Anyone ever try dp's on a drowner? Thinking about it where I need a 72 hr check. I have a line of 330'sover bank holes but thinking this might work for picking up the coons that are there.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. Give it a try.

Maybe it’s just a pet peeve of mine but I hate skinning wet coon. Lol I’d rather have em on a drag or cabled to ground or tree

Yes, ran a lot of coon cuffs several seasons on drowners a few years back. I had 1’ lengths of 4” PVC white pipe I shoved in creek bottom or right in the bank. A smear of bait in the pipe and put the trap right in end of the pipe. I ran drowners on them and they worked slick on coon.
I did this with duke DPs too, no pipe just trap on trail at water edge and a drowner slide wire, works well.
Jim

The problem with coon is they won’t go down a drowner unless they think they can get across a stream of some sort. Usually, they won’t go to deep pond or lake water. Often the same with creeks and streams. Don’t ask me why.

Doesn’t take much water to get them down. Their fur isn’t waterproof and in cold water hypothermia takes em out. With DPs you are virtually guaranteed a front foot catch. Keep the chain short to the lock, we put locks halfway mid chain to get them very short. They end up nose down with a good lock.
Jim

That might be the way 'coon behave in Montana, but certainly not in Wisconsin. A 'coon will go "down" a drowner under most any conditions, providing the trap is small enough for them to carry it along.

IMO, the only "thinking" they're doing is to get away from the site where they were caught. You can zipline a 'coon off a ten foot bank into a lake and it will still have that smile on his face when you bring him up.

DPs on drowners are the go to set for a 'coon trapper when it pays to trap 'em.

Muskrat is right and you couldn’t get me to believe it’s a regional thing even for a split second. Once caught, any animal only has security on their mind and they will be headed any direction that they have the ability to….if you steer them to deep water, that’s where they’ll be waiting for you. It’s as simple as that!

I've caught more Coon than I wanted to in beaver sets with drowning slides over the years. Also in Pocket sets for mink set up with a drowner just in case a coon would get caught by accident even though I disliked catching them in mink sets. I can't ever remember any getting caught and not going down the slide wire deep enough to drown.

The first couple of years we trapped the Mississippi River were dog proofs exclusively. Since we wanted the 72-hour check, we put them on drowners and never had a loss.

The second year, I added some #11 and 11/2 coils. We found small (young of the year) coon didn’t end up at the end of the drowners as often.

If I do a river line again, it will be dog proofs and drowners because they work!

There was an article in The Trapper in the early 2000's by a fellow using DP's (Grizz Getters) on chain drowners. They were almost indestructible, heavy and expensive with the chain but he had the catch to prove it. Cable slides will work as good but not last as long as chain............ I have said this before, with a few years of experience to substantiate it, "That DP trap design made everyone in America a coon trapper overnight". Up until then it was only 11's, Box/Cage types, snares, Rudy's Black Hole, egg traps, coon cuffs,1.5's in a pan of water or under tire rims etc., etc., that specifically targeted coon and showed a moderately high degree of success. Gary Bonnet's design was far above these others using coon anatomy and dexterity to narrow down the non target species. Look at all the copies that have surfaced in the last 21 years. ................................. the mike