Caught a muskrat in a bottom edge set yesterday along with a frog. I know muskrats will eat clams and mussels under certain scenarios but still am scratching my head in wonderment. Either the rat was transporting the frog to a safe place to have a meal or did a dead frog get pushed downstream by the current, get lodged against the trap jaws and get caught between them when the muskrat triggered the 150. Either way it was a first for me, after trapping thousands of muskrats in my lifetime. Last year I got a muskrat and a corncob together in a 330 at same time in a beaver bank den. In trapping I've learned to expect the unexpected!

See a grouse this year with a frog in its mouth

That's awesome Walt. Strange things sure do happen when you're out there all the time. I had a mink years ago in a pocket set that had a partially eaten muskrat in it's jaws and it never let go while drowning. This was way back before cell phones so don't have a picture.

That is a cool catch.Muskrats are omniverous,they eat meat as well as vegetation.
They are also cannibalistic,and female rats are know to eat their own newborn under certain circumstances.
A good bait in late fall for muskrats is half a muskrat.

That's right Boco. I think that's "part" of the reason you catch so many at pocket sets baited with muskrat relatives.

An old timer told me that years ago and I found it to be true.

I caught a buck mink in one of my ADC 160 wood chuck traps. The neat thing was all I saw was a large garter snake protruding from the chuck hole and when i pulled the trap a mink was in the trap with the snake in its mouth.

I caught a female bob cat In a 330 with hen mallard still clutched in its mouth.

I was checking this this cat snare I had set on a beaver dam, and it led out into the water and was pulled tight. When i garbed it, it pulled back. In that snare was 20lb snapper caught right around the neck.
I've caught lots of fish in BGs and colony traps.

Caught a few mink in boxes set for marten in trees

That's a head scratcher for sure Walt.

That's crazy! Was that in a 160?

A few years ago

That's efficiency at its finest, and colony traps are always exciting to check.

A couple weeks back.

Bait or supper?

I never use them for bait in a marten box.
They attract other flyers.
I send them on their last flight far away from the trap the odd time I catch one.
Some use them suspended inside a cat cubby as a lure holder/sight attractor it does work in a pinch if you run short of beaver carcass

Years ago I had a 1.5 coilspring just downstream of a bridge near Ruston, Louisiana. Heavy rain one night, next morning I pulled the trap, which was sprung with a condom in the jaws. Whomever was wearing it must have pulled out.

I think that frog was preying upon the muskrat!

Keep at 'em Walt!

Moosetrot

I caught a skunk coming out from under a building in a bodygrip it was caught with one jaw on the hips. The other faw had a rabbits head in it. Not sure what ate the rest. Never caught anything else in that hole.

Cool unexpected stuff happens Trapping