Yep I'm going but I never really stop. I trap coyotes year round. But I'm really starting to get traps out now

I dont really ever stop either. I just take small breaks from time to time and catch hogs and go on out of state trapping adventures! LOL!

Season starts Nov 10 for me.getting traps and stuff ready, finish up some scouting till then .might catch a coon or two just see how blue they still are the second week of season then set steel full on.hopefully il get drawn for the controlled beaver/otter lottery

Season starts Nov 10 for me.getting traps and stuff ready, finish up some scouting till then .might catch a coon or two just see how blue they still are the second week of season then set steel full on.hopefully il get drawn for the controlled beaver/otter lottery

first trap check yesterday

Great check Oregon!!

Season opens tomorrow, and rain and snow mix for the next 6 days, at least it is sand so the water drains off quickly

Next Friday!

I’ve been slapping new chains on, adding swivels and tuning traps all day. Slowly switching over to drags from super stakes now that I will be trapping high desert and mountains instead of prairies and farmland. Just got my new tags in, have to add them to all my traps for the address change. Then boil and wax about 3 dozen traps that I haven’t got to yet. Gotta clean out my horse trailer, as I no longer have a skinning shed that will have to suffice for this year. Probably have to buy or make more stretchers. I’m hoping to have steel in the ground this weekend, if nothing else help my kids set a kit fox line. Get some coyote sets out maybe. Then November 1 bobcat opens and I will be running full tilts and hopefully seeing spots.

My wife said if I set every trap I own this year she will let me buy more. Challenge accepted lol.

I would accept that challenge too! She didn't say WHERE you had to set them. Set them all in your yard, take a picture for proof and go shopping!
Our land season starts today. I will probably throw a few coyote sets out after I get out of work (7:30am).

It's still a little early to trap here in the Black Hills of SD. Takes the same amount of gas plus time and effort to trap un prime fur as prime fur. I think I will finish working on traps and snares and maybe clean my wood stove flue in the fur shop today.

Not yet don't weaken

Setting for coyotes this coming Saturday.

Got 39 sets in today.

I expect to see some catch pics tomorrow!

How many possum and coon will be the question. I have the privilege of taking another fellow trapper man on a ride along. Four corners from Ohio just happened to be on a vacation in my town. Should be a good day. Hoping to catch something other than possum and coon. Pictures will be posted....

Nothing this morning?

Was a long day, set another 20 something sets and hunted this evening. That was after Donnie and I checked traps. Was nice to hear another trappers perspective on our different terrain. Saw one coyote from the Jeep. Didn't put any coyote in the back though.

It was nice meeting Donnie, aka Four Corners, made a new friend today.

Forgot to mention the fox was caught in a Duke 550 that I had paint dipped and could still smell the paint. As some may recall, I painted them in late August. Curious to see if coyote will get caught in them.

That is a good looking coon!
If you skinned it, how did the leather look?