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Bobcats in 220 buckets #7721758
11/19/22 03:28 PM
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Whats your favorite bait
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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7721817
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I don't know anything about bait but I read you need blue buckets

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: ] #7722163
11/20/22 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Larry Sills
Bob,

One more thing, flag the bucket or cubby. I like purple christmas tinsel myself,,,,but other material works well also.

Contact Richard Atkins also. He used buckets on western cats. He may have another idea how he sets his.

Hope this helps. Be safe!


Larry


I flagged mine with a old CD or DVD.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7722175
11/20/22 03:05 AM
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None. Especially in SE Iowa. You'll catch more domestics than cats. Use some sense, man.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7722262
11/20/22 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by AKAjust
Whats your favorite bait
just

We can only use 160s in such sets here, so they aren't all that common for Bobcats, but I would say beaver

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: yotetrapper30] #7722712
11/20/22 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
None. Especially in SE Iowa. You'll catch more domestics than cats. Use some sense, man.


For someone that used 220s almost exclusively in road ditches in SE Iowa you have a strange opinion. I know people around where you trapped.
just


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723046
11/21/22 12:19 AM
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Bucket set make it difficult to release females, and yoy

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723069
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Originally Posted by AKAjust
Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
None. Especially in SE Iowa. You'll catch more domestics than cats. Use some sense, man.


For someone that used 220s almost exclusively in road ditches in SE Iowa you have a strange opinion. I know people around where you trapped.
just



You have no idea what you're talking about, lol. The one year I trapped Iowa I used nothing but DPs, #11s and 1.5 Dukes, lol. And a couple snares.

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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723071
11/21/22 01:41 AM
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I'll go get the popcorn.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723100
11/21/22 06:33 AM
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a rabbits head works great

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723121
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You Iowan’s are lucky to have the right to trap ROW’s and to use 220’s, but in my opinion a baited 220 in a bucket set in a row is asking for trouble, and possible law changes. Here in WI I caught several bobcats with a simple welded wire cubby with a small opening and had the 220 on a stand over a foot back from the entrance and a chunk of beaver wired to the back. I would cover with balsam bows and brush but you could weave a little grass in to cover it. They stack inside one another for hauling and a couple 3/8”x24 stakes woven down through the sides with a tie wire across the top keeps the cubby firmly on the ground. These sets were mainly for fisher but caught many more bobcats than fisher.

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723206
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220's in road ditches when used without bait in coon trail sets are very safe and selective as ROW sets. Baited cubbies have their time and place but it's nowhere near the ROW.

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723291
11/21/22 11:18 AM
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I have caught a lot of cats in baited 220's and had a lot more circle the set and avoid it. If I were specifically targeting cats a baited 220 would be my LAST choice. My first would be a Victor 3N followed VERY closely by snares. Actually I would even take cages over 220's as long as I didn't need to haul them very far. I have been able to release a lot of cats from #3's and cages that were females or young of the year. 220's don't give you that option not to mention the risk's associated with BG's.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723313
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A cubby with a half a beaver built in a brushy area,set with a foothold or bodygrip at each end,and 8 snares hung in openings in the surrounding brush.
you wont miss any,and if you have an extended check time,you can catch multiple animals.

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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723319
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You have no idea what you're talking about, lol. The one year I trapped Iowa I used nothing but DPs, #11s and 1.5 Dukes, lol. And a couple snares.[/quote]

Not so.
You had a 220 in the road ditch across from a farm house owned by the brother of a buddy of mine.

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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723334
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If you say so, lol.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723336
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Originally Posted by AKAjust

You have no idea what you're talking about, lol. The one year I trapped Iowa I used nothing but DPs, #11s and 1.5 Dukes, lol. And a couple snares.


Not so.
You had a 220 in the road ditch across from a farm house owned by the brother of a buddy of mine.
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Were you looking for advice on your question or did you just want to start a urination contest with YT30? By the way, you are welcome for the advice that I offered.


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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723386
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Just wanting information on bait.
I've been trapping for 40+ years. You figure it out.
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Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723395
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FYI you guys. A bucket set in a road ditch would only invite theft.
We are limited to 220s in road ditches several feet from a fence.
Also a couple of hundred feet from a building occupied by humans.
just

Re: Bobcats in 220 buckets [Re: AKAjust] #7723399
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How did your buddy s brother know whose trap it was?


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