like us yet.

DTK, I suggested sand as I've seen it used as a way to get animal prints before. I think it would take a finer, more manageable imprint than mud. I take your point it showing up though - I'm not certain it would matter (then I'm not certain it wouldn't either ).

I don't know if there are other grades of sand that are less obvious in colour- there may be..

I'm not sure how available different grades of sand would be, but there might be ways of coloring the sand by mixing it with ground soil from the area of its intended use. Then again, it may be more work than its worth. It's something to consider anyway.

In light of Tube's thread on casting artifacts, the idea of using specialized soil for footprint traps could actually prove helpful, however. Perhaps using the the type of ground cover that produces the most accurate track and the least amount of distortion would be appealing to some. More food for thought.

DTK

Old news:

I've always thought that the most interesting thing about the Skookum cast was that the animal seemed to go out of it's way to avoid the 'mud trap'. Why? My thought is that bigfoot has learned, through trial and error--much as we would--that mud is not something you want to go walking around in. It's slippery, and you can never get it out of your clothes/fur.

I think that's why the sasquatch--if it was a sasquatch--laid down just outside of the mudhole and reached across to get the fruit.

I'm not blaming anyone for not having game cams set, but they would have been helpful, to say the least. Adjust accordingly.

Carpet, You may be right about the game cams, but some say that Sas can smell them or even hear the virtually inaudible buzz of the electronics. Then again, maybe there's so much human scent left over after setting up camera and footprint traps that Sasies know to stay away. It makes me wonder how many precautions were taken to avoid leaving traces of human scent when the Skookum "bait trap" was set up.

OOoooooooooo thanks for the idea dudes! I will be leaving fruit on many sandbars soon!!






R

What are your plans, R?

DTK