Kevin Kishel

President & Founder 

of Kishel's Scents & Lures

Kevin has spent his entire life in the outdoors.  He has hunted and trapped throughout the United States and Canada.  He has a love for deer hunting, turkey hunting, trapping, predator calling and along with all of these activities he manufacturers Kishel's Scents & Lures.  And if you don't find him doing all of the above he conducts numerous seminars on hunting, trapping and predator calling.

Picture taken in the hills of New York

2004

Johnny Kennedy took this Axis buck at 48 yards in Texas using Golden Rod Cover Scent.

Johnny Kennedy - 2005  - Louisiana
 

Kevin ... I used a bottle of Golden Rod Cover Scent and had as many as 8 deer under my stand with north wind dead in their face and never smelled me. That made it too bad for the one in the picture.

Johnny Kennedy

Nikon Sport Optics - Archery Prostaff Manager

- Louisiana --

Johnny is from Louisiana and is involved in many archery related activities.   He is the ProStaff Manager for Nikon Sport Optics, a staff writer for Women Bowhunters, a Professional Archery Range Designer, A.S.A. Lifetime Member, Senior Pro A.S.A. / IDO Circuits for 7 years and a Level 2 AA Instructor.   When he is not busy with all of this Johnny is a Elk and Mule Deer Guide and has instructed over 7500 kids in schools on hunting over the last 2 years.

2007 Season for Greg Yarbrough

Buck was taken during the rut in Southeastern Pa. He was lured in with Buckthrasher I. A 20 yard shot took him down. He's a nine point roughly 150" and weighed in over 200 lbs. The Golden Rod cover scent kept him from detecting my scent.

2007 Trapping Season

Kevin .... I gotta tell you, your products are just down right amazing. What an awesome day on the trap line today. With just a small line out right now, I took 7-red fox, I opossum and a big boar raccoon. The Triple Dig-it and Crossbreed Call are just kicking some royal butt. My catch percentage is running about 30%. As one of your pro staffers I couldn't be happier that I made the switch to Kishel's products. The success truly is in the bottle and I'm looking forward to many more successful days on the line. Thanks for offering such outstanding products. I'll have some pictures on the way.

Sincerely,

Greg Yarbrough
Kishel's Quality Animal Lures & Scents Pro-staff

    

Kevin, today is probably the most awesome day of my trapping career.  I caught my first coyote today.  This is significant not only because it is my first, but because they are rare in the area where I live.  It is a big beautiful female.  I caught her on Triple-Dig-It.  Thanks for the awesome products.  Like I said .... Kishel's Rules!!  -  Greg Yarbrough - November 2005

Greg Yarbrough

-- Pennsylvania --

Greg Yarbrough is the executive producer for Brandywine River Productions.  Brandywine is a Pennsylvania based video production company and is a leader in the industry of outdoor video productions. Greg has produced 10 top selling video productions over the last 10 years featuring archery hunting for white-tailed deer in several states in the north and south east.  Greg has accomplished sponsorships with a number of companies such as Golden Eagle Archery, Browning Archery, Easton Aluminum, Lacrosse Footwear, Rocky Mountain Broad heads, ASAT Camo,Wildlife Research Center, Thunderwood Game Calls, and more. Greg also served on the advisory staff for Arrow Adventure Magazine and is an accomplished outdoor writer and photographer. Greg has been featured in numerous newspaper and magazine articles and has made several television appearances on outdoor programs.  
As a trapper, Greg has been putting fur on the stretcher for over 25 years taking Raccoon, Fox, Mink and Muskrats. Greg brings 24 years of deer hunting and trapping experience to the Kishel's Pro Staff.


 

Personal comments: "When I head out on the trap line or climb into my favorite deer stand, I like to have a number of options to put fur on the stretcher and horns on the wall. When it comes to bait and lure products, I want the best I can get my hands on. I look foreword to a successful upcoming year using Kishel's complete line of products for all of my hunting, trapping and photography needs".


“Did somebody say Kishel’s”  Well this big boy must have heard it because he came right in on Doe Passion.

With Kishel’s deer lure it just doesn’t get any better!

Greg Yarbrough - 8 Point
2006 - Taken in PA



 

NewYork - 2003

Montana - 2005

Jeff Rettig

-- Pennsylvania --

Jeff is a Hunter, Trapper and Fly Fisherman.

