Well I started with a friend trapping muskrats and always chasing the elusive coon and if you could catch a fox to us kids you where the best trapper out there lol. Now we have very few muskrats in our area coons are easy to catch and fox have become rare but we have coyotes so now I mainly trap coyotes and chase a few beaver once in a while

mushrats on thanksgivin mornin.

muskrats , an coon

Coon tin around pan caught one first night .

Mine was mink, used to catch a few rats in mink sets.

Coon with my grandpa

I ran a possum line around the house before school. I set every den hole I could find plus log piles along a power line. They brought 1.50 each. Rats were 4.50. I caught two that winter.

Rabbits, in a box trap my grandfather made for me in 1953.

Rats with the old man.

Woodchuck

I do love catching muskrats when I can find a pocket of them.

Beaver are probably my favorite animal to catch.

I spend most of my time trying to catch coyotes because there are so many of them, they are everywhere, and the fur is selling pretty good.

Raccoon was my first target. Still my main target.

Muskrats, neighbor taught my brother and I.

Raccoons, My dad had a friend of his show me how to catch them when I was pretty young. I've been trapping Coyotes, fox, and coons ever since I turned 11 and figured I could do it again.

Muskrats, my favorite to skin.

Rabbits, then coon

Coon and I had better luck my first year (last year) than I have this year...lol

Coon

I played around with live traps when younger, but my first commercial line was muskrats, got 1.40 each from Russ Cumberland

Raccoon was the first targeted animal. Then it was onto muskrats