Had a brain storm yesterday morning as I was fleshing some Grey fox LOADED with fat. If the fat was rendered down and mixed with the glands of its own kind, would the fat be a good base for a fox lure?

I've heard of people taking fox carcasses, gut them, put them in a sealed bucket, then bury the bucket. The bucket is dug up in a year or so and everything except the bones on the fox carcass turns into a liquidy substance. I've heard of this being used as a lure base.

I've not heard of using the fat taken from a fox and used though. Give it a shot and see how it works.

Thanks Paul. I remember as I stood there fleshing that the fat had a really loud foxy smell to it. That's what got me to wondering about it.

Man that is just plain rough!

rye, old timesr would rot down anything on earth darnnear and make something out of it lol. i always got a kick out of wiley carrols idea, onw was to use deer brains rotted for a lure base, but wiley wanted ya to rot them in the head and then remove them lmao.

i think you can add the galls and something else into it.i have the recipe in a book.

Besides just using the fat, I was planning to use all the glands . Thought if I rendered down the fat and ground the glands up, let it set for a yr or 2, added preservative, it just might, MAYBE, be useful to all the possoum trappers if nothing else. lol

Thank goodness none of my formulas call for all of that nasty work!!!!! LOL! Ace

LOL - you got that right Asa. I couldn't imagine using that, but I hear the rotted down carcasses were really mellow after a year or two of aging.

if i catch enough fox im making some like that for next year.

Yeppers, the longer a rotted down carcass ages after one year it mellows out alot. Been there done that. I have a about a gallon left of a five gallon rotted liver from 30 years ago. DOESNT SMELL anything like it the first year it was rotting..... WHEW... i still remember that first year, now it is a very good base for a lure i make... does make them slobber for sure..... ;>)

I have two buckets of deer meat that are about three years old and they are liquid, at least on top, and very mellow.

I have a container of mink glands that is about 25 years old, that I had buried and forgot about, that I wish I had a bucket of, cause it is some mellow minky smelling stuff.

Thank GOD for guy's like Paul, Asa, and Bob Jameson just to name a few. I know some of you all like to experiment on your own and what not but if I ever get so poor I have to bury thing's to rot and make my own lure and bait I will just hang it up . But best of luck to those of you that are brave enough to venture into this on your own.

Hey now guys... it was just a thought. lol.

Can you imagine what the archiologist 1000 yrs from now are going to say when they dig up all of that "forgotten" rotted down critter.I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that converstation:)

Hey i'm not knocking ya just wishing you the best of luck LOL it's not for me. Gage you almost made me throw up in my mouth a little bit UUGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Wouldn't work for me I can't remember a week past let alone burying something and retrieving it 2 years in the future.

But hey, try it and if it works, everybody on t-man can send you there carcasses from next year.

Trapper should be used to smelly things one of my favorite quotes is (old trappers dont die they just smell that way)
And as a VERY AMATEUR LURE maker I just have fun concocting my own brews and experimenting

I rot all my (gutted) skunk carcas' down in 5 gallon buckets each year. It takes about 2 years to rot down completely. It makes an excellent lure base or just to use as is!