Jeff operates the website for Kishel's Scent & Lures, Inc.

Contact him at woodsman@zoominternet.net

 

www.kishelscents.com 

2005 - Illinois

Levi Mason from Avon, Illinois is 17 years old and has harvested 27 deer and 17 turkeys.

 I am a very experienced hunter and I take hunting very seriously.

My favorite passion is bow hunting for which I have taken several nice bucks with a bow.

I strive for perfection in the outdoors and put my time in scouting, shed hunting hanging stands, and putting in food plots. I am also the President of the local FFA chapter and captain of the 3-D archery and trap shooting team.

2005 - New York

Owen Haers

I have been in the outdoor industry since 1995 working as a videographer for Kishel's Scents & Lures, KITS Turkey Calls, Skyline Hunting the Horizon and Ron Tussels' True Woods Outdoors.  I am presently on Pro Staff for Kishel’s Scents & Lures, KITS  turkey calls and Skyline Camouflage.

Working for these great  companies has opened many opportunities for me. I have traveled throughout the majority of the U.S. and Canada -  hunting, trapping and videoing many species of game animals.  I have been from Maine hunting sea ducks to Colorado hunting elk, from Manitoba on black bear hunts to Oklahoma turkey hunting, mostly as self guided hunts.  Most of my younger years was spent hunting in the state of Wyoming, where I harvested many trophy antelope, mule deer and a few nice whitetails.  Still, one of my favorite seasons to remember is the muzzleloader season in New York, when I harvested one of the state’s biggest muzzleloader bucks on record: gross scoring just over 170.

In 2003 I became a Licensed Guide in North Dakota, working for Harvey Biber of North Dakota Outfitters, spending most of October out of state.  With very little time for scouting I always manage to get out long enough to fill my freezer thanks to Kishel's products. 

Since the passing of my father in 2002 the fear of losing my knowledge and skill of trapping has pushed me back into the fields and water where I followed my dad as child. It was hard to get back in the groove after not running a trap line for at least 11 years, but with the guidance and encouragement of Kevin and a few bottles of Kishel's scent products I got the job done.

Todd took this bear using Kishel's Bear Scent with a bow.
 This 375 - 400 pound bear in Ontario, Canada was 6' 4" from nose to tail.

2005 - New York

Todd Imiola

Todd brings in a wealth of experience and knowledge of the outdoors. Having spent the better part of his young life in the woods, Todd knows first hand that a quality scent can make the difference between success and failure. He has hunted numerous states around the country with bow in hand with success. 

Todd also serves as pro staff for Primos Hunting Calls, PMI Cover Systems, scores for The Northeast Big Buck Club, is a staff writer for The New York sporting Journal and writes numerous other hunting articles, conducts various seminars and in store events. In addition he has 9 Pope and Young Bucks and 1 Boone and Crockett under his belt thus far.










Todd took this Elk in 2007.

Eric York - Wildlife Biologist - California     

In Memory of Eric York - May 2, 1970 - November 2, 2007
Wildlife biologist Eric York died on Friday November 2nd, 2007 at his residence in the Grand Canyon.

The link to the Memorial Page is below. http://felidaefund.org/about_us/memorial.html

From Erick York - I started hunting and trapping while growing up on a small farm in western Massachusetts. I received a B.S. in Wildlife Management from the University of Maine and a M.S. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Massachusetts. While at college I began trapping for research studies and since then I have captured and studied a wide variety of species from around the world. Most of my work involves capture of small carnivores for radio-telemetry studies. Here in the States I have studied fishers, martens, coyotes, and lynx in the Northeast and coyotes, bobcats, gray foxes and badgers in the Southwest, where I am currently working. Recently I have been fortunate enough to travel to different countries to capture different carnivores for biological studies. I have been to Nepal to catch fishing cats and civets and to 3 regions of Chile to catch South American foxes and small wildcats. Overall my work has allowed me to capture 20 species of carnivores on 3 continents. Though I do not get a chance to trap recreationally much, I still enjoy trapping to harvest fur when I can. When I'm not working and traveling I enjoy hunting in whatever areas I'm working in or back on the farm in Massachusetts.

