Got tired of waiting to finish up deer hunting. I can’t find any buck that interests me that much anyways. I’ve been baiting them for a bit now, today we planted 18 power snares nearby. Can’t wait to go pick up a bunch of dead western heavies.

Good luck hope you fill the truck

Show me the pics...…. beautiful country in Meadow Lake area, I was in Cold Lake for years.

Son’s first check was decent .

Small world, I live westbof Meadow, between there and Cold Lake.

Good job, got some bait piles out and going to put a couple more this next weekend. Now the weather needs to cooperate with some cooler weather.

Smaller world, I’ve been to Meadow Lake twice Duck and Goose hunting. I really like it up there.

That’s a long drive from Arkansas also...

Alex, that’s an extremely long drive.
I’m happy to hear you like it where I hang my hat. Though I live in the country, Meadow Lake is where my wife and I work and where my kids attend school.

Man I’m jelly welly!

Those coyotes sure do look nice

Rvsask, it’s a mere 27 hours... lots of pretty scenic views along the way.

Dark, but good fur, and big.

Good coyotes...and red...

...what is that white stuff on the ground...lol

Nice catches.Way to go.

A real good looking dog and fairly heavy too at around 40 pounds.

Pretty sunrise.
Pretty coyote.
Pretty cool looking.

Thanks Mark. I appreciate the comments. Sunset last night was even better.@

Man how do you find a wife in your cold country, she must be special and is good at feeding the wood stove. Just teasing you!

Picked up a couple more last night. Finally got a chance to put up a bunch of snares. I’m thinking at least five dead ones next check.

Lots of good trails to set on.

Kory do you have those boys trained to do all the skinnin?

I definitely do.

I’m lucky that way too. My oldest loves the entire process and is also way better at it than I.

Great catches,Sask.
Dont forget to post a pic or two when they are put up and ready to sell.

Man I miss Saskatchewan. Have driven through Meadow lake every year for 23 years going fishing until this darn Covid! Have met and developed some of my closest friendships up there. Good luck with your trapping I know you have a ton of them as my friends have taken me on some wild off road chases when they’ve spotted them while bird hunting. I have noticed the majority of people I have met up there are very like minded with us here in Montana who aren’t transplants from liberal states. Keep sharing your pictures!

Yellowstone, may I ask where you go fishing? I’ve been known to wet a hook quite frequently.

Sask this thread is a good one! Thanks for sharing. Any chance of some pictures of setups and maybe a word on baitpiles? Like placement, how big they are and what your using? Thanks again for posting thats some nice fur.

Got a love those RAMS. I use them in south Mississippi for hogs. Very effective.

Love that country north of Meadow Lake, worked up there pre-tar sands development on research.
Keep up the Good Work

Thanks Knappett. Bait piles are actually something we struggle to keep in simply because they go so fast. I use anything I can get my hands on. Moose heads and hides, deer guts, roadkills, dead pigs, goose carcasses. We have so many ravens a truckload of stuff in a location may only last a week. We try to set baits near edges and we also focus on areas where we think we’re less likely to accidentally catch a deer, though we use break away snares. I’ll take some pictures of locations and set ups this weekend.

You bet we’ve been fishing Dore’ since I was in my early 20’s. Always seemed to have it to ourselves until recently now it gets pretty crowded

Yellowstone, that’s because the fish are big there.

I fisk Keeley mostly as we have a cabin there.

Awesome thread

Set some more bait today. That’s the toughest thing for us, keeping them and the ravens fed:

It’ll be gone by Tuesday .

The bait is set about 80 yards to the right of where I stood to take the photo. The timber continues a mule to my left, for three to the right until it hits a road and three behind me.

Another photo from further up the line from where I stood. You can see where the line meets another line at 90 degrees.

Rvsask!!!!!! You’re seriously throwing away those racks!?!? Lol

I’ll come buy them from you tomorrow!!

yeah

JP

We call those dinks.

If you knew how many racks and sheds I have you’d understand . In fairness, I wired the better one to a tree. I’ll eventually pick it up for dog chews.

looks like you have a good abundance of coyotes. Send some of that snow this way. Bait piles here are just feeding the birds. Pretty slow for canines.

