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You've got to excuse me, as my postscript below states... "I'm an old dog, and these are all new tricks".
I'll look it up..... I thought he was serious about inner-city trapping. OK, I'll let you guys have your fun..... I was talking about wild fur!

But, the next time you drive by a patch of woods in a suburb that's been vacant for years, slip a game camera in there..... And hang on for what you'll see in the morning![/quote]

Oh I believe you. I’ve been working in the garage and watched a coyote walk down the side walk in my gated community. Ive videoed them howling on the train tracks behind the house and almost picked up a road killed grey fox near Las Vegas Blvd (aka the Vegas Strip).

I'll go out on a pretty big limb here. I'd be willing to venture city hobby trappers (folks that live in what would constitute at least a name on a sign entering a town) would easily out number trappers that live out in the country. I guess it depends on what you define as a "city." Also I have caught some of my biggest prettiest animals including bobcats, coyotes, raccoons, and fox right on if not in city limits a number of times. They're well fed and pretty easy to catch.

I trapped the South burbs of Chicago for many years you would be surprised the amount of critters on the edge of them small towns/villages. I did ADC work for the Villages and that got me into rats, coons, mink and fox in the undeveloped areas.

That's a couple c-notes and didn't even have to skin them.

I see your 2 and raise you 2.

Smells like money!

Warrior,

That little red squirrel is definitely a C note SEC animal, but that big gray looks like a Big 10 squirrel and worth a lot more $$$! LOL

I have a friend that lives smack dab in the middle of Pittsburg PA. He traps some in town. A few fox and a lot of coons. Some real dandy coons getting caught by restaurant and fast food dumpsters. To run a line like most of us do he has to travel. So he does that too.

I live in a small town.
Jim

I live in a suburb of Chicago, I do not trap Chicago itself but the suburbs. I get $75.00 minimum for every animal I take be it squirrel, opossum, skunk ect. I used to fur trap but the money is in the ADC work. I hunt, fish and fur trap as time allows.

My high school trapping partner and I made good catches of 'rats along with a few 'coon and mink trapping in the Flint (Michigan) city limits.I remember once while working for the National Park Service on Staten Island on the Hurricane Sandy cleanup talking to a truck driver and somehow the subject turned to trapping and deer hunting with him doing all the talking.He had a place in the Adirondacks and was very enthusiastic about the time he spent there.I was working at a "stump dump"underneath the Verrazano Bridge and I remember looking up at the bridge and across the narrows to Manhatten and thinking I sure didn't expect to have conversation about trapping and deer hunting with a NYC local on Staten Island!

So your handle is skunkquillwant...but you havent trapped skunks?

I grew up in what they would now days call suburbs...When I was a kid I could pet a cow over dads back fence. The old home is gone now and is all industrial where that farm was.. I live in the city because it was a job requirement when I got hired as a city fire fighter. Those rules changed but I was already settled in here for 25 years when that happened. So I do live in the city but have trapped my whole life. There is a guy just up the street from me is a heck of a rat trapper. His father was a commercial fisherman here on the river so he grew up on the river too..I know there are others here in the city that trap and there are a lot of hunters and of course fisherman. May have more to do with where the city is located and it's history. That make up how many hunters or trappers might live there. I do only have to drive a couple miles to be on the first farm I trap. I can almost throw a rock into the Mississippi river from my front yard. All that comes into play as far as hunting and trapping.

Mac

Hey Buck (Zandra), the Verrazano bridge is on 278 the road from NJ to Brooklyn. Drove my semi over it many times. Lanes are so narrow you literally have your steer tires on top the lane dividers. Never got to see whats under it. Never even really looked off the bridge. Too busy keeping those steer tires on the lane markers painted on the road.

Currently living in a city. Hate it but have acess to a river system that not to bad. The only thing I have to say is don't take chances on your sets guys. I trap near a public walk way so every thing is submerged below the bank and water. That way I can ask "was fluffy on the leash they went swimming. I have no real trouble yet.

I used to live in a city of 250,000 and never drove more than 45 minutes to trap. Now I live in a town of 12,000 and never drive more that 30 minutes to trap. Hobby trapping just something fun to do with the kids

Newly married I lived in an apartment on the far east side of Columbus Oh and missed my rural boyhood home terribly. That fall I ran a line of "rat traps in the freeway ditches nearby that I tended after dark making a pretty decent catch. As mentioned in an earlier post I never lost a trap or for that matter was never bothered except to be questioned by the cops one night, they were actually amused when I explained. I used body grippers exclusively and even had some competition in one section, it seems that Tom Miranda grew up in that same neighborhood before gaining fame and he saw the same potential in those muddy cattail ditches. This was in the early 70's and soon after we purchased a home in the next county where I trapped for the next 40 years. Good memories.

On the Island side theres an old fort,a short distance to the mouth of the river a side street ends and there's 2 garages I was told was for road salt,there's an open lot in front of the garages fronting the Atlantic.Cool fun fact,there was always rumors that at one time there was a huge cave at the mouth,directly underneath the bridge,that once held cannon and ammunition to stop enemy ships from entering the river during the Revolutionary War and the Civil War,but was considered obsolete by the time the Civil War came along.There was never any evidence of a cave there so it was dismissed,then came Hurricane Sandy and it was exposed.When things were slow I would walk over into the cave,no evidence of anything ever having been there now but was pretty neat thinking about all the history there. And yeah,Danny,we had to drive over it every morning and every night as we were staying in Brooklyn and me,coming from Michigan,had an eye opening experience driving in that traffic.And that was in a Ford pickup,can't imagine what that would be like in a semi.

I live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula but many years ago I worked for a while "Down State" In Lansing. I ran a rat line by canoe on the Grand and Red Cedar rivers at night and caught lots of rats and had zero competition. This was all within the city limits.

The U.S. Census Bureau provides quite a bit of information regarding outdoor recreation. Much of it geared to those of us that fish, hunt and trap. The first panel,link provides a thumbnail sketch of the general numbers of people involved in outdoor pursuits. It's in an easy to study in brochure form. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/demo/fhw-16-nat.html

This second link is more comprehensive. It offers a listing of previous surveys as well as the datasets that accompany each.
https://www.census.gov/search-results.html?q=Fish%2C+Hunt+and+Wildlife+survey&page=1&stateGeo=none&searchtype=web&cssp=SERP&_charset_=UTF-8

I worked two of these surveys here in AZ. They provide data that businesses, new residents, governments and many other groups make use of when marketing or providing services to an area. I know this much, speaking with like minded folks during these surveys provided me with a wealth of information I could make use when first moving to AZ.