Just had some beaver lure given to me. It's a curiosity lure. I am brand new to beaver trapping and have no idea what sets to make with such a lure. I am in SE Georgia, and other than today, we rarely freeze up or have snow. Can anyone tell me some good sets to use this on?

I use beaver caster all the time. Flat sets, dirthole, double dirthole. everything like sit.

My curiosity lure can be used just about anywhere. You can use it on castor mounds or food type sets. It's a very versatile lure. I don't know who's curiosity lure you have though.

Brian McKee from Southern Snares & Supply gave it to me cuz I dropped a couple hundred on him for other stuff. He calls the lure Teaser. Please excuse me, I am very new to beaver trapping. Can you give me an example of a food type set? I know how to make a castor mound set, and how to set crossovers and runs with 330's, but beyond that, I need help. Thank you for the reply, btw.

Paul, I experimented with your curiosity lure one year on rub sets for cats. It worked well. Small shot of cat pee on the highest part of the object I am using for the rubbing set. Asa's beaver lure worked the same. I have no idea what in the world led me to using these two lures as rub sets but my hunch was confirmed.

I don't know if his will work like mine. But, a food set is one that is made to attract the beaver to a food setup. I like putting a freshly cut piece of sweet gum in a slide that I made with my boot. A bit of food lure to go with the eye appeal helps it along. I like using either a bodygrip or a foothold at this set.



I know that cats have a hard time passing up beaver castor for a rub set. My curiosity lure does have some beaver castor in it. I'm not sure about Asa's, but it may have.

I used some AK Backbreaker in November at our local zoo to catch a bobcat coming into the zoo and killing flamingos and two deer. I made two trail sets in a narrow corridor behind the bobcat exhibit which, the one on exhibit I caught six year ago doing the same thing. Then I made a rub set on a stump he had been marking and that's where the AK Backbreaker was placed. By 2200 that night he was in the rub set. A dang rabbit was in the first trail set he came to, but he ate the rabbit and came on down the trail to find the BB set. He was buried up in that #4 DLS. Now he is the backup exhibit.

Thank you, sir. I'll give it a try.

You trappers don't be afraid to experiment with these beaver lures as a change up for fox cat and coyote. I know Asa and I talked a lot about the coyote natures call catching some monster Toms in post sets for coyotes. the cat natures call did work for me but nothing like the coyote nature call. Another trapper in Ga tried it too and had the same results so Asa went to work to identify what those big toms were drawn to. He figured it out and I got several bottles and put the hurt on some late season cats. I love rub sets for cats because they are hardwired to come to that beaver castor smell. You add in some skunk like Paul has done with the Ak perfect and the AK Backbreaker and you have a death set for cats. Another top notch rub lure that is right up there with the ones listed above is Sierra Mist by Bob Jameson. If you can get some of the peeled willow limbs or tree bases about the size of my forearm, use an auger and get it in the ground solid where they cant push it over. Apply per directions and don't forget your catch pole. something about that light colored willow stave they want to come look at it and then smell the sweet aroma of castor and other things then end up in your trap

I got a beaver a couple weeks on a food type set. I had a 330 a couple feet from the bank (had to put it further from shore than I wanted to make the Duke be at least 50% under water. I put some Woodchipper on the end of a stick and poked the stick
~halfway between the trap and shore. Had a beaver the next check...

Made a food type set as suggested, no beaver. A nice otter, but no beaver. Remade the set anyway.