Son of a....

Lol. Must be nice!

Made some bait yesterday .

Potbellies .

Fat little buggers eh?
Do you shoot them as nuisance?

Boco, a person I know just got tired of feeding the dang things.

Nice catches and pictures.Way to go.

Oh the humanity. So much bacon.

Started a couple new bait sites yesterday as one we’ve been snaring has died down. We suspect we left too much sign of our presence . My son got a real nice incidental catch today though.

Some of them on boards.

What a Day!!!!

It’s pretty full of mule deer sausage.

Nice Cat.

Boy howdy those are pretty coyotes.
If oh say three of those silvers get taking up too much room I know of someone looking to have something made who’d give top dollar.

Osky

Great job on the snaring. Your right it’s incredible how fast the birds can clean up a bait.

Big one.

Wow, what a toad!!

I really should get a scale for interest sake. It’s likely a top 3 size one for us, ever.

These pics are great! I wish we could legally snare.

What is the legislated reasoning behind you being unable to snare?

Excellent thread. Thanks for posting and keep up the good work!

Chris

Quickly checked a small bait this morning, two coyotes and a red. We prefer not catching them but you can’t train them to stay away. Going to set some lynx snares and put out some fisher boxes today for something to do.

It’s a snaring thread but every now and then we throw a conibear at things. I decided to try nab a fisher so on Tuesday I threw out just three boxes across the road from my house while looking for coyote sign. Went and checked today and had one. I really like trapping them, they’re easy and beautiful but bc their value is low my oldest son won’t like me catching any more this year, there anyways. So I’ll just tan it and enjoy the fur myself.

Very nice thread and update Kory. Keep the peddle to the metal. I will wear my outer vest tomorrow in honor of your snow - 2,182 miles south of you.
Keep us posted - literally!

Blessings,
Mark

Thanks Mark, appreciate the encouragement. Fur sheds stink but fun happens there
.

Thats a dandy looking fisher.

Pretty sweet!! Fisher are awesome!!

Need to get you down here where we wear t-shirts in the afternoons. Big spray, sun tan lotion, lip balm, the whole 9 yards. You'd probably be running and gunning even more here without all those layers. Of course, it takes the fur from 6 of these dogs to equal one of yours there, so you'll have to run and gun

Checked a bait today, despite all the sign, yotes outsmarted us. The red and the cat weren’t so smart.

Ran some coyote bait out with snowmobile, found another red in a snare nearby. We’re catching more of them than we’d like. They’re pretty, should be worth more.

Those cats.are the coolest. Nice.dogs too.

Somehow I've missed this post up until now. Great pictures. Enjoying it!

The lynx walked through a snare on a coyote trail.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Same here!!

Great pics .....any wolfs there ?

There are wolves nearby and I know guys who get decent wolf numbers, even close by. Where we trap just doesn’t seem to hold them. We encounter tracks every now and then, hear them occasionally but clearly their core area doesn’t include where we trap for much time. I always hope they find and take over a coyote bait when we set it out.

Nice thread-the coyotes are nice-the lynx are gorgeous cats-man they are cool.I hear ya on the fishers-neatest animal in the woods.Love catching them but I just cannot set a bunch of fisher sets out( like yourself ) to catch them for $25-keeping them from yourself is best.

really nice reading thread.
Keep it up.

Coyote baits have went kind of dead for us. Only a couple coyotes and a couple fox and a lynx near the baits the last week at baits. This always seems to happen in January for us. We’d move more to trail sets if not for so much deer sign too. Took some more bait out anyways today, set a few random trail crossing sets off the skidoo and set another lynx snare pen.

Nice looking fur

Also had a little snoop nearby checking a lynx snare pen and a 330 lynx cubby I built about a week ago. I just had a goose wing inside the cubby and today found another fisher. I’m not targeting them but I think they’re real neat so I don’t hate catching them but I’ll pull my last conibear from that area next trip so I don’t get another. I may abstain from resetting 330 for fear of another.

Great stuff RV.. that fisher looks like a beefy one.

Osky

Sweet! I might move to Saskatchewan now!

Giant Fisher!!!

Keep up the good work.

