I've seen the electronic mouse noise box. And I've used cell trail cameras for traps. Wondering if anyone has put motion detectors on cage traps? GPS trackers on drags? And other tech ideas you guys use?

There are some motion detector devices sold for monitoring cage traps. Most of the guys I know prefer to use cell cameras.

I know of plenty of people who use notifying cell cameras when using my calling units, especially in areas where it takes some time to get to, they are set to not move out of the cameras range, when caught the motion sets the camera off and then sends the trapper a screen shot of the catch.

Don't know any one just using a motion tracker though !

Was someone here some time ago don't recall who. Was using or going to use a multi meter to check under ice 330s set for beaver. Put meter on test leads to trap. Closed circuit trap not fired, open circuit trap fired, spud it out.

Mac

I did with 110s Mac.
Simple continuity test with phone wire.

Check with your local laws as to what you can or can not do with electronics on the trap line.

The squeakers work great on cats and fox, not so much with coyotes.
Cell cams are used all the time.
And yes, a lot of your bigger Plantations and study sites use the cages that are monitored to ease the time of running that long of a line. Just go where they’re tripped.
Guess you could put a tag on the drags as long as you have service to track them.

Yep, many states allow remote surveillance or customers to check traps. For trapping, it's generally not legal .or ecomocsl to use electronics. Maybe in high dollar cat states...if you can get a signal.

Yep, many states allow remote surveillance or customers to check traps. For trapping, it's generally not legal .or ecomocsl to use electronics. Maybe in high dollar cat states...if you can get a signal.

… tech doesn’t belong in hunting and trapping

You trap bareback off a horse, wearing leather loincloth Hoss? Please do not include pics with your response. Think about the children on here.

Unless each trap is handmade from raw hand forged material…technology is in trapping, lol.
Unless you’re shooting a bow you made yourself with a string you fastened together and arrows you made and knapping your own broadhead, then technologically is in hunting as well. Tech is in just about every outdoors activity we do.

Maybe he just meant electronics.

…. Cameras, drones, tracking devices etc

Cell cameras are not a legal check here, and good luck having service in the areas I trap. There are some guys who run some, but it is a novelty thing, very few guys could afford to run cameras on fifty or a hundred sets. Back when they introduced wolves here the Federal trapper was running telemetry on some of his wolf sets and I know the guy I used to get my telemetry collars for my hounds from made a bunch of them, minus the collar, for a trapper in Eastern Washington to put on his cage traps. No idea if it was a legal check in Washington or not. I was just in his shop one day when he was making them up and he told me what the guy ordering them said he was using them for.

My technology is an indicator stick in the drag, that way I can check from a distance, if the stick is gone I know the trap has been moved.

indeed, some use tech like forums to share strategy and tactics instead of learning everything themselves. appalling!

Can't use any of that in Alaska.

Its a bigger market in Europe then in North America but there are ton of different products out there. In Europe where mink/muskrat trapping is a multi-billion dollar government run exercise, more monitoring devices are used.

Talked to one guy in Holland, who only trapped muskrats with killing traps. Looked a lot like the small KORO traps and he had a monitor on each trap, integrated with an app on his phone, it automatically planned a route for him based on trap triggers once his line was set out. He had over a 1000 Km to cover though so kind of made sense, plus he paid for nothing himself. Plus cell phone coverage in Europe is almost 100 percent unlike North America.

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https://trapmate.ai/remote-trap-monitoring-the-essential-tool-in-your-arsenal/

https://catchalive.com/

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Can't use cameras to check traps here in WI

if you have an apple or Samsung phone , there are Apple air tags or Samsung smart tags 2 that give good directional data to the phone when you get within 50 feet.

you would want them encased in something like a pvc fitting to have them get less beat up , they run about 20 a piece , but if your putting that on a nice trap and drag it could be worth it in time locating

also if your trap got stolen and got near that type of phone it would give you a ping of where it was.

Last year WSTA was able to get cell cameras added as a legal way to meet trap check requirements in WA . There are trap monitoring devises that do not employ a camera and we were not able to get those approved. Any kind of visual check like you describe is legal in WA.