Glad to hear you had a great convention and brisk sales of lures. The Muskrat Super All Call has always been a top seller for muskrat and coon. Back in the 70's when muskrat were selling for $10.00 each, I really had a hard time keeping up with materials to make enough of that lure. There were dealers in areas of large muskrat populations, like the Northwestern Fur Exchange along Lake Erie that would order 300 dozen bottles at a time. The success of this lure lies in a stroke of luck in discovering a TOP SECRET ingredient that drives muskrat and coon crazy. Back when I was a kid my Dad was forever experimenting with animals, looking for new ideas about lures. One day he picked up a mother muskrat and four babies, brought them home and put each one in a seperate big oak barrel with newspaper in the bottom. Each rat immediately made regular perfect rat houses out of the newspaper and went inside. Dad and myself tried to feed them but everything was rejected. One could throw their so-called favorite food into the barrel and they would just stick the tip of their nose out of the paper house for a second and pull back in. This went on for days while they rejected everything we tried. Dad was just about to release them before they starved to death when a miracle happened. Everytime I passed the barrels and was eating something, I would throw in a piece. This time I threw in a piece of something and when it hit the bottom the rat dashed out and devoured it. I could hardly believe my eyes so I tried it in the other 4 barrels and every rat dashed out to devour it. I raced to tell Dad, who was skeptical until he seen it with his own eyes. The piece of something consisted of many ingredients so Dad embarked on isolating the one that elicited such a fantastic response. Each isolated ingredient was tried individualy on the rats. Each ingredient was rejected until BINGO, the right one was devoured the instant it hit the bottom of all five barrels. There is nothing rare or exoctic (no dodo bird bills or eye teeth Wacky) about this ingredient but it is very unusual and one could guess for a lifetime and probably never get it. I have had numerous guessing over the years but never was it even close. Anyway, it wasn't long and testimonials started pouring in about what a great coon lure this is too. That was over 50 years ago and those testimonials are still pouring in on a regular basis. Like a lot of trappers, I used to believe that any lure would suffice to attract coon. This may be true but the coon trappers just don't know how many coon are passing their sets and how many they could actually harvest if they were using an exceptional lure. It was the trappers themselves that convinced me of that through thousands of positive testimonials and pictures.
Ace :grin: :grin: :grin:
