I should probably get some 160 cubbies out. More importantly though I should probly put out more footholds. Will 1 3/4's work for cats? I'm thinking of even putting some of them out.

Tough not to get discouraged. It's taken me 6 yrs to get this tag, and sign is proving incredibly hard to come by for me this year, & I've done a lotta scouting. It's proving much harder than I expected. I've never done this before. Heck I've never even seen a bobcat in my life, dead or alive, except a few on deer cams over the past 25 years.

1 3/4s will work for cats. Got access to any beaver carcasses? Throw everything you have at them.

Outside of a trap, I've seen just two bobcat in the wild and I saw them fifty or sixty miles apart two days apart. What are the odds of that?

I have been using beaver chunks. I got 7 chunks out of this 45 pounder. I have 2 more beaver in the freezer that I can use.

My first season I took my two bobcats, one that I shot while it was stalking my chickens and one I caught on a buried trap on a trial to the taxidermist. I told him about the dirt holes I was making and he told me he didn't dig holes any longer and only made walk throughs.
So I came home and googled something like "bobcat trapping walk through" and hit images. Trapperman came up red hot and was/has been a bed of knowledge that took me until the next season to read. The archives here are an incredible source, I copy/pasted so much stuff and put it in files to read when I had time. I had a cat within the first 5 days of the next season and another one 2 days later. This is my third season and my best yet and with the least effort. I suggest looking at images of what other do and copy them where ever you've seen sign. I looked at images and read a lot about Nevada trappers, there was some pretty good stuff.

Thanks to you and your threads, I read about the "halo" cat tracks have from them stepping more straight down than at an angle like a dog. Something that is gonna help me as soon as we get more snow

Good post Hermit.
The halo tip has helped me.
I've been thinking lately that I need to figure out more about walk thru sets. I'm running out of time though but if I don't get some pass thru sets figured out and made, and subsequently fail to fill my tag, I'll be kicking myself.

Wire that beaver to some trees where you've seen sign and see what develops.

Maybe this full moon will help.

I did more scouting today at the property. There's lots of food plots that seem like cats would approach, but finding where they're moving is tough. The landower owns a bulldozer & likes making trails. So much so, that while it seems like a good cat area, there doesn't seem to be a particular natural funnel.

Maybe I'll try tying down a beaver in the thicker stuff and setting traps on narrow paths leading to the beaver (maintaining the legal setback of course). Or I could try to get a road killed deer.

I got this one last year using a beaver carcass wired to a tree. I saw the bait had been hit and pulled to the back side of the tree. I moved it back to the front and tightened the wire. He came back the second night and was waiting for me in the morning.

It came in 2 nights in a row...interesting, Posco.
I suppose the key is to get them to find the stash in the 1st place