I use a few egg traps and like how they work, just a pain to preset and have em ready to go. Tom

will one 24 inch rebar on a lil grizz work for coon? they wont pump out?

Yeah, that long of a stake will hold them.

What about 18 inch....

ive held coons with 10 inch stakes, not saying to do that but it can work

this is how i attach my traps to my wood stakes.

drill a hole in the stake and put put the trap in the pin.push the pin through the hole and bend it over

Never thought of attaching them like that, I will have to do that at some of my water sets.

definately big enough in our soil

Thanks for the idea ajherms. Will have to give that a try.

Coon Trapping the Untold Story by Mike Red O'hern, completely changed the way I trap, awesome book. It definitely opened my eyes about how a coon line is set up and maintained.

In the water a wooden stake would be ok, I wouldn't use it on land though...

Watch out if you use rebar stakes with Grizz. Coon go round and round and wear a hole around the stake. Be sure to check after each catch. I have had stakes so loose you could lift it from the hole and have had a few pulled(never on first catch though). I used 18-24 inch X 1/2 rebar but switched all to pogos after one lost trap and coon.

ttt

Yep, an old picture for sure!
This was the year I experimented with using 10 ft. trail snares.
Here's the reason you don't want to use them on a 'coon or a bobcat...

looks like it was a trap with a drag attached and he got caught up in the tree? maybe, not really sure

Yep..and you can spot them for a mile!
So can everyone else, for that matter!

Any of you guys that use 160's in trails, how many traps do you set for each coon taken? I have found that I am not nearly as efficeint with them as apposed to footholds or DP's. I have heard a lot of talk about how great they are but I'm not seeing it. I tried it this year on some properties so I could check them after work. So far I've wasted my time. It takes me about a dozen 160's to produce what one foothold will. Is this normal?

Thanks

Dan

i've got the same problem rooster and there set in beaten trails trails that i could set a foot hold in catch lots more coon whats the deal

You may need to raise the height of the bodygripper an inch or two off the ground. Also, try and set where the trail is tight and they can't go around it and you can blend it in with the weeds.

Is there a speacial way to set the trigger for these sets?

I picked up my first coon of the season, well my 5 year old son would say that it is his coon because I used his trap. I have some photos of the set when I first placed it and than the remake after I took the coon out. This is my first year and this is the first catch of the season. I am starting slow with only the one trap until the pelts prime up, but I just couldn't resitst putting some steal on the ground.

Wide angle of the original set location.


Up close of the set.


Good frount foot catch.


This is the remake after.

Just so you all know in my area I can take animals on my own land before the season opens up on November 15. I wouldn't want any one thinking I jumped the gun and broke the law.