Was watching some older tom Miranda trapping videos and saw mark June making a pocket set and was using a lure called “ Mr mink” did mark make it or was it another maker??
I went to his website but didn’t see it listed.
Was curious about its effectiveness and possibly trying to give it a try this season but I can’t seem to find it available anywhere.

This is all I found on a Google search

"Mr. Mink" was a lure that I made with Bud Hall's mink lure formula. Rick Hemsath started using the name after Barringer Brand lures went out of business. I never actually owned Barringer Brand lures, it was owned by my son Ben who was still in high school at the time. In the mid-1990s, he got involved in other things such as football and girls so the lure company languished and eventually went by the wayside.

We sold quit a bit of the lures at conventions through the 1990s. We also had "10,000 Fox" which was also a formula given to me by Bud Hall. I named it that because he had caught over 10,000 fox on it. I added "Castor Blaster," a beaver lure and one other which I forget.

Bud Hall had a license plate on his car that said Mr. Mink, which was given to him by his daughter as a gift but he hated it. He liked to keep a low profile of course. He wasn't well known for the world class mink and fox trapper that he was until I did a story in the Trapper Magazine about him and the story was called Mr. Mink. He booked so many instructions from that story that he gave me his lure formulas as a way to thank me for helping him increase his meager income in his later years.

We became good friends and I had a lot of respect for Bud, a man who made a living off the land his entire life.

Great story, Bernie

I love to read that type of nostalgia

Same here! Thanks Bernie!

Good info and I vividly remember those days...good ...better times for fur trapping for sure.
Did Ben ever sell those recipes?

great story.

We lost the lure formulas when my office burned in November 8, 2001.

The lures were being bottled for us by JR and sons, and he's the only one that had backup copies of the formulas. I called him a few years ago and he did not know what happened to them. Sad.

That's too bad....I used Mr. Mink on my traplines and had good success. I especially liked it on my red, gray fox and coyote remakes.