Do you catch more than a couple a year computer hater I'm north of columbus by an hour and have only seen one in my life and very little sign I'm interested in trying to catch some but never seen enough sign to bother with it

I just checked my records and I have caught 22 weasels in my life. My best year was 4. The white one in the picture is the only white one I have ever caught. I have caught all 3 types of weasels. I haven't caught any weasels in the last 3 years.

The white weasel was caught in mid November just a few days after our season opened. I was surprised to say the least.

I usually see a weasel once or twice a year running across the road in front of me.

I am a mink trapper. That is how I am catching weasel on occasion. They frequent the same kind of habitat. I have caught them in bodygrippers as well as foot traps. The tension on foot traps has to be VERY light and I start my triggers on my bodygrips so that they will fire with minimal movement.

I have never tried using boxes for them. I catch them in trails with the BG traps and I catch them in baited pockets in foot traps.

They aren't plentiful but there are a few out there in the right places. Think habitat - thick and brushy and swampy areas are your best bet.

Thanks for the info and personal experience I just might try targeting them for the fun of it come season. I trap a fair amount of public land and there's a couple swampy spots brush piles and stuff any other recommendations for habitat

Nice to see an Ohio Weasel. Thank you

I caught a lot of weasels in northeast ohio fifty years ago. None had any white except one really tiny one that was all white. At the time we thought it was a least weasel. It was only a few inches long.

In NW PA we have the long tailed weasel & the least weasel

It can be done

[quote=Ohiowoodchuck} My boy is 8 He is very interested in trapping this year and I'm just trying to give him something to check on his own so he feels like a man. [/quote]



Why is it an 8 year old needs to feel like a man, again ?

Make your sets along cattail filled ditches along the roads. Check your mail box too.

Good advice above. That is always a good location in Pa. Old weedy fence rows, rock wall areas and some mature hardwoods all have weasels in Pa.

Picked this guy up today in a mink box set in a small drainage colvert along a river.

Cattails are probably good but I have caught them in just about every other environment too. Never on purpose though. Heavy timber, fields, cliffs, water, etc. Never know where one is going to pop up at- no pun intended.

I am in northeast Ohio in Trumbull County. I've taken many weasels in my 60 years of trapping, mostly in the 1960s as a kid. Not a spot of white on any of them with the exception of a least weasel that was about 5 or 6 inches long and was white. Most weasels were caught by placing a few drops of weasel lure under a brush pile and blocking with sticks.