Its time to lay traps

All the guys are out of the woods after today and its time to get'em in the ground
If this knee will allow I will be after'em next week

I bought some dog proofs and some 650s a couple weeks ago. Gotta make some anchors and figure out what I'm doing, this'll be a first for me.

Lots of good advice on here
You will be fine once you get past the learning curve

Plenty of advice on here and lots of good videos on YouTube. Best of luck to ya

I have been running a few DP's since August, I have caught 11 coons and 6 possums. I have noticed that after they see a buddy stuck in one they shy away from them, moved them around a lot, since I am new to it and I turkey hunt every day of the season, do you guys keep running them in turkey season?

Keep em out as often as you can check em, I can’t always go everyday so I just run em when I can

Hoping it drys out i ready

Raining now w lot more coming - familiar story here 😀

Never run traps 3 weeks before turkey season comes in to let everything settle down a bit from me being in there every day

I put two flat sets out today on a field road where I've been getting coyote pics every 2-3 nights. I'll put out 12 or more next week and all my DP traps.

We use a 3 inch wood screw and screw em to a tree

Set 9 DP's yesterday. Will move them around & pick them up around March 1st. I would love to trap coyote, bobcats and fox but would catch every yard dog in a 10 mile radius.

If you have that many yard dogs running your property then catching them may be just what you need to do
Use offset jaw traps and teach them to stay away via the sore foot method

Yep. I gonna try to get some coons too. I’d love to catch some yotes but not willing to do all the waxing, dyeing, ect. Hoping I can locate some already prepared. I think this would be so fun!

I stopped dyeing and waxing trap several years ago
I clean them free of all rust and spray them with a good enamel paint and it last a couple seasons or more
I’ve seen no difference in the catch ratio vs traditional methods

Good to know.

You are speaking the truth. I have 4 labs that are kennel dogs. They are good 99% of the time but once a year one will go on a walkabout. Same guy who owns the yard dogs has her in his yard or calls me to come get the pup. It isn't worth it to have him mad about sore footed dogs.

Ever heard of "dont ask dont tell" ?

Hard for him not to notice a Ranger coming down the road every day. Nobody around me traps. For me the risks outweigh the rewards.

On a happy note, I have taken out 5 egg eaters on 200 acres. Will move traps this weekend and try to take out some more before nesting season.

I've caught all the neighborhood dogs. A few several times. One beagle 5 times mostly on blind sets. She's a rabbit chasing machine and only let's me pet her. I feed her cat food everytime so she's my buddy. Never seen a dog limp more than a couple days because of a trap

There's a fellow in Shelby county who makes/sells a quality trap bait for every critter. It's called "Wildman's Hammertime" bait. His name is James Smith....he's on Facebook.

I got a female Tuesday night. Just freshen things up today so hopefully tonight something will happen. Got 3 traps set at the moment.

Just put 7 out

Never messed with anything but bridger dogless and think I’ll keep it that way

One night out and got a male

Nice lefthorn! That looks like some fun dirt to dig in 😂

Yeah, it can be a little tough

Got another good size female last night. 👍

Got a female today

On a roll! Keep at em

Nice!

Very nice

Finally got some dry - just to dang busy. Hope i cam make one more good push at em this year before turkey season

We will put out our first coon traps for the year this weekend

Got a male bobcat today. Sorry guys I’m technology challenged so can’t post pictures. Ordered 4 more traps today so hopefully by next weekend I can start battling the coyote population better. Since Christmas I have shot 2 yotes deer hunting and trapped 2 over the last week. 👍. Unreal how many coyotes are out there…

Got another female

Got 3 coons the last two nights.

I am running 7 traps and have 3 yotes over 4 nights. Not too bad for an amateur

You doing good Lefthorn! Glad you are having some action. 👍👍

Why is this so addictive???

Nice job lefthorn! Just a few coons for me today

You’ve passed amateur status! Good work

X2 on what SJ said

Nice work Lefty

The yotes are the biggest trap rush for me and a cat

Well, 2 dry runs and lack of fresh sign, believe it is time to move to a different area

No action for me since Tuesday. Just freshened things up and will start some additional traps about mile down the road probably early next week. I did see a set of tracks since the rain from earlier this morning.

No catch again. Moved and reset on fresh sign

What types of scent you been using left horn? Seems like beaver meat and little fox pee is the best combination that works for me.

I’m using several different scents. Some traps get Hiawatha Valley Predator Bait while others get Caven’s Predator Bait Plus. Some traps get Irontrail trapline hound hell coyote gland, some get irontrail fox trot, some get urine. And one usually in the middle of the line gets cavens gusto

I use a bait and a lure at each set. Probably need to take notes on what catches to see if a certain bait or bait/lure combo works best

Talked to a guy at Bass Pro today who said he couldn’t figure out how he wasn’t catching. Coyotes been coming to his trap every night. But traps not going off. Said he thought something must be getting under pan. He literally had to bang on trap to make it go off. Then he proceeded how he has been putting mesh pan covers under the trap and all!!

