Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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10/25/24 04:59 AM
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I'm following. Season opens today for me but have some family obligations to take care of next two days. I'll set a few land traps starting Monday Go get em TYT
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/25/24 06:46 AM
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Looking forward to how your season goes.
swampgas chili and schmidt beer makes for a deadly combo
You have to remember that 1 out of 3 Democratic Voters is just as dumb as the other two.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/25/24 08:14 PM
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Hope you have a good season,I will be checking in. Same here. Go get em!
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/26/24 09:56 PM
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Today went as planned, I got some sets out. I set out 2 330s for those beavers. I also figured out a plan to trap another beaver with which this guy is having issues, and I think it will work. I still think I need to get some 20' cable drowners to get them out there deeper on these lakes and shallower sloughs. I have quite a bit of confidence in one of my 330s, but I want to change the other one so the trigger is on the bottom. I also got 5 coyote sets out, I'm hoping to catch a coyote this year. I did see a lot of coon sign, there's tracks all over the banks of the slough and coon poop on every log near the water. I'm bringing out 1 dozen dogproofs next time to see what that covers and then I'm going to bring more out if I need more. The landowner also said he saw 2 mink last night, so when the season opens on Friday, I plan to put in some pocket sets. I had videos of all of the sets but all of my videos of my coyote sets have no audio. I do have a couple of questions for you guys. #1: Have you guys seen beavers selectively eat cedar trees when there are better options around? It looks like this one beaver or however many there are is only taking down cedar trees. #2: Would you guys be interested in me recording my adventures and posting them on YouTube, I would still post on here but I know some guys like a visual. Anyway, here's the video from today of the beaver sets. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iSTKI8qPIo4
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/28/24 02:58 AM
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I decided to check traps today. I didn't catch anything but I did get more traps out and also got some footage to use, I need to edit it down and upload it to YouTube. I got 5 dogproofs set, all of them right by a large number of tracks, I forgot to bring a couple in with me to where I have the 330s set since there are a bunch of tracks in there too. I also got another coyote set in. I did bring a foothold with for the beaver and did get that set, I'm not super confident in it but I think it will still catch if the beaver is still in that area. I also found a bunch more mink tracks so I'm hoping we still have open water once the season opens because I want to try some pocket sets and see if I can catch some mink since I haven't caught any for a couple of years. I won't check until Tuesday to let everything sit without being disturbed. I did have one set off coyote trap but I'm pretty sure it was only a deer since it was just snapped shut and not disturbed. I do have a couple of spots where there are mink tracks so I'm excited to see if I can catch any. I have a couple of landowners to call yet about trapping but I should be all good to go by Friday so I can start setting some rat gear out. Anyways, that's all I have for today. Here's the picture of the new coyote set I put in, I tried to do a scent post kind of set, the clump of grass on the left has coyote gland lure, and the one on the right has fox urine. It was a naturally occurring area so I'm hoping the coyotes and such won't be too scared of it.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/28/24 09:50 PM
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Good luck this season
Hard to imagine water freezing when it is 69 for the low and upper 80's to 90's for highs Thank you We already have a low of 29 and 30 in the forecast. For the past 2 or 3 years the sloughs have been frozen up by November 7th. I wish it wouldn't freeze till Thanksgiving but I'll take what I can get.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Beavers in our area actually really like the bottom limbs on cedar trees. I see it all the time and often its my favorite "bait" to put on a hancock trap, in conjunction with a good lure. They rarely cache them, but I've seen where they shave them down on the bank, as well as drag it back onto their lodge. These beavers are taking whole cedar trees 4-5" in diameter down and dragging them, I wonder if they're building a lodge instead of a cache like I thought. I haven't seen any other lodges that are active though.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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If you are open to some suggestions..... If your trap is the bare dirt spot between the 2 clumps of grass you will likely have more luck if you move it out about 6" to the open side of the grass, towards where you are standing to take the picture. Keep it centered between the clumps but ideally you want about 8" from the pan to the attractor(s). Take your dirt sifter and grind some of that light ground duff through it to blend your pattern in. I'm always open to some suggestions since I really don't know what I'm doing. I'll move it when I go check again on Thursday.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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10/31/24 06:47 AM
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Off to the races!
