Doug B.
Senior Member
Have any of you used the castor from a beaver you caught to catch other beavers? Have you doctored it up before you used it? Have you noticed that store bought castor lures don't smell like regular beaver castor, yet beavers will come to it?
I'll have to admit, store bought beaver castor lure smells pretty dang good. Every time I open a bottle of it i have to sniff it. I about believe i could eat it on toast!
Anyhow, I had seen where Paul Dobbins had said something about somebody putting castors in wine and letting them soak a while. I put some i still had in some cheap red wine for about all summer. I got it out a couple of months ago and ground it up. Then i added a few drops of anise oil in it and then put glycerin until it was a consistency that i thought i would like. It really didn't smell that good but as time went on it actually smells better now. I caught a beaver with it yesterday as i wanted to try it out.
Any thoughts?
I'll have to admit, store bought beaver castor lure smells pretty dang good. Every time I open a bottle of it i have to sniff it. I about believe i could eat it on toast!
Anyhow, I had seen where Paul Dobbins had said something about somebody putting castors in wine and letting them soak a while. I put some i still had in some cheap red wine for about all summer. I got it out a couple of months ago and ground it up. Then i added a few drops of anise oil in it and then put glycerin until it was a consistency that i thought i would like. It really didn't smell that good but as time went on it actually smells better now. I caught a beaver with it yesterday as i wanted to try it out.
Any thoughts?