Dumb lure question
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02/02/18 12:27 PM
02/02/18 12:27 PM
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BullOx
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I'm new to making my own baits, how do you make lure? What do you add to make it a liquid?
Trapping is easy you say? You try getting your target animal to step in a 3 inch area of its whole territory.
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Re: Dumb lure question
[Re: BullOx]
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02/02/18 07:19 PM
02/02/18 07:19 PM
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Fishnbarrel
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Depends. If you have rotted down meat, you could add rain water to thin it. Or you could add glycerine or lanolin to make it thicker.
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Re: Dumb lure question
[Re: BullOx]
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02/02/18 07:33 PM
02/02/18 07:33 PM
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strike2x
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A check to a professional lure maker is what I add to that problem. For what you get, lure is your least expensive and most important item in my opinion. I have tried baits and lures myself and now the most I do is some meat bait with caster added backed up by a quality lure....
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Dumb lure question
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02/02/18 07:45 PM
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danny clifton
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first decide what you want your lure to do
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Dumb lure question
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02/04/18 09:51 AM
02/04/18 09:51 AM
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Jonesie
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When I started to try making baits and lures back in the mid 80's I could not get any info. It was a very kept secret on the how to's. I would smell and try to figure out and listen to conversations at the conventions. I would pick up little things, and put them in my memory bank. Some books and articles would come out and I would grab them. After a few years of blown up glass jugs and stuff that worked for 2 weeks then change and not work at 4 weeks, I started to see things and learn things. The things that didn't work taught me more than things that did. Just very expensive learning LOL.
How to make a lure? Very first thing I learned was figure out what you want the lure to do from the start!!!! This is where the less experienced trapper may have some problems, as they may not even really know what the different types lures do in the first place. do you want a food lure? territory? matrix? curiosity? Combination? Call? Where do you want it to work. Dirt hole, flat, hanging in the air, cages and DP. that is the starting points. Every thing else works off that starting points. Can you just throw things together and get something to work? YEP I did but it took 3 years and a lot of money to come up with 2 that worked LOL
Last edited by Jonesie; 02/06/18 10:19 AM.
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Re: Dumb lure question
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02/05/18 11:20 PM
02/05/18 11:20 PM
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TONY.F
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I would start with a bait instead of a lure walk before you run!
LIVE LIFE LIKE THEIR IS NO TOMMORROW
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