^^^^^^^^ Agree. Other valuable species such as marten are regularly caught and occasionally fisher, even in a box with a restricted entrance hole.

I can agree with that.
When we were targeting marten One of the lines was run by boat ( sturgeon lake) and we set quite a few mink/ marten boxes on the ground. We did catch a good number of mink.

That's right. I was just trying to find a way to use up over 100 110s, so I made up some mink boxes one year. Then I saw that those traps needed 2 springs on them, so I started doing that, and I'm not finished yet.

In the end, ifs about having the gear to do about anything in it's season. Them traps could just set there and rust away.

It was good to see this thread. I am considering making no more that 6 boxes for next year, 160's in them. They would be placed along small streams/ditches that I would be going past while checking coyote sets. I see a fair number of mink in the area where I live. Summer, fall, spring. Many are not always close to water. Yeah, I know the 160's might also pick up coon or otter if they stick their head in. Plenty of sign for both.

Beav,
Just like you. I'm adding it to the tire set learning curve.

Wow I can almost smell the mink essence from this tug-a-war. Beav those NW Ontario mink are a strange race. you have to remember that a lot were trapped back in those days, there is no way a untrapped population can build up like those days. The kidney worm has hammered those boreal mink really bad in the last 10 years.
Trapping marten by boat...........the season does not even start till hard water in NW Ontario.25 oct

I will not argue your point. But one of the places I trap is slightly deeper than I care to wade when the shores are covered in ice and I have been thinking of using mink boxes in the high grass along shores. I bought a doz victor 120's since they have the 4 way trigger.

I agree if you are checking sets everyday traveling why not set for different species. Thats where I set a lot of weasel boxes. Most of them can get checked right from the pickup window driving by. It helps pay for the gas and commission every year. They are easy to trap and put up.

The beautiful thing about the mink box with a body grip, is the 3 day check. We don't want to overlook that. That might be the selling point on the whole idea.

24 hour check here.

Well that would suck, I suppose. No wonder the boxes didn't catch on in Wisconsin. If you could set 100 per day for 3 days, and go back to the beginning a start over, you could get rich.

Only In your dreams.

I’ve never had much luck with them. Agree that it may be technique.

Ive heard of guys catching mink in submerged bodygrippers using carrots for bait but know of no one that does it in a big way......I honestly would do the carrot thing here instead of boxes.

I am seeing a pattern here. There is some sort of hidden dynamic, where they work here, but not in PA or WI.

I'll touch a little bit more on it in my upcoming book , "The secrets of the Box" .

LOL

Same with me.I have about 1/2 mile of stream that I follow on my fisher/fox/coyote line. Checking a few boxes along the way will cover my coffee & gas.

How in the world can mink (@ $5.00) pay for anything? Maybe the coffee. I doubt longliners in the fall are covering costs.

And that is why I don't fool with 'em.

I've been tempted to tinker with a mink box that would face open water. Mink gets caught, drops off in water and drowns. 4-day check. That would work.

However, there would have to be a 'coon ambling along that would stick his leg in there, get caught, and not drown. Now it's an illegal set if I'm only checking it twice a week.

Besides, if I've got open water I've got current, and I've got either colony traps or #150s on KB stabilizers working for me in bottom edge sets so why mess with the mink box?

Another thought: it took some time to come up with a weasel box that would meet the extended check time here in WI. Maybe if there was enough interest in extended checks on mink boxes here, we could come up with a design that would keep 'coon out while allowing mink in. Maximum size hole for mink with distance trap is from hole. Just out of 'coon's leg reach.

If I can't drown it, I don't set it. Period. Daily checks do not work in my schedule.