Wouldn't you know Hwy P is where I am doing much of my trapping.

Good to know, I guess (as long as they didn't move out of the area). Thanks

Yes I did say that nvwrangler. On Sunday I set the 3 spots he told me to. At 1 of the 3 spots my friend recommended on this 103 acres, I found this scat tonight 10 yards from my trap. I'm not sure how fresh it is. Do you guys think it is bobcat?

I've put several miles on my boots the past 2 days scouting. If anything, I'm getting my excercise. I haven't found any tracks (other than this track, which I am not sure if it is a bobcat.?). I'm really starting to wonder if the snow conditions just aren't right for diagnosing tracks.
1) they could be moving on top, 2) I've found a lot of non deer tracks that are too vague to make any sense of (an indentation is noticeable but there is no print, due largely to the snow conditions).

I don't believe that looks like cat scat. I go for my "morning patrol" around the property here and the cats are walking the deer trails and bunny trails. They are being lazy and going where the walking is the easiest.

Around here bobcat scat is hard to find even in an area that has a bunch of cats. The reason is that packrats take them to their nests as soon as they find them. I know you probably don’t have packrats but could be a similar thing going on with a different rodent.

This scat was right along the farmers field road, near the property line. I'm not very knowledgeable on scat or tracks. The scat was in an indentation..I'm not sure if that neans anything (almost like in a boot print, but I don't think it was really a human boot print). The field road goes through a semi wooded, largely frozen, marsh.

I don't know what you mean by packrat. We might have rodents that do that though, I'm not sure

Yes, we don't have packrats here like they do out West.

I should clarify: the mystery track was on a different property than this mystery scat.

The actual name for them is bushy-tailed wood rat, but we call them packrats because they build nests in the rocky outcrops and they pack anything they can carry back to the nest. Bones, sticks, plastic, glass, everything lol. They look a bit like a chinchilla with a rats face and are about the size of a softball. And bobcats LOVE to hunt them.

Yeah I Googled them a little bit ago. We don't have them here. It'll be interesting to see if this scat pile disappears. I suppose it could be from a raccoon I don't know

Is anybody using cable restraints? I haven't heard much talk about that this winter.

I have seen cat tracks step for step inside of deer tracks more than once, so pay attention to details. just a little extra advise.

Funny you mention, b/c a friend told me that this week.

I thought it would be not all that hard to find tracks, but I still haven't seen a cat track all season & I've traversed enough ground to probably cause me to shrink a pants size.

People told me to try where the rabbits are. I had a rabbit in my trap tonight, so I guess it's an active rabbit area. I shoved it under a big clump of grass in the swamp next to my remake.

pic of cat poop in toilet, yep, I'm weird! And if you look closely, you can see cat tracks in the deer tracks sorry not the best picture.

There sure might be something to this 160. A coworker of mine lives a half hour away from where I'm trapping & in early December he was telling me he had the spot picked out & he was going to have me try to get 1 of several Bobcats that he was seeing during deer hunting. Then it suddenly went cold like right after deer hunting & he hasn't gotten 1 on his cams since! And the same story occurred on a property of mine I was planning on trapping: the neighbor was seeing multiple Bobcats & told me he was going to let me know more about them. In talking with him he hasn't seen 1 since deer hunting though! Darn cats. I had much more k9 action when I wolf trapped about ~8 years ago around here. I thought action on the cat trapping line would be relatively easy compared to wolf.

It's cooled off and I'm still getting plugged up with coons. Annoying.

On the one property I set where I saw cat tracks last on 12/24, it came back through last night finally-- but I had a coon in the trap.

I would’ve had every camera I own on likely spots trying to get a pic of what’s there. Not all my cameras are on my sets. Some are scouting for me.

I wish I would have done that. At the same time though I'm hearing of quite a number of people that saw cat during deer season but then it's like they vanished.