This message was received from Eric York on 6/15/03: .......... Hi Kevin ..... Just thought I would drop you a line to say hi and give you an update.  I'm still in southern California looking for mountain lions. Unfortunately, I spend a lot more time looking than catching. We still have only two lions collared in the Santa Monica Mountains, and after covering the area pretty well over the last year, I think these may be the only 2 left in the mountains. I have just moved my trap line north of the 101 freeway for the first time and have found sign of a female lion there. I'm putting all my effort into catching her now. But with the large area she covers it may be a while before she gets back to my traps.  This July / August I will be heading to the Grand Canyon to catch mountain lions on the South Rim. Hopefully there will be more cats to be had there than here.  After that I will head back to California hopefully find more cats somewhere.  There is a short article on our project at:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0521_030521_tvmountainlions.html

2004 - Kevin .. I'm still busy out west working with mountain lion, both in Arizona and in southern California. I'm slowly getting sample sizes up to where we are finding out some interesting things.  In southern California we are learning how the large cats are surviving in and amongst all the people that live and recreate there. All with rarely be seen or detected. They really can be elusive even in a very developed landscape.  I'm sure they see and hear people and pets every day and the still just eat deer. The lions in our study don't bother the people at all, unlike some other cats not to far from our study area.

In Arizona we are learning how they use the rim of the Grand Canyon and surrounding areas. We seeing a lot of movement of young cats (as expected). One younger male traveled about 70 miles south to the Flagstaff area and took up residency there. There are plenty of deer and elk to prey on throughout the area.  These two studies keep me pretty busy but I had some time to hunt a bit this year and made it back to Alaska to get a caribou and got some time to shoot a nice 2 x 3 blacktail in southern California. I haveattached some photos of them.
Hope you are well, and trapping and hunting seasons
have been good to you.  ..... Eric

2005 California Blacktail
This Blacktail was shot at about 8000 feet in the southern Sierras. Not a bad deer for that area. After packing him out 2 miles and down 2000 feet I was glad he was not any bigger.

Hope your fall is going well also .... Eric





2006 - I did shoot a small fork-horn in California

Eric York

FYI - Here is a quick list of the species I've caught for research:   Using Kishel's Scents & Lures.

USA: coyotes, red fox, gray fox, bobcat, lynx, fisher, marten, badger, striped skunk, spotted skunk, raccoons, deer, blacktail, sheep.

Chile: Culpeo fox, South American gray fox, Darwin's fox, guigna, hognosed skunk.

Nepal: Fishing cat, small Indian civet, palm civet, Indian mongoose.

Pakistan:  Snow Leopards

2002 - I'm still in Southern California. I have started working on catching mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains. The big cats are in the same areas as the coyote/bobcat work I have done here. As with the smaller species they are having to adapt to the freeways, houses and people here. It is really interesting seeing where they go. The few we have radio-collared travel in and around the houses and roads without a problem, often hanging around unseen right outside of the estates in Malibu. It exciting to catch a lion, we are using foot snares, its a little trickier drugging a 140 pound (and very angry) cat than it is a 30 pound bobcat or lynx.

2003 - Hi Kevin ..... Just wanted to send a few photos of our latest California lion. Caught him last week just in time to head to the Grand Canyon this week to start work.  He's a small (85 pounds), young male, that already has traveled a long way from where we caught him. It will be interesting to track his movements in and around the urban areas where he lives.  Will send more photos from the grand canyon. ...

2006 - Well this has been a busy year. Lots of mountain lion work both in California and in Arizona. I moved to Arizona and now am based at the Grand Canyon to head the mountain lion study there. I'm also involved in a bighorn sheep study along the Colorado River in the Canyon.

This fall I also got to do some coyote trapping for research in southern California. As with some other states footholds have been banned there but I was able to use snares for capture work.  I still used my favorite Kishel's lures to draw the coyotes through fence lines, and down trails where I had snares hung. Coy Dog II and Triple Dig-it were very effective at bring coyotes off of roads and into the snares.
 

My biggest adventure this year came with a trip to Pakistan to catch and collar snow leopards for the International Snow Leopard Trust. I spent 6 weeks in Northwest Pakistan (Chitral Gol National Park) setting snares to radio-collar snow leopards to learn movements and biology of these big cats. The work was at the western end of the Himalayas, just south of the Hindu Kush Range, we worked at 6500-10,000 feet but the mountains ranged up to 21,000 feet there. Very steep country. Lots of snow this time of year.  It was a great place to work.