Doesn’t the name “pan cover” kind of give away how to use them??

We caught our first Bobcat the other day, was a big tom. We had another show up in a field that evening, was also a big tom. My son kilt a big tom back in January on the rd we caught this one on...

I put in 4 more traps yesterday.

https://youtu.be/4B0okmIjIV0

Got a GIANT cat today

Good job everyone!

Nice!!

Got a double today. Male and female. Had my daughter with me so she enjoyed the situation. No traps set now so it may be a few days before I can start again as I got a few obligations to get handled and don’t have time to check traps. You guys get em!

Excellent. I’m waiting for the day I get more than one on the line. So far, only been one catch per day (not everyday mind you)

I would say when I set a new trap it is usually about day 4 before I catch something. I freshened these 2 traps up yesterday with just a globe of beaver meat in the hole. Amazing how many are out there. Got a friend that wants to call them and shoot em at night so I may take him soon as I have never done that.

Nice

I caught a bobcat, fox and coyote once with 6 traps out. Only other double was 2 house dogs

Had to run traps early due to work. Got one mangey dog

🤣. He looks rough.

Got 5 ground sets and 4 DP’s out this morning
Will try to duplicate this tomorrow
Game ON

One boar coon with a blonde tail is all for this morning
Didn’t expect much the first night
The next few days will be stellar

Got a ton of coons on camera

Working from can to cant everyday - man i want to kick their butt - got to get some traps out - but freakin rain coming again

One coon in one of my footholds

Two coons yesterday and one was missing his tail....first time ive seen that.
Will head out shortly to run the line

Up to 6 coons and 1 possum.

I got 2 this week, my count since August 15 coons, 5 possum!

Two coons
1 possum that tore up the world struggling against that DP

Unfortunately, I am getting to busy at work. Plus with not so good weather all week I went ahead and pulled mine up. I’ll pick back up in summer and try to catch more fawn killers right before fawn drop

I started trapping last summer and my total count with 6 traps is 5 coyotes, 3 bobcats, and 1 coon

Most important thing I have learned is set where there is sign, NOT where I want to catch them due to convenience

got a coon and possum today!

Checking traps

I had a double Friday morning with 2 young males. I checked the traps before daylight with drone. At the end of the video check out the rats and rabbits in the briar patch 10-15 yards from trapped coyote. I'm sure they were cheering for me.

That's awesome..

Good job Squad! 👍👍

Dang it, that's some high tech stuff Squadron77!

Dang it man - congrats squadron - awesome

We got about 12 straight hours of rain the other day - lot more coming - i may not trap before turkey season. Not seeing yotes in road - but coons that were beat down all season are back and some big ones

Dry run this morning
Changed up Dp baits to see if it peeks curiosity

Just set 3 flat traps and did some extra prepping in case in rains hard. Tracks everywhere since the rain. Let’s see what happens.

deadeye what did you switch to and what had you been using? I have been using dry cat food with one large marshmellow cut up on top.

Decided to pull out today and see what the rain does

I alway use Surfin & Turfin dry cat food
I switch as a trial run to Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and will report on its effectiveness in the coming days

I just pulled traps after a 7 day run on a place in West Greene, AL. 27 coons and a coyote. I baited the dogproofs with dry corn and salmon oil.

Going after the cereal killers…

Apparently mice like the cereal so much they eat it all before coons come to dinner
Had 1 big boar coon this morning and had to remake a ground set that had been disturbed

Nothing today. I need a little rain to settle the soil so it’s blended better anyway. It’s hard to get the open traps blended natural looking on a new set. I will try again tomorrow and the next several days. Did see a different bobcat track today about 20 feet from one of the traps so maybe he will come back…

7 DP today, Nothing, pulled them untill after turkey season, only positive was I walked up on a big gobbler, he didn't spook much, ran some but then I could him walking off.

Wish I would not have listened to weatherman and left my traps for 2 more days…

1 boar possum
If it’s the way Johnny Cash got his car it means it’ll take a little longer but the job will be done

Up to 8 coons. Not seeing anymore on camera, bvut I'll leave them for another week or so and then pull for turkey season.

2 possum and a coon this week. Dad’s recommended chocolate and marshmallow seemed to do the trick in DP’s

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Nice

We need some dry weather

1 male coyote
1 boar possum

Get em deadeye! Good work

I am encouraged by all of the posts. One of the members on our lease has trapped 18 coons since the end of deer season! I have not done so well this year. What do some of y'all use to anchor your traps? DPs mainly.

