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Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... #6666576
11/15/19 02:05 PM
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Didn't have time to get on here last evening, so am a day behind …. I have still minding my mink set at the over-hang... NADA! After the snow yesterday, when I went to check the set and looked at the concrete overflow that was show in Photo one and that several commented about. It is about right across the stream from my set. This is what I saw:

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I walked all around, looking for sign, trying to determine whether it was going up stream or down. I couldn't find any sign that it was going toward the pond. I then started walking downstream, checking both banks and sand bars for tracks... Nothing … until I get about 25 yards down stream. There is an old rotten hollow log, just up on the bank and parallel with the stream:

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Although the snow wasn't as heavy here, I checked all around down to the stream and on downstream another 50 yards, nothing. I guess he is parachuting into these areas.
Since I could find no indication of the mink going up or down stream and I had walked around the pond and found no sign, I assumed it was going downstream.

END OF CHAPTER 2
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Chapter three

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He must have been going upstream and taken the long way around through the woods. I caught him in one of my rat traps on the far side of the pond. Or maybe it was a completely different mink. Just for giggles and grins … At my mink set at the overhanging bank … I placed a fresh hind leg of a muskrat today, putting it between the two traps.

Garry-


Last edited by Actor; 11/15/19 07:39 PM.

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Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666598
11/15/19 02:39 PM
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Someone is diving and looking for frogs going into hibernation. What does the autopsy prove ?

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666603
11/15/19 02:44 PM
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Awesome!!!!

Did ya set the hollow log? Trap at entrance and a dab of lure in it?

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Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666674
11/15/19 04:02 PM
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You had that hollow log their just begging for a chunk of muskrat and didn't set it?

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666720
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Log Looks good. Bait and set it and you're almost guaranteed a possum or coon when it warms up wink
Congrats on getting the mink.


Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666740
11/15/19 05:50 PM
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Ever notice how the mink tend to take the high ground? An open ended box with a trap on each end of a log like that, bait in the middle. I don't see many mink tracks going into, or through hollow logs.
They tend to travel on top of them.

Last edited by alaska viking; 11/15/19 05:51 PM.

Made it almost 3 years without censor!

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666770
11/15/19 06:37 PM
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Gonna keep beating that dead horse of a set, ain't ya.

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: alaska viking] #6666821
11/15/19 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by alaska viking
Ever notice how the mink tend to take the high ground? An open ended box with a trap on each end of a log like that, bait in the middle. I don't see many mink tracks going into, or through hollow logs.
They tend to travel on top of them.


I have set this same log 4 or 5 times in the last 9 years always using muskrat of various descriptions … I have set bot ends with Killer traps, I set both ends with 1.5 coil and I even rigged one in the center and all I ever caught was possum, coon and even one darn skunk. If you look at the log, the dark spots on the top of the log are actually holes and there pretty good size holes on each side as well as both ends. I quit setting it for mink a couple years ago. I originally set it for mink, because there were mink tracks all over it in the snow.


Originally Posted by wr Otis
Gonna keep beating that dead horse of a set, ain't ya.


Yep... he ain't quit dead yet... still trying raise up his head.

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Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6666831
11/15/19 08:05 PM
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TOP of the log!


Made it almost 3 years without censor!

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6673913
11/23/19 09:48 PM
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Been eight more days, still checking that trap in the wrong spot?

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6673962
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Why is it in the wrong spot?

Re: Mink Set Chapt 2 & 3... [Re: Actor] #6674050
11/24/19 12:37 AM
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No I caught the mink north of there at the pond. Then got some rain... water came up, have pulled all traps until after Thanksgiving.

Garry-


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