I was taught by someone who caught coons by the pile in pocket sets, so thats my mainstay. Ive started using 220 buckets, cause as they were saying, dry coon are nice. Location location location. Id rather have 2 great spots triple set then 20 wherever i could put one. The 6 will produce more in less time. I couldnt tell you how many doubles and triples are caught all 6-10 feet apart. We cant snare on land here, but if we could Id like to try that in the remote areas. Tip: if going with the 220 bucket sets, use the oldest, most faded, cracked, looks like from the 50s buckets you can. Nothing catches ol johnny sneakems eye like a new bright white bucket. Sticks out like a sore thumb. This year Im buying 20-30 live traps and gonna hit houses where theyre having a problem but live in town, close to neighbors and pets, ect. Hoping they pay for themselves in oh say.......10-15 years.....lol.

what size connis did you use to catch them coons.

I got a bunch more 160s and some 155s at the NTA convention along with some more square buckets i hav a pile of fish and squirrel heads ready goin for hundred coon this year. Buckets are where its at anything else just slows ya down. Trapping season cant come soon enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

Getting close to give it!

Caught my first coon on Oct. 21 with a 1 1/2 Victor in a dirt hole set.

LT. What kind of cages do you use for your ADC?

Hopefully ill get some pics on here soon! Gonna be my first full season in a few days!

Thanks
Andrew

When making a pocket set do you bed the trap? If so how well does it needed to be beded?

ttt

GREAT thread here!! This year ive switched to pockets and really like how its going. I dont mind the occasional muskrat either.

How do you guys go about catching coon when the weather starts to turn colder?

Canine gland lures do pretty well when it gets cold especially for the dryland coon.

Bigger better furred 'coon in my region are usually the ones caught away from the water's edge...I say, "usually."

Skunky type lures really do produce well when the weather turns colder, just like it does on canines.

And now the rut is on !!!

thats what I was hoping with this warm spell this week I have only cut 1 set of tracks. granted i only looked on 2 properties but these properties normally produce.

Could you explain the cement block set? And PVC set please, I have a lot of both and never thought of using them trapping!

The block is both the bait station and the drag.
The trap is wired to the block, which sits up vertically.
Bait goes in the top slot/hole.
The trap, usually a coil spring, is bedded out front.
This set up is used often under bridges.

This is awesome!!

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