Man I was just using rebar and something pulled two off, traps and rebar gone, I have started to chain them to trees.

I use small cable with loops on both ends and go around a tree for dps

Dry run this morning
Going to swap up on DP bait again
Had to remake 2 ground sets and added side sets to them to catch this fox that likes to play

Wolf Fang earth anchors. You will have to buy a driver to put them in. In soft ground you can push them in with your foot and the coons will never move them.

Dry run this morning

I lost a trap last night. The j-hook on the swivel straighten out.

I either weld mine shut or throw them away after I use them once. They get weak after using them a couple times

Got a young male yote last night 👍. Still have 2 set so will check again tomorrow after hard rains and reset some more.

I’ve caught 5 coyotes(3 males & 2 females), and coon in my first 10 days. Having a pretty good year so far. 👍

Absolutely! You are doing great. 👍

Heck yea - congrats

We getn flooded - may b a year before we dry 😀

About to leave to run traps
Going to leave them out til friday morning and call it quits for the year

4 boar possums including the one that chewed his foot off

Good job

Dry run this morning
Did hear a gobbler screaming not to far away

Just set 5 traps. Let’s see how this week or so goes as my trapping/hunting is coming to an end. Just got notification we are losing the lease on the land so I’m bummed about that.

Just for the record the owners have the permits to take foxes and bobcats out of season

Nice work John

John that cat pic is awesome, Congrats!

Well… I lost a trap and anchor. Not sure if it was a large coyote or a large dog but you could tell it wasn’t giving up! 🤷‍♂️. I guess if it’s a dog hopefully he gets home and someone can help it but if a coyote I guess it will eventually starve to death since he can’t sneak up on anything. First time this has happened…. Hate it for the animal.

Samething as yesterday just a bigger cat

There goes that man again!! Awesome

Good job John

Went it yesterday afternoon and put fresh bait in my DP's rather than bait them in the AM
Mice have been absolutely brutal on this property
Ive had to put bait in every DP every day for two weeks now because the mice are cleaning them out and Ive never use one bag of bait in a season using more traps
This time Ive use 2 bags and started on a third
Hopefully the late afternoon baiting will help with some being left in the DP's when the coons come calling at night

Heck yeah! Good job! 👍. Just checked mine and had nothing.

Thanks, she was a pretty good sized one. Guess I'll pull traps before the rain tomorrow

Just 2 opossums in dps and a coon on a drowning rod. Pulled everything before the rain moves back in

Nothing for me. I left mine set and will check tomorrow.

Good work fellas

Wanted to set bad today - said 80% chance rain - aint rained yet - supposed to tomorrow - if it dont - i setting some traps tomorrow - got the itch and some fat coons

Pulled all mine yesterday

I got female yote this morning. I pulled all my traps so may be a while before I can trap again due to losing permission/lease on the land. Total was 8 coyotes since Christmas. 3 males and 5 females and one lost trap.

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Nice - congrats

Flooding here - trapping out for a while and next week calls for 8-9 days of straight rain. We will get flooding if it does

Just set 6 dp and 4 dirt hole sets

Stayed away from my too best turkey fields - would love to catch 1/2 dozen coon and a dog before season out

I have done good with the coons since I started, I want to learn how to trap yotes. any good youtubes to help me get start and or advice from you guys!

Google dirt hole set help me

Lot of info on here you may can use - polwol and deadeye put on here

Pack your set down well around frame of trap - your hole needs to be at least 8-10 inch - i put peatmoss over my tounge and open area inside jaws then cover w dirt using sifter

So much detail

1 large female coon - glad to get her

Another large female coon this morning - was worth the trouble. Lot of rain coming again - unset all traps. Nothing steped around yote traps - but they aint been showing up in road much either on camera - not even 1/month on camera. Coons were bouncing back though

Nice

Tearing em up!!

This makes 16 out of this one spot

Dang it man! Good job - congrats

Set beaver traps last Saturday. Caught first one Sunday. Just caught second last night. Trail cam pictures show at least one more. Hope to get it removed this weekend.

17 out of this spot. Probably busting dams and pulling traps tomorrow. Just set a cable restraint over a culvert with a beaver living in it between two houses. Really weird spot. He was smacking his tail inside the pipe when I set it. To scared to set anything else because of pets.

Good spot for a swim thru cage trap but they are $$$

Yea, I'd like to get a few comstocks

Wearing em out! Good work

Caught this pair last night. Had an otter in a 330 perpendicular to the road the night before. Saw they had stopped up a 15” metal culvert so I set up 2 footholds on drowning cables. Previous job a couple of weeks ago everything came on 330’s at castor mounds or feed piles. Dam break with a foothold went untouched while the 330 produced 3 adults with one pregnant female carrying 2 kits.

