Here it is. The thread to post your pictures of your catches this season

As in the past 2 seasons I'm starting out with a raccoon in one of my canine sets


Usually the first few coons in my canine sets are big boars. But this was a fat sow

Ok LETS SEE YOUR CATCHES AS THEY COME !!

Look forward to the pic's to come,should be able to post some pic's next week once I get some steel in the ground.

I couldn't take it any longer and set the bottom side of a bridge with a couple DPs. The ponds were starting to freeze over and it just felt like trapping weather. Now it's warmed back up in to the 50s. They're obviously early, but I'll still put them up. Bowhunters wanted these thinned out anyways due to all the corn they've been eating from feeders. First week of November I plan on going all out, till then I've scratched the itch.


Here is what the leather looked like after skinning them out. This was just after fleshing, they turned blue throughout the next morning. When I set these traps the water next to where they were trapped had about a quarter inch of ice on it.

Sorry guys, Temp has little to do with the priming of fur. The pituitary gland, governed by the amount of daylight, triggers the blood flow toward and then away from the hide causing a winter coat to mature. Pray for dark, dreary, lots of cloudy weather if you want a prime coon before the normal date in your area. Have seen a few Octobers like that and the fur bearers can be ready to take 7-10 days before you normally would, but if you have an itch it is hard to not scratch it so I can relate.... the mike

I'll probably keep at least one farm set up come December 1st, but won't really be able to roll till mid December.

Troy I hope you show us another white yote this year!

Just keeping the dates. Todays is October 18th.
My best to everyone.

gonna be a couple weeks but i look forward to contributing again this season.

First yote of the year, this morning

Son wanted to check the traps out behind the house this morning before he went to school, called me as he was walking in the dark and said there was one barking

I put my boots on and headed out back, only about 200-250 yards from our back door. This fella had been showing up on camera about every 2-3 days Trap was about 30 yards from where he had been walking and triggering camera Sets were put in Monday afternoon

Fur not thick or even ready for this market But I have a market for it when tanned with feet on so I'll make $

MT where are the grinners? Lol
Did you catch them all last year?

Most. Over 70

I did get 6 new properties to set this year that are going to need some grinner thinning though

Can't seem to get pictures to load. Have never had a problem before. I have cropped and still says to big. I am doing same.as.always. any ideas?

I'd post a bunch of pictures on this forum also, but I have the exact same problem. I crop and resize, and it still says the file is too large.

Finally got one pic small enough to post. Will work on others now.

Take a screen shot if your pic then post that. If you are using a mobile phone. Unsure how on was computer, do all mine w phone.

Screenshots do work well for this.
Jim

Looking forward to watching this.

Click on Properties to see how big your pic is. Then Open with Paint and resize so they are no larger than 2.09 MB and you should not have a problem posting them. Cropping may work but sometimes the file will still be too large. Just make sure you save then after you resize them to 2 MB or less.

Mr Foxy looks hacked off!
Nice!

4th coyote of the season

you guys aint helping me none I cant scratch the itch til our season opens til Nov. 10th.

Three catch circles, one occupied.

I hope I can get some on here but I am not going to start for at least another week.

He thought he hit the jackpot until the 120 fired.

I'm starting trapping on the first week of November!

Opens Nov1 here. If you ask me I’ll say it’s better to wait till thanksgiving on the coon here. I shoot for a self imposed Nov 10 start date. Butttt I usually will have a few in the ground on opening day! No will power I guess! Lol p.s. great pics so far ! Keep em coming!

Let this one go. Kept 2 because they were at a chicken farm and owner won't let me trap if I don't get rid of them.

Happy birthday

Make a good coyote set and of course out in the middle of a field there will be a raccoon.

What a pig he is!!

I posted in another thread about forgetting to test a bait.
This is the results.
Test bait on each end,skunk pod in the middle.
I think the bait works.
And yes they are still running. I will catch them again later when they are prime

My buddy who just started coyote trapping with a couple dozen traps got this guy this morning. His first I believe. I have yet to get my first of the year. Congrats Marshall

Got this one t
his morning

My thought exactly... I got scared just look'n at him!! LOL!

More skinning tonight

Have a trail camera on a set 30 yards away, didn't pull SD card yet

I’d say!!!

If it's a good enough spot for one, it's a good enough spot for two.

First one of the season

ADC beavers
22, 30 & 45 lbs

Season opens tomorrow and I found this this morning at one of my spots. Hopefully I'll have some cats to post soon.

Another good coyote set ruined by a coon. At least this was a big nice looking boar. Water logged fields and sets have caused me to lose some momentum though.

Got a dozen sets out Monday morning, this guy checked out my tainted deer/coyote poop dirt hole set last night.

My blind trail sets are starting to produce. I got coyote sets close by and wanted to catch them before they got to them.

Still slow here



Did put 12 sets in on a new property today. Will see if that produces Hopefully not a bunch of opossum, so far no opossum this season

With all the rain I haven't been able to make any fresh sets in several days and been busy, so happy to have at least picked up three more coon today. Only got 6 sets left and waiting for it to dry up before making new sets.