Chris

Still picking up some coyotes, I think there are 19 in the fur shed, but that counts a couple my kids called in and shot. That’s down from last year at this time by about a dozen. Picked up a small one today but I think the season is suddenly being interrupted by whitetail shed searching as we picked up ten this weekend.

Nice sheds.

Those are chunky

Had a couple walk arounds before one ventured into my snare pen.

Nice Kitty

Haven’t updated my thread as we took a little hiatus to catch up on putting up fur and to pull all sets not targeting coyotes. We don’t want any more lynx or fisher. Deep snow conditions hinder our ability to access prime locations but we got lucky and a friend had a dozer in to do do some work on his land. That opened up travel for us and the coyotes.

Threw out a dead deer and a pig last week in a different area on his property and they were long gone today and the dozer road is littered with sign. Threw out another pig and set a bunch of snares. It’s cold today , about -40 F.

That’s crazy on pigs in different parts of the Country. Coyotes won’t go near a pig down here, but will pick a deer clean before you can track it.

Nice 🙂👍

I think most animals are less picky at -40!!

My son snagged a couple last night. Today we snagged 5, left one behind bc it was mangy. While we checked snares, my younger son picked whitetail sheds. Despite the cold, this day has been on fire.

Another today alongside a snowmobile trail near my house.

Way to go man!!

Oldest son picked up one yesterday, we’ve got 9 now this last week.

What I like most about coyotes is the variance in fur. They’re tough to judge dead but we decided after putting this one up, we’d keep him and get him tanned.

Nice

Son picked two up today. Nearly time to quit.

Great work!

Chris

Picked up the three yesterday . Two were mangy. We will shut it down next weekend.

Ran a load of carcasses out the other day, snowmobiled by this.

Nice catches sask.
Hope you get a nice payday.
I snared a coyote here last day trapping the other day.
It must be 10 years since one showed up.They are as scarce as coon here.

Great thread, thanks for sharing. Amazing scenery and weather conditions! I’ve never snared before, not allowed in my state, the “power snare” looks stout! Does it work like a conibear and close the snare faster? Helpful in the tough conditions you trap in? I think we can use a snare in water for beavers but not on land. We have so many deer it would probably be tough any how. That shed covered by the snow was cool also! Again, thanks for sharing!

Thanks Boco. I’ve let him do most of the hard work so I’ll let him have all the money. It should be a pretty good chunk of cash for a hobby when in grade 11. I’m proud of his work.

I don’t know what your laws are in Alabama, but I think it’s absolute BS that we have to use power snares here. Complete money grab to support the sales of power snares.
Not even a Canadian product anymore. Time for change!

Looks like you had a great season rvsask! I’m sure your boys are having fun!

At -40 doesn't matter if u put F or C it's still blue bitchin cold !!!!! -40

Very nice thread great pictures hope , lots lots and lots of hard work goes in packing bait.great job.
Nicely done

JP, I personally love the power snares. Even if we didn’t have to use them we would. We find the amount of places we can set them is much higher than free hangers would be and snare set time is almost nil. We also love that most of the time there is no catch circle. We view images out of Alberta where guys use free hangers and the coyote catch circle looks like a bulldozer leaking blood was through the area. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
The cost of them was a deterrent in the beginning but we just View another dozen now as a couple coyote furs.

Coonman, thanks for the nice comments. The power snare does put pressure on the snare. It uses a big spring to do so. Many of our catches show no sign of a struggle.

Rvsask, they definitely have there pro’s and con’s. I rarely ever have the bulldozer leaking blood scene at my locations. I guess it can happen with any set and also depends more on the trapper and weather.

Glad it works for you though! Just not my cup of tea.

Pulled all the snares today. Season ends the 15th but we got six in a row with mange or bad mites so they told us to focus on some big pike and shed antlers instead. Ended with about 40 good western heavies. That’ll be good for his pocket book. Doubt our half dozen fox will bring much and we’re just going to tan and keep the three lynx and couple fisher. Fun times.

Rvsask,

Thanks for taking us along on your line. Its good to know there are places Like where you're at. Personally I would really enjoy some shed antler pictures as well. Thanks

Great thread Sask.