what is some of the best baits for gray fox?

Looking for a good cheap bait? Bacon grease or pork cracklins. Simple as that.

Crowkiller

Chunked beaver meat, ground hog, etc. works well.

anymore guys?i want to hit them hard next season

sardines works good but you'll have to deal with oppossums too lol.

I prefer using some time of meat but also I either put grey fox urine around it or some time of lure. Leggetts works good

Get Cameron2's book/DVD, he gives some good lure and bait recipes, great info to boot.

start a summer mice trapline...mice are great bait and easy to catch...

I filled a quart jar with eggs and beat them up real good; then I let them ferment for about a month. I just dug a hole last week and poured a little in. Then I set my game trail camera up on it and left it for about 3 nights. I had a bunch of pictures of grey fox when I checked it yesterday. I've never tried the fermented eggs before on the trapline...I was just experimenting. I also had picturs of coons and one opossum. I've got three other cameras that I set up on mock sets with the fermented eggs yesterday. I'm planning on checking them sometime tomorrow and I'll post some of the pictures, if I have any.

The fermented eggs get alot of attention.

Marsyadas shellfish bait is worth a try.

Blackie's Blend Fur King.

Crowkiller is on the money. That's about all I had when I was young and learning from my GrandDad. Cracklins are very underrated by a lot of trappers.
My next favorite is ground tainted venison. You could make two batches, and try a good bait solution in one.
Later,
45/70,

Bill, did you ever mix cracklins, cheese and parched peanuts together for grey fox bait? A old man I trapped some with a long time ago used that and it was killer on the greys.

I always liked meat type baits better cause bobcats never seemed interested in the cracklins and I didn't want to miss them at my fox sets.

Try tainted bobcat with R.K's or Art's bait solution. both worked great for me this year.

Jackie,
I have used something very much like that.
I have met folks who insisted that raw peanuts were the best, but I don't think so.
Parched peanuts have an odor that IMEx has a stronger draw than do the raw ones.
What kind of cheese do you use? I have used some limburger occasionally -- not so much mixed in as added too.
Later,
Bill,

Have any of you used a "sweet" essential oil ingredient with any of the bait formulations you have used, or experimented with?

Jonathan

I used square chunks of chedar cheese the one time i tried the mix. Worked real well and like a dummy I never used it again, lol. Meant to experiment with it on coyotes a time or two over the years but never did.