Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/22/20 08:01 PM
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If you have coon your going to catch them. That's why you gang set.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/22/20 09:16 PM
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Any tips on avoiding coon at the pocket sets? Don't put any bait in them, that'll keep a lot of the bank running coon from smelling it. I make my pocket sets a lot different than most because most of the cricks here go up and down quite a bit this time of year. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow if I remember to take one of my pocket sets.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/22/20 10:40 PM
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I’m wondering where I put pocket sets? Just grassy vertical banks? If so, how many and how far apart. It seems silly to just randomly put 8 pocket sets in a stream somewhere. I appreciate all the information. I also put in my first pocket set today, no pictures though. I dug in about 6-10 inches in a vertical grassy bank, minnows, muskrats, and crawfish live in it, I put a muskrat leg with some “midnight mink” lure on it guarded with an 11dbls and on a drowning cable. What do you think of the set? Sounds good- now make 199 more like that and you should have some action every day.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/23/20 12:03 PM
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What they say. And you gotta have mink to catch mink.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/23/20 12:22 PM
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I’m wondering where I put pocket sets? Just grassy vertical banks? If so, how many and how far apart. It seems silly to just randomly put 8 pocket sets in a stream somewhere. I appreciate all the information. I also put in my first pocket set today, no pictures though. I dug in about 6-10 inches in a vertical grassy bank, minnows, muskrats, and crawfish live in it, I put a muskrat leg with some “midnight mink” lure on it guarded with an 11dbls and on a drowning cable. What do you think of the set? It is good if the pocket was smaller than the 11. They are great traps and I used them for years but it is easier to use a coil spring in my opinion. I know this will get push back but I have never used mink lure because it is not necessary again in my opinion. If a mink goes by a pocket he will investigate especially if there is food there. I have seen this a lot. You will catch that same mink the next night usually. If he gets by you or you do not see any bait he has been there and got around you somehow. Small guide sticks placed at the sides of the pocket at an angle like an upside down V will stop mink from going around or over the top of your trap. I would go elbow deep on the pocket since mink can easily reach bait at 6" without getting caught. LLL
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/23/20 01:21 PM
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I just can't imagine digging 100 pocket sets and making them 15" deep.
Take your tile spade make a slot In the bank pry It open like you would if you were planting pine tree seedlings. Drop In your bait and kick It shut. Place your trap stake It down and move on.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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12/23/20 02:37 PM
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I do not use a tile spade. My digger makes a perfectly round 3.75" pocket that a 1.5 fits very tight in. My banks are clay and most are still there the next season. They just need cleaned out. I can't see putting 8sets in a place. That is a waste of effort in my opinion. Besides I would have to make four trips on some ditches because I would have eight coon. lol. Besides why would I want to kick in the very thing that catches a mink's attention in the first place? LLL
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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I just can't imagine digging 100 pocket sets and making them 15" deep.
Take your tile spade make a slot In the bank pry It open like you would if you were planting pine tree seedlings. Drop In your bait and kick It shut. Place your trap stake It down and move on. Beav, sometimes I think some of these guys have more time than we got. I think they might even take a tape ruler when they are setting.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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03/05/21 01:34 PM
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If you want to catch a lot of mink here you need to cover a lot of ground and set a lot of traps. That said,it is fairly easy to catch mink when trapping other species if you scout for sign a bit and set on sign. A lot of guys here will trap mink while setting for beaver in the fall-it is no extra work really and you are covering the area that are mink magnets like beaver dams and beaver lodges. Kick a couple holes in the side of a beaver lodge at the water line and stick in a chunk of rat or sucker in the hole with a foothold set.Some guys will take rats at the same spots as the beaver and mink by setting a funnel trap in the shallow entrance(the one that the rats use) of the beaver house.
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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03/05/21 02:12 PM
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No advice from me... I've had zero luck catching mink, probably because I have violated rule #1: Trap where the mink are.
But I'm not sure if my area is devoid of mink or I just can't zoom in on their sign... And I have a hard time translating all the info I've looked at to apply it to my trapping areas.
Mike
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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03/05/21 02:16 PM
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My digger very similar to Larry's i can dig 100 to 150 plus pockets a day i run a minimum of 18" most are 24" use a 1.5 coils very tight hole if get to wide use a guide stick or two i gang set 2 to 6 traps to a stop all on drowners because we have so many coons that way a trap or two is open for mink i run hundreds of miles i look for open Farm ground with few trees and small Grassy Creek to avoid less coons that my ideal mink area i have every thing map out and mark and move fast
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Re: Best advice you can give me on Mink
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03/05/21 02:18 PM
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"I’m wondering where I put pocket sets? Just grassy vertical banks? If so, how many and how far apart. It seems silly to just randomly put 8 pocket sets in a stream somewhere" Go across streams, not up and down them. You need exposure to many critters, you are not out to trap them all at anyone spot. It seems to me the bigger the stream the more mink pass by increasing you chance at a catch. Up the little tribs you will get one mink pass a week, on the bigger water one will pass every day. But the bigger the creek the more the water will fluctuate with changes in the weather and the more you will have to change location a bit. Find the biggest creek that does not change much. Here in Pa on lakes and reservoir, when I find upside down boats, I make adirt hope set under the boat with an indicator ribbon coming out to show a hit.....jk
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