Good start young man.
swampgas chili and schmidt beer makes for a deadly combo
You have to remember that 1 out of 3 Democratic Voters is just as dumb as the other two.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Great job! Get a jet sled to haul your fur to the truck. Thank you, I have one but it would get snagged on everything.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Nice work YT dem some big ol flat tails for sure Thank you. They're big enough, and that's for sure.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Well, today was another check of the trapline. I didn't have anything in any of the beaver sets, but I did have a snapped off conibear. I caught another coon in the spot closer to the conibears where I caught one on Tuesday. I've been trying out a homemade bait and it seems to work well. I also caught a double on skunks right by the 2nd old Beaver Lodge. I got them dispatched but will leave them till the next check so they can air out a little bit. I also had to remove a coyote set where I had kept a deer for a little while since the area was pretty torn up, hopefully, it'll bring some attention to the area with it so disturbed. I'm going to be setting muskrat traps, on Friday so I will have another update for you guys later today. Anyway, I think that's all I have for today, was a pretty uneventful day. Here's the picture of the coon, I couldn't get a picture of the skunks because they weren't positioned too well.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/01/24 08:22 AM
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Way to go TYT. Go back and get them skunks before some critter does. You'll get used to the smell the more you trap. Airing them out by leaving them there won't do much good. Way to stick at it and get a nice mixed bag of fur
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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11/03/24 12:57 AM
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Way to go TYT. Go back and get them skunks before some critter does. You'll get used to the smell the more you trap. Airing them out by leaving them there won't do much good. Way to stick at it and get a nice mixed bag of fur The critters around here don't bother them. I'm just trapping them for the pheasant population so I'm not skinning them. I can't smell skunk at all unless it's a foot away from my face. But I get yelled at when I come home and smell like it, so leaving them for a day or 2 does help.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Thank you guys for all the replies! Today was another great day on the trapline, one of the best. This place isn't close to home but it sure is paying off. So I guess let's explain how tomorrow went as far as setting rat traps. I got 2 colony traps and 3 blind set 1.5s set on a small irrigation ditch. I also got 4 blind set stoplosses and 2 159s set on a slough. And another 2 stoplosses blind set on a second slough. So today I started the day at the irrigation ditch and caught 1 rat in a colony trap and 2 in the other. I then went to the 1st slough and I caught a good sized coon in a #1 Victor Stoploss, it held him perfectly, he did rip the trap up a bit but it should be an easy fix. I got him dealt with and couldn't reset the trap as he messed up the stoploss spring and the pan. I will never doubt the holding power of one of these little traps again. So I then went to the 2nd slough and had nothing, I did switch one of the traps around from a hut landing to a feed bed. So I finally got to make the 15 mile trip up north. I started the day with a nice sized beaver, probably 35 to 40 pounds in my drowning set. Another trapper who was out pheasant hunting stopped by and we chatted it up for a bit, he was from a little more north of where I was trapping. It was very nice to talk to him. I then went and checked up until the 2nd old beaver lodge and picked up the 2 skunks from the other day, which smelled way better. I got those traps reset and I thought about making a pocket set but decided against it for now. So I continue to the last double of coyote traps. In the dirt hole set, I had a very beautiful male coyote! It's the first one I have ever caught and it was a perfect catch. The remake was very good looking as well, so I hope to catch another one there. I also had to remake my last gland set as another deer set it off. I also stopped at a slough where the landowner saw a couple of mink and made a pocket set with a 1.5 on a 10ft drowning cable. I can't even explain how it felt to catch my first coyote, it was nothing like any other animal I have caught before. I was completely blown away. I have been trying to catch one for my whole 5 years of trapping but this is my 2nd year trying decently hard to trap them and it finally happened. It will be getting taxidermy tanned as in skinned out paws and everything else and tanned to be hung on the wall. Anyway, here are the pictures from today. I will upload my reaction video on Youtube of my first coyote catch. The coon isn't in the picture as it was very full of stinky slough mud and I didn't want that on my floor. Thank you for reading.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Way to go TYT. Go back and get them skunks before some critter does. You'll get used to the smell the more you trap. Airing them out by leaving them there won't do much good. Way to stick at it and get a nice mixed bag of fur The critters around here don't bother them. I'm just trapping them for the pheasant population so I'm not skinning them. I can't smell skunk at all unless it's a foot away from my face. But I get yelled at when I come home and smell like it, so leaving them for a day or 2 does help. Skin those stinkers!
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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11/03/24 06:20 PM
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Yep skin them skunk, we got good money for our skunk's last year on the Montana trapper's fur sale. Ms.V had top skunk @$32.50 More than I averaged on coyote
Let me sugar coat this
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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You should really put up those skunks TYT. Good money and everyone buys them. Learn to extract the essence and double your money. Easy to skin and easy to flesh. Just watch out for those pods when skinning.
