Making my own lure --awww for the heck of it !!!

I know you can buy any lure you can think of but…. I like to do stuff myself.

Started making some lure today…Fish Oil, Crayfish Oil

Fish Oil went well. Went out with my daughter and caught a few dozen perch/sunfish (had great time doing it), will add a few more tomorrow and then set out to let sun.

Crayfish Oil didn’t go to well. I’m in the middle of the creek hand catching crawdaddies get a few in my hand and then I ask my little girl (age 6) to bring me the jar, bam. Now I have a broken jar and no start on crayfish oil. Guess I learned a lesson, if you go through the trouble of buying a huge pickle jar, eating all the pickles, don’t take it to the creek with you.

Well guess I got a few pickles to eat before I get to start my crayfish oil !!!

What did you use to remove the "pickle" smell from the jar?

Exactly. You will need an odorless jar. Hope your fish oil isn't in a pickle jar.

Pickled fish oil with a Lemon~Lime twist!

In my opinion, making one's own lure is like being one's own lawyer, one better know exactly what they are doing through experience and many trapline testings. Asa

Never know the animals might take a liking to the pickle smell but i would only us it at a few sets to start with

No matter how carefully one scrubbs a pickle jar, after lure or bait is aged in the jar for a while the pickle smell will still permeate everything. Might not make any difference for raccoon but I wouldn't want to risk that odor in any other lure. Asa

Really you can't use pickle jars !

You can, just so long as they have never held pickles.

that's what THEY say lol


All due respect ... lure and bait making aint rocket science ... no more so than being a plumber or auto mechanic, skilled in what they do ... some have the ability to fix a Buick and also possess the knowledge to formulate a decent lure or bait ... while others are most likely more proficient messing with the Buick and should probably stick to doing just that ... that said, NO it aint something everyone will want to, should, could or can do

the mystique associated with lure making is somewhat mythical ... formulating lures and baits is open to any and all who have the wish want, desire, discipline and dedication to do so ... where and how do you think all of these commercial lures available now got on the market ??? you're right ... they were born in someones shed, out building, kitchen, tree house or garage ... not by some conglomerate R&D firm located on the 5th floor of some 13 story high rise in some big city

I second what you said Possum skinner

possum skinner wrote...they were born in someones shed, out building, kitchen, tree house or garage ... not by some conglomerate R&D firm located on the 5th floor of some 13 story high rise in some big city

Yes possum but hopefully there aren't any respectable lure makers that formulate lures in pickle jars or just throw ingredients together without first testing them on thier trapline and had others trappers arounf the country testing it too. Just slapping things together to save a few bucks is as iffy as being your own lawyer in a capiatl punuishment case. Asa

lol ... agreed Asa, I just elaborated on the subject in general ... sure hope you didn't think I was being disrespectful towards you ... you already know I have tons of respect towards you

Ed

Could there be a lure that would draw animals from a mile away?
The ultimate lure. Naaa,I think as said before any lure will work if you are on location.

i "USED TO" dabble in lure and bait making,that is until my majic potions started exsplodeing!the wife isnt to happy when she finds stinky stuff blowed up all over the place!sent a jar out to yotey in oregon years ago that blowed all over his car setting in the garage!lol i kinda didnt put enough benzonate in it!ill leave it to the EXSPERTS!

Skunk comes awful close one of the few things that pull a bear a right good ways 1/4 - 1/2 mile but the wind blows that way too, we have NE winds most days. Location is way better though .

Would just the smell of a skunk steer the animal to your set though from that far? Would they go out of their way to get to that smell?

I agree that there are no lures that call animals for such long distances and even if the lure could be smelled for a mile how many animals would go that far out of thier way to investigate it? As example, skunk musk is a good longer distance animal attractant but if say a coyote in my part of the country went very far out of his way or strayed from his day's agenda to investigate it he would never get where he was going because he would constantly be zig-zagging back and forth all over the woods.
As for any lure working if one is on location, I'm not so sure about that. I have extensively experimented with at least forty formulas and believe me they vary widely in attraction from near zero attention paid to them up to 95% emphatic working of the lure. Asa

My own test have told me it's difficult to pull them more than a few feet when they are "making the rounds".

"In my neck of the woods" food has pulled them farther than any lure I have tested and I have tested some good ones.

I have used just skunk musk to see what was drawn to it . I just followed the tracks through partly cleared land through woods and right of way that were over grown it pulled them within 20-30 yards of a busy highway where the front end of the business is. I did,nt have a set made, just a place up against the railroad tracks try one thing move away 50-100 yards try something els see what comes and how much it takes to draw them . location is king .