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Setting a concrete culvert wing? #6941230
07/24/20 03:12 PM
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Just picked up a property that has a concrete apron around the sides of the culvert. Where is the best location to set a BE set for mink?

1. Where the concrete meets the pipe (90 degree angle)?
2. The extreme end of the concrete where it shallows up and transitions to mud?
3. Something else?

Scouting today.

Thanks.


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941266
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With mink it never hurts to set all of them. If the corners are shallow enough, platform sets with a #2 is great.

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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941318
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Don't even worry about the culvert go up stream and down stream and find that that sweet spot. Or with a bit of work you can create that perfect spot. And you can always gang set these areas. 6 B&E sets will out preform 1.

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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941406
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it all depends on how deep the water is, which you did not say

most can set footholds in 1-3" water at those spots actually...

if water is deep enough, put a BE at each wall wing and the culvert itself,


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941417
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The one thing I found out about mink over all years of chasing them Is they like to pull out before the culvert and go over the road. Ever notice those very faint trails that go up the bank.


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941512
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Thanks guys - the water at the culvert mouth is about 3' and with the wings it goes down to to the point at which you reach the shore. I did see sign - half eaten frogs, faint trails as Beav mentioned so they are definitely in the area.


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6941933
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I like to set the wingwall high and dry a few feet from the water, up against it with a 110 and some slight guiding. You’ll appreciate these during rises and I think some mink are up on the bank and hit the wall and follow tight against it. Can set the 110 about anywhere along the edge the same way. I don’t have any of the 5x5 ‘s but I’m sure they’d be great.

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Mink hug the edge of a point so the point of a bend work best. This holds true for dry land and underwater. I set the upstream side at the edge of the culvert where the land and the culvert come together. If the mink are running the bank they will often hit this edge before entering the water. I prefer a 1 1/2 coil spring.

Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6942004
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Yes. The traditional corners, and along wall about anywhere under the bridge. The place I mentioned is certainly not the only place to set. Just one that some may not have tried.

Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: The Beav] #6942059
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Great info Beav!


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6942123
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Don’t forget to ask the pros at www.minktrapping.com too !


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6942781
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Maybe I go overboard or maybe I just have too many traps. But I agree with setting all the locations you listed. Both sides. I rarely set less then six traps for mink when doing blind sets at one spot. I also have a habit of putting pockets further away from the culvert. If I am going to crawl down to check I want to come back with something even if its a coon. Very often when I get a mink it seems one or both of the pockets have a coon that may have been on the same path as the mink. I have many traps setting idle waiting for one mink sometimes. The rats at the blind sets and knowing more traps are productive during water level changes Keeps me gang setting those spots. Probably will have the same amount of traps on the other side! Just my experience.

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Not sure if this pic will help, but the traps were set close to where the mink are pictured. (Three mink in pic)

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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: The Beav] #6944368
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Originally Posted by The Beav
The one thing I found out about mink over all years of chasing them Is they like to pull out before the culvert and go over the road. Ever notice those very faint trails that go up the bank.


Ive noticed those trails and got tired of catching squirrels, rabbits possums, etc. They arent mink trails for sure.....

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If that trail leads across the road coming and going Into the water source I'm betting Its a mink trail.


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6945111
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Just saw a mink killed at one of my bridges yesterday and I guarantee thats what he was doing. Just seems everything else uses them here in the east. Cant say Ive ever found one that led from water, up over back into the water- they seem to follow the bank for a ways here. I still think you are OK to set the bridge walls underneath. I am a firm believer that the same mink dont go over all the time.

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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6945128
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They don't always go over the road. That tripple catch in my posted pic shows that. They do go over the road sometimes, I've seen proof of that by tracks in the snow


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Re: Setting a concrete culvert wing? [Re: Green Bay] #6945133
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fencing and blocking down area around body grips doesn't spook mink away either. Give them the easiest path right through your trap. Use sticks, weedstems, rocks, whatever is handy to fence em down to the narrow opening of a body gripper.
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