making beaver lure.

[rn]

This has probably been asked and answered several time, if so please direct me to the post. I would like to formulate my own beaver lure from castor and oil sacks I have saved from this years catch. What is the best material (book, video, DVD, ect) to reference for this project?

[CoyoteMan50]

I don't know about Books or videos. but just dry and grind your castors & oil sacs then you can mix in a little tonquin Musk or there is alot of things that you can add. I like to soak mine in glycol or vodka before I grind them to softin them up so they will grind. I will have to look up a couple of my receipes if you are interested PM. me.

TrapperLarry

[jeffc]

I've tried alot of different things this is what worked best for me. I bought a #22 ball bearing meatgrinder from proline parts brand new on ebay for 24$ shipping is $20 but everywhere else this grinder sells for 40 something. It came with two ends small holes and big holes. I ground up the castor using the small holes about everyother castor I would throw in the oilsac. This grinder gave me exactly the right grind i've been looking for. (Blenders didn't work even if i cut up the castor into small pieces.) All of this went into a big bowl and i mixed in glycerin till i thought it looked right. I then put this into 16oz containers. Now this just like it is now is a fine beaver lure. in each 16oz container i put two tablespoon fulls of sodium benzoate. Then on some 16oz containers i added cherry oil some apple oil. keep track on the lid with a permanent marker what you are adding so when you test it you will remember exctly what you put in it. I've been stirring them every day (don't use the cherry spoon in the apple container) and I really like what ive come up with. I'm trying a few other things that I will keep to myself but thats the gist of it. Have fun

Jeff

[jeffc]

IMO don't dry the castors freeze them and grind them fresh.

Jeff

[jeffc]

Nick Wyshinski has two books out on lure making I just ordered them both from Minn trapline products so can't give you a review yet.

Jeff

[17HMR]

Im not much of a beaxer trapper but a very good beaver trapper gave me a couple of tips, use mineral oil in pkace of glis,in the ground castor, and add a little ground cinammon, to give it a little bit of a musty smell. Jeff

[trappnman]

A very simple beaver castor lure that works good- is just cut up your castors, oil sacs and all, and mix them into warm vaseline.

Did it for years. With mink glands also for a mink lure.

[cratz]

Leonard Paveck's book on trapping beaver has many good lures in the back. He passed on last year,but his book is still available.

Chris

[braveheart]

I was lucky enough to be schooled by a great lure maker and Bill Nelson showed him.I soak dried bev. caster in distilled water over nite.Then grind them the next day they will stay fresh smelling for years with almost no frezer burning.And add pariffin oil to bev.lure only.I have a lure for bev. that will catch bev. like taking candy from a baby.I have had them break a snare and catch them the next nite in the pond or river.

[thebeav2]

Well I do it the easy way.
I take the fresh Castor's and open them up, scrape out the contents.Crush up all the hard chunks. Place in a container and add enough glycerin (or mineral oil) to make a paste. That's It your done.
In my opinion adding anything to the fresh castor will make It unnatural.
I also found by adding sac oil to my fresh castor made It less attractive to beaver.
Save a small amount of sac oil and use It by It's self In blind sets for beaver.
Strip the oil from all your oil sacs and let them taint a bit and use the tainted sacs at your cat and canine sets. You can also use the scraped and empty castors the same way.
Castor put up this way doesn't need any preservatives added to It. If It dries out just add more Mineral oil or glycerin.
This lure Is the only lure I use for beaver, I have never seen the need to buy any store bought stuff.

Gary

[rk660]

The squeezed out oil sacs can be added to any bait as replacment for some of the meat, and adds a little sac oil smell to the bait.