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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Pete Rickard – Liquid Essence Skunk
✔ – Thousands of testimonial letters were received at the Catskill Mountain based company that spoke of the effectiveness of Pete Rickard’s Hunting & Trapping Lures. Potent Formula.
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PredatorPee – Pure Skunk Essence Concentrate with Glass Dropper
✔ – 100+ bought in past month
✔ – Deer and other game animals are completely at ease around the smell of a skunk, making it the perfect cover so you can stay undetected.
$27.00 -
Outdoor Hunting Lab – Skunk Scent 2 oz -Select Size
✔ – 100+ bought in past month
✔ View Available Sizes – Every bottle is collected and filled in a stainless steel facility for a genuine, hard-hitting skunk smell, not the weak chemical fake stink from cheap novelty cans.
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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.
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Lone Wolf Lures – Yeller Call Lure with Quill Skunk Essence – Select Size
Select Size – A call lure heavy with pure quill skunk essence. Place this one high to call them to your set. Use very sparring at the set.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Milligan Brand – Long Distance Call Lure Skunk Essence -1 Oz
✔ – This lure is a paste form under 70 degrees. Proven effective for fox, coyote, bobcat, marten, fisher, mink and coons. Directions on the label. Made In USA.
$16.99 -
Pete Rickard’s – 1 Oz. Red Fox Trapping Lure
Help hunters achieve successful hunts
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Group DMR – Pure Fox Urine 16oz — Full Strength Gland
200+ bought in past month
✔ – WHEN SMALL PREY ANIMALS DETECT AN ACTIVE FOX MARKING NEARBY — THEIR INSTINCT TAKES OVER. Rabbits, squirrels, voles, mice and groundhogs are hardwired to recognize fox urine as an active predator presence signal.
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Dunlap’s – Dog Catcher Liquid Predator Bait – Select Size
✔ Select Size – A squeeze and go type of liquid bait. Highly attractive to all predators. Creates a heavy digging reaction that keeps the predators at your sets for a long time.
$10.00 -
Dunlap’s – Lightning in a Bottle Predator Lure – Select Size
✔ Select Size – A high powered long call lure. Glows in the dark for added visual attraction. Can be used directly at a set in very cold weather.
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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.
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Kishels – Crossbreed Lure 1 oz.
✔ – From finicky early season coyotes of Wyoming to the harsh winter fox of New York, this lure has proven itself reliable time and time again. This lure has proven itself reliable.
$17.17 -
Fox Hollow- VOO-DOO Predator Lure – Select Size
Select Size – Any canine or ‘cat that got a whiff of this lure while testing it got a hex put on them and that’s where the name, Voo-Doo, came from. A loud, sweet smelling lure that has an extreme attraction to both red and grey fox, but it is also very attractive to coyotes, badger and bobcats.
$19.99 -
Lenon’s – Winter Canine Bait – Select Size
✔ Select Size – Extremely effective for all predators formulated for extreme cold temperatures Great for attracting marten, fisher, fox, coyote, and bobcat.
$10.00 -
Fleming – Catnip Tincture Lure – 1 oz.
✔ – Bobcat Lure. Attract Fox, Coyotes & Coon. Made In USA
$12.50 -
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 -
Fox Peak – Red Fox Urine 100% Pure – 8 oz
✔ – 100% Pure Red Fox Urine: Authentic, undiluted urine collected from red foxes delivers full strength predator scent for maximum effectiveness in deterring small animals and rodents.
$11.50
