A Few Pics
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02/19/20 09:44 PM
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Bushwhack Jack
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Picked up a couple more kitties last weekend and another fox. Just got this one skinned out. This one's on deck. And this one's in the hole.
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/19/20 11:54 PM
02/19/20 11:54 PM
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Posts: 45,491 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Nice job on the ears(and the rest too) Once I learned to gang set(snared jackpot) never had any problems with cannibalism,and often multiple catches, Cannibalism in cats happens when there is a family group travelling or hunting together-female with young.They will cannibalize a fresh caught but once frozen a cat cannot eat it. When I use a beaver to bait a cat I learned to feather it with an axe,otherwise it has no appeal to a cat.A cats jaws are not configured for gnawing a large chunk of frozen meat like a canine or mustelid. They are very attracted to frozen meat when it is feathered so they can eat it and will hang around a big beaver carcass for quite a while.
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/20/20 01:00 AM
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Boco
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I learned that quite a few years ago from more than one good old lynx trapper.I wondered why cats were ignoring my bait? and once I partnered up with old man Rockburn as a helper on his line he showed me the difference it made in making the bait attractive to the cats.I found out later that a couple other trappers that put up good numbers of lynx used the same method. Our country here gets pretty lean for most of the animals in mid to late winter and they expend a lot more energy travelling in the deep snow so bait becomes a real attractant at these times.
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/20/20 02:47 AM
02/20/20 02:47 AM
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otterman
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Well will have to disagree with Boco on the idea that cats wont eat frozen meat I don’t catch a lot of cats 3-4 a year at the most I just don’t have them but the one thing I have had them do especially this last month with our continuous below 0 weather is eat frozen beaver nothing fancy done to it one in particular drug a quarter of a frozen beaver out in the open and ate the entire works except the skull missed a lot of the same cats multiple times with the continual snowfall plugging traps but eventually had a good stretch of weather and picked them up. Why the big baits many may ask because these sets double up for the wolverine coming down off the mountains above the set
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/20/20 03:24 AM
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Boco
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What are you calling cold. beaver doesnt freeze rock hard until about 20 below. Lynx freezes rock hard before beaver will if using that for bait. We use a couple whole beavers at a jackpot,wired to a tree trunk and feathered,so the animals re-visits until snared. Like you said small chunks will be dragged away making a jackpot not effective.
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/21/20 01:21 PM
02/21/20 01:21 PM
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I had that problem with wolves and lice on my line over the years.Never seen it at all the first few years I had my north line,then over a couple years the odd wolf showed a little bit,like a red belly or what looked like rubs/missing guard hair on the flanks and tail root.Then a couple years on,more wolves had it and were more severely affected,one extremely large wolf I remember looked like a lion,with just guard hair around his neck and his whole body guard hair chewed off by the lice.Then it started to get less-less wolves had it and less severe.The last few years I havent seen any of it on the wolves. As far as I can tell it looked to be about a 15 year cycle.
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/22/20 03:06 AM
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I take it from your response that you don't agree with my methods. I sense a guilt trip coming soon. Your methods aren't any different than a few hundred other alaska trappers. But if you want to feel guilty, have at it. mt
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Re: A Few Pics
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02/22/20 04:52 PM
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otterman
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Boco Im talking -20F and colder i know what a frozen solid beaver is and I do not snare lynx snared lynx = lost $ And I have too few around to loose any or parts of any every cat is worth about a $1000.00 of sewn product by the time my wife is done with them
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