Bait is the boxes,ready for the morning a couple of Jake's and Sterling's on drags.Good luck tomorrow..

Good morning,dark in the swamp for another hour and a half,start your engine's....Should be a fairly short day as we are only putting out 6 marten boxes with 155's and 3 bobcat location,which one spot will be 3 snares other two will have a Jake or Sterling at them.Good luck to all the trapper's heading out when the sun rises.

Had a good half day in the woods,set 8 marten boxes 155's 1 Jake,2 MJ 600 Sterlings and 7 fox,coyote and bobcat snare's.Now we wait and see when the critter's are making their loops,saw 3 cat tracks and 8 marten tracks...Hope everyone had a good day setting out a line.

Good luck.Can't wait to see the pictures.

My wife and I went out today. Tough going, more snow than I thought. I got seven boxes out for Marten. See what happens.

I got out 5 Coni box's and 3 leaning poles with #2 monti's

It was a struggle but we got a line out. I think I spent more time cutting trees out of the way then trapping. Might be the worst I can remember laying down from the heavy wet icy snow we got the other day.

That makes for a rough day!

Dark in the swamp,the wet heavy snow made a mess that's for sure.We'll head out at 9am and see what critters have moved,good luck trappers....

Good luck

Good luck guys, I’m missing out on the first half of the season, my 5 month old pup decided to eat something he shouldn’t have and we spent most of last week at the vet. All is good but it changed our strategy assuming he was going to have to have surgery. Dad will be heading up on Wednesday morning and the son and I are heading up Thursday around noon.

The roads you all talk about having to cut apart downed trees after heavy snow fall, are they gravel "township" roads or just various two-wheel tracked trails ("unimproved" roads) through the forests and maybe some of the drier bogs, although is there any bogs dry up there this year?

All gravel roads some are two track logging roads other are pretty good main forest roads.One marten out of 8 boxes now there's 7 155's boxes waiting for a marten to return,were allowed 2 per person so we didn't want to set too many out,no fresh bobcat tracks today.They'll be back through within a few days I'm guessing allowed 5,but this year I'm only planning on catching 1 to 3.Here's to a good check for all you trapper's out and about....

I thought you MN guys could catch 5 critter combo of marten and fisher or does it vary by management unit?

10 to 12 years ago it was 5,it should be more than 2,but we are not able to make the laws.3 to 4 would be fine,it's just like our bear season up here,now the last 10 years it takes 4 to 5 years to draw a tag.We are covered up in bears,this year we had 3 baits out,26 bears on three baits.sorry to say the DNR doesn't manage animals JUST PEOPLE it's sad....

I set another 5 sets in a woods I had trail camera pictures of a bobcat in late October

here's hoping skunk junk catches it's nose and Spots lure on fresh Beaver meat pulls em close enough

One small skunk today in a coni.

I don't know where to draw the lines but I think a good part of more rural Minnesota should consider seceding from the metro Twin Cities counties and other other core locations of the nutty woke leftists of the state and return to common sense land. It might work out better than the last time secession was tried. Or maybe just wait out Tampon Tim and his ilk as they self implode in a next few years-- we can only hope

I would agree,maybe St.Cloud and north or just give the whole metro area their own state,they could name it whatever they want,I have a few names that come to mind,but I'll keep them to myself lol.

Mary and I went out this morning. With the short limit I like to check traps on the way in. Checked 7 boxes all empty on the way out had one in the first trap we checked on the way in. You never know what's next. That's the magic.

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