Red fox??I havent caught a fox yet this season.

I guess I was scrolling too fast one of the Marten hanging looked like a red fox with the black feet and red fur or Marten up here look different. I quit drinking so I can't blame it on being in my cup but it's a little embarrassing misidentifying and Marten for a fox as a trapper

Sometimes it is hard to tell the size of something in a picture when there is nothing to guage it with,
I have nailed a couple foxes over the years that have jumped up on top of a vertical box and got caught.

A good run on the weasel line.

It always amazes me to see them tiny weasels caught in such big body grippers. You got it down Boco.

I had something (probably just a coon) trip my 160. Box was at ground level as I was checking a couple times a day deer hunting. The trigger wires may have been a little bent so they’re each kinda pointing in opposite direction’s perpendicular to the jaws. When it went off, the jaw split them and the part that holds the wires prevented the jaws from closing all the way. There was fisher tracks around there before I set a week before, but I hope it was a coon. Gotta clean them out before setting for the good stuff.

Make sure your trap is solid in the box.narrow slots hold them rock solid even when the animals like marten and fisher are all over the box and springs before they enter.
Waxing the traps also makes them much more efficient/effective.

Are those weasels in 160s or 120s?...nevermind, saw in earlier post that they're 120s.

4 days ago I hung 3 wolf snares on a trail where I seen they were using.
This one came thru last night.

Looks like our coyote colors.

They come in all different colours,most of the greys seem to have a bit of tawney in them.

Very nice! Around here they might linger for a couple days, but then they’re gone for 2-4ish weeks

After freeze up,here when they cant get beaver anymore, they hang around the Moose yards.(and travel between them).

Nice. I'm used to waiting a month for them to come back around, but every wolf (all three of them) that I've caught this year has been on either the first or second check. Sure beats last year when I set traps the first of November and the didn't get the first wolf until the first week of February.

It helps once you get to know your line good and where and when the wolves use at different times of the year.It helps you get in front of them.
Gang setting jackpots as opposed to blind trail snaring is a good method if you want to really hammer them quickly.

Nice looking wolf. Any limit on the amount of wolves you can take Boco?

No limit on wolves for trappers.We do have a season on them here though.Wolf management needs to be flexible.Sometimes they need hit hard and other years not so much if at all.
Limit of two for hunters in NE Ont.
It helps to take a few each year if you maintain a substantial beaver quota on an RTL,It keeps things in balance.
I would not want to eradicate them though since having some wolves is beneficial to a lot of smaller predators especially in late winter Foxes follow the wolves around all winter.Lots of times when snaring a jackpot fox will blunder into a wolf snare at the same time wolves are caught..But wolves are extremely destructive to the health of a trapline when they overpopulate.
Like all other keystone animals management is key to keeping a line healthy long term.
Since some wolf packs utilize more than one rtl,most trappers in my zone keep in touch with their neigboring trappers to know how many wolves are taken.

I've never had much luck with wolves using jackpots, personally. Had them coming in and eating every roadkill deer I threw out a couple years ago, a lot of that in the offseason, but otherwise I can count the number of times I have had them come in and eat on a bait on my fingers and have plenty of fingers left over. I know other guys down here that have good luck with them, and a couple others like me that don't.

I was curious about the lynx picture? Is that caught in a marten set? A 220? Can't quite make it out? Can you provide some details on the set itself also as I am quite interested in the concept since I currently only use box sets....thanks!

Great thread as always Boco. Thanks for taking us along again this year.