Beaver Castor / Mix?

[Ansel]

I was hoping that someone might know the "recipe" to a beaver castor mix. I was with an old timer trapper yesterday and he had a small jar of "mix/scent" that saddened him. Somone home brewed this mix for him and he was about out of it. The person that made it for him had passed on. I would like to find a "recipe" for this. It looked like green grass clippings, smelled sweat and castor like at the same time. He thought there was anise, castor, and birch in the mix but wasn't sure. Does anyone have a clue what this was or have a mix that comes close? I would like to find something for him.

[Pioneer2]

Hi, Each trapper had their own secret recipe that was closely guarded and thought to be the best.Sounds familiar today.But historically they used alcohol to both preserve and prevent the concoction from freezing,castors,anis oil,peppermint oil,cloves ,nutmeg and cinnamon.I'd put the works in a seperate small blender container [if you want to remain married]and grind it into a thick paste.This can be put in smaller containers for future use and the alcohol will keep it from souring.Go easy on the spices.Find a scent mound where your trapping beaver and introduce your scent on a small stick with a drowning set leg trap out front and you should be in buisness......Good luck....Harold[beavers regularly freshen these scent posts]

[furgitter]

I know the stuff you are talking about.It realy does get the beavers attention.I got a jar last year.It not onlt catches beaver but coon to no end.Ill look and see if he has any more, youre not getting mine

[wyomingtrapper]

Have him put a glob on a stick,take a good whiff, and write down what he smells. Go back and take a whiff of the same glob every 12 hours. Differant ingredients have diff. levels of volition in terms of how soon they dissapate from the mix. Over a couple of days, he may find that he can pick up on several ingredients that were too overpowered by other ingredients (to his nose, not the animal's) to pick out at first. He will never come up with the exact same mix, but may come up with something he has confidence in and that is probably almost as key as the ingredients themselves. Plenty of good commercial lures out there.