I know everyone got one , what is the fastest time you have caught an animal and how?

Let's hear your story and make sure to leave in all the interesting parts.

Was setting coyote traps on an old dead end road that a farmer was disposing of his dead chickens and eggs on. Set a trap close by his dropping off spot and went on down the road setting. Came back thru about 30 minutes later and had a coyote in the trap at the drop off site.
My wife and myself went and run traps about 11 one night and had a coyote in one of my traps, I put him in the cage and ran the rest of the traps. At 4 the same morning I ran traps again and had another coyote in the same trap, 2 coyotes in the same trap within 5 hours, Have not been able to do again.

This should be interesting, especially for the water trappers. I’ve read some on here that set a 330 and walked to the next spot only to hear the first set go off and see splashing. That would be cool. Waiting to read on this one…

Caught a mink in a conibear while still holding on to the trap.
Caught three muskrats in about two minutes. While holding on to trap. I had stepped into a run on the bank stuck my hand in it, got bit, quickly set trap stuffed in den promptly caught three rats, bang, bang , bang!!
The mink story is much longer and involves me screaming like a girl in a horror movie.

Tell it GUK!!

Have had that happen several times...

Caught a grey fox within an hour when setting a new property. Had to drive by that trap to get back to gate. Reset trap and had another next morning.

Caught otters (twice) before I could finish setting up a farm. Heard one of those get caught.

Watched a bobcat walk down a logging road, around a curve where I had a dirthole set I had made about an hour earlier. Switched my truck off and waited, about 150 yds away. Heard him when he got caught.

Best one was a beaver job in an 8 acre pond where I had got down to only 1 or 2 beavers left. I decided to set the lodge entrances with 330s on tall supports. Paddled out to lodge and placed the 330 down in front of most obvious entrance and fastened cable to a log. Two paddle strokes away and a big metallic swooosh!!! The wake rocked my jon boat. When the commotion stopped I paddled back up and removed a very large male.

About 15 years ago my son and I were trapping muskrats in the slough across the road from our house. It was warm enough I wasn't using gauntlets. Checked about 4 or 5 sets and got nothing and after just a couple steps along the shore I decided I wanted to move the last one I checked. Stepped back and grabbed the 110 and the stake and felt something sink its teeth into the side of my hand. I yelled to my son "Something bit me!" and pulled my hand out, tearing a small muskrat's teeth out of the side of my hand. He must have come out from under the bank and into the 110 in the couple seconds it took me to take a couple short steps. In my wildest dreams I would not have thought a muskrat had gotten in there that quick.

Checked the rest of our sets, picking up a couple muskrats, Dear Old Dad bleeding like a stuck pig. He had opened me up good so had to go to the Doc for 5 stitches.

Moosetrot

B’ver in a 330 in a run while positioning trap. Twice b’ver in under ice bank hole while setting the second hole. Many times marten on my back trail within an hour or 2 of setting

Stopped to visit with one of the landowners who was very happy with my success keeping the muskrat population down, and he mentioned the downstream neighbor was looking for someone to trap on his part of the creek.

I said sure I'll go talk to him sometime, and the first guy asked if I mined if he gave the neighbor my cell number. I said sure , and after visiting a little more went to check the sets I had already put in and add a few more.

So there I am , standing in just over the knee deep water along a beautiful overhanging bank ,that was like a muskrat super highway, with a set 1 1/2 coilspring in my hand, when my phone rings.

I set the trap down , not really where I wanted it , just on the edge of the water . Answered the call, and before he had fully introduced himself, a muskrat stepped in the trap I had just set down.

The trap might have been out of my hand for 5 seconds. luckily I had it on the drowner cable and the weight in the deep water , because I hadn't even put the top side stake in.

I told the caller, that was the neighbor, that I would call him back in a few minutes.

Took care of things, got the trapped placed where I wanted it and called the neighbor back and explained what had just happened, he laughed and said, " well ,it sounds like you're just the guy I need down here "

I have been trapping there ever since, and it is one of my best properties

Many times over the years , on both those properties, I would be setting up the first time for the season, and have a muskrat or two on the way back to the truck, in less than 30 minutes or so.