If your family raises a "stink" about the smell do them out back in the woods. Around here a coyote or fisher would apt to run off with a skunk laying around.
Your doing good. Keep it up!
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Last January I caught two large males. By the time if sold the hides, essentially, pods, fat and raw skull I averaged just under $90 apiece. That's a lot of gas money!
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I may get around to skinning the skunks some time, but I just need to get the motivation to want to do so. I understand, they can be intimidating at first, but they're not that bad. I actually enjoy putting them up now.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Today was another great day, I love this new line that I'm running. I started the day by the irrigation ditch. I caught a buck mink in a colony trap and a coon in a 1.5 set on a crawl out/ trail. I had my doubts about the 6' fiberglass poles staying stuck in but I've caught multiple coons with them and they're holding strong. Let me tell you though, those coons rip up an area especially if there are cat tails there. I then went up to the spot where I caught that coon in the #1 Stoploss. I had nothing in those traps again, but rats were swimming all over. The problem is that these rats don't have any feed beds or anything, I can't even find a bank den. I'm going to pull those traps on Wednesday if I have nothing again since that spot does add an extra 6 miles and probably 30 minutes to my drive time. At the next spot, I had nothing again but saw rats swimming so I repositioned one of my #1 Stoplosses to a hut where I saw coon tracks to hopefully catch something. So I finally got to venture up north and I got to my pocket set I put in the other day. And guess what, I had a coon floating about 5 feet down the drowner. I also had to fix my beaver foothold since it had fallen off of its bed where I had it. I refreshed the dogproof near there as the rain had come through yesterday. I got to the 2 beaver conibears and 1 was set off, so I reset it. I might need to bring a foothold down there and try it. I also rebaited and lured all of my other dog proofs. Since it was running out of light though, I didn't stop to remake any coyote traps. I will remake them on Wednesday when I go out again since I should have some more time. But all in all, it was a good day on the line. On my way home though a deer hit me as I saw it was coming straight for me and had little room to go to either side so I stopped and it ran dead smack in the middle of my grille guard. It only ended up breaking my license plate frame but I should be able to fix it with some JB weld. I ended up getting home quite a while after dark and I got right to drying some fur and getting ready to put up some fur. I ended up getting the 3 muskrats from the other day put up, the mink from today, and a weasel for a buddy. This was my first time putting up a mink and I think I did well for never doing it. The rats do have a little green belly but it should be just fine once they're dry. I did end up messing up on the weasel for my buddy as I didn't cut the tail enough and popped it off. Now all I have left is my one beaver from the other day but I think I'm going to try fully putting it up tomorrow night. Anyway, I think that's all for today. Here are the pictures.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I'm enjoying your journal TYT. You are doing good on the line.I like to see trappers running lines that target all species. That is the way we do it here. Your put up looks good.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I'm enjoying your journal TYT. You are doing good on the line.I like to see trappers running lines that target all species. That is the way we do it here. Your put up looks good.
Thank you I'm glad you're enjoying it. This is the first time I've run a line like this and I love it. The weather has been good for me this year so I've been able to use sets I usually don't get the chance to. Anything different you would do for the put up? I'm always trying to get better at it.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I downloaded movie maker to my Samsung pad the other day that is fairly easy to work with. I have that but mine was all messed up the other day, I need to sit down one of these days and mess around with it some more.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I enjoy reading about your adventures. Keep it up.
swampgas chili and schmidt beer makes for a deadly combo
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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I'm enjoying your journal TYT. You are doing good on the line.I like to see trappers running lines that target all species. That is the way we do it here. Your put up looks good.
TYT this is HUGE… Boco saying your put up is good. This is huge. Keep at it… Boco is Canadian and we all know us Canadians have the best put up.
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Good days catch. How is the new fur shed working for you? It's amazing! All of the stress and everything of putting it up was worth it. It has increased my productivity a lot as well. I still need to get a heater but the weather is good, so I've been holding out. Just got the last of the insulation needed to finish the 2 gable ends.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Maybe you can rig up a log clog (drag) to anchor those coon traps? Good lookin mink. I was thinking something like that but there are no logs around to hook up to, might be worth bringing one over and leaving it there since I also trapped it last year. I have a bunch of 15lb sash weights I could bundle together too.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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Nice work, you can put 2 colony traps side by side too. Enjoy this open water, it has been a blessing! I would but only the middle of the culvert is deep enough for a colony trap. I've been procrastinating making some wings for 2 years now so who knows if it'll ever happen.
