Last Seen 01/10/25 06:00 AM

I got 2 foxes yesterday and just missed one he stepped within 1 inch of the pan!

I haven’t seen him in a while, but maybe I can get a hold of him.

Wow so close! Hope you get 'im next time

NTO was a strange guy, he would quit trapping sell stuff then re get back into it. Odd odd

Well, yote, fox, and coon trapping season ended on the 15th for me so I've snapped most of my traps. I'm gonna pull them in a few days. I like to stick close to the trapping season even though I can trap year round on my own property.

I'm gonna order a few colony traps and a bunch of 1.5 coils for muskrats soon and next year I'll be trapping the river as well as my property. I'm looking forward to next trapping season already

dont order colony traps, make em! muskrats are my favorite and they are still in seaso here. honestly if i were you i would buy cheap victor number 2 square jaws because they hold muskrats really high on the leg and drown them without drowners, just use a long cable or wire. also scout your muskrat spots to make sure there is runs or holes to put the colonies into and make sure there is places to set the footholds for the muskrats. i made the mistake of buying abunch of skrat footholds and there is rarley any slides to set them on. muskrats prime up in the spring so if you can trap them on your property then try and catch some within the next month or so. use any conibear from a 110 up to a 220 in a run or use any weak foothold.

The only muskrat I trapped was one that had burrowed into my grandparents septic hill. You can imagine the problems that would cause! Needless to say, he didn’t stay long!

How do you make them colony traps? I'll look into some Victor #2s. Thanks for the advice!

Making a colony trap is easy onc you figure it out. Hard to explain but I will maybe make a video for you

OK that would be great! thanks!

My favorite muskrat traps are the #1 stop loss.I make sure I stake for the largest animal around---While I don't purposely set this trap for beaver and coon--by staking correctly,I have taken hundreds of beaver and coon in my muskrat sets, The largest beaver I have taken in a #1 stoploss weighed 53 pounds. A few years ago;I redesigned Dukes Stoploss for them
Tom

Holy smokes! A 53lb beaver in a #1!!! That's super cool that you redesigned the Duke. What did you redesign on it?

Pretty sweet!

Guys I made a horrible minnow trap and it took me 2 hours and 10 bucks worth of wasted wire. I don’t even think it would catch, I tried to mimic the trapdoor design of a clover leaf minnow trap

Well, first one, right? I attempted to make a box trap a month or so ago.. I don't think I'll talk about it... It's a sad story lol

I've never made a minnow trap before so that looks pretty good to me!!

Oh boy my first box trap was so bad. This trap sucks but I have a resivoir that has so many small bluegill so I will set it there and just pull it up every ten minutes and I know it will catch. Im so dissapointed ngl I spent money and time to fail… again… and again… even more… yep keep goin. Litterly every single thing I’ve made of wire has failed. My colony traps worked but I had a mink in one and he bent the door all the way out and it was 16 gauge wire and it was a long door was it would have been hard to bend out