Imagine everyone is either back trapping or getting things in order to start trapping. A long time i ago before season id notice i had multiple bottles of old lure from the past season, rusted up caps, half full or quarter full of this and that all over the place, some labels rubbed off to the point i wasn't really sure what lure it even was. I didn't want to start with that junk but the new lure's id bought that were bright and shiny. After awhile you end up with a large collection of these used lure bottles everywhere!

To remedy this mess i poured all the lures out into ONE container, making a one of kind never before seen on tv lure, lol. Just a helpful tip on what to do with all that 'junk' sitting around in your shed. Be surprised what the canines and cats think about the concoction as well.

Read to that here on Tman quite a few years ago. Might have been your post? Can't remember. Sure was good advise.

Prairie Wind was made by Dwight Brown of Kansas

I use a lot of fish oil when coon trapping. I squirt it up the bank and generally slop it around the set. I started adding those half bottles of "who knows what it is" to the fish oil.

Good stuff, at conventions I buy those boxes of old lure, usually for $10 you get a dozen old bottles and mink are just as curious about them as canines.......jk

Been doing this about every 3 years or so with my partial lure jars. Also mix partial bottles of urine and partial jars of bait.

Matt Jones talked about mixing old lures and baits on here several years ago. That's where I got the idea from.

Does that mean we can do well l with that what we have?
no

I did the same thing several years back Jackie, but went a step further. I took four wide mouth glass peanut butter jars, taped the outside with duct tape, filled them with cotton balls, then wrote on the outside in magic marker in big letters, coon, mink, fox and coyote. If the bottle said what animal it was intended for, or i could read the label it went in the appropriate jar. If it wasn't labeled, I gave it a sniff test and then it went in the jar I thought was correct. If it smelled fruity or sweet ,it went in the coon jar. Anyway, it condensed over seventy bottles into four jars that are gone now, and I should probably do it again soon. Problem is some of it worked fine, but I can't replicate the formula! LOL

Problem is some of it worked fine, but I can't replicate the formula! LOL

WE have to keep some of the mystery in trapping make it interesting, otherwise we would get bored, haha.

If you read the catalog description for almost every lure made, it lists the main target animal but also says it works great on.......just about every other furbearer.......

Jackie is this the kinda mess you speaking of?
I got 3 little bins of stuff in garage and some newer stuff in basement




Then there is some of my stash of this stuff.. O L Butchers. .I haven't used it in years since our fox population crashed. Bought a bunch when I knew wasn't going to be no more. Might even fall into collector category?


Mac

If I crack open an old bottle and take good whiff and it makes me gag like someone wiped my face with a fresh steaming hot dog turd, I know for a fact that not only is it still good, but it is probably better that it has ever been.

Have a bunch of new unopened bottles of lure fm a protege of Herb Lenon. He went to CA i believe

Yep mac, your the very person i made this post for, lol. Except the collector stuff! I have a bottle of old wood chipper Charlie gave me last time i saw him not knowing he would be gone a year later. Other than sentimental lure bottles rest needs done something with.

LOL
Lee, that sounds like John Ehn...possibly?

I got a few of those cobbled up buckets full of old lures and baits too.
JC Conner told me that one year him and his wife Mary were in Texas and had
blended a bunch of old lures together. JC used his lures and Mary used the combination of lures.
JC said Mary caught more coyotes than he did...lol

Well that wasn't the lure, Mary has always been a better trapper than JC, haha. He related to me how she would spot cat location's alot of times he wouldn't!

Whats funny is I actually had sorted out some old dry bottles before seen this post. Couple bottles went out got used when boy and I were out few day. Some were past point rescue went in trash. I think there might even be some old Hawbakers Fox 500 in that mess. That would probably be from late 1970s or very early 1980s so it's been moved around some.
I have one big jar coyote lure a guy gave me. He was logger an logging a farm I had been trapping for years. Seen coyote one my traps made point meeting me. He was from MN and very good coyote trapper. He gave me that big jar his home made lure, to try on my side of the river. Was the first person to show me waxed dirt when I visited his place. He died a while later in logging accident. Killed by widow maker. I always have a hard time using that lure he gave me. Feel like I should hang on to it save it.. But I did put it on a couple sets each season and I did again this fall. Just because I knew he would want me to use it.

Mac