For several months now I have been using Dobbins beaver Lure in the field. I always like to have different Lure for change up. And comparing it with others has stood up.It has a wide response as to the variety of animal that it will catch. I would recommend you try Backbreaker or at least keep some as a change up lure. I was mainly using it on Cage traps and snares. Raccoons love it. I caught two raccoons in the traps at the same time several times. It was common to do that. I actually caught two beavers at the same time on two occasions also. I mainly had the trap set out in the water . I say again, it Drew a variety of species of animals well. Paul had no idea what the response that he would have when I got the Lure from him.

Its Good Stuff for sure!!!

Raccoons are common and I too have a double on beaver in a cage.

My go to water line lure. Also keep a bottle in the k9 bag.

I can truthfully say I have never tried Backbreaker because I've had good success making my own castor-based lure. But, I have used Woodchipper with great success when beaver got castor shy. I would highly recommend Woodchipper lure. I even like the smell of it. I told my wife I like the smell so much I was thinking I could wear it as a cologne!

I like to smear a little on the dash vents in my truck. Hate to use it all on animals.

it has always been my top beaver lure. Never tried it on coon sets though

It's a dang good lure at a flat set for fox and coyote also.

It happens

Kirk I was wondering how it tasted to an animal ? I always want a coon bait/lure to have a good taste. I can tell you first hand that Backbreaker is awful when eaten. I was setting up a castor mound set late one afternoon. I had my glasses hanging around my neck on a lanyard. When I put them back on there was dirt on them I brushed it off but it was smeared, so I did what any southern red neck does and I licked them before wiping them on my shirt tail. Problem was it was not mud, it was Backbreaker. I thought I was going to die. That castor smell got in my head and in my sinus and I could not get it out. I had to rumage through the truck and find some peppermint candy that had to be 100 years old to get the taste out of my head. Never again.

You are referring to Woodchipper, right?

My 9 yo, loves the smell and calls it bobbins lure..lol
Its a good one to use....have used on marten otter wolf wolverine ermine here in Alaska

Rub some on your head. It will make your hair grow back in!!!!

I've told this before. After stirring a bucket of Backbreaker that's about ready to bottle, I almost always get some on my fingers somehow. I can take a shower afterward and still have that Backbreaker smell on my fingers. I can't help but sniff them all evening. My wife accuses me of being a pervert for smelling my fingers. I then have to become a closet sniffer. I'll pretend to rub my nose, have a fake sneeze, or something like that to get a whiff. I just can't help it.

It doesn't smell this good until right before its ready to bottle. In it's beginning stages, it reeks of castor, and not that wonderful odor - not that castor isn't a wonderful odor of its own.

Good to know I'm not alone. I've been doing nose hits on this forever. My favorite deer lure. It used to go under the name of Scrape-Mate but the guy sold out. I tracked him down and bought a gallon of it.

I have noticed some of this as well. It is more persistent and lasting in it's aroma than other lures I've used. Of course that would be meaningless if it weren't attractive or worse.

Since you mention it it does not have that sharp almost acrid smell of fresh castor sacs. It's definitely more mellow and pleasant. The closest I've smelled to it in nature is the actual faint whiff you get when walking into an active beaver colony. Of course I'm sure that's the desired aroma. But it raises the question what exactly occurs between castor production in the live gland and deposition on a scent mound to get that more mellow smell?

If it's not a trade secret I would love to know. Maybe some sort of natural organic chemical/molecular decomposition? Interaction with the environment/oxygen?

Dad said it was the fairy dust that causes the odor change. Y'all recall the collection procedure I've explained for getting the fairy dust, eh?

Backbreaker is an awesome lure, no doubt about it! But my go-to lure for beaver is Paul's Beaver Plus!!!!

Paul, for the sake of future trappers I do hope you have made plans for the survival of your lures into the next generation. I pray a long time from now.