Ive always heard that you can take a trapper from the West and bring him east and he wont catch anything. Take a trapper from the east and take him west he will catch everything.

Let me guess, you have a long and well thought out reason why the guys in the west are infinitely superior in every way to trappers from the east. Especially guys from Idaho who's names start with C and end in -olton.



While I know very little about any of this (attack me now YICM). Just looking at the big picture, if I were to come out west I feel that I could pick locations to start cat trapping, now I don't know how to make the sets you all use but I think I could catch some dumb ones in baited cubbies in bottlenecks of canyons and such. Now you come up here and get plopped in the middle of 100,000 acres of woods that is all pretty much the same and start picking spots for sets. Too me location would seem easier to start out in the wide open, not the exact set location but the area where the animals are traveling. I don't know what its like in the far east but they have a lot more thick stuff than out west.

Now blow it up YICM.

dogs, people, snakes, gators, .......thats a good starter.

subdivisions, roads, deer hunters , hound deer hunters, bird hunters , coon hunters, rabbit hunters .........

nature freaks, bunny huggers, and so on...........

Glad I was converted to a western guy so I dont run like these eatern amatures anymore........

Keep whackin and stackin western style baby.

I like these two idaho guys more and more everyday.

Tell your brother I dont have cats where I live.......

I've caught more coyotes in the last month and a half than you two have played with yourselves looking at the neighbor girl.

See Ya

Come to the Midwest and talk to a couple farmers and you might have a few thousand acres to trap. Public ground is few and far between and often so over hunted and crowded it's hardly worth your time, with all the hassles that Buzzard mentioned.

Slim came from the WEST and after a few years training I hear he is now a pretty good eastern trapper

This is getting quite interesting. Trapping coyotes no matter where your at is very easy, now cats the eastern trapper has an advantage is they can drive right too the cats unlike the west.

i dont really think it matters with east and west but perhaps north and south. take a person trapping in the south up north under ice beaver or 4 feet of snow for fox or fisher, martin, frost level 4 feet, he's probably not going to get a thing besides frostbite. I think a northern trapper could adapt better in the south. Not saying anyones better. But take a guy from Taxas and a guy from alaska have them switch states and i think my point would be proven. not sure but i think I remember asa talking about his dad wearing gloves for canines in the east and wackin em and his friend not and not getting anything, when he moved west he nailed them. bet i get some comments on this post, dont take it bad please.

in the east (for the western), would be the ground type, rainy muddy conditions.

...in the east its all flat and roads run every fenceline right to your set!