Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/14/19 10:41 PM
02/14/19 10:41 PM
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Off hand I would say your doing fine, just hang in there. Most of my sets sit for weeks without any action and then one day it happens. Most landowners will swear there's hundreds of coyotes on their property when in reality it may only be a few. The higher density of coyotes increases your odds of making a catch. Around here the coyotes make a loop taking a week or two to make the circuit. If you can figure out there route you can pick them off one by one. The signs will tell you and all you can do is just be paitiant and keep trying. Oh, I've been trying for two years to catch a cat and you've crossed that one off your list like it was a piece of cake! Keep at it!
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/15/19 09:54 AM
02/15/19 09:54 AM
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Steelflight
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That cat looks mighty angery about its new ankle jewelry.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/15/19 10:35 AM
02/15/19 10:35 AM
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TheBig1
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Wanna Be, you're doing great. This was my first full season as I only started last January/February trapping. I caught my first yote last February and was hooked. This year? Well, I started laying steel on the first day allowed due to the fact that I needed to get out there and learn. And boy I'm still getting an education. I didn't catch SQUAT from October 20 until January 26 when I caught the one and only animal of my season. I couldn't even buy a grinner in one of my sets. I'd have been happy getting one of them.
Don't get my wrong, the fisher that I caught was amazing. Of course it cost me $750 to get a life size mount and the skull done but I'm still grateful.
Don't give up. Be discouraged, I know the feeling and of course I too am discouraged. But I still can't keep myself out of the Trap Shed and keep stocking up on stuff that I probably don't need because I somehow think that next year I'll be longlining and making a living out of trapping. LOL
I pulled my traps on New Year's Day. Of course it was due to being discouraged, not having caught anything, wasting resources, and the fact that fur was starting to decline. Not that I KNOW that it was starting to decline, just what I've read and heard. LOL Again this off season I will read all that I can, watch tons of movies and YouTube videos of the pros, and continually think back to what happened this past season so that I may begin to understand the lessons that were taught to me by the animals themselves.
Good luck to you Brother. I should change my name to Wanna Be 2.
You can't cheat the mountain pilgrim. Mountain's got its own ways.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/15/19 11:22 AM
02/15/19 11:22 AM
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Wanna Be
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Think landowners down here expect catches every day and lots of them. Before this property I trapped a little 30ac place and did ok. I trapped until there was no sign of any predator. Ended up with 1 coyote, 3 cats, 3 fox, 4 coons, and 3 possums. Felt pretty good. Get over here to this place that looks like something you see on TV, manicured green fields, nice roads, feeders everywhere, just a deer meca...and not a lot of critters, lol. I just get impatient I guess. An area I was told had “lots” of critters just doesn’t seem to have them or either it’s something I’m doing wrong. I’ll just keep doing my ride through and waiting impatiently.
Last edited by Wanna Be; 02/15/19 11:23 AM.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/15/19 10:07 PM
02/15/19 10:07 PM
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Think landowners down here expect catches every day and lots of them.
An area I was told had “lots” of critters just doesn’t seem to have them or either it’s something I’m doing wrong. I’ll just keep doing my ride through and waiting impatiently. I suggest you set out a few trail cams. This will remove doubt and you can show the land owner what is or is not there. A few howling coyotes can sound like hundreds in your back yard when in reality they are miles away. The camera may also show you what you need to to, if anything. Keep at it!
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/17/19 11:32 AM
02/17/19 11:32 AM
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TONY.F
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im not sure that its a possibility for you but I notice your catching lots of coons can you get farther from timber? when im setting close to cover my coon and grinner catch rise considerabley. I try and stay several hundred yards from heavy cover. But your terrain might not allow this. Yiur sets are doing there job so id have to reconsider location. But you did better then me I could'nt buy cat action this season!Again location is my down fall
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LIVE LIFE LIKE THEIR IS NO TOMMORROW
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/17/19 12:00 PM
02/17/19 12:00 PM
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This is basically a pine plantation with hardwood drainages mixed in. I have traps set on just about all intersections and field edges. I have DP’s set along the bottoms. Caught another possum this morning on a pipe set at an intersection right next to a green field. For some reason they are ignoring my DP’s. Did catch 2 nontargets last night early enough that I was able to take care of and reset. Landowner saw them on a ride through and sent me pics. I’ll probably pull next week sometime unless things really pick up. Our weather forecast this week shows rain and really warm temps, maybe I can at least pick up a few more possums. Starting to question the tracks I saw initially were that of nontargets instead of coyote.
Last edited by Wanna Be; 02/17/19 12:03 PM.
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Re: Thankful but not my target
[Re: Wanna Be]
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02/17/19 12:38 PM
02/17/19 12:38 PM
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TONY.F
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If you and the landowner are checking traps the sudden spike of activety might of displaced the local yotes till things calm back down! Id ask him nicely to ride with you instead of without you. Explain that yotes are very wary of human activety. lol if he wants them gone he should understand
LIVE LIFE LIKE THEIR IS NO TOMMORROW
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