Picking on the Kid??
He asked for help and he's getting some great Information.

You want more?,..mink are predictable,..no don't try to corral them away from waterways,..you'll chase ghosts!
Ask any one doing it,.it's a game of repetition over and over again. Mink come to waterways,.they follow contours , they hunt those contours !

That Bottom Edge Set book helped me.
Top edge too.

mink define their intentions , they are pretty much obvious in their movement. They do not expose themselves in most cases.
They are huggers,..being so much carefully hugging the bank.
If you have the opportunity ,get yourself a copy of Phil Presjack mink methods,. It will allot that his jumper stick along vertical wall is more so a game changer,..yes its the little things.

Not on this thread, but on other threads. Sorry I didn't clarify.

Around here streams and ditches with grass and low brush cover are the best mink locations. Forest cover does not seem to produce nearly as many mink.

I thought i offered good info on this thread? Its not my intention to advise a new comer to adhere to my preference.
I have and alway will say,..you have a wealth of info here,..the only problem is .there are so many angles you have to manipulate . If there is common denominator ,..that would be . set as many traps you can cover legally.

That's what I was saying. There's GREAT info on this thread! And this thread wouldn't be here if this kid wasn't so excited and asking a million questions.

Yote, I appreciate you recognizing that . I am somewhat apprehensive commenting on most threads here. more so in a political spectrum. I find myself in most instantis thwarting my own personal observation weighed against that at what may be admissible within the confines of this platitude Beyond that will offer another tid bit to the original poster,..we all have asperations,.( goals so to speak},
There is one defining factor, and that is fortitude,..you put in your mind to do as such, and you achieve that goal.
That is defined as determination!

Oh and if you are not seeing the “tight” spots described in here or shown in the pictures, make your own. Our very own forum owner’s dad taught me SO MUCH about mink trapping in his mink book. A few jabs with your spade and a chunk of stream bank is shaved off and ker plunk falls away from the bank and leaves a little space between the bank where it was and the now little island of land that the spade shaved away from the bank. Make the set between the chunk of land and the bank.
You can move logs, brush, rocks, whatever to create interesting little tight spots to set. Keep the tight spot hugging tight to the sheer wall of a bank too.
Out in fields I can use a spade to create a channel or trough roughly the width of the spade in those little trails through the grassy water way. Makes a neat slot perfect size for a 110.
If you fin a small pipe culvert on the field implement road to the field. You can block down the bottom opening with a few weed stems and put the 110 into center bottom of the opening. Goldenrod, sunflowers, other weeds when freeze dried in late winter make nice guide sticks out in fields where there are no trees to be found for sticks. I make pilot holes with a rebar stake or my super stake driver then push weed stems into the holes. Fencing down openings to just the trap opening itself works great.
Also if you carry a pair of pruning shears with you, you can cut a neat 110 sized opening through a part of downed brush or weedy trail to make an opening better suited for a mink to access and get to your trap.
Another tip…brush piles can be magnates if they are along those weedy ditches or waterways. Pruning shears worked great for on edges of the pile. Caught a few rabbits but that also told me the place had plenty of “food” for a hunting mink, and it did.
Jim

Ok thanks guys are mink night time animals?

Some crossovers at a small bridge near my house

That's cool!

mink boxes are great on points on the bigger creeks they also work good when the creeks freeze over.

One more time up before this happens

Mink probably travel more at night but I have seen them countless times during the day doing their thing. I dont think they care when they hunt.

Probably not

Don't remember if you have a vehicle or not. Grab a bucket of traps and drive around hopping out at every big ditch/creek crossing. Take a look. Even if another trapper has a set in, you'll start seeing what they're setting and learn from it.

Remember to anchor them well. Caught a lot of coons in beautiful mink sets.

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I would hit every little creek and waterway. I set these little body traps like this- I drop them into place and stick sticks and grass in the hole like Eric Space. It's easy. This is a mechanical snare. - The trap in the picture needs to have the trigger bent different. I like the bottom to be florist wire and make it like a snare loop.
Mink can be anywhere. Look for small trails and set those. Look for place like the lower photo where a mink is forced into the water and put a foothold where it will step in the water. There is a lot to learn. The best teacher is the mink.

Northern O LOOK at these spots. Best group of photos for a location. You can use a coniber in all those that he has a snare.

Great examples ERIC !!!!