Nebraska 2020
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10/27/20 10:44 PM
10/27/20 10:44 PM
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Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,619 Nebraska
WadeRyan
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OP
trapper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,619
Nebraska
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I've been dabbling a little bit getting started trapping this year. I'll try and keep as much photographic evidence going as I can on the Nebraska line this year. I also recently got a goPro so I've been doing a little recording out on the line. When life slows down a little bit here I'll try to add some videos to my youtube. I'm currently trapping a couple locations that we will have cattle on soon. So I am just taking out some coyotes before we put them on there. I'm running right at about a dozen traps just enough to keep me happy until the seasons open for everything else. I've already had to let out my fair share of animals that didn't include coyotes. First night and first trap. Always good to get the first one out of the way. Interestingly I've been on another site and they were discussing pre-digging holes. I was on location scouting one day so I just dug a trap bed and a dirt hole. When I came back to set it about a week later I noticed this coyote had been there twice leaving droppings at the hole. No bait, lure, or urine on the empty hole. So I put a trap in front of it, bait, and quality urine. First time was a success. This is a corn field that my father had seen a coyote carrying a rabbit by the grain cart and a second trying to catch another as they ran out of the corn. First night in I already had to release the first cat of the season. Nice Tom. A raccoon was the double next to it. I'm almost certain the raccoon probably was caught first and the cat had to come check out the ruckus. I can't say enough about Graham's Cat Creek. After taking a year off of it I'm excited to get it back in the ground. It's responsible for a large majority of my first night cat catches in the past and up to 7 cats off 40 acres in 10 days. In typical fashion as soon as I decided to put a few traps out the weather came. I'm using nothing but peat moss/table salt. We had rain/sleet/snow and when the first picture was taken the windchill was down to around 9 degrees. If you dry it out completely it will get you through some pretty rough weather. This brush pile has notoriously drawn the coyotes to it. I don't even know how many I've caught off of there in the past. The snow got them moving for sure. I might try to get a few more out here soon. They're all popping and the coyotes are moving. It would be nice to run a full line about now as well as they are moving. For now I'm content just hitting these places I won't have access to soon and taking in the fresh air in the mornings.
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7029989
10/27/20 11:01 PM
10/27/20 11:01 PM
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Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 6,224 Kansas
Pawnee
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Kansas
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Great pics and good luck. I hope to be in Nebraska this weekend and chase some grouse through the Sandhills and then get back home and finish prep for 20/21 season
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030018
10/27/20 11:45 PM
10/27/20 11:45 PM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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Wish I was starting a fur line in NE. Need to get back there in years to come. Just something about those dogs and that air and that country! What part are you trapping Wade? I usually head north of Thedford 25 miles or out to Crawford. Thedford has way more dogs!
Blessings, Mark
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030103
10/28/20 06:19 AM
10/28/20 06:19 AM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,355 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Firth, Nebraska
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Great start wade, thank you for sharing! Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030685
10/28/20 07:22 PM
10/28/20 07:22 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 21,716 Sandhills Nebraska
Gary Benson
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Sandhills Nebraska
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I was lucky enough to find a fancy sandhills coyote roadkilled early this morning. Dropped him off at the skinner's tonight.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030772
10/28/20 08:19 PM
10/28/20 08:19 PM
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Joined: Apr 2014
Posts: 3,302 S/W Wisconsin
rpmartin
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S/W Wisconsin
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Great job wade, too bad about the mange but it is what it is. Clean em out to the point the coyotes start waving the white flag. Lol Great time to figure out some of the finer points to Wiley trapping .
Life member, NRA, NTA, RMEF, Pheasants Forever. WTA,TTA,FTA,SA,GOA, member
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030947
10/28/20 10:31 PM
10/28/20 10:31 PM
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Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 481 Nebraska
BraskaYoter
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Posts: 481
Nebraska
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Nice work Wade. Ive been dabbling out west also, but just had over a foot of snow dropped and negative temps on Friday - Sunday and going to be mid 50° tomorrow so a few muddy days and frozen nights in my future. Not all bad though we really needed the moisture, and will be easier to bed traps in than dry powdered dirt. Getting some decent yotes on this end, best of luck.
Failure leads to learning, learning leads to improvement.
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7030957
10/28/20 10:39 PM
10/28/20 10:39 PM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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Fourth check this morning. Two more coyotes. Up to 10 coyotes in four checks. I’ve only brought three home that were worth looking at. Another hog unit special. I had seen tracks in the snow and couldn’t get this one to commit. I added some of Keg Creeks Mamba to two of the dirtholes. It’s a lure I tested for Marty and I don’t believe it’s on his website yet. Definitely a good change up I don’t use lure often but there was a day a coyote worked the sets but not enough. This morning I found out why. Old male pair with nothing but gums. Three leg coyote which explains why I was having troubles getting him. Unfortunately covered in mange. Finally what I like seeing here in Nebraska. First coyote of the year that wasn’t blue. He made the ride home. Was caught in the remake on the double from yesterday. I’ll probably expand a bit Friday as our season will be coming in soon on everything else. Twelve sets was just enough to scratch the itch. Man-o-man, I miss your country. Just a great start to trap coyotes in. Bummer about the mange. I thought that had worked through pretty well in most of the state but it's rearing its head again? Blessings, Mark
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Re: Nebraska 2020
[Re: WadeRyan]
#7031019
10/29/20 12:01 AM
10/29/20 12:01 AM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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Good advice Lee,
I plan to trap my NE fur line again fall of 2022 Lord willing so I hope north central NE doesn't have too much mange then. I remember how bad it was about 6-7 years ago. I wait early because I couldn't run all day to toss 6 outta 10 dogs.
Stay well out there and good luck brother staying healthy ya old fart. Wait a minute. I'm on Lee's bus!!!
Blessings, Mark
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