Post by backwoodsman on Jul 19, 2010 2:14:52 GMT -5
We make a green apple shampoo lure for rats and coon too that you can make in your kitchen. All the ingredients are probably in your house already. Cherry extract would be a good coon/rat lure/bait base. Basic lure additives like sweet flag will have some attraction but would be better in formulations. Heres a basic rat/coon lure. You can adjust the ingredients and use generic shampoo etc to save a few bucks. Cheap as it is even using premium shampoo/ingredients you can afford to use alot. This is one of the formula's we used last year that was adjusted from an original recipe, 1 cup Herbal Essence shampoo green apple scent, small bottle(4oz) of Anise Extract or Oil of Anise(cheaper here), 1 cup corn syrup. Heat those 3 ingredients warm to touch and stir in 1 cup melted lard. Bottle in clean containers and shake well. Heres another bait/lure we used last few years with good results. 1/4 gallon blackberry scrap's from jelly canning, 6oz of vanilla extract(we used imitation because it was ALOT cheaper) warmed it up and 4 cups of melted lard helped solidify it (we caught and released several greys over the last few years off of this one too).