Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/24/18 03:49 PM
08/24/18 03:49 PM
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Michigan Trappin
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Master the Compass set
1. Bed trap solid 2. Use only gland and curiosity lures 3. Blend set so well you can't see it ( I put some type of markers to locate if I don't connect) 4. Use NO BACKING
My preferred locations are the middle of two tracks when trapping woods And 20-30 yards out in to harvested ag fields And edges of hay/alfalfa fields
From pups to alphas, and very seldom non-targets in the sets out in harvested ag fields
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/24/18 03:57 PM
08/24/18 03:57 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,918 Central, SD
Law Dog
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I don't mind a little backing here a flat rock a tuff of grass or a dirt shelf next to a cattle trail works for me. Like MI trapper said they are tough to find especially after a rain or snow they blend in so well. LOL
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/24/18 04:22 PM
08/24/18 04:22 PM
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Posts: 1,971 Peoria County Illinois
Larry Baer
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Coyotes running along the edge of this field. tall stalks and weeds left of the picture. This row looked fairly open. You can tell where i set this trap but it snowed and then In the first picture I'm standing down in the field lane as it goes toward a ford over a creek. In the second picture I'm standing up in the field facing the ford. The two pictures above are on a corner The below picture is a little further down the field along a water way the coyotes were using The picture below is the same field after the snow melted and the creek came up. Different location but about 1/4 mile away on the outside of a long curve along the creek. The water came up but you can still see the corn rows. Coyotes were running down the rows. All of these sets were set and operating for about 30 days on the same travel route that is about a mile long where I can set traps and where the same coyotes were traveling. There were some travelers but there was a pack of 6. I only got four of them. I saw tracks all summer and fall running along this field along the creek. It's a great spot. They like to hug the creek bank then follow the farm lane across the ford. Anywhere along here that I can make some kind of flat set produces a coyote. I use trash piles, cornstalks, a little lure on a prominent stalk or piece of drift wood. This creek has a lot of fine sand in it that dries out and blows in drifts when it is very cold. I typically have to chisel a trap bed out but then bedding it is a breeze- literally - the wind blows the sand so much that I cannot tell where the set is. Hope this helps Just bed a trap and blend it in where you see a coyote track and put some good lure about a foot upwind of it. Put the lure on something like a fist sized rock or limb and stake it down so they can't steel it.
Last edited by Larry Baer; 08/24/18 04:42 PM.
Just passin through
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: Law Dog]
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08/24/18 05:17 PM
08/24/18 05:17 PM
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Posts: 1,742 In the south central Pa Mounta...
grayfox54
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I don't mind a little backing here a flat rock a tuff of grass or a dirt shelf next to a cattle trail works for me. Like MI trapper said they are tough to find especially after a rain or snow they blend in so well. LOL When I can’t find a set in snow I use a metal detector
I don’t trap because I want to I trap because I have to
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: grayfox54]
#6309637
08/24/18 07:28 PM
08/24/18 07:28 PM
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Law Dog
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I don't mind a little backing here a flat rock a tuff of grass or a dirt shelf next to a cattle trail works for me. Like MI trapper said they are tough to find especially after a rain or snow they blend in so well. LOL When I can’t find a set in snow I use a metal detector 2X when they have been under a snow drift for a while it's often the only way!
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/24/18 07:43 PM
08/24/18 07:43 PM
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Furvor
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When I can’t find a set in snow I use a metal detector
That works but takes time. First, get very close with a GPS, a GPS model that is quick for marking and finding waypoints. Some models have too many features to be practical for trapping.
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/25/18 08:17 AM
08/25/18 08:17 AM
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danny clifton
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I like flat sets when its a rain pattern going on. sometimes a hole will get one to walk 3 feet and have a sniff when the wind is blowing the wrong way and I prefer it if weather cooperates. some beaver sac oil smeared on a corn stubble will give off odor after 5 inchs of rain. coyotes will put their nose right on the smear. sometimes they will pee after. but they don't walk all over the place like with a hole and a good prepared bait.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/25/18 08:30 AM
08/25/18 08:30 AM
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J Staton
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J Staton
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Never had any luck with the compass set. Coon were my only catch. Probably doing something wrong because I always set on sign. A flat set with a small backing has always worked well for me.
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: AJE]
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08/25/18 10:29 AM
08/25/18 10:29 AM
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Impressive Mi Trappin. Wondering how you coax them out into open fields like that in a manner that they find your set consistently enough to keep making those kind of open sets. Give them something interesting to smell...... I've caught 2nd coyotes in the remakes often and a third a few times Had a few repeats on fox as well, but we don't gave many fox here, I like when I'm running them in big harvest ag fields as I can drive into the fiejd and just look for hoping yotes, they never seem to lay down like they do on the edge if a field when they see my truck. I've had more than a few guys that couldn't connect on their first yote using all the traditional sets try this and get results. Was happy to introduce it to a bunch of trappers at the michigan convention that have been trying for a couple of years I'm eager to hear back from them this fall MROB not saying you need to use it, but why discourage others from using something that works. One more set that puts more fur in the shed is a good thing
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: shortliner16]
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08/25/18 01:23 PM
08/25/18 01:23 PM
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Posts: 1,028 West Cent IL
illinideer
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Here are a couple of mine The turnip is my low backing I punch a small hole under the leaf for lure This one I had a miss, froze trap steped right on the pan. The larger dark spot was just a tuff of weeds The trap is off to the right. This was a remake from a coon. Started out with the trap off of a clump of grass. Made a copy of a Charles Dobbin set. Got lure under the points of duff. And caught this one a couple of day later I don't have any pics of Mich Trapping compass set But I use it and have had success with it Justin
Coyote 5 Badger 1 Coons 17 Bobcats 2 Released Grinners All of them USN AE2 VF-31 Tomcatters Retired SMSGT IL ANG 183 Fighter Wing Coyote U Class #4
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Re: Flat Sets
[Re: Law Dog]
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08/25/18 01:40 PM
08/25/18 01:40 PM
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Tactical.20
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I don't mind a little backing here a flat rock a tuff of grass or a dirt shelf next to a cattle trail works for me. Like MI trapper said they are tough to find especially after a rain or snow they blend in so well. LOL I agree, I use small backing with or without a foot guide trench.
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