Making more pole sets for marten (nice to find a natural one sometimes). Also put in a couple more catch all sets (they're geared towards wolverine, but not to say a lynx or fox won't get hungry or curious). -18°F when I showed up early, -6°F when I left about an hour ago

Good luck

Good luck! Thanks for the pictures. Let us know how you are doing.

Hope they are all full tomorrow!

Frosty beard!!!!

Good luck to you, I am glad it doesn't get that cold in Central PA.

Nice pictures Tramp!

I have a couple of things to add that will help. I try to use marten poles that are only 3-4 inches thick. So that they have a very small runway up and down the pole, keeps them centered over your pan. I would also knock all those small branches off around your running pole. It doesn't take much to damage a marten and you can loose a lot of money when they get tangled up in all that brush. If you use a piece of string or wire to barely hold the trap in place, you don't have to cut that big chunk out of the tree to hold your trap. Save your grouse and duck wings, put one at each set, you can add lure to the wing and use it like you would bait, until you get more bait or you run out. If you use Surveyors tape to tie the trap to the pole, it doubles as a attractor and you can find them faster.

The other thing I suggest is to raise up your Catch All Set, about 4-6 inches. It makes it easier to the wolverine, fox and lynx to get their head in. You will get less refusals and more animals if you raise it. You might also add a little more spruce to hide the 330 a little more. Get a few pieces of wood under the jaws so they don't freeze down will help too. I hope you get a big wolverine! Temps are supposed to drop mid week next week here in Alaska. Down to single digits for the lows and in the teens for the highs. Good luck!

SW thanks for helping him out and Mr. Tramp keep us posted and more photos, thanks......jk

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for sure, I do have my 330's sitting on sticks so they don't freeze down, the wolverine game is new to me, I'm from SE and we really don't have many. So last season was my first year trapping the mainland, and I kept it simple and stuck to beaver, otter, mink, and marten. This year I have a little more time available, and got a snow machine up here, so that opened up a lot more options. In SE a snow machine is almost worthless most years, a boat is a much handier tool, so I'm learning the differences as I go lol

Watching.

A finishing nail holds a foothold in place.

I use a piece of wire wrapped around the frame and the pole loose enough that it'll come off when it catches one. I use finish nails sometimes too, but they're in one of my totes that get used for trapping out of the truck or a snow machine, I use a pack basket with a skeleton tool set when I'm on snow shoes (this little line I walk into from the back corner of a friend's property)

Thank goodness !Good for you,at 75 I am not done but close ! You are Blessed and apparently not obsessed with making money and worried about your financial future !!!! Peace to you AK TT smith

Getting some trail broke open and getting traps into boxes from last year. Might have to try for some beaver soon, running short on bait (aside from bacon grease, always have that lol)

Good luck trapping

Nice and good luck

So far no major movement on the line, a few mink tracks here and there by the creek, so I blind set 110's in them. Put in a bunch more running poles, hoping the mercury drops like they say it will, should create some movement

Hopefully will be the same here as well.

Are you seeing tracks?

There was prior to the last snow, but that hasn't been very long. Since new snow, just mink tracks, squirrel tracks, and rabbit tracks