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TYT this is HUGE… Boco saying your put up is good. This is huge. Keep at it… Boco is Canadian and we all know us Canadians have the best put up.
I know! Boco has some of the best put up I've seen.
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Way to go young man! Very nice catches. Thank you! Waiting patiently to break out my weasel boxes and some Lenon's to start laying it down on some weasels.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/11/24 03:55 AM
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Another day, Another check of the trapline. Today was an easy day. I started the day at the irrigation ditch, I had nothing in any of the traps except for my blind set 1.5 which had a rabbit foot in it and was thrown out of the trap bed. So I remade that. At one of my coon boxes, there were fresh coon tracks everywhere. I need to invest in some trail cams so I can figure out what's going on at some of these sets. I would just like to know and then I can also learn more. So I loaded back up in the truck and made my way to the slough where I caught the rat yesterday. I had nothing in the traps today so I pulled them since they're not producing. I will probably go back during early ice and see if I can find some bubble runs. I made my way up the road to the double set culvert with the colony traps. And I couldn't find a colony trap at all. At the same time as I was looking for the trap, a truck pulled up. It ended up being another trapper who had seen me pull over and we got to talking for 20-30 minutes and had a really nice chat about trapping and everything that comes with it. I did end up finding my trap stuck up in the culvert and I only had 1 rat in there. I went to the other side and caught another rat! So I loaded up in the truck again and headed north. In the first pocket set, I had a rat in a 1.5, barely even slid a foot down the cable. And then after that, I ended up not catching anything in any of the beaver sets, coon sets, or coyote sets. I did remake all but 1 coyote set since we got more rain and everything was plugged up. I then went up the road to the colony in the culvert and had 1 rat in it. I went up the road some more and had another rat in the pocket set where I caught the coon the other day. The rat was so full of freshwater shrimp, they're all over my floor now. I ended up catching 5 rats total for the day, I need to set some more traps and see if I can start getting catches to increase again. I finished the day out by spending some time in the fur shed putting up fur and taking some fur off the stretchers, I took off the first mink, the first 3 rats, and the weasel. I also hung my weasel from last year that I caught in a #2 dogless up to thaw out so I can put it up tomorrow night. Anyway, enough talking, here's the picture.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/13/24 10:57 PM
11/13/24 10:57 PM
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Well, I forgot to post last night. I was working on homework and tired by the time I got done. So here's how the trapline went yesterday. I caught two rats and a mink. I caught nothing at the irrigation ditch, I will be pulling that spot tomorrow. There are no fresh tracks that I can see even, so it's time to get out of there unless something crazy happens and I catch a bunch there tomorrow. On the way to my 2 colony traps, I stopped where 3 culverts were going from a field to a shelter belt. I set a dogproof in front of each culvert so 3 dogproofs total, I'm hoping this spot pays off. So I got to my 2 colony traps and had only caught 1 rat in each of them so only 2 rats. I headed north again and got to my main spot. So I checked the first few sets and had nothing, I pulled my beaver foothold on the drowner since it hasn't caught anything the last couple of days. I then also caught nothing in any of the coon, beaver, or coyote sets. No set off traps or anything. So I worked my way to the 1 colony trap in the culvert and had nothing it that which was surprising. I then went to the last set of the day which was a pocket set. I caught another buck mink! It didn't even take my bait either so I reset the trap and went on my way. I got home and made up 8 more cable drowners and paired them up with 1.5 Montgomery square jaws. I'm going to try to set them all out tomorrow since I'm going to be pulling traps on Monday since we're supposed to be freezing up next Wednesday. Tonight, I got the 2 rats and mink put up, I also finished setting up my drowner rigs so those are ready to go. I need to make some more mink belly boards since I only have 2 right now and 1 of them isn't the best. Hopefully, with his cold spell, I can get some other work done and get the fur shed cleaned up a bit.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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11/16/24 02:09 AM
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Things get better after freeze up, stick with it bud. Worst case scenario you'll have fun and keep learning, that's what we're all doing. When things slow down, a new area never hurts either. It's nice to see kids out trapping, don't stop Things get better in the spring for me since that's when I can run floats. I hope to run a mink and weasel box line this year once we get snow. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon unless I physically can't do it anymore.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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11/16/24 02:20 AM
