I have two gallons melting down. I added the remainder of the tails I’d saved this morning. I had never made it before. I was surprised it isn’t a rotten smell breaking down. I knew the oil wasn’t but figured what lay beneath might be a little more ripe. This is a cheap, easy to make lure or lure base anyone can do. I didn’t vent at all. Just cut a piece of old t shirt and put it under the lid then tightened down. No flies or explosions in over a month.
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I’ve got some also
I had some bait I made and it wasn’t connecting so I dumped about a 3/4 quart of the broken down material and oil in to give it a boost
I think that material is a real value as the oil
I think coyotes dig to China to get it
I used the sludge in the bottom a couple years back on the last week of season because I was out of bait. I caught 4or 5 that week if I recall… I was kinda surprised because like Mr. Pickard said, it don’t have much of a smell.
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Weez,
As a coyote expert, do you think a combination of smells or one bait odor is best? I’ve thought of mixing several meats into a bait for a layered smell. Do you think that would hold more interest or curiosity than say a bloody beaver liver? Lures have sometimes a dozen different ingredients. They say canines can divide, separate and recognize all the different odors as to where we just smell a smell.
Well, if I were an expert, I would know the answer to your question…since I am not, all I can do is speculate. I have had good luck with multiple smells in a commercial bait, and I have also had good luck with a single smell such as the beaver tail sludge. I guess I would prefer to have the layered bait with multiple smells. In my mind, that may hold his attention just a bit longer increasing the chance that he steps on real estate owned by me. With that said, who really knows what holds a coyotes attention on any given day? My gut tells me that it has more to do with whether or not he is hungry, raining, multiples or just one coyote, is she feeding pups….etc. the list could be infinite. That’s why trapping is so addictive. I’ll leave the formulas to the lure and bait making experts like you! You seem to have a pretty good handle on what the critters want… I have seen the results multiple times over!
I believe I will let the tails work all summer and whatever sludge is left over I’ll try for bait too. I have several bait type oils and grindings I could add. May make a quart batch and see if it works. I have a half gallon of broken down rattler but I think just a spoonful or two might be enough of that in the mix. They don’t come across that every day. But, if they get a taste they may not like it. I don’t know. It doesn’t smell like rotten snake on the Highway. More like a broken down meat. If you guys every try it skin them first. The skins take longer than the bones to break down.
Stacey’s wanting to render some lard. Cracklings used to be THE fox bait. Coyotes ought to like as well.
I can’t believe non targets wasn’t an issue with cracklins. All them old people around hear liked um so much it was always my belief you catch more men then foxes,plus if you ever got caught putting a good cracklin in a dirt hole you may have real trouble!
But I’m talking about men that would eat raw.leaf lard while working up hogs.
I made and used coon cracklins a few times they worked for fox,coon,yotes,skunk,possum everythang eat um.
They smelled good too. I almost tried um my self.
Colt
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I’ve got a half gallon of mostly bobcat leaf lard and the rest belly fat rendering down right now. Don’t know what it’ll turn out to be.
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You know, I bet you could make a deal with Postal inspection/ enforcement to train their drug sniffing dogs NOT TO ALERT on trapping lure smells! You could charge whatever your wanted, and the Goberment would pay it; plus you would probably make the commercial lure makers lives a lot easier, because they wouldn’t have to track down , or replace orders that was confiscated by the Feds because the dogs alerted on the package!
I ordered a few bottles of lure last year from Dale Billingsley in Iowa and they had been sent back to him due to the smell. I mailed Leon a pint of castor once and the jar broke. I think they brought it to him in a garbage bag.
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