Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728071
01/13/20 09:48 PM
01/13/20 09:48 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,265 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,265
james bay frontierOnt.
|
You got enough water to drown him?That'd be the deciding factor for me.
Last edited by Boco; 01/13/20 09:49 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728074
01/13/20 09:48 PM
01/13/20 09:48 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 8,106 Piney va. soon be 19
cotton
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 8,106
Piney va. soon be 19
|
dirt hole with fox gland lure will work, the 550's will hold otter just fine.
John 3/16
ifin your gonna be dumb ya gotta be tough VTA life member
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728087
01/13/20 09:51 PM
01/13/20 09:51 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 62,661 Minnesota
330-Trapper
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 62,661
Minnesota
|
While checking my bobcat blind sets after work today I came across a fresh otter hole as I have my traps on a small creek where the cats have been traveling. Do I put a blind set next to the hole? I did see where it did its job. Not much of a toilet as the hole wasn't there yesterday. My new MB550 are in the dish washer now. I have MB 650 but not sure if they are to big for otter. Any thoughts appreciated They're not too big....Ive Nailed otter in them....swivel them up But like cotton said ...550s work too
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728100
01/13/20 09:57 PM
01/13/20 09:57 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 41,592 Northern Maine
Bruce T
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 41,592
Northern Maine
|
Both will work.I would want a middle swivel and a swivel on both ends of the chain.
Nevada bound
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728184
01/13/20 10:48 PM
01/13/20 10:48 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 9,153 Alaska and Washington State
waggler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 9,153
Alaska and Washington State
|
I think otter are probably the strongest, toughest animal that you are ever likely to trap. If caught on the ground have a strong trap and pay a lot of attention to how the trap is fastened. I use a #48 Newhouse with six feet of twist link chain on my dry-land sets.
"My life is better than your vacation"
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: waggler]
#6728242
01/13/20 11:34 PM
01/13/20 11:34 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 4,583 The Panhandle of Alaska
mad_mike
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 4,583
The Panhandle of Alaska
|
I think otter are probably the strongest, toughest animal that you are ever likely to trap. If caught on the ground have a strong trap and pay a lot of attention to how the trap is fastened. Agree with that statement. People tend to underestimate how tough they truly are.
Advice? Wise men don't need it. Fools won't heed it.
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728382
01/14/20 06:51 AM
01/14/20 06:51 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 602 Alabama
2ndjoborfun
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 602
Alabama
|
Cotton is correct - The more swivels the better!
“In God is our trust!” And the star-span-gled ban-ner in tri-umph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Francis Key
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728463
01/14/20 08:51 AM
01/14/20 08:51 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,817 central arkansas
the Blak Spot
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 4,817
central arkansas
|
Here's one in a victor 3N
the just shall live by faith
member FTA, ATA, EAFT 1776 - the year we told a tyrant we weren't to be under a dictator Caveat ater macula
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728700
01/14/20 12:51 PM
01/14/20 12:51 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,639 Williamsport, Pa.
jk
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,639
Williamsport, Pa.
|
Try releaseing them. Here in my part of Pa we have no choice and we have a lot of otters. The zone above me had a season last year so I bought a permit but there is no season now there this year. Sooo no otter for me this year......jk
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728716
01/14/20 01:17 PM
01/14/20 01:17 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,997 Oregon
beaverpeeler
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,997
Oregon
|
I have had almost no luck at all in holding otter in the 550's on dry land. With their tapered feet they pull out.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728722
01/14/20 01:22 PM
01/14/20 01:22 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514 juneau, alaska
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
|
"Made it two years not being censored"
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,514
juneau, alaska
|
650 is not too big for otter.
Made it almost 3 years without censor!
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728769
01/14/20 02:23 PM
01/14/20 02:23 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,879 Central MN, sort of old
MnMan
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 8,879
Central MN, sort of old
|
I have caught a quite a few as incidentals in Duke 1 1/2's and have yet to have one pull out. While I would not target otters with these it tells me that a strong trap that does not have offset jaws should be sufficient with enough swivels and proper staking. I would think the 550's would be great as long as they did not have offset jaws. Many were caught for transplanting with the 11's. I also feel that because of the way the otter is constructed that a bigger trap does not cause any unnecessary damage as I have not seen any with the MB 750, although these were water sets.
I'm just happy to be here! Today I'm as young as I'll ever be and and older than I've ever been before!
|
|
|
Re: foot hold for otter
[Re: coykill]
#6728798
01/14/20 03:00 PM
01/14/20 03:00 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 41,592 Northern Maine
Bruce T
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 41,592
Northern Maine
|
My go to foothold trap for trapping otter in the water is the #14 jump.
Nevada bound
|
|
|
|
|