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Re: Dryland mink sets [Re: jabNE] #7397076
11/04/21 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by jabNE
I use 110s and blind set mink dryland in waterways and weedy fencerows along my coyote line. Right through winter I pick up mink and it makes the line interesting at times. No bait, just block down trails and cover woth weeds and grasses over the trap. I use stabilizers welded onto short lengths of angle iron. Pick up some real nice males doing this.
Here's a whopper we got several years ago in weedy draw up through a corn field we were trapping for coyotes.
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I tried pockets and bait products for several season through winter and didn't get any mink. Went back to blind sets in areas we were already trapping and well it just works for me. 110s only, waxed, light triggers and set right where you think they will go.

Always an interesting mix...coyote and mink trapping line.
If im already checking coyote traps it takes a few seconds to check little 110s blind set in same waterway, old pond dams, etc.
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Sometimes if waterway has a trickle of water those are fantastic mink spots in winter too. Again, right on same places we are coyote trapping.
Here is one with 110 wired to a wood stake with stabilizer screwed to side of stake.
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Another in tiny trickle of water in grassy waterway up through a corn field. Just right width for a 110.
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Had a lot of fun with little blind sets and mink while checking coyote traps. Consider it.
110s are cheap to buy. I bet we run 30 or 40 blind sets for mink in same areas we trap coyotes. 110s kill mink just fine have never had an issue with that or needed 120s. Sometimes I get them in 160s blind sets for coon too, but 160s have way too much room around trigger for serious mink work. Fence down a little 110 and blind set them.

I do something simular but on my beaver line. Drop inn bottom edge sets. Never thought of doing that on coyote line. Thanks jab.

Re: Dryland mink sets [Re: YaYa] #7397125
11/04/21 11:55 PM
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Anything you can do to catch a mink's attention will usually, well, get it's attention. I have caught them with simple things, like making a rock pile on a sand bar, or beach, of course a hole in a creek bank, a big brush pile, you name it. Make it obvious. They will check it out.


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Re: Dryland mink sets [Re: YaYa] #7397621
11/05/21 06:51 PM
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Ksnow, If it's a vent hole on horizontal ground I will usually dig out so the top of the conibear is pretty much flush with the ground. On vertical banks I will either cut a little shelf for it to sit on or just snug it tight to the hole it just depends on how it fits.


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Re: Dryland mink sets [Re: YaYa] #8168720
07/09/24 02:14 AM
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Re: Dryland mink sets [Re: YaYa] #8170891
07/11/24 08:52 PM
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