Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: patfundine]
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11/28/17 02:04 PM
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I've been wondering who would start it.
I drug out my welder yesterday and put a couple big pans on some number 3 long springs and dropped them in to mail for someone - really hoping to see some pics of a boy with his first cat in a few weeks. It really made me want to go set a few traps, but the temps and the low price is holding me back. On second thought I do have one really hot spot I could set heavy and check a couple days just for fun. Yup. Waiting until closer to the holidays. Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: patfundine]
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11/28/17 07:16 PM
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I've been wondering who would start it.
I drug out my welder yesterday and put a couple big pans on some number 3 long springs and dropped them in to mail for someone - really hoping to see some pics of a boy with his first cat in a few weeks. It really made me want to go set a few traps, but the temps and the low price is holding me back. On second thought I do have one really hot spot I could set heavy and check a couple days just for fun. I will get him out to set them but conditions are tough right now. THANK YOU for sending Logan those traps! Those will be the first traps he owns.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: shortliner16]
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11/28/17 07:56 PM
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A little snow would be nice .
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: SkyeDancer]
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11/28/17 09:09 PM
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By the way, has anyone had luck catching cats in power line clearing or would they be better for coyote? I would think it good. I have done well with Sid years ago in new and year old clear cuts before they got super bushy. Lots of mice In all that branchy residue left behind on the ground. Great work Friar! Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: FriarTuck]
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11/28/17 09:18 PM
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I guess I will jump in! Never had a year like this, three cats in three days. Mind if I ask how you did that? I've had traps set for two weeks or so "on sign" in multiple locations and still have not seen hide nor fur of a bobcat yet. I've captured them on scouting cameras but they haven't showed up again since I set the traps, not yet
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: Posco]
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11/28/17 09:30 PM
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Mind if I ask how you did that? I've had traps set for two weeks or so "on sign" in multiple locations and still have not seen hide nor fur of a bobcat yet. I've captured them on scouting cameras but they haven't showed up again since I set the traps, not yet
You may be on a travel route where they only come by once every few weeks. The closer you are to were they live the more times they will walk past your set. There are also travel routes where multiple cats pass on a regular basis. Don't forget that cats are cats, and they might walk by your set every time and never give it a look.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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11/28/17 09:33 PM
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I guess I will jump in! Never had a year like this, three cats in three days. Mind if I ask how you did that? I've had traps set for two weeks or so "on sign" in multiple locations and still have not seen hide nor fur of a bobcat yet. I've captured them on scouting cameras but they haven't showed up again since I set the traps, not yet A couple things I did different this year: I spent from 5 am to 4 PM setting 41 sets on Saturday I used some bait I made myself this summer so I could use a lot of it. Beaver chunked, SB fresh, with some Castor and salmon oil. I used Andy Wieser's Montana Long Call lure I trapped problem beaver all summer for the forestry, so I was in the woods almost every day, keeping track of where I saw the best sign. Probably the biggest factor was luck, some of the ones I was most sure of have not shown a thing, and a couple of my least favorite sets scored.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: backroadsarcher]
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12/03/17 10:39 AM
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caught this big male Last Thursday. Not many sets out yet. The orange army is still in the woods. Beauty Back... Happen to get a belly pic? Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: shortliner16]
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12/03/17 12:45 PM
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Cool pics!! Don't have bcats around here so always neat to see them in hand. Frair Tuck, are those bodygrippers 220s, I suspect you guys in MN can't have anything over an 8 inch bodygripper out of the water--that's our rule in SD, I think its pretty common in a lot of states.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/04/17 11:09 AM
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I sure like boxes for cats. I used to run a lot of boxes but have made the switch to cages, snares and #3N's after the fisher season closes.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/07/17 09:46 PM
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I hope to get Logan out to set his #3's this weekend.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/11/17 12:07 PM
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Any luck over the weekend? We put about a 1/2 dozen sets out yesterday. Some spots had LOTS of fresh cat sign and other areas that traditionally produce for me had nothing. There is one big cat that is spending too much time in one area and we hope to have him this week.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/11/17 05:52 PM
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Got the first of this year last night. 35lb male. Nice looking bobcat and awesome picture.
Nevada bound
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/14/17 11:15 AM
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The cats are being cats for us. Sign everywhere one day and then POOF........gone.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/14/17 01:25 PM
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The cats are being cats for us. Sign everywhere one day and then POOF........gone. Shower More Often!!!!
Live everyday like it is the last day of your life! MJPPTA 1%
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/14/17 02:29 PM
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The cats are being cats for us. Sign everywhere one day and then POOF........gone. Shower More Often!!!! Next you are going to tell me to use soap and change clothes too.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/14/17 08:13 PM
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The cats are being cats for us. Sign everywhere one day and then POOF........gone. Shower More Often!!!! He's probably wearing his luck "cat trapping" union suit that hasn't been washed in fifteen years.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/18/17 11:17 AM
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Zip here. Not even a fresh track. I plan to pull later this week and admit defeat on cats and coyotes.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/18/17 11:41 AM
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These are not mine but a friend caught these the other day and sent me this picture to rub it in a little: They are out there....he caught these in snares where they crossed a beaver dam.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 07:53 AM
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I have high hopes for today!
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 11:38 AM
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High in the sky-- apple pie-- hopes. Dang Rob,now you got me singing that song. OOOPS there goes another rubber tree-OOOps there goes another rubber tree,OOOps there goes another rubber tree PLANT Good luck. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 01:47 PM
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High in the sky-- apple pie-- hopes. Dang Rob,now you got me singing that song. OOOPS there goes another rubber tree-OOOps there goes another rubber tree,OOOps there goes another rubber tree PLANT Good luck. Tom I had you pegged for more of the "Bye, Bye Miss American Pie" type.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 01:53 PM
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The Byrds flew off from the fallout shelter. 8 miles high and falling fast. Tom
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If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 02:35 PM
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The Byrds flew off from the fallout shelter. 8 miles high and falling fast. Tom When the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean......
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 09:24 PM
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The Day the music died. Tom Wasn't that the buddy holly plane crash? Don McClane wasn't killed in that crash was he?
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/20/17 09:31 PM
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It was Buddy Holly,the big bopper and Richie Valens. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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12/27/17 08:12 PM
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Cats are sparse up here right now. That's the new SVS #4 offset cast jawed trap right there .
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
[Re: shortliner16]
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01/03/18 02:35 PM
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I pulled ours a couple of days ago. The cats wouldn't even look at them or walk in the same place twice. Seed for next year.
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18
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01/04/18 08:04 PM
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Picked up a 20-25 lb female off my short snare line this afternoon. Wasnt expecting a cat at all at that location. Had a snare set on a fox trail that went under the end of a blown down pine tree. Snare loop was only about 6" and the space under the tree was less than a foot high but she ducked down through. Have taken 2 fox from the same location prior to the cat. Have been in that spot for about a month now and that is the first cat track I seen cross through that property. I'd take luck like that right now! I've been in cat areas where I consistently see sign year after year, but this is the first year really trying to get after em. No sign to speak of this year.
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