Advice needed in luring fox.

everypenny

Just looking for a bit of advice. There is a fox that i've been playing silly buggers with for the last few nights. I know his usual routes in and around the area and i see him for at least 30 minutes a night, but i'm sure he knows my CZ better then i as he constantly remains out of range for me.
I dropped a few rabbit last night and my intention is to drag them along his routes to an ambush area and hopefully lure him in with the scent whilst i stay still and await his arrival.

In reading old threads i've seen people advice steaking the lure to the ground, hanging it from a tree and even placing it in a hessian sack covered with thai fish oil .

My initial thought was to place it in a sack in pieces so that if he does tear the sack he ca't make off with the entire rabbit at once, and to hang the sack from a tree so he finds it difficult to get to it in the first place.

What would your advice be on this? Steaked to the ground or hanging from a tree? What height off the ground? Best way to drag the scent to the area without leaving my own? The use of a lamp or an indicator to signify he's playing with the lure?

Any advice or past experiences in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

EP

johngalway

Whatever bait you use, you need to make sure he's found it first, otherwise you're going to end up sitting out twiddling your thumbs. I'd go the simple route, staked down split open rabbit, get a few cans of real cheap catfood for extra whiff, kick them into the ground a little, then check see if the bunny is gone, get him used to the routine, when it's going regular, then wait for him.

everypenny

How would you identify the time period he takes the bait every night?

johngalway

The cheap non trail camera method is to stake down an analogue clock that's powered by an AA battery. Loop some fishing line around the battery - tight enough to pull it out, loose enough not to drag it off with the bait - , then tie the end of the line to an unstaked bunny. When "something" pulls the bunny enough, the battery pops out and the clocks hands stop at that time.

everypenny

McGyver eat your heart out. Just what Bear Grills would do minus the drinking of his own urine...

I'll try that tonight. This was the story of them from last night.
"From Lamping tonight, lamp shy foxes."
Saw 5 foxes within the four filds at the back of my brothers house. Pitch black tonight, crossing a ditch and a small river at the field behind the house nearly killed me. Went to the top of the oposite field and scanned around only to see two foxes staring at us about 40 yards from my brothers house. The best place in the world to take the shot from would have been from his back garden next to the BBQ :-)
In relation to lamp shy, we had the oposite. Our fella, a BIIIIIIG dog fox, was looking at us for about 20 mins. We tried electronic and wham callers, back of the hand, vixen, the hole lot. No joy.
We even tried doing nothing for 10 minutes in case he was watching us from a distance waiting for us to move from a route he takes every night. Turned the lamp back on and he was still sitting there, on his hind legs, about the same height as a fence post in the squat.... BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG!
Crossed back over the ditch, again nearly dying, and tried to flank him. Snuck up on the far side of him, with him between us and the ditch we had crossed and thre on the lamp. I'd swear he actually ran across the fild with his eyes closed, like a ninja fox. He was gone.
Next time i saw him he was up by where we were standing when we saw him first.
Tomorrow night we're gonna tie a few rabbit we got tonight to a tree so they're hanging in the air, after we trail them through the field from a few directions to the tree.
Then we'll set up an OP from about 80 meters away (my brothers shed) where we can quite happily smoke fags and drink coffee waiting for him to show.
Fingers crossed.

welsummer

johngalway wrote: »

The cheap non trail camera method is to stake down an analogue clock that's powered by an AA battery.

brillant.. i am having the same problem with a fox