Author Topic: new lure needed (Read 471 times)

muslmutt · « **on:** November 06, 2004, 03:47:01 AM »

I can't get what I have been using so I need a new lure. What works really well for fox, yotes, and bobcat.

devildog · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2004, 03:54:59 AM »

Try Lenon's Lures. They have been around for ever. I've been using them for a few years and am very pleased with them. They are very affortable compared to other lures. He post on here send him a p.m.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #2 on:** November 06, 2004, 04:41:06 AM »

I carry Lenons lures,also blackies,Marsiadas,Pm lures and several others.
Choice is the spice of life.
Tom

jim-NE · « **Reply #3 on:** November 11, 2004, 01:45:41 AM »

variety is the spice of life.
I use all the ones mentioned above in the prior posts, and no two in same location.
A good, clean fox or bobcat urine will also take all three. For change up, use mink urine for all three. Not a lot of trappers in my area use mink urine on land sets, and its been a very pleasant surprise for me.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #4 on:** November 11, 2004, 03:00:16 AM »

Hey Jim, I thought I was the only one to use mink urine at a canine set. Bobcat or mink urine is something I reserve for a digger or set avoiding canine by making a blind scent set using only one of the urines nearby the avoided or dug at sets. Works most every time! Ace

Dave Lyons · « **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2004, 07:21:19 AM »

Try Asa's #1 fox. I won't trap without it. Also coyote #2 takes a lot of reds for me also.

One of these days Asa I am going to have to try your #3 fox. I just have a hardtime change what is working.

And Asa coon lure is the best too.

Dave

muslmutt · « **Reply #6 on:** November 12, 2004, 02:00:28 AM »

Anyone try Coon's Caskey by Coon's Best, or Cat-man-Do.

jim-NE · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2004, 03:04:11 AM »

I've used cat-man-do (Milligan) with a lot of success.
Again, my experience has been that variety is the spice of life. I try new stuff all the time. I keep a few sets around with my tried and true stuff...but honestly I think that there is so much dependence on the food available, population/competition of other species (and same species) that often those are the things that seem to make things "best" in any given year.
For instance, one year I had my best catches at sets baited with powder river paste bait, then the very next season I never got a set worked but I hammered coyotes on some bluegill and carp I'd caught that summer. If I would have stuck with only the powder river...would have been a mighty slim fur check that year.
Some years bait seems to be the ticket, other years they won't touch it but will find every post and flat set I put out.
I think the animal population, available other food sources (deer gut piles after season close, high bird and small game populations in area, cover and habitat, etc.) all play into the bait and lure game hugely. If I had the magical answers or forecast ability at onstart of each season, then I lose a lot of "fun" in the experimentation too. For me its not always about the check but the fun factor too.
One consistency I've found and stuck with is mix up your sets, mix up your lure/bait combos, and locations, too. I truly believe variety is the spice of life in predator trapping.