I had to get a closer look. Yep they look good.

They must have strayed out of their study area. Nice wolverine, the thread WAS about trapping, eh?
The tails look short. Dirt, were you drinking gin while turning them?

Nice job Dirt. That dark one looks huge.

Has anyone ever caught a wolverine in a leghold trap with a drag. Will the wolverine pick-up the drag throw it over there back and pack it? Like I have heard they will do with log drags.

I know with snares they will and some are pretty good at avoiding entanglement, I'd say they would but a bit harder with a trap on your foot, never heard of over the back though.

I have not seen a wolverine throw a toggle over its shoulder myself but my brother and nephew have seen that a couple times when they trapped up in Willow Creek though the Richardson Mountains. All the wolverine I have caught have tanggelled up it the willows near the traps or been dead in connibears. Check out my "great day in the wild north" and "another great day in the wild north" videos on Youtube for some wolverine catches.

Our toggles are usually heavy enough so a wolverine can't pack them around on their shoulders. My sets always have a few snares close by which many times gets them hung-up a couple different ways. I prefer to hook solid to a tree and toggles get froze down most of the times with the freeze-thaw cycles we have here at the Lake.

I'd like to hear how a wolverine holds that drag over his shoulder and runs on three feet....one of which has a trap on it. Common sense should lead us here.

I have not actually seen it but my nephew assures me he has lost traps and seen evidence of a wolverine packing the toggle away. I think the wolverine chewed the toggle short first.

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Nice topic to return home to. I don't believe wolverines have developed the knowledge or skill necessary to intellectually figure out that slinging a drag over their shoulder will help them get away. Wolverines are like the bull in the china shop and are more likely to use brawn then brains. Not saying they aren't smart in their own way.

We're gearing up for the 2013 / 14 season and have expanded our Alberta research project. Hoping to collar up to 20 wolverines. Our trapping local is building five portable traps this week and we have a lot of trappers helping out with the field work. Nice to see trappers involved.



check out this white wolverine from the Coppermine NWT region. At the taxidermist

I spoke to my nephew and he said I remebered wrong the wolverine carried the drag in it mouth and took off.

You have a picture of that white wolverine from another angle? I think a guy in Inuvik got one whiter than that last winter.

Muskrat; How would he know that unless he saw it ?

muskrat, I'm just going to be not nice and say BS.

They will chew the heck out of a drag but they won't pick it up. Come on!

Well, better call me BS also grin: cause I've had it happen twice that I can remember and once with a buddies wolf we tracked for miles, the drags on all occasions were not adequate for ether the wolf or wolverine and only a blind trapper couldn't read what was going on, it was in the mouth not over the back or carrying it in his paw and all were snares.

I can see one that is too small, but I'm talking about a real deal drag. 8-10 feet long. 6-8 inches in diameter.

Takotna, we know you are not BS.

By the tracks, He saw the toggle drag for a while then it only touch on the edges then drag again for a while.

We'll Mr. Mayor I can't vouch for whether he had a big enough toggle or not but I think he told be it was a tree. But there are all sizes of tree. But anyways I did have the over the shoulder part wrong. I think maybe he BSed me at the time.
Aren't you suppose to call Shanagans, not BS?
My original question was whether metal drags work for wolverine?

They'll work but just a pole is adequate if you can cut one at the trap site or close by. They will chew on them if they are there any length of time but I've never managed to lose one or even had one move away from the set with an adequate drag. Usually I prefer to tie off solid to a tree or two.

I have caught wolverine tied to big willows before. If you tie your traps to a tree you probably need a couple swivels on the chain?