Thats what I want to stay away from.

He could be a new guy, I didn't approach his sets, but the boxes are brand new wood, and I looked through my binos, the traps are shiny new too. Not to say none of us buy new gear, but his boxes aren't a very practical design or size either, it's all kind of pointing to new guy

Years ago i was informed that the road system in south central has turned into a free for all. The term that was used to describe it was.. The lower 48 memtality .

Yeah, I'm not impressed so far, but I haven't been on the road system long enough to really know how the etiquette works. But I was left alone last season, so I was foolish enough to have that expectation for this year too. And on the flip side, if I showed up in September to cut open trails and found another guy there doing the same, I would introduce myself, shoot the s*** for a bit, and leave him alone. I guess we aren't all the same though

… I have that issue hunting public land around here… people know I kill deer and will look for my truck… next thing you know somebody is in there … usually in a bad setup but enough activity to blow the deer out

…. I just go on to the next one… they usually have stupid stickers on their truck lol

Hate those stickers.... These young duck hunters and bowhunters here must think it makes them special...

While deer hunting in Virginia I made a artifical deer scrape and hung my stand nearby.Got there before dark to hear another deerhunter up a nearby tree say hey he found that scrape and was hunting it.......

As long as you are going into the area to chase otters I would NOT pull my other gear. You may not catch the two marten but there is no reason for unilateral surrender.

If there are only a couple martin there I would not set it anyway. If it's a new trapper you may run across him someday .Buy him a beer and get to know him. He may not know its not ethical to set on top of someone. Better to be a friend than an enemy in this case.

Cut the trigger wires/dogs off his traps

If you give it up, it's then his, as for making friends and influencing people that's up to you, but a well raised person should already know better...

Found a guy trapping a culvert of my pond up at camp once without permission... I zippy tied the bodygrip so it couldn't fire....wonder how many times he checked it before figuring it out, lol

Always a few martin around

Let's hope they are not adult females.

It happened, but fortunately it wasn't every bridge.