Has anyone used a drone to check traps?

A friend of mine has one but we have only used it for scouting beaver a few times

Interesting idea but I kind of like driving around and drinking coffee when checking traps.

Yes. Mine has a range of 4 miles and super clear telephoto lens. DJI Mavic 2 zoom. This is a picture from mine checking traps under this rim. You can see the little white dot in the background -- that's my truck where I'm operating the drone from.

WOW !

Can't use them for that here in MN.

Oregon says no also.

Yeah, but you better be a GOOD operator! . . . Sharpshin Hawks and other birds of prey can really play //// with them!

I usually just run my 4-wheeler around the farm real quick... but last year it was brutally cold one day and I flew the whole line with my drone. It was kinda nice, I'll have to admit!

A fellow could set up cameras that send pictures to a phone and you could sit at the tavern and run your trapline.

The legality of remotely "checking" traps would vary with the state, ought to check that before using drones, remote cameras or google earth to 'visit" the sets.

Click when you find it.

Georgia you can. Or at least I know the electronic switch/cellular trap monitors are. It took a manufacturer starting up production here and some lobbying on their part to make it so.

Im sorry but I really dont like Drones! State of Alabama DNRC thought it would be a good Idea to use them to spy on deer hunters and check on Private property who had corn out. Yep you guest it = redneck alabama deer hunter blew 2 out of the skies last year! I can honsetly say = If one flies over my property its coming down. Now public land. I quess its OK for trapping and checking traps if legal . But others may disagree . If its loud and buzzing , and disturbing someones hunting? Well . I quess I can see how it might get shot down

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I agree that definitely could be a problem. I think that if allowed it should be private property only by or with written permission of the property owner.
I would have a problem if I were on public and buzzed by a drone. I do know most public I've been on in Georgia has signage prohibiting drones.

Drones=Target practice

Drones are private property, and, therefore subject to vandalism

I have a drone. Haven't used it to check traps. I have flown it over 100 miles in the 2 months I've owned it - most of that flight over other people's property.

I usually fly to explore lakes, streams, and other parts of nature. I don't fly to spy on anyone. In fact, if I'm flying over your property, I'm typically flying at 400' and moving as fast as my drone can go (about 45mph) to get to my destination. I doubt that anyone has ever notice it was there. If there's no wind, you can hear the buzz from the propellers but by the time you find the tiny dot in the sky, it's already long gone.

FAA regulates navigable air space. Drone is like an airplane in that it's allowed to fly in any non-restricted air space and can even fly in restricted airspace with authorization - which is usually fairly easy to get through an automated system set up by the FAA.

And, I didn't know this until I bought a drone but here is no way you're going to use one to spy on anyone. At any distance close enough to spy on anyone, these things are surprisingly loud. You'll never sneak up on anyone.

I like trapping to be outdoors. I will walk 2 miles to check a trap, wouldn't ever use a drone.

This is all true, however like any other tool there are morons who will misuse them. Unfortunately, it's the geniuses that pay the price.