Nice work,those bellys are so bright I had to put my sunglasses on.

Some beautiful cats. Do you sell at Fallon?

Yep.

As usual great pics and great layout of your trap line,not mention the little ones.
Reminds me of me enjoy em as they grow up fast.

Felt pretty good about today since we got a couple inches of snow but no cats. I had one set where I didn't weigh down my blocking enough and the wind blew it. Well there was cat tracks in the snow that walked up to one side of the trap, smelled the lure, then around the trap to the other side of the set and smelled that lure, paced around a bit then left. Then another spot where a cat walked up a wash, but left the wash before it got to a spot where it could see the flag. We did get a grey fox up high and a coyote in the low country that really wanted to get caught because it got caught in a very flashy, high blocking, exposed trap, walk-through set.

It's getting time to move my line again so I left work a little earlier than normal to check out the new area. Found a couple good spots so I put a few sets at each area.


After that I went to pull half my line. Caught my 6th kit fox in this same set. All males. I've never had that happen before.


Caught my first badger of the season. Forgot how bad they stink. Plus got a few grey fox, but a mountain lion beat me to one of them. Lion tracks normally look small in dirt but not this one. It must be well fed on deer because it left the fox there.





I also missed a bocat because of laziness. I'll make a separate post on that. I'm kicking myself for this one.

Had a friend come to town this weekend and he wanted to bring his son to check traps. No cats but we still were able to catch a few critters. First one was a coyote who must identify as a bobcat or grey fox. Caught in a flashy exposed walk through and climbed a tree


My youngest boy has an obsession with grey fox and has been wanting one in a cage so he helped me set this one. He was one happy kid.


Then we caught another grey fox at this cat set


We have a storm coming through tonight then again tomorrow night- Monday night so hopefully it gets the cats moving. I'll pull the rest of my older line and get more of the new line set on the next check

Last night was a bust with only 1 fox, but it was expected. It started raining while checking Saturday, and stopped yesterday on my way out. I did pull the remaining traps in my old area and got a few new spots sets in the new one. Hopefully there is some post storm movement in this fresh area, plus the full moon should help.

It's been a slow week. Finally got everything moved to a new area but I'm not finding much for fresh sign but there is tons of white turds. Did the first check with the line mostly set and there is no shortage of kit fox. Had 4 last night plus a couple I got on one of my trail cameras that didn't get caught. If anyone has any ideas on how to keep kit fox away from at cat set, let me know. We also got this grey fox.



Also had a trap set off with hair. My guess is a grey fox rolled near the trap and hit it.

I finally ended my drought. I ran out of areas to trap so I went into a new area blind. It's tough going when you trap an area you haven't scouted. Thought for sure it was another kit fox when I heard the chain rattle but was pleasantly surprised.



A mature, pretty bellied Tom


Made checking in the rain worth it!

It will be tough for me to beat this cat!

Looks like a nice one.

Not sure of i can post pictures since its a nontarget, but had a cool amd painful experience checkong traps tonight. Caught a desert bighorn ram. Figured I could use a catch pole, but he had other plans. Luckily it released it self......while charging me haha. I took everything out of my backpack and stuffed my coats in it as a safety and I'm glad I did. I tried getting the catch pole on it but it dropped its head so I turned my back to it. It hit my bag, knocked me into the sand and kept running, and pulled out. I think he thought there would be more resistance when he hit me. So yeah, now my back hurts and I got sand in my hair, but it was cool to see. He walked off like nothing happened. Other than that, only a handful of kit fox. One more trap check then the season is over.

Wow that’s cool. Only ever had to release a deer. Big horn would be something else. He was held in a 1.75?

Bridger 1.65.

Amazing that it held him.

The Bridger 1.65 with a small modification makes a really good exposed cat trap.

Looks like you guys had a pretty good season! I’ve always enjoyed following this post every year. Hopefully you get the opportunity to get a picture with your boys and the total catch for the season before selling.

A week from today and we will be setting steel. The wait for the season seems so long, till it's here. They it seems like a mad scramble trying to get everything ready. I picked up a new toy for trapping. I decided to stop beating up my truck and got an 07 sportman 500 HO. I got lucky and a friend's father in law was looking to sell his. Still has original tires, serviced yearly (it didn't get used most years), and looks brand new. Plus I got a killer deal on it. I got it all rigged up with storage and ready to go.

Ti's the season. The smell of skunk and glands is in the air. We were able to get some of our typical areas set today, and Tuesday I'll get some new areas set that I haven't been able to access because of the road being washed out. Having the ATV is a game changer. It's a lot quicker and can get places I didn't want to take my truck. Found some tracks and even newer turds on a toilet we caught cats on last season.

Our first set of the season (same toilet we caught the first cat on last season)


A typical cat set for me, it a very catty area.