That one went right over your head, sounds like you'rethe one that needs help.

patrapper1989 I think your right.

Sure you may catch the occasional mink In a box but for most part It's going to be minimal. When I trapped In Canada we caught lots of mink In boxes we even caught them In elevated marten boxes. That may work In canuck land but It's not a good system around here.

But make a few and try them. As for trap size a 120 or the 155 size will work just fine.
maybe some one will post some pictures of a BG set up with a pan. Or you may be able to find something In the archives. If your going to go this route I believe the pan system will be your best bet. Let us know how It works out for you.

IMO pan triggers are the ideal for trapping mink in baited boxes. In my experience they should be recessed deep in to the box close to the bait for best results. While working the bait in a 14” plus long box with log spring slots the animal will be correctly oriented to the trap, stable, not moving through the trap to get to the bait and will be standing with front feet on a pan trigger or tripping the trigger with its head while working the bait. I prefer wood or corrugated plastic pans in freezing conditions.

Wire mesh on back of box for air flow and see through box.

You just don't know how to set them right beav.

Not true It's a regional thing.

No one in my small circle of friends use them for mink, their has to be a reason. Its a terrific way to go for coon around here though.

I think I'll start the mink box academy and for a mere few thousand teach guys like Beav how to trap mink in boxes.
Whaddaya think Les,want to partner up?

Sure thing.

How many boxes do you have out and how many have you caught so far Les?
I'm betting It's going to be a pretty small class or It's going to be a ONE page manual. LOL

When I had the boxes out, as that's done now for me, I picked up 5 mink for 8 boxes and one otter, over about 3 weeks time. 8 different spots actually not all set at the same time. If I caught a mink, sometimes I would pull the box.

Probably less than a page Beav,but we'll stretch the school out so you get your moneys worth,lol.

Beav, you hit on the secret the last time we had a thread about this. It's after ice up, usually near a feature like a beaver pond or dam, at or near the spillway. These are the places I would set, to begin with. The last of the flowing water before total freeze up. When I use these, I am in a whole different trapping / snaring discipline and just set a few boxes out when the opportunity presents itself, like when I set up a cat snaring scenario on a beaver flowage.

It would be interesting to intentionally set out to only set mink boxes, and set 10 dozen of them. It would take a lot of country if I only set a certain type of spot, up here, anyway. I don't think I could stop myself from setting for all the other animals too.

I had great luck one year with 15 boxes, setting them out after I had creamed the rats through the ice, or at the same time as I was nearing the end of it, but before a lot of snow appeared. Mink are hungry right then as the houses are getting froze a bit on the outside.

Any set will take a few but south of the border boxes are a very low percentage set. Anyone ever hear of catches of 30-40 mink on a single trip around the line out of boxes?

Maybe If you had out 200 boxes.
Catch your mink before things tighten up.

Yes by all means, but when things tighten up is when baited mink boxes work best placed at beaver pond outlets, overhanging banks, small stream entrances with larger water courses, active and abandoned beaver lodges and alongside open water areas of frozen streams.

Xs 2 on both accounts. There are times when things have tightened up, and there are miles of ditch grade in the wilderness, and lots of opportunity and no access but by snowmobile. That's when all forms of late season mink trapping shines. If the weather holds and water still flows a little.

I shouldn't have to explain this to anybody. Perhaps an academy would be the way to go.

If you can't access these areas with a snow machine are you walking?
I know the drill about boxes but It's the work involved to make any kind of a decent catch. Especially when mink aren't hardly worth trapping any more.
Maybe next year when I'm bored along with the tire set I'll place a few boxes In some strategic spots and then maybe I won't .

Can you imagine the storage problems your going to have with 100s of these boxes. LOL
Don't save a spot for me when you start your classes. LOL

Oh I think they have there places. I am not a big mink trapper by no means. When I trapped for them I could catch a few. But the last bunch of mink I caught were in boxes but they were coon boxes set with 220's and trigger pans. I have set mink boxes in beaver area but it seems like the weasels beet the mink to the boxes. Plus I don't have a big mink population to deal with.

Mink are gas money on a multispecies trapline.Nobody I know here traps just for mink anymore while rolling by more valuable fur.Thats when the boxes shine.
If your a one trick pony blind setting would be the best way to catch mink.