Female this morning was nursing so there is a couple more dying as we speak.

This location they have a 36” plastic culvert with debris 1’ high for 10-15 feet inside the pipe. If I have to set it it’s going to be tough water is deep and the mud (slop) is deeper. They brought an excavator in and replaced the culvert before removing the beaver.

ALWAYS remove the beaver first. Digging things out is temporary at best and makes the trappers job more difficult.

I ran my hand in a culvert running into a pond earlier. Felt something and thought it was trash. Pulled it out and a grass carp dissolved all around. I didn't puke but did start gagging pretty bad

Well I wrestled a blue heron out of a foot hold trap today infront of a couple karens
It worked out and nobody was too butt hurt in the end.

Dang.

I wish you had videoed that😂😂😂

^^
Amen
😀

I’m going to hold out for the otter wrasslin’ video.

PSA-if you get the 4 coiled No-BS Beaver traps, get the one hand setters too. Managed to get my thumb in one today setting one to get some measurements. Luckily it wasn’t a full send snap but believe me, the lock up is intense. Couldn’t step on the levers and managed to get some regular setters on the levers enough to get loose. Took a couple of minutes and I gave a 1/4” intention the width of the jaw face on both sides of my thumb.

Lol, hope I don't have to do anymore otter wrestling. I ended up twisting a jacket up like you would a wet towel to pop someone. Smacked him in the neck and it wrapped around him long enough for me to grab him. Wasn't to hard to do since he kept trying to stab me in the face.

I like the conibear setters that work like a caulk gun for that reason also. Being able to use them with one hand could really get a fella out of a bind

I have a set of the RTS setters but rarely use them because they’re slow. A lot safer though

They are really slow but light and easy to carry checking traps

Pinocchio must be a politician

Captioned this one killing tomorrow’s problem today ! Probably my smallest ever.

Managed to pull this out of the 36” culvert. Got about half of the crap out of it. At least 15’ into the pipe.

Tearing em up!!!

I think I got the last one in that family out today. Landowner shot one a few weeks ago so that'd make 7

So grateful i not a varmit n JohnV territory 🤣🤣

No kidding. JohnV is the king and does the job 110%. Keep it up- I enjoy all your posts.

I've got plenty of castor and coyote bait. Fixing to catch some coyotes before it gets miserable hot. Welded up a bunch of drags with 6ft of chain to use instead of anchors. Kind of excited to try something different. I'll be in the woods mostly so I think it will work good. I'll mainly be using blind sets so I want to keep my trails intact best I can

Set 4 dps this afternoon - did not set in my fields r road - need to hit coons again

Caught 4 coons this week.

Nice - caught big female this morning

One medium possum - male

Set 2 dp and one double set dirt hole

Wanted to set more - ran out of time - low expectations on so few set

Blanked last to days on traps - and been zip on hearing gobbs for weeks 🥲

Out of town tomorrow so i stepped n all my traps - was slow. Had 2 step around sets this morning and one small fox print right on the tongue - trap went off easy when i hit it

I've had 30 traps out since last Saturday and have only picked up 8 opossums and one racoon. Can't get to some of my favorite spots because I was scaring to many hens off nests trying to get back their. I haven't ever found a turkey nest in my food plots and this year they seem to be in every field.

You guys are tearing it up
Maybe I can get back after’em in the fall

3 possums with babies and a sow coon

Nice haul John

Another slow day, the opossums seem to all average 8 babies apiece so if they count I'm pushing 100 opossums in the last week anyways

Went two trap checks with nothing in 30 traps. Think my dad's place is pretty well cleaned out. Started a nusicance beaver job yesterday and finished setting it up this morning.

Nice work Johnv!!

JohnV, are you using DPs on those coons and possums?

Yea

Don't know if it was all the storms lastnight or what but only had one beaver and what was left of a muskrat turtles were munching on

I've caught 2 muskrats running 3lbs pan tension on my drowning rods. Turtle's haven't left me anything except legs to know it's muskrats but they must be big ones

Turtles gutted him

Nothing but a few turtles today. Pretty confident I wiped them out with 7 plus two beavers the owners shot. Setup a small pond I'm expecting a pair out of tomorrow.

You hammering em

Got the pair out of the pond. Pull day tomorrow. Water levels back to normal and none of the dam breaks have been patched

Pulled one more out of the pond. Busted all the dams wide open. Got into red wasps that had a nest in one dam. Got popped 3 times before I could get out. Pulled all my traps. Got 10 total out of this place

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He is a bad Man!! 😀
Nice job

For sure a Great Job! 👍👍