You are to blame for the dead cat Les.Nice one.
Did he get a leg thru the loop,cats usually go down quick.

He got both legs through the loop, and It's been awhile since I did that.

N ow rid the neighborhood of that pesky yote and they'll love you even more!!

I would definitely say the bobcat was the culprit on the house cats. I wouldn't be so positive except that several years ago a neighbor called me after returning home from a couple week winter vacation and said he had seven of his farm cats missing and would I investigate what happened. Before I got there he witnessed the large bobcat chasing one of the couple remaining cats. I set several snares on the packed "cat trails" behind the shed and got a very large tom the next day.

I knew a bobcat was killing cats around there a year ago, different cat though.

I got the coyote a week ago.

I wish more folks would try to live in the sticks and raise livestock, lol.

Not a cat but finally broke my coyote slump tonight with this big male.


Hung the cable Sunday in this spot with high hopes and it payed off.

Way to go Backroads .

Not a cat here either.

But I did get some action.

Les you need to send some of that snow down here. Hard to find any fresh sign in this crust we have. Congrats on your catches!

Well, my bear is still awake. He charged to within 6 feet and I felt under gunned with my 22 revolver. We did pick up 2 fox today, one red and 1 grey. Time to clean my shorts, have 37 fingers of whiskey and start skinning. Strange year!

We did get a couple more inches of snow last night, just the right amount for seeing new tracks.

Send some of that snow down here Les! What little we get doesn't seem to last more than a day so can't do much for tracking.

I wasn’t laughing. It scared the crap out of me. Today I will be taking the slug gun with me!

Rob I don't blame you for bringing your slug gun today,with this weather we are having he'll be out for a least another week.I hope to have some fur today the last two checks in the fresh snows have been two snowshoe hares,i need some yotes and another bobcat or two to come back through on their loop.I do have two otter traps out also,i should put out a couple of rat traps out for weasel,i do have 2 mink sets out also.Good luck to everyone that still have a few sets out.

No cats today,but the coyotes were on the move plus I missed one also,tomorrow might be the cat day and another yote or two.

nice looking yotes Rick! Keep getting them. Found a couple of new tracks today. Cables are now waiting.

Awesome catches guys! This post motivated me enough to make a couple of otter sets across the lake close enough to access by bicycle. This morning I caught a pair about 3 feet apart. There was no fresh sign there on Monday when I made the sets but this spot is a producer and I knew it was just a matter of time when they would be back. I did not expect it to be so soon.




My camera finally died when I went to take an on site photo so after getting a new camera and getting it figured out I had to photograph them at home in the dark before skinning.

1 grey fox for us today. I spent the day with the slug gun seeing where Boo Boo was today. Lots of tracks but I didn’t see him. That doesn’t mean he didn’t see me.

That's good that you didn't run across the bear today,one day I hope I can catch a grey fox,every once in awhile i'll run across a track of one.I want one for tanning to add to my collection of furs.

We run about 50% greys here. Greasy little pigs!

It has been years since I have caught a grey fox. The year I did I caught 2 in the same set a day apart. Good job on the otters MnMan. I am in a area that I usually see otter sign but no sign this year.