Another blind trail set coon in the same area.

Good thing I do ADC work. Or I would have nothing to post

Coyote #11

Been messing with me for a little over a week.
Blind set snagged her.

Slow and steady Wow real slow. But another coyote all the same

That's a great pic one to put on the wall in the house. Huge congrats , y9u guys are rockin the line. Keep it up.

Red in a dirthole remake at the location of the gray fox catch from the other day.

Nice big badger today

This little fox has been tearing up my coyotes sets this week. She would dig dirt over the trap and it would freeze solid. I got tired of it real fast and made a set with less pan tension. She won't be doing that anymore!

Still slow here.

Four jet black otters today.

You slow roasting them Boco. lol

Were only allowed one of those a season here

29 years this year. Here’s a picture of one of our days catch. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was a ten year old tagging along with Dad on the Trapline. I’m a lucky guy to have the Instruction I’ve had. Here’s to many more day catches like this with the best trapping partner a guy could ask for.

Nice job, good looking pile.of critters.

Been real slow here. Finally started seeing tracks again and connected on this guy today.

Slow here too

Cherish the times you have with your dad and teacher! It's great to see a father and son trapping together.

Not the double I was targeting

Michigan cat...

Here's a nice lovely(not) arkansas yote.
Son connected also

First Triple on mink

Not to bad a week for only having 6 sets out. 1 cat, 2 fox,2 nice boar coon and 4 possum. Weather hot warm.

Not to bad a week for only having 6 sets out. 1 cat, 2 fox,2 nice boar coon and 4 possum. Weather hot warm.

Heres a little southern illinois fur.

Deep South Louisiana

agreed. I like that shot. I have a few framed with my youngest and the first Bobcat we caught together.

anywhoo.....

This guy cleaned out this set the other day. Reset, rebaited and moved the trap slightly. I suspect him of pulling pan covers off of other sets along the road way that lead to this spot over the last week or so.

Definitely!

Funny, I was looking at that pic after I posted it here and thought that same thing!

The fox population must be booming, I've got twelve within two miles of the farm so far. I let most of them go except the real big heavy dark ones.

On a remake from over a month ago. That also caught two coons between the two yotes

It's a #2 I had set with a hair trigger for some mink running along the side of a culvert. I think it's a long tail, his tail is 6-7" long. The other weasels I've been catching have 3-4" tails.

Tough little bugger he pulled the stake.Lucky you didn't lose the trap.

A few from the past couple days.

I pulled the trap. His front legs were in rough shape and froze to the trap.

same set,yesterday and today.

Well even a blind squirrel gets a nut, now and then

Looks like he's been eating the coyotes!

Fisher weighed 15#

you set on sign, have this on camera:

catch this:

Must have been jumping on the pan, both back feet......

WoodL. Had the same thing happen this morning. Have had a fox showing up on camera every 3 days. Set for it and got a opossum. There was never a opossum on that trail cam.

yup, never fails.....
Youngest one is hoping for a cat for Christmas .... We will see.
Reset this one today ( i have never caught anything but coons in a possum remake) and put in a new set with some more visual appeal today, using some garland as flagging.

Probly my best yote this year ,doesnt the white stripes on stinkers usually join with the tail stripe ? Shes goin to hang with the rest on the wall .love stinker furs hanging in the man cave

Thanks. I think that was the same one I had on the trail cam. I wasn't far from where the pic was taken.

I just looked at the weasel, and it does have yellowing on the back legs and tail area.

same area but not same set.

A buddy of mine caught a possum in a #3 bridger that had 3 feet in the trap. No telling what it was doing to make the trap fire.

The fur is looking good now

This big boy is from one of my new properties, opossums didn't find this set as it was 45 yards out in to the hayfield

Nice catches buddy , no one does a better job on prepping furs for market .. nobody .

That's pretty

I don't know a good one from a bad one because we don't have them in my area. But it's still pretty

It definitely is! I haven't caught very many, maybe 7-8 but this is definitely my best one. It has real nice spots that go all the way up its back. Usually our bobcats have very little spots and just all brown backs...people usually call them rabbit backs lol.

A cold front got the yotes moving. I hope they keep it up after the storm we got today. Got another coon for the contest on a warm spell last week.

Nice to see everyone's catches. I finally got 5 sets out on Saturday afternoon ( knee surgery in mid October had me laid up ) and I connected on Christmas morning wwith a nice female coyote . I'd post the picture but I'm not even close to smatr enough to figure that out.

That's a frosty one Ken. You should take him in the shed and warm him up.

The warm up and rain spooked me off the ice, I figured I'd get in few days of mink trapping til I can get back to ice fishing.

Here’s my catch off 35ac with 4 MB550’s and 3 DP’s.

A few more...

Love seeing the southern coon

We get too much radiation

Good pic Reno!

Thanks! Got a bunch more, just need to figure out how to make them smaller I guess.