Whats your favorite bait
just

I don't know anything about bait but I read you need blue buckets

I flagged mine with a old CD or DVD.

None. Especially in SE Iowa. You'll catch more domestics than cats. Use some sense, man.

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

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

Bucket set make it difficult to release females, and yoy

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.

I'll go get the popcorn.

a rabbits head works great

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you say so, lol.

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.

Just wanting information on bait.
I've been trapping for 40+ years. You figure it out.
just

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

How did your buddy s brother know whose trap it was?