Proof?
I agree you put no thought into much.

Proof?

Anybody can look how many license we sell.
Anybody can see we had no Beaver to trap 30 years ago. or Fisher, or Bobcats, and at one time, we had coyotes wiped out.

Dream on.

We even had Bear and Deer wiped out and had to stock them.

Theres no trees in the sahara either,lol.
Musta been the loggers.

Why you called hippie?You kill off all the brain cells,lol.

I gotta go trap some beaver.I'll get a few pics of some good old dam sets for ya.

Nope.
I lived on the river all summer and when i would show up at home with long hair (this in the 70's)
my Dad said i looked like some dag-gum hippie. It stuck.

Anyhow, good luck on the Mink boxes. If ya have any success, be sure and tell us, and how ya made/set them.

Here Boco.

http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/the-history-of-deer-management-in-pennsylvania,587735/

https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Trapping...202010-2019.pdf

I forgot we wiped Otter out too.


https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Trapping...lan%20Draft.pdf

I have said this before about mink boxes. When I did my Canadian trapping trip I caught lots of mink In boxes. We just laid the marten boxes near water and of course beaver dams are hot locations. We even caught Mink In elevated marten boxes.
But It doesn't work In WI. Good luck

Boco knows and I agree

10% of the trappers catch 90% of the fur. And that 10% might be high

I ran 160s years ago in wire cages big time. Had the triggers trip wired, adjusted, disguised, painted camo, etc. Covered some of the cages with grass, leaves, rocks, left some uncovered. Same 160s I used at blind sets. Used natural fish or muskrat for bait Basically threw in a set or 3 at every stop on a long mink line. Probably had 300 going at one time for most of mink season, averaged like 2 mink a year out of them.
Caught nice amounts of coon but its a real head scratcher why mink don't get caught more often? Caught mink nearby in blind sets, no action at the cages.

Just yankin your chain hippie,lol.I got two sets in at each corner of the dam,and picked up a mess of spruce grouse-good afternoon.

Season here for mink is real short.I have lots of respect for the couple guys around here that put up 50-60 mink in a couple weeks.
They set on location.I got 25 last fall with about a dozen boxes.More than I was trying for.

Depends where you are at. We are overrun with beaver here. And there is no law about not setting a mink trap on a beaver dam. That rule is in the beaver trapping section. Seems to me that rule would only apply during beaver season and to traps capable of catching beaver.

I asked our local WCO about a trail going across an old beaver dam- I made it clear beaver were not my intention.. The beavers were long gone and the trail had fox, coon and mink tracks on it. He said no, don't do it. This was probably 15 years ago, did the laws change?

IMO I believe the rule where you have to be 15 feet away from a dam is because of otters. If you set a dam crossover your going to catch everything that swims through it.

Well, if hes says don't, I'd listen, since he's the one gonna bust you. I just see nothing in the general regs about not setting on beaver dams, only in the beaver regs.

Correct...however there are secondary crossings that are used by muskrats and mink in many cases.

That’s because you gotta use blue buckets in Wisconsin, Beav. Jeesh, I would have thought you would have known that already.

Fair to poor results. In winter I have better luck with trail sets in snow in cattails.