I got the snares dug out but not all the cat sets. I spent 4 hours in the plow truck!

Rick I would say you have extra smart coyotes up your way if you can get them to do that. Good job. Good luck on the last week of cat season. I am going to wait about a week now to see if the bone piles start getting hit. If they do, game on!

Nice job Rick. Another one bites the dust.

Pretty much what I had to do to my pigheaded English Pointer to get him to sit still. I miss that dog.

28 below zero here this morning. That should make the critters hungry.

The cats moved like crazy last night. It snowed overnight so all of the tracks were made during the early morning hours. One cat missed a set by a couple hundred yards, another missed another set by a bit more than that and the other cat was nowhere near a trap. The cubby I caught the little female in was destroyed last night but it happened before or during the storm. Couldn't pick up on any tracks. Pinched something in a Bridger 1.75 in a walkthrough set but I have no clue what it was. Blood in the snow when I flipped the trap but made before or during the storm so I couldn't tell what did it. No fur, no feathers that I could see. No fisher tracks today. I've got three more nights to connect before the season closes. I'm more optimistic than I've been all season.

No fur today,saw 1 fox track and set up a roadkill deer 1 snare and 2 trail sets with footholds.

I'm sure this is a dumb question but do you leave the roadkill in the ditch , or are you moving the deer ? If your moving the deer does that require any permission?

Contact your CO's or police they'll give you a permit to move them.The one today a coyote or two were eating on it in the ditch,so I made a circle behind it back in the woods and set up on the trail,there were two trails that merged into one.We'll see if they keep coming to it,will find out tomorrow or the next couple of days,we are going to get a dusting of snow in the next day or two,that always helps.

Do you wire the kill to a tree so they can’t drag it off?

I never have. Typically they are pretty well frozen to the ground.

Morning,we'll see what todays line will bring,sure hope one of the cats will return.Pulling one cat location today,i'll leave the other two spots for a couple more days.I would like to get 3 to 5 more coyotes by the 10th,pulling the plug,it's been a pretty good year.

Depending on the size of the bait, definitely. Even wired, I've had pulled away and dragged off.

I had a twofer last night. Caught two of my neighbors dog at a cat set. I am getting some sick tired of having my traps fouled by dogs running at large. He has two dogs and I've caught them both, twice. You think they'd learn.

No cat,but i
picked up another coyote today.

Nice coyote Rick! Maybe one day I will figure those things out.

Rick by spring you should really like to skin them critters. Keep getting them!

Always enjoyed skinning warm coyotes,ever since my neck and elbow surgery I have a good friend skin my coyotes,beaver and otters which I don't trap many of.I skin the easier fur like fox,cats,mink,marten and muskrats.4 years ago I skinned a few coyotes and it bothered my elbow way too much.I never enjoyed skinning coyotes that had been frozen.

That might make some sense why mine hurts in the fall trapping worse then summer fishing!

Dead C it is probably the summer therapy of those 10 ounce weights that are occasionally lifted in the summer time.