I figure I might as well start another journal thread. I haven’t put out any cat sets yet but did put out a small coyote line behind the house. We were able to catch a little bit of fur. We have now pulled those traps and will set a little further out and see what else we can catch.

Nice going. Just hit your instagram

Excellent

I bet you Montana trappers have never seen a coyote a primed and good looking as our dogs haha

Or toes.

I sure do miss trapping in Nevada. I grew up in Lovelock. I used to love cage trapping those kit fox! The wife and I are planning on moving back next year. I miss the mountains and junipers and sagebrush. Not to mention the miles upon endless miles of public land. Can’t find that around here.

Cat traps have been out for a week. Caught this big Tom this morning in a Bridger 1.65 with one of Mike Kelly’s expanded pans using an exposed walkthrough set. Don’t need a big trap for a big cat. And don’t need to put anything on the trap when you got a big pan. These cats aren’t afraid to pack their paw in a smaller trap.

Good job, your lil guy is all over that . I like seeing the young ones out and enjoying the trap line.

The fox have been coming in like normal, a few plugging my cat sets most checks. After catching the first cat I decided to set this area a lot harder then I planned. I originally set is with a dozen traps just to help pass the time before I got to wear I scouted all off season. So once I got a cat, my wife was more then happy to let me spend more time haha. I moved further up the mountain then the storm of the century hit. I knew most of my sets would be buried so I got out while it was snowing to find weather proof areas. I was able to get out a half dozen sets in good spots that would get snowed on like this......


I’m glad I did that before checking traps because within a couple hours, there was around 6” of snow on the ground and it was still coming. I uncovered most my sets knowing full well they would be buried again before the storm let off. I’m glad I got the weather proof ones in so I have a little hope for the next check haha. We normally don’t have to deal with this where I’m trapping. Ended the night with a handful of fox and a big Tom with an awesome belly!!!!

I can’t wait to move back. These posts are really making me miss my mountains around lovelock. The humbolt and trinity ranges are where I spent my childhood chasing wild things. Moving back next summer

Thanks for sharing the great pictures

A great read Cat... I enjoy following you two.

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Awesome week of cat trapping last week. My midweek night check was extremely slow with only a fox until I got to the last set. It’s an exposed walkthrough set next to a rim rock ledge.


Night checks are always slow because I can’t make any new sets or move traps around. My weekend checks don’t seem as slow because if I don’t catch anything, I have lots motivation to explore up new roads and canyons I haven’t been before to look for new locations. That’s how Saturday was going as I was running out of sets to check when I caught this big, wide bellied Tom!

What in the wild wild world of sports you have going on in that pic cat trapper? Looks like you went nuts with some of Tracy's wyldwings! I know Moosemasher used to blur his background, but I've never saw that effect before!

Nice job on the cats!

Haha. I was happy that my new iPhone 11 allows me to resize photos when I attach them to things which is perfect since you can only post 2GB pics on this forum. Well sometimes it has a tough time resizing the pics and puts weird lines on it haha. But yes I do use a wyldwings replica. Might have to switch to the real deal because the swivels on the ones I made break in high wind.

Finlly put together the videos I took the last 5 weeks. Wasn't planning on making videos till the second half of the season, but we got lucky and starting catching haha. Pulling traps tomorrow then heading to northern nevada for chirstmas. Ill try to trap some coyotes and muskrats on the farm, then heading back to southern nevada to trap the area we scouted all off season. I'll try to keep my promise of weekly videos the second half of the season. Hope you enjoy the vidoe!

Nice video.

Awesome video, must be nice to be wearing t-shirts cat trapping. Up here we had to chain up the pickup to set a area today, foot of snow and bad ice. Looking forward to next video, thanks for sharing.

A couple weeks ago I wish I had chains. Had to walk in. But 3 days later on the next check I was in a shirt again haha.

Awesome!!!