Hey folks,

Getting ready to put away my traps for the year. I was wondering what everyone else does for storage?

At first I was hanging everything off my joists in the bottom of my barn because I loved the look of all the hanging traps, but soon realized my head was quick to find them as I walked around.

I only have a few traps as of yet but I can see this becoming an addiction and want to have a game plan for storage before it turns into a another jumbled messy hobby.

How to do you folks store them? in stacked totes? I was thinking of seperating them as traps for target animals, or location (river trapping, under ice, forest, field etc) or by actual trap type and size and just hang up my snares. Only issue i see with this was may be a pain in the butt digging around totes to get small conibears and spring traps etc for muskrats for example as well as dig out the floats, colony traps etc so that's why I thought about doing it via target animal.

How early do you take them out of storage to dye and wax them?


Thanks in advance from everyone, I think this may be my new favorite hobby.

The Carpenter

I put them in milk crates, set them on wooden pallets, and cover with a tarp.

I hand them under eves of my shed

After cleaning and prepping for the next season I would put them in plastic buckets with some hay or dried grass and put on the lid.