no ROW trapping in WI without permission , part of what would make it so hard here.


would I be correct in assuming he starts with a truck bed of 220s and puts them out in every ditch and culvert for miles

Without a doubt, Wisconsin regulations make it extemely difficult to run a big road line anymore.

Nope, doesn’t use 220’s but rather 1 1/2’s.

I know who this person is and everything is true about him and his catches. Works harder and sets more traps/locations than most can imagine!

man it would be hard anywhere. Blows my mind.

Very impressive, can’t imagine the beating his body goes thru.

Wow, it is mindblowing to just do some math on this, let alone be the person doing this. Just doing some math lets say 90 day season that is about 60 coons a day and say a 20% catch rate or about 300 traps per day with say 2 traps per location that would be in a 14 hour day on the line a stop about every 9-10 minutes to include travel, dispatch, reset and move on and then pulling and setting out say 40-60 new sets per day. This would be say an IA situation maybe with MO in with an early November start and going into early Feb. If the person trapped in southern states then the season or days on the line could be longer.
Don't know about fur handling but just to skin would take a good skinner about 3 hours or so and a ton of freezers. If he decided to say have a person put up his fur can you imagine that person having th truck roll up about 8-9 PM with about 30 coons on a very slow day and about 90 on a real good day!!
Impressive just from the aspects of knowing where the coons are, how to manage the line and the emotional, physical and mental stamina to carry that out. Seven hundred incidental mink would imply a lot of water sets along with the road right away sets.

Bryce

I have a friend in the middle of the country that has told me about this trapper. The old adage is true. Many of the best are not in print and that is how they want it.
I have friends on this forum that make unbelievable catches but they do not talk about anywhere. If you have something to sell, go ahead and advertise. If you don't, stay quiet. That was the old school way of looking at things, and it still fits.
If some of these catches I know about were discussed, every paper tiger, and key board warrior would be beating their chest and dismissing the trappers that shared their catch numbers.

Mac

That's impressive. But I am curious if he used a dump truck to haul the animals. I wonder how large of an area he trapped.

He's still skinnin em to this day.

Iowa season opens the first weekend in November and closes January 10.

To do that….in my mind you are trying to catch at least 100 coon a day, every day. Many people can set up to do that opening day of season, but to do it day in and day out is pretty awesome. That’s a lot of empty traps to check, and new traps to put out every day, bait to have stockpiled, and gear to have ready to go when something is lost or broken.

It goes until Jan 31st. Pheasant season ends Jan 10th.

That's a lot of coon. Beat my record by 5273 coon and 709 mink! Wow.

Chris

Using extended checks and essentially running a different trap line every day for however many lines you have out is the only way I can see it done. As an example pre-stake and set 3 lines with 500 traps each and check each line every three days. A monumental task never the less.

Yes.

That's super impressive.
Hard to even comprehend what kind of dedication that would take.

I don't think that number is humanly possible for 1 man, taking in all the variables that happen in a season... just my opinion.

sounds great , all I know is I don't want to do it

Since raccoons can eat 2 lbs of food per day on average, that's 365 days x 2 lbs/day x 5300 = 3,869,000 lbs of feed that are available to the marketplace.
You'd think biodiesel for my truck would be a tad cheaper