I'm not giving up my bacon grease to rabbits!! lol

Mmmmm bacon fat fried rabbit.

Any luck yet wolfwoman

I quite using bacon grease as a coyote attractant because of its affect on bunnies and porkies!

I would love to catch a porky. Dispatch would be interesting

Haven't tried yet. We don't have any apples and haven't been out to shop...lol

Keep us posted.

What elevation are you at? That (and time of year) makes a huge difference on what brings desert cottontails in. Also, how will you be trapping?

5600' and just simple wire snares like I used in Alaska for hares.

Wolfwoman have you read the AZ trapping regulations? Look under ARS.301D Line 3.....

Well overlooked posting the online regulations. Here ya are Wolfwoman. http://www.azgfd.gov/regs/2013-14%20Trapping%20Regs.pdf
By the way there's a trapping couple that live some 50 miles or so North of Seligman. If you're interested I'll contact them asking if they'd reach out to you. They're in a remote area and have little contact with other AZ trappers.

In winter sardines are the best rabbit bait I've ever seen. I also caught two this winter using mackerel for gray fox. Probably wouldn't work well in warm weather due to spoilage.

What am I missing? It says public land, right? I'm not on public land I'm in my yard.

PM me their names, I might already know them...I'm 32 miles NW of Seligman.

If it's legal, I had an uncle that caught cottontails for the table using 110 conibears with whole wheat buttered toast with cinnamon and sugar on it. He'd put a piece on the wire trigger and get them by the head. No damage. Of course it was winter and cold out and they wouldn't spoil.

Well I have to say I'm glad that I have a friend at Game and Fish here in Arizona, she clarified the regulations for me and you can't snare rabbits or hares at all. Kind of stupid but it is what it is.

What's even more crazy is that you're allowed to use a slingshot...lol

Good thing you checked!

Wolfman excuse the lax reply. I talked with the Northern AZ trapping couple in the last couple of weeks. They've had to fracture their season with outside the area commitments. I'll get in touch with them again, passing along your Trapperman moniker. He has been making his own cages to use on public ground. Wolfman we've a trapping club/group here in AZ, http://southwestfurharvesters.com/. If you're interested in meeting up with dozens of AZ trappers that can surely be configured. Our facebook page goes by the same name, Southwest Fur Harvesters Association. Reach out for inclusion and I'll surely include you.

I'll check out the website/Facebook for sure!

Let them know it's WolfWOMAN. I'm a female...lol