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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: MChewk] #6272080
07/03/18 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted By: MChewk
Good post Beav!


As always!

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6272163
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Stupid question Beav, but Is there anyway you could draw a diagram of your 2 Best Killer Mink Sets? Actually the 1st set you explained is the one I need. And is Beaver Meat the Best bait for this set/ Thanks!!!

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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6272637
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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6272663
07/04/18 04:44 PM
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(uh oh, the Beav is giving away secrets)

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6273041
07/05/18 08:43 AM
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Beav any secrets you want to give up send them this way I have tried almost every set guys have talked about and will continue to do so, never know what situation may present itself pays to have lots of options. Trapping off of a 4 wheeler I keep my cordless drill and auger bit with me when I find right location I make my version of elbow set only takes couple minutes,

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6273145
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Here's the big bait set. Check your laws to see If It's legal In your area.

Was out late season deer hunting (cross bow) when I discovered a ton of mink sign along the bank of this open water stream. And I mean this trail was beat down right Into the mud, well dirty snow. So I followed It till I came across a deer carcass that had floated Into a drift pile In the creek. The mink were jumping about 12" out on to a pretty large branch that laid across that carcass.
The take off spot was a natural spot for a trap but with snow and freezing conditions It wasn't all that good. I did catch some mink off that take off spot but for the most part the trap was out of commission. The mink were not taking off from the open water they were jumping from the low bank.
So I figured I could cut a large chunk of sod to use as a landing spot other then the limb. But Of coarse sod soon comes apart In moving water And I wanted something more permanent.
So thinking back to my rat trapping days In ND and setting for rats on all those ripped rapped banks I went to Ice cream pails. Well Know I will have to give away another rat trapping set.
The situation was that all these roads were heavily ripped rapped and the water depth out from the rip rap was to deep and to hard to access from the rip rap. This rip rap was covered In rat crap. So I started filling Ice cream pails with dirt and placed the pail In amongst the rocks and then bedding a trap In the pail. A little of the bosses rat lure and the skinning began. A long chain and the rat was down and out.
Back to the mink set.

The Ice cream pail wasn't high enough to be above water level. But one of those square buckets cut down to the right size worked perfect. Filled It with gravel and then put In about one Inch of waxed dirt. Bedded the trap removed part of the original limb so the mink had to jump to the pail top before getting on the limb. Any color will work but those square buckets are white. I missed a few because of the bucket size. But I figured over time I caught the majority of the mink working that deer carcass. The total was 8 mink over a period of 15 days. And I didn't check every day either.
I staked the trap separately from the bucket but I guess you could tie off to the bucket bail.
I also covered the carcass to some degree so It would be legal as to our sight exposed bait rules.
For the most part the deer are a bit hard to come by or get them to the right locations. But beaver would be easy to stash In the right locations.

These sets can be very effective but your not going to be running 100s of them at any one time.
The large bait set would be my first choice for putting up numbers.


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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6273163
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Thanks. Gotta couple locations within walking distance of my house. Will try later winter.

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: The Beav] #6273183
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Originally Posted By: The Beav
. . . Any color will work but those square buckets are white. . . .


Don't let the Beav BS ya here. He paints those white buckets BLUE!

Sorry Beav, just filling in the cracks here buddy.

On a side note, the Beav gained 28 pounds that trapping season. All those ice cream buckets had to be emptied one way or another!

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6273278
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Hey I'm near 80 I've accumulated a lot of ice cream buckets In my time. LOL


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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6273770
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Beav, If you can make 10 blind sets before anyone can dig a elbow set how many blind sets could you have made instead of the dead deer set? Unless you haul around square buckets, saws, shovels and waxed dirt while deer hunting you made a trip home. Cutting off the bucket to the right height and filling it with gravel cutting off limbs not to mention covering a deer to make it legal. Making this set with a beaver would be faster but still not a very good use of daylight.

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274067
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I don't even carry a bucket to hold my tools in anymore, if they don't fit in my pocket or pack I don't need them...….

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274223
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Whatever works. The BE works for me and I set them later....seem to be less leaves(I mean, how long does it take to pull out a 110 and shake leaves out and put it back?). Never more than a few minutes to make one. Kwik Trip coffee still hot. Locations from scouting but if I am in a new area I just run my foot along the "bottom edge" til I hit a bump. Again, only a few minutes . I'm no expert but I keep catching them this way along with pocket sets and colony traps at the end of culvert aprons. IMO colony traps under water against bridge abutments are like a multi catch BE set if legal in your state. Oops. I think we have wandered off subject. My first successful BE set was by accident in Kansas. Now I try to think of new variations of it. The good part is that equipment requirements haven't changed...trap, stake, wire and at my age warm waders.

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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274379
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Good post MsgRet. Am considering replacing 16 ga wire I run through #150s to KB stabilizer with parachute cord this coming season. Easier on the gauntlets.

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274385
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My .02 cents on the weeds and leaves, as long as there's still a hole they'll still swim thru it. Another reason to use a 159 or 220, bigger opening won't get clogged as quick. I also drive a stake upstream of the trap so it catches most of the debris before it gets to the BE trap.


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Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: ] #6274390
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Originally Posted By: MsgRet
. . . The BE works for me and I set them later....seem to be less leaves . . .


Agree. I usually don't set up my BE colonies and #150s til after deer season. Debris blowing downstream from then til early March is negligible.

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274672
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Ive had some that stay debris-free the whole season and some are clogged by the time I get to my pickup......

Re: Do you remember your 1st Bottom Edge mink? [Re: lumberjack391] #6274703
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mine was the year after the book came out and late in the season.decided to try a few under the ice and as they say"i've lived happily ever after.









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