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Well, again, I forgot to write here last night. Yesterday was a very uneventful day. I only caught one rat and an opossum. I could have also lost a few rats, but I'll cover that later. So I started the day by pulling that irrigation ditch spot, I only had a rabbit in the trail set 1.5 but the back half was fully eaten so I assume a mink or weasel went to town on it since it was drug into the cat tails as far as the chain would allow. So I headed north, in the triple culvert, I had caught an opossum so I reset that trap and headed on my way. The next stop was the double set culvert. Well, it seemed the culvert dropped on one side and my colony trap was sticking up out of the water 1/2". when set. It was also halfway collapsed when I got there and the big rock I had on top was knocked off. I'm not a big fan of these collapsible colony traps, sadly I sold all of my nice 1x1 heavy wire colony traps so now I'll just have to deal with it this year and try them out some more, hopefully, it's just a user error. On the other side though, I did have one rat. I stopped and set a dogproof between a recently harvested cornfield and slough in a culvert. I then continued and set 2 dogproofs, one in front of a culvert and the other on a trailer leading from it into the shelter belt, these were also between a small cornfield with standing corn and a slough so almost a perfect spot. I didn't have anything in the 2 blind set 220s that I set at the end of the culverts going from one cornfield to another. So I headed north again to the main spot. I ended up walking a coon box and a dogproof into where I have my 2 Beaver 330s as I'm always seeing tracks. I then proceeded to have nothing in any of my other traps, I did set another drowning rig near the culvert where I have the single colony trap. So that was my day. Here's the picture.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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11/18/24 03:48 AM
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Well forgot to post again, been stretched thin between feeding cows, trapping, and finishing up fall cleanups. I hope to finish cleanups tomorrow, so that'll be nice. I only caught 1 rat on Saturday. It was a really good sized rat, probably 3-4 lbs. I caught it in that double set culvert where I now only have 1 colony. I had nothing else in any of the other traps and no set off traps. I will also be pulling traps tomorrow since we're going to get some bad weather here soon. I plan to set out more gear for coyotes and such on some land I set last year. It looks like snow on Wednesday so it should make finding sign a lot easier. I also skinned out my first coyote on my new roller base and I figured out I need to make some improvements. I also broke my dryer that I use to dry my rats, mink, and weasels so I'll need to fix that or find a replacement. Anyways, that's all I have today. I forgot to take a picture of the rat before I put it up so no picture today.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/19/24 02:38 AM
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I got the line pulled today. At the first stop of the day, where I caught that opossum the other day, I had another opossum in a different trap, the same spot. I then went on for the rest of the line, pulling everything with no catches. But surprise, surprise, I had another colony trap that was starting to fold up. But I had to run through the line fairly quickly today as I had many other things to do today. I plan to get some more traps out later this week or weekend probably once this rain blows through. We have probably gotten an inch or more since it started around 6 pm so it'll be a muddy mess for a few days. I also bought my heater for my fur shed so that'll be here soon. I'll work on my fur shed for the next few days. The fur shed is a mess right now and I have piles of traps that need to be cleaned up and stored away. Once I get the heater, I'll probably start putting up the 7 or so beaver hides I have in the freezer. Anyway, here's the picture of the opossum.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/25/24 06:46 AM
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You are doing well. Great to see this. Jim
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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12/04/24 06:18 AM
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Be careful on that ice, safety first! I know you know that, doesn't hurt to be reminded of it now and again though.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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12/04/24 10:17 PM
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If you have that much ice and you're finding a thin spot, it's probably a beaver run, I'd look around a bit, I bet they have a bank den right there. Could also be open for various other reasons (current, a warm spring, etc.) I was way out in the middle of the slough, about 50 yards from one bank and 100 yards from the other. I think it may have just been a weak spot.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: Yukon John]
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12/04/24 10:17 PM
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Be careful on that ice, safety first! I know you know that, doesn't hurt to be reminded of it now and again though. I try to be, I checked 3 other sloughs and this one and all were at least 5" of ice. I did buy a spud bar today and ice picks.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
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12/05/24 02:49 AM
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I enjoy reading about your adventures, keep at it.
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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Re: TYT's 2024-2025 Trapping Season
[Re: Yukon John]
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13 hours ago
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Lookin good, you still out there? I'm still here, pulled the line a week or so ago and just haven't been able to get back out again. Might go out and set some Wednesday.
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