Fox
How Different Scents Attract Foxes
Foxes rely heavily on their sense of smell to navigate, hunt, and communicate. Using targeted scents can trigger specific behaviors—curiosity, territorial marking, or feeding instincts—making your traps or deterrents far more effective.
1. Prey-Based (Food) Scents
These scents mimic the smell of a fox’s natural meals and tap into their opportunistic feeding behavior.
Meat pastes and raw scraps
• Made from fish, chicken, rabbit, or beef fat
• Entices foxes to investigate and dig
Fermented baits
• Homemade mixtures of mice or meat scraps left to age
• Stronger odor lasts through multiple nights
When to use:
• Dirt-hole or flat trap sets where foxes are already feeding
• Early season, when food is scarce
2. Territorial Scents (Urine)
Urine signals “another fox has been here,” provoking curiosity or a marking response.
Red fox urine
• Indicates an intruder in a red fox’s home range
Meat-fed fox urine
• Richer scent profile, carries stronger food-related notes
When to use:
• Scent-post or urine-post sets to draw foxes in for marking
• Along trails and fence lines where fox travel
3. Glandular Lures
Harvested from fox scent glands, these lures mimic social or sexual signals.
Gland lure (“rut” scent)
• Appeals to territorial aggression or breeding curiosity
Multi-species gland blends
• Can draw in foxes, coyotes, raccoons, and bobcats
When to use:
• Late winter through spring mating season
• Long-distance setups needing a powerful, lingering aroma
4. Masking Scents
Designed to cover human odor and blend your set into the environment.
Synthetic earth or pine
• Obscures sweat, skin oils, and petroleum residues
Fox masking gels
• Apply directly to footwear and gloves
When to use:
• Every trap line visit to maintain low human scent profile
• In high-pressure areas where fox wariness is elevated
5. Commercial Synthetic Attractants
Laboratory-formulated blends that combine food, gland, and territorial notes.
Multi-component “fox frenzy” lures
• Often include fish oils, gland extracts, and masking agents
Skunk-based long-distance sprays
• Extremely pungent, pulls foxes from greater ranges
When to use:
• When natural scents alone haven’t yielded results
• In wide-open country or overgrown cover where scent dispersal is key
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160 Mild Weather Fox Lure – R&M Lures – Select Size
#160 Fox Lure This is a different fox gland lure as it has some sweetness added into the glands.
#160 Fox Lure would be a terrific early season or during warmer temps.
It uses wild fox glands and is put up in a paste form.$16.99 -
170 Late Winter Fox Call – R&M Lures – Select Size
Fox Lure #170 This is a powerful and loud lure.
Loaded up with skunk for cold weather.
This lure is grease based to stand up to weather conditions.$16.99 -
180 Extreme – All Season Fox Lure – R&M Lures – Select Size
#180 Extreme – Fox Lure R & M’s most versatile lure.
Will work on all predators, any time of the year.
Good anywhere all season.$16.99 -
AuSable Brand – Pure Red Fox Urine – 1 Gallon
✔ – 100% Pure Quality Red Fox Urine. One of the best Trapping Lures for Fox. Deterrent for animals around the gardens, flower beds, garages and sheds.
$47.95 -
BIBLE’S BAITS – Fox & Coyote Magnet Lure 1 oz
✔ – Loaded with aged glands and other key ingredients to make these a must on the line not only the answer to post sets but really dresses up your dirt hole and flat sets.
$11.25 -
Big Horns Medicine – Canine Lure – O’Gormans – 2 Ounce
This is the famous rattlesnake base scent that causes the digging reaction desired at dirt holes for canines.
Larger 2 Ounce Jar$29.99 -
Blastor Bonanza – John Grahams Fur Country Lures – 4 Ounce Jar
An extremely attractive food/curiosity lure. A completely different base than the other Bonanza Lures. This lure will cause canines and ‘coon to lick, scratch, and hang around a set.
