probably about 64 years.

If it's any good at all I would say longer than than you might be trapping.
LT

Should you store lure and bait in the refrigerator?

i have some hawbakers red fox gland lure that i found in my grandpas garage. my dad said that it has to be at least 20 years old. its full maybe even never used. do u think its still good?

doesnt have to be refrigerated, just keep it out of the sun.



probably so. smell it and see!

it smells just like my other gland lure that i just bought

well, now you have two! I got a whole box of lure that was prbabaly also 20+ years old from an old friend of a friend and i used it for 3 seasons.

lure is like a fine wine it only gets better with age

Most good lures improve with ageing and no refrigeration is needed. Light is the destroyer of lures as light will change the odor, color and consistency. Store between seasons in a cool dark place. Ace

thanks. this gland lure was stored in a picnic basket in the back of my grandpas garage so it hasnt seen any light. i'll try it this year

Over the course of the last 25 years I've moved three times, separated, divorced, remarried, and in that time period, I managed to "lose" a small box of lures I purchased back in the mid-80s.

They surfaced recently this past summer when I got around to cleaning out the back end of my garage which hasn't seen daylight since the last move when I hauled stuff out of my ex-wife's garage, both before and after it burned.

Well, there were bottles of lures from three different lure makers in there: Carmen's, Miranda's, and a fella from Wisconsin, the Columbus area I believe, by the name of Don Seymour.

Don Seymour made an excellent bobcat gland lure that I used consistly to take mink on the riverline. I shared that with him recently, and he was pleased and perplexed to hear that. Don has since retired from the lure making business and spends some of his leisure time attending rendezvous, recreating 1800s times.

Anyway . . of the three lure makers, both Don's and Carmen's lures were just as fragrent, pungent, and sassy as the day I last used them.

Miranda's?? Junk. I have nothing personal against Tom Miranda, so you know, but all of his lures had gone south, stinko, sour. Pocket Popper was one of 'em, another coyote lure and I forget the other(s). But there wasn't a one of 'em that had held up. Dark box, but in the garage, and the garage hits 90 degrees somedays in the summer and whatever it is below zero in the winter.

I'm a dumb water trapper who prefers the stink of jack mackeral on my gloves over anything else, and rarely uses any lure, but thought you'd enjoy the sharing on the lures here.