Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 12:19:53 GMT -6
Since we've been talking combo use I thought I could give a personal example about why to beware the 1-legged combo! As I've said previously, I've tested my scent since the early 70's BUT-BUT I'm only human and sometimes desire orverides intelligence. Some years back it was getting close to me starting to set traps and I was reading a scent manucaturer's catalog and just had to have these two call/food lures. Man they sounded great "let this be your circle maker" and the other was that you needed to put the lure real deep in the bottom of the hole because the coyotes would dig & dig to get it. Error #1!
I was using the Marinda Walk-Thru Set quite a bit and with it I use bait in one hole and a call lure in the other, I figure these two new lures would maybe work very well. I recieved the lures just days before setting so I committed my 2nd error, I didn't have a chance to test the two lures. I used them right off and caught coyote and at the end oft he season that combo came in 3rd place which is the bottom of useable combos. Remember I'm on properties all year round and I checked some of the old sets of this particularr combo. If any scratching(frozen ground so no digging) would occur it was always at just 1 of the 2 holes!! Lightbulb came on.
That next spring I went about doing my normal testing so I caught up with testing those two lures. 1" hole 8" deep and lure at the bottom with a table knife. The lure that was getting the after-season action was always dug out great but the other lure was never touched!!! I strongly feel I need balance between the 2 scents I use at a walk-thru and I sure didn't have it with this combo! At that time I didn't have my cameras so it was just reading sign at the tests plots. Needless to say that lure was never used again.
The upside was the other lure carried the load and with the walk-thru set it was attractive enough to single-handedly catch coyote and who knows if it would have done better without it's buddy so close by.
Well this spring I decided to learn about grubstakes, how to use them properly and with what bait/lure. During the testing I came across several jars of the useless lure but I thought I'd like to see what it could do at ground level, on a grubstake. I mean the maker bragged about having to use it deep in the ground. I used it at 3 test sites under camera. When I test grubstake lures/baits I try to get 3 of them within the range of the camera, each with a different scent. The reults were the same at all 3 testings, coyotes would lick/chew and pull & run all of the stakes EXCEPT the useless lure!! They would give it a very quick sniff on their way to work another of the grubstakes.
That "good" lure is still good enough to be used today on my lines.
I was using the Marinda Walk-Thru Set quite a bit and with it I use bait in one hole and a call lure in the other, I figure these two new lures would maybe work very well. I recieved the lures just days before setting so I committed my 2nd error, I didn't have a chance to test the two lures. I used them right off and caught coyote and at the end oft he season that combo came in 3rd place which is the bottom of useable combos. Remember I'm on properties all year round and I checked some of the old sets of this particularr combo. If any scratching(frozen ground so no digging) would occur it was always at just 1 of the 2 holes!! Lightbulb came on.
That next spring I went about doing my normal testing so I caught up with testing those two lures. 1" hole 8" deep and lure at the bottom with a table knife. The lure that was getting the after-season action was always dug out great but the other lure was never touched!!! I strongly feel I need balance between the 2 scents I use at a walk-thru and I sure didn't have it with this combo! At that time I didn't have my cameras so it was just reading sign at the tests plots. Needless to say that lure was never used again.
The upside was the other lure carried the load and with the walk-thru set it was attractive enough to single-handedly catch coyote and who knows if it would have done better without it's buddy so close by.
Well this spring I decided to learn about grubstakes, how to use them properly and with what bait/lure. During the testing I came across several jars of the useless lure but I thought I'd like to see what it could do at ground level, on a grubstake. I mean the maker bragged about having to use it deep in the ground. I used it at 3 test sites under camera. When I test grubstake lures/baits I try to get 3 of them within the range of the camera, each with a different scent. The reults were the same at all 3 testings, coyotes would lick/chew and pull & run all of the stakes EXCEPT the useless lure!! They would give it a very quick sniff on their way to work another of the grubstakes.
That "good" lure is still good enough to be used today on my lines.
