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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Lenon Red – Grey Fox Nature Call Fox Lure 16 oz
A premium mixture of Red Fox glands and enhanced female secretions are liquefied into a remarkable natural type lure. All natural passion and curiosity ingredients are added to really bring fox into the set! Developed for maximum results in any season at a flat, blind or scent post set. This lure will also add enormous appeal at dirt hole sets when used in combination with your favorite bait. This is a distinctly different odor that attracts fox in a big way!
At scent post or flat sets, sprinkle 20 drops on a clump of grass, tiny stump or tree, in hollow knots or any projection that is visibly outstanding in an open area. Use 30 drops in rainy or sub zero weather. Using tiny bottles or wooden plugs as lure holders protects the lure form the weather.
Used across North America by Trappers Since 1924!$90.00 -
Lenon’s – Gallon Canine Beaver Meat Bait
✔ – Extremely effective for all predators, coyote, red and grey fox, raccoon, marten, fisher and bobcat. Perfectly tainted beaver meat with an added blend of essential oils and special musk.
$79.99 -
Trap Shack – Fox Box Trapping Bait and Lure kit
✔ – Use for fox trapping these are some of the top selling lures and baits that have caught thousands of fox across the nation. Convenient and economical save money and time when buying this single kit.
$59.95 -
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 -
Foggy Mountain – Urine Scent Release Canisters – 8pk – Select Scent
✔ Select Scent – Foggy Mountain Predator Urine is the true call of the wild. The scent of predator urine is the scent of safety to animals of like species and the scent of danger to others. Wise hunters, trappers, photographers and others who work and live in the outdoors know exactly how to use these scents to their favor.
$39.00 -
Mark June’s – Windwalker Predator Lure – 4 Ounce
✔ – A predator food lure with a thick, syrupy consistency. For those of you who like a pinch of pure quill skunk, it’s in there. Great on all canines, all cats, badgers, pine marten, and fisher.
$38.99 -
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 -
Minnesota Grey – Grey Fox Gland Caven’s Lures – Select Size
Fox and coyote lure
This one is made with the same great care that goes into my red fox gland. A real killer whether used at post or dirt sets as it brings the grays in and makes them feel “comfortable” – until it’s too late that is.$38.99 -
Fox Fury – D’Aigles Lures 4 Ounce Jar
Dave’s lures have a thick jelly consistency to them that causes them to stick right where you put it.
$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 -
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 -
Red Fox Gland Lure by Russ Carman 4 Ounce Bottle
Russ Carman Lures Red Fox Trapping Lure Boston Round Bottle Made in the U.S.A.
4 Ounce Bottle$38.99 -
Lenon Red – Grey Fox Nature Call Fox Lure 8 oz
A premium mixture of Red Fox glands and enhanced female secretions are liquefied into a remarkable natural type lure. All natural passion and curiosity ingredients are added to really bring fox into the set! Developed for maximum results in any season at a flat, blind or scent post set. This lure will also add enormous appeal at dirt hole sets when used in combination with your favorite bait. This is a distinctly different odor that attracts fox in a big way!
At scent post or flat sets, sprinkle 20 drops on a clump of grass, tiny stump or tree, in hollow knots or any projection that is visibly outstanding in an open area. Use 30 drops in rainy or sub zero weather. Using tiny bottles or wooden plugs as lure holders protects the lure form the weather. Not for human consumption.
Used by Trappers Across North America Since 1924!$38.00 -
Enticer-Fox Gland – John Grahams Fur Country Lures – 4 Ounce Jar
Made from the same fresh fox glands as Excitor, but with extra “kick” to entice “fickle” fox. Fragrant and lasting, it’s one of John Graham’s personal favorites for late fall/early winter fox trapping.
One of his best fox lures, and it’s used all over North America. His favorite use – on the outside blocking, or at a grass stalk for a “post” type set, especially in late November/December to get those big adult males that show up..$36.99 -
Predator Pee – 100% Fox Urine 16 oz
100+ bought in past month
✔ – It could be said that Predator Urine was the first wireless navigation system. The urine-scent of a kindred species can help an animal.
$35.00 -
K-9 Fox Exciter Leggetts Lures 4.5 Ounce Bottle
Leggett’s Fox Exciter #1 Lure produces a mild odor.
No other bait or urine needed.
4 1/2 oz. bottle.$34.99 -
K9 Kryptonite Coyote Fox Bait Lone Wolf Lures – 16 Ounce Jar
A sweet smelling and alluring change up paste bait.
Very appealing to these predators with its unique odor. It has a totally different meat base then canine peanut butter. I use this as a food in a dirt hole.
16 Ounce Jar$32.99 -
Irresistable Coyote Fox Bait Lone Wolf Lures – 16 Ounce Jar
Catches coyote, fox, etc. A combination of products to form the base which coyotes readily eat with a curiosity odor and a hard-to-find musk. This makes a very effective bait.
16 Ounce Jar$32.99
