Post by Tony Howard on Aug 31, 2010 16:47:04 GMT -5
Robert the way I feel about it is this. A bunch of different smells don't mean a animal will dive in or stay longer. The right smell or scent to trigger it's brain into investigating is the scent I am after.
Think of it like a human. Your driving down Airline Dr and smelling Wendy's, Mc D's, Captain D's, Burger Hut, Nick's, and on and on. They are venting the smell to the street side and your smelling all of it. Which smell strikes a never making you pulling in the drive way? Will that same scent make you turn in the next day and the next?
Or when your at a party and all the ladies have on perfume. Some perfumes just plain ole turn me off. I call it "old Women perfume" and it makes me sick to smell it. The lady wearing it thinks she smells like million bucks and some men are attracted to it, but for me it is a turn off . But let a woman have on "Avon Summer Musk" and it will turn my head I will sniff her out. :PLOL. That is the same thing animals do. There are triggers in their brain that tell them "YOU LIKE THIS' and they go nuts over it and there are others that just make them sniff to see what is down the hole.
So what I have found is one scent or lure at one spot and other totally different 10 foot away. On Grey fox I just run one lure at both sets and take doubles all the time.
Now as far as my lure, I am using the gray glands to attract the animal and trying to use a scuttle hint of the other two glands to keep their attention. I do not want the food scent to over power the main scent. Only time will tell if it will work or not.
Think of it like a human. Your driving down Airline Dr and smelling Wendy's, Mc D's, Captain D's, Burger Hut, Nick's, and on and on. They are venting the smell to the street side and your smelling all of it. Which smell strikes a never making you pulling in the drive way? Will that same scent make you turn in the next day and the next?
Or when your at a party and all the ladies have on perfume. Some perfumes just plain ole turn me off. I call it "old Women perfume" and it makes me sick to smell it. The lady wearing it thinks she smells like million bucks and some men are attracted to it, but for me it is a turn off . But let a woman have on "Avon Summer Musk" and it will turn my head I will sniff her out. :PLOL. That is the same thing animals do. There are triggers in their brain that tell them "YOU LIKE THIS' and they go nuts over it and there are others that just make them sniff to see what is down the hole.
So what I have found is one scent or lure at one spot and other totally different 10 foot away. On Grey fox I just run one lure at both sets and take doubles all the time.
Now as far as my lure, I am using the gray glands to attract the animal and trying to use a scuttle hint of the other two glands to keep their attention. I do not want the food scent to over power the main scent. Only time will tell if it will work or not.