LURE CORNER
SIMPLIFYING
LURES
The various attractants for furbearers can be grouped into four main categories: Food, Curiosity, Territoriality and Reproduction The trapping industry is awash with lures. Lures for canines, water animals, predators and prey. Heck, there are even multiple lure formulations for each individual species available from each lure manufacturer! Choosing which lures to buy can be pretty confusing, even mind numbing at times. Rest assured that buying and using trapping lures doesn’t have to be that hard. You don’t necessarily need a lure for each species (that’s a marketing gimmick in a lot of cases), and many lures work great for multiple species. More importantly, buy lure that fits your objectives on the trapline. When I’m looking at buying or making lures, I like to focus on what I’m trying to accomplish in terms of animal attractants. Different lures will elicit different responses, and a variety of attractant types will ensure you have your bases covered. Scent is an incredibly important sense in furbearing animals. It allows them to find food, sense danger, detect the presence of other animals and establish territories. As trappers looking to lure animals to a set, we want to use attractants that appeal to their senses. To simplify things, the various attractants for furbearers can be grouped into four main categories: Food, Curiosity, Territoriality and Reproduction. The 100
