For coyotes, mink, or other critters you pursue?

I'd say 80 to 120 for coyotes in our country for a one man operation with 24 hrs check law

I don’t know the answer to your question but if I ran all my line in my truck once it’s completely set before I start leap frogging, I’m guessing it would be nearly 400 miles with almost 200 traps.

I can take that line and stretch it out with no check laws. I can check one part one day, another part the next day, and another part another day but I can also check some daily from the road and my window.

Depends on the check law, daily checks suck. I drive to every location in my Tacoma and use efficient techniques and equipment to make every second count. When I trapped a full time operation, I ran up to 300 sets land and water. Now part time less than 100, sucks getting old LOL... If I had more lenient check laws it would be a lot easier to run 2x that.

Around my area I'd say over 100 traps. We're getting so populated and condensed that you will put alot of mileage on running 100+ traps.

I don't long line much, but to me it is more about miles, distance between stops and the number of stops then it is traps set. Many gang set, especially on the early checks so trap numbers may not indicate the length of the line. Also species can create different line lengths, a coyote line with 30 stops and 75 traps is probably a lot longer than a coon line with 60 stops and 150 traps.

Bryce

With daily checks, I think a long line requires two sleeping places, check one direction one day and the other direction the next, so a couple hundred miles, maybe, and however many traps that takes. It could be a lot of traps with ROW and mixed species. Less traps on private ground and single species.
This won't work for 24 hour checks so that makes everything about half or less, I guess.
Of course if you have three day checks, you could have three camps, with the line making a loop.
Point being it's the miles not the number of traps. we could set three hundred traps on a section of ground.

12.

It really depends on the species and the applications in which the individual is setting. One day check, two day check, three day check? What's the location? Are we talking the average set per day over 3 weeks, low amounts, high amounts?
Here's some basic numbers in my area, from my own experiences.
Muskrat/mink/coon on a roadline with ROW, it could be 100-400 sets.
Spring beaver 50-300 sets
Fall beaver 20-50 sets, could even be more, depends on how you're doing it.
Winter beaver 20-50 sets could even be more, depends on how you're doing it.
Muskrat out of a boat 150-400 sets, could be more, depends on how you're checking and the density of the population.
Muskrat out of a canoe 50-200 sets
Bobcat 20-75 traps.
Weasel 20-100 boxes.

At the end of the day I see longlining as being where a guy wakes up every day and goes out and catches fur. Not going out and having a jolly time in the merry woods, but going out and having one vision, and that's fur in the shed.

The amount of fur you are producing and critter you are trapping. IMO

In this market - two traps.

And hope you don't catch coons in either one lol

It would depend on where you’re trapping at IMO

80 marten boxes.

One.
Me and my trapping partner were 13 years old. We walked 3 miles to make a set for a raccoon. We had read in FFG to set under a persimmon tree. We didn't have any persimmon trees. We did now of the whereabouts of a crabapple tree. We figured that was close enough.
We had 2 inches of fresh snow on the ground. We just got done finishing up the first/last trap of our "long line" when my partner, who was infamous for wolfing down his food without chewing, puked up his spaghetti dinner in the snow right next to the trap. It looked like spaghetti slide right off of a plate. Not one noodle broken.
We trudged back home and spent a sleepless night, dreaming of the rich bounty that would be awaiting for us in the morning.
We got there first thing in the morning. Trap was froze solid. Ground was completely covered in possum tracks. There was not one noodle of the barfed spaghetti to be found, nor was there even a red stain from the sauce.
And so was born the infamous "Possum Puke Set". I'm sure you've all heard of it.

HAHAHA that's a spectacular story Carl

USMC47 likes this. Lol.

That trapping partner wasn't, by chance, the infamous Retch Sweeney, was he?

I was really hoping for a catch at the end of that story, Carl! Great story nonetheless.

To me longlining is up at the crack of dawn an check traps till dark then after dark skin an try an put up your days catch and load the truck for the next day do that every day till ya body wont take it any more an id say that ought to make ya an official long liner