I came outta the bunkhouse ready to set traps at a ranch one time and five coyotes were standing there, paws held high, turning themselves in.
The ranch owner only thought he had 4.



I mighta dreamed this though.

Holding the coni when a rat hits it.

Walking a stream setting mink and coon traps, I saw where a hunk of dirt had slipped off the bank making a nice little trail with long grass hanging over it. I pegged in a 110 and moved about 10 yards up stream and was about to put in a blind set with a coilspring when I heard a noise and looked back there was a buck mink in the 110. He had to be right there while I was making the set and snuck through beside me in the long grass. Probably 60 seconds from set to catch.

Set a #330 in a beaver run and had a beaver in the trap before I walked away.

Couple times while trapping through the ice with 110s, I placed the trap in a muskrat run and had the trap go off in my hand while I was positioning it. Pulled it up and there was a rat in it. That happened at least 2 or 3 times when trapping through the ice near muskrat huts.

I set a #3 into a low bank trail where there were coyote tracks jumping over this little drainage through a field. Thought I’d nab one when the went over and had feet hitting that pan at full stride, blind set.
Looked easy.
Walked down the edge of field a ways to put in a dirt hole set to mix it up.
Walked back past my first set and it didn’t look right. It was only about 15 minutes after I’d set it. Had a male mink by the face and both from feet. He hit that pan and the logger trap acted like a body gripper and he didn’t even move it from the bed just killed it right there. So reset it and walked back to the truck with a mink and my fastest catch. I was laughing to myself at how cool that was.
Jim

I was setting 110s on my way out on the marsh. Only had a dozen, that took me about 50 feet out when I turned and came back. The second trap I had set had a rat in it still struggling. That was maybe 10 minutes from the time I had set it.

Trap in hand when a muskrat swam into it. It's happened twice to me both times by son was there to witness it. Most memorable of the two was when I was trying to set one of my great grandfathers traps. Old trap completely square jaws with a wire trigger that kind of wraps around the jaw and leaves an open hole for the dog. I try to set one of his a year for nostalgia. Anyway, I'm setting a lead going into the bank and this thing will not stay set. Trips every time I try to place it in the hole. I'm getting mad and my boy is laughing at me and telling me to stop messing with that old trap when I go to set it for the third time. Same result, snap. He is rolling laughing at his point and I start fussin and cussing and rip it out with a rat in it. My boy goes to hollerin and I look at him and say, "See, Pop-pop's trap has still got it."

Great stories. Thanks

Great stories...Once set a snare in a trail while trapping in S. Indiana and had a coyote in two hours.
My favorite is my first time on the beaver line with my friend Irv Schirmer...we were setting up an adc job.
I was greenhorn and Irv was helping me start out. He was showing me how he set up 330s in bank dens
using wooden lathes for stabilizers. As he was pounding a lathe in a beaver came out of the hole and got
caught between Irv's legs. I thought to myself, "This beaver trapping looks easy."

I was setting a foothold on a drowning rod for beaver. It was a mound set on a frozen lake that had begun to thaw. There was 6’-8’ of open water all around the bank. While making the set a juvenile beaver popped up on the surface several feet from me. It then swam to within an arms reach and watched me make the set. Once I finished the set I climbed up on the bank and the beaver dropped under the water. I felt a little bad about that one. I walked just out of site from the set and sat down. Within a minute or two I had caught the beaver.

I was trapping a Marsh in Oconto County Wisconsin when the Conibear in the run coming out of the Hut caught THREE different Muskrats while I was trying to set leg Holds on the trails going up onto the house. I think I kept scaring them out but do not know for sure. Another time I was deer hunting in the same County and had just set an Otter Trap in the Peshtigo Brook area and while easing away looking for deer watched and Otter walk into the Trap at a huge Pocket set baited with a can of Sardines!!

Was doing some spring ADC work for beaver and the LO took me down to a new pond he wanted me to trap. I set two 330's while he watched and then stepped back to talk with the LO. As we visited we seen a young beaver come down stream and into one of my traps. The LO was very excited about seeing this and within a few days had work from several of his neighbors.