No doubt his best raccoon and grey fox lure, and he gets a lot of testimonials from the South on it. Don’t let the name fool you, this is not loud or offensive, but a fragrant, pleasant, desirable attractant.$38.99 -
Bonanza Cold – John Grahams Fur Country Lures – 4 Ounce Jar
A loud, reaching call lure. When you open the cap “skunk” comes out at you.
This lure can be used at the set, or above the set to get animals in the general area. Great on all canines, as well as fisher and marten. John has added enough glycerin to make it easy to apply in the dead of winter. For early season sets, three to four drops will work. Great down a dirt hole set with light covering. If you want SKUNK this, is it.$38.99 -
Brush Fire Lure – Night Owl Lures – Select Size
Night Owl Brush Fire Lure was originally formulated for fisher and marten trapping in the cold north, but this lure quickly became a favorite of canine trappers too.
Not “skunk and junk” but rather a rich paste form with a dominant mink musk odor.
Irresistible to coyotes.$16.99 -
Capital Punishment – Predator Bait Pint Container
✔ – A red meat based bait ground fine and ready to use. Slightly tainted with musks and glands added for full flavor that predators cant resist. Extremely attractive to fox, coyote, Bobcat all season long.
$22.95 -
Cat Gland 1000 – R&M Lures – Select Size
Select Size – Cat Gland 1000 – R & M Lures Another one of Rick Hemseth’s famous gland lures. 100% pure bobcat glands put up into a paste form. Very effective on fox and coyotes as well.
$16.99 -
Caven’s – Supreme Otter Call Lure – Select Size
✔ Select Size – Not only extremely deadly on otter, but it really puts the hurt on fox, mink, raccoon, and bobcat as well. This seven-ingredient lure, which is aged and tended to for over 15 months before bottling.
$16.99 -
Caven’s – Tree Climber Fisher and Marten Lure – Select Size
View Available Sizes – Originally developed for fisher and marten in the North, this lure has proven highly effective on southern traplines as well. Its powerful scent consistently also attracts fox, coyote, bobcat, and raccoon, making it a versatile choice for any mixed-line trapper.
$16.99 -
Caven’s – Violator 7 Predator Gland Lure – Select Size
Select Size – Caven’s Violator 7 – Predator Gland and Call Trapping Lure. A thick, strong, musky lure for Coyote, Fox, Bobcat, Fisher, Marten and Raccoon. After aging for a full year, it is fixed and stabilized.
$16.99 -
Cavens – Bobcat Chunk Bait Pint – 1 Piece
✔ – Bait Pint, a great fox, coyote, bobcat and raccoon bait.
$28.49 -
Cavens Canine Force – Canine Call Lure – Select Size
Caven’s Fox and coyote lure used at dirt hole sets.
Works mighty fine during the early season but really shines later on due to its great calling power.
Don’t spill any of this on your hands or you’ll want to cut them off!$38.99 -
Cavens Minnesota Red – Red Fox Gland Lure – Select Size
This isn’t a bottle of urine with a gland dragged through it, but rather very thick and heavy bodied. Minnesota Red is the real thing for the scent post set but also is a big plus at dirt sets when used with bait.
$38.99 -
Cherry Red Fox Gland Lure- Mark June’s Lures 1 Ounce Bottle Trapping Supplies
1 oz bottle pure Fox gland lure Works great with favorite predator bait. Especially good October & November Can be used for coyote also.
$16.99 -
Crossbones LDC Canine – Night Owl Lures – Select Size
Night Owl Crossbones Lure is a long distance call lure with unmatched calling abilities.
Pure skunk odor that won’t get hidden under a blanket of greasy or waxy film like some others.
Made available in 2003, this lure’s popularity ranks among the top call lures in the industry.$16.99 -
Dakota – Freight Train Long Distance Call Lure 1oz
✔ – Skunk and more will fill your hollows and draws with a powerful and lasting fragrance no reasonable mammal can pass up. Good on canines, cat, and of course Fisher and Martin. Let it roll through your best trapping grounds.
$10.00
