I use sandwich bags and underalls on my Sterlings,i used poly fill for years.At work we use sandwich bags so that's what use,started sandwich bags 4 years ago.Seems to work well,but so did the poly fill,just need to keep it away from your lure/bait smells.

Tried all the pan covers over the years, this year I really didn't have anything ready when season started, so I just put a handful of peat inside the jaws and ha been working great
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What sandwhich bags do you use and what size trap ? I thought about trying it but the ones I tried wouldn't fit a Bridger #2 Dogless.

Ive used sandwich bags but had bad luck catching alot of dirt and pull outs often, i was probably doing it wrong. Used coffee filters for years like them but absorb moisture fast. Thats what led me down the path to pipe insulation, love it....

Dick Atkins from Pennsylvania just got me started on polyfill and he said you got him started using it. I really like it and I doubt I will go back to regular pan covers.

Dick is a go-getter. We're always smiling when we talk to him.
I've been using polyfil so long, I don't remember where or when I learned about it, but I owe a steak and adult beverage to however it was.
Most use far too much poly. Far too much because they confuse it with other methodology.
I never leave home without it. Case in point, I'm up early this morning, sipping java while I listen to the rain on the metal roof here at the ranch house Donna and I are staying at. We have a coyote needs getting here and I HOPE it pours because it blends the sets so good and these pressured coyotes are no slouches on these paying jobs. Poly allows me to pack dirt firm inside the trap jaws as I bed the set and thus the set takes a lot of rain before it's exposed. There's another trapper who left sets here and is checking them once a week??? and I promise you I'll drive by his sets this morning and see them exposed. Happens a lot with what we do on these jobs. Usually these other trappers use screen.

I used poly for decades and it worked pretty well but I switched over to fiberglass pipe wrap and it has several advantages.

1.mice,squirrels and other rodents never pick at it.
2.once precut,there is no work,slide it under the pan and forget it.
3.The catch won't trear it up.Most times it stays under the pan but if not,they won't touch or shred it.I often often reuse them and have never had issues.
4.I have found some,a year after the fact and reused them.
5.I cut about 15 at a time and do 300 in an hour.

I have used them for probably 8 years and have found nothing about them I don't like.Many times I have seperated them in two and that works well also,giving 200 out of a 25' roll.

Here are 200 pads,if I don't split any.Scrunched flat,I get 50 in a qt,zip lock bag.Very light and compact

Taximan I really like the way those look. That's a great idea

Taximan,

Now that right there is a good idea. A very good idea

Nice taxi, i may steal some of your ideas if you dont mind. I used a big piece under pan the other day on my variation of zaggers bedding method, rubbed it in the dirt so it was not so yellow and covered with grass, looks great moisture may screw me if its rain but time will tell... i had no screen so improvised....

I have to give credit to Tom Krause for that one.I like them,though.

Neat idea with the pre-cut fiberglass there Taximan, that cuts down on some setting time I bet. I use sandwich baggies myself, its all I've ever used but might take a few more seconds to get it under the jaws and over the pan than what you got there

Taxi, did you make the cutter?

No,Yukonal,that is a 2.5",Osborne,arch punch and they retail for $200.I got a "deal" at $140.l know that nobody is going to do that but their are othe ways.

If you get a piece of pipe,the correct diameter and sharpen one end,you can use that.I found that I can twist the punch,by hand,through the same size stack of fiberglass,almost as fast as with the hammer,so I think you wouldn't need anything elaborate,just the pipe.

The other method I used,before the punch,was to make two patterns out of masonite ie.,two disks,pan sized.Make the same "accordian" fold but only 6-10 layers.put one disk on top and one under.Compress the stack between the disks and cut out with a good pair of shears.This goes faster than I can describe it.I would cut these while watching TV,in the evening and it goes faster than you would think,maybe 1.5 hrs. To do a season's worth.I will try to get a picture up

Taxi, I once asked Glen Sterling Sr. What his preferred underall/pan cover was for his traps and he said it was that same pipe insulation you use. Must be pretty decent stuff.

I have been using playfully as well with no problems

I have seen a picture of James Lucero using it in a square shape and believe that would probably work as well.I wouldn,t like polyfil to extend past the edge of the pan but believe with the fiberglass,it would work.Anyone do it that way?

I couldn't operate scissors and cam at the same time but there are several layers,sandwiched between the disks.You obviously can't see the disk onthe underside.

I leave mine rectangular and double them over, right, wrong, or indifferent it works well for me.