Traps around a gut pile

Learning alot watching you tube videos.Looking like what I thought heavy evergreen cover on lake and river edges.Beaver ponds,houses,dam crossings.I'm going to guess and say along stream edges and ravines going up into the mountains,rock formations,saddles,etc. would also be good areas.

If I had to go by just topography and drainages......I would concentrate on beaver houses. Also confluences of two drainages.

However. IMO the single best place to set for wolverine is where you see tracks or have seen tracks in the past. In my experience........... generations of wolverines will use the same route through the neighborhood as their parents and grandparents did before them.

I have a few spots on my line where I have taken wolverines year after year. You may not notice it but oftentimes wolverine will drag across a low bush or small tree as they are traveling. In so doing they are scent marking that trail. I am convinced that those deposits can be smelled and re-marked by subsequent generations of wolverines.

So even if the tracks you find are "old".........make a set there anyway.

EDIT: Porcupine dens are a close second to beaver houses as attractants .......IMO so if you know where a couple of those might be..........that might be worth setting.

Thanks white17

Bruce T, do you already have a spot picked out to come up and get after it?

No just a few vague ideas

I haven't gone through this entire thread, so I may have missed it. Do you plan to snare, connibear or foothold?

You can use non-edible parts of game animals. Leg bones off caribou and moose are always good.

I have only trapped 10 or so, so not an expert by any means but I have noticed:

They aren't hard to trap, once you actually find one. They're just hard to hold.
I have not had any luck down in the timber. I trap for them up on ridgelines, but that is also generally where wind drifts the heck out of things. There's a reason wolverines are difficult and even really good trappers only get a handful each season.
I have caught 2/3 to 3/4 of my 10 wolverine in February. That may (or may not) be a coincidence. I am unsure if it is their breeding season so they're moving around more or if the longer daylight has something to do with it, etc.
Wolverine seem to be totally random, other than they like the high country. I have never had luck setting on a specific track like you can do for cats and White17 above says, expecting them to come back along a specific spot. I just set a bunch of traps out in good looking country, keeping prevailing wind in mind for scent flow.


Good luck! If you use a foothold and want to snare pole it, you're in for an adventure! I just whack them with a .22 LR and don't worry about the extra hole in the hide.

Going to use snares,connibears,and footholds.Thanks for all the information.Much appreciated.