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This illustrates my season #6455930
02/09/19 01:36 PM
02/09/19 01:36 PM
Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
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Michigan Trappin Offline OP
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Michigan Trappin  Offline OP
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Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
Tracks have been elusive , droppings even harder to find, but this morning. Tracks on 80% of the properties I trap

But freeze, thaw, rain, freeze ect ect ect have made it hard to keep set operating for the few times coyotes have shown up

I had five frozen sets that had coyote dance festivals on them

And the first picture is where I pulled a set that I caught a mud ball of a coon in last week

THe second picture is a set that I have caught 2 coyotes and 2 boar coon in already. This is the second time it's been raided while frozen solid


I had actually told myself when I got up this morning "if I don't see sign this morning I'm pulling the canine line"

Guess I'm still trapping

Ok whine over !!!!

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Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!

If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6455939
02/09/19 01:40 PM
02/09/19 01:40 PM
Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
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Michigan Trappin Offline OP
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Michigan Trappin  Offline OP
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Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
Forgot I had 5 traps stepped on thus morning Par


Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!

If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6455962
02/09/19 02:05 PM
02/09/19 02:05 PM
Joined: Jul 2008
Idaho Falls, Idaho
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Furvor Offline
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Joined: Jul 2008
Idaho Falls, Idaho
So you got visits but sets were not worked, and traps were not working?

Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6456058
02/09/19 04:19 PM
02/09/19 04:19 PM
Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
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Michigan Trappin Offline OP
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Joined: May 2014
Southwest Michigan
Traps frozen Each set that was visited had prints on pan The freeze rain snow melt cycle has killed me on catches. Yet when we were at -10 I was fully operational but then melt rain freeze snow melt rain freeze just seems like my timing of antifreeze application has sucked


Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!

If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6456093
02/09/19 05:12 PM
02/09/19 05:12 PM
Joined: Aug 2015
IL - Shawnee Ntl Forest
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Joined: Aug 2015
IL - Shawnee Ntl Forest
Sounds like my season - and the season of a number of folks I know!!


Shawnee National Forest - We live out here because we're not all there.
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Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6456171
02/09/19 07:02 PM
02/09/19 07:02 PM
Joined: Jun 2013
Indiana
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Joined: Jun 2013
Indiana
Same here. Missed a few for the same reason.

Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6457075
02/10/19 03:59 PM
02/10/19 03:59 PM
Joined: Dec 2015
West Cent IL
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Joined: Dec 2015
West Cent IL
Fought the same weather here absolute pain to keep traps working. Still have 3 out that I'm experimenting with wax sand to see how they handles the elements. I think I had 3 or 4 times with tracks on froze down trap.
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Coyote 3
Coons 24
Bobcats 1 Released
Grinners All of them
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Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6457466
02/10/19 09:55 PM
02/10/19 09:55 PM
Joined: Sep 2009
Barron Couny, WI
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Joined: Sep 2009
Barron Couny, WI
Same story here too this season. Thank God for cables restraints or I wouldn't have any coyotes!


Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine!
Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6457698
02/11/19 07:18 AM
02/11/19 07:18 AM
Joined: May 2012
ohio
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ohio
This has been the wettest year I can rember in my 57 years ,,,, a nightmare on k9 sets for sure

Re: This illustrates my season [Re: Michigan Trappin] #6457771
02/11/19 09:43 AM
02/11/19 09:43 AM
Joined: Apr 2017
PA
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lumberjack391 Offline
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PA
Tracks are more than I got at most locations this year. I pulled during some intense weather conditions, and they all fired using peat moss.

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