The season is almost upon us. Good luck, have fun, and be safe! Post pictures to this thread so we have a running idea of how the season is going.

I'll try to remember to take pictures. I will be mentoring for a Learn to Trap this weekend at Collins Marsh.

Tight chains to everyone who goes out.

Good luck everyone, I'll just be after coon & skunk for now. Gonna wait a little longer for yote and fox

Starting my ADC rat line on mon. When that's done, I'll start my coon and skunk line.

And looks like we have a beaver job on some DNR land.

Anybody set steel in the 73 degree heat?

Tight chains to all

Only because it was a learn to trap mentor day. It was warm for sure.

Heading out now. Only going to put in a couple sets

Good luck to you cowboy

What are you going to set for Cowboy? I want to see some pictures of what you catch.

Thanks!

Coon and skunk for now. Probably going to catch a possum before anything else though

Those possums are good skinning practice.

Yeah!

Well, I made a few sets... One is kind of a dirthole, with a tree as a backing. Double jaw 1.5 coilspring (courtesy of Savell ) I put a marshmallow and some Caven's predator bait down in the hole. Not sure how the marshmallow thing will turn out but they work good in my cage traps so we'll see. Then I made kind of a flat set with another double jaw 1.5 at a different location baited with more Caven's predator bait. Then I set a couple cage traps for possum. Going to try for skunk tomorrow or sometime later in the week

How are you at putting up fur Cowboy? If we can find a way to do it legally, I might be interested in buying a couple possums off of you.

Hoping for the best for you! I remember my first seasons and the sleepless nights thinking about my sets! Keep us posted!!

Not too good, but I'm working on it! My fox didn't turn out too bad even though I accidentally pulled part of the tail off lol. Still need to find a way to sew that back on I'll send you a PM

Thanks! Yeah, it's super fun to think about it all night and then finally go check 'em when the sun comes up!! I'll keep ya posted

Learn to trap was pretty successful. My students ended up with 1 muskrat and 1 raccoon. What a change Sunday morning was from Saturday afternoon. Mid 70s and sun to 50 and raining sideways.

I'm starting this morning.

Good luck Beav.

A few from Vilas county only have about 50 traps out

Nice catch trapbub. Looks like it was a lot of fun. Keep it up.

Nice picture trapbub.

Good catch trapbub!

…. Figured yall up north hands would be trappin a little more by now

… don’t be shy and put your pics in here

… I enjoy them

Thanks hard to decide trap or hunt

…. Big animal… Hope you get him

Well, it wasn't a great first check, but I caught 8 rats and had 4 sprung traps. They raised the water level on me yesterday and that wasn't supposed to happen. And there wasn't much for sign, but we did a real hurt on them this spring. We caught 120 rats out of those lagoons.

I have never in all my years of driving but this morning I missed at least 3 deer but managed to hit one. The old 2002 F150 ran right over that deer, and we just kept going. Not any damage t0 the truck in fact there wasn't even any blood to be seen. On the way home we stopped to check on it. It was a very small fawn, and it wasn't worth picking up. But someone had stopped and dragged off the road.
Lucked out again.

First catch of the season!

Good job Cowboy!

Thanks!!

Nice work Cowboy. Keep after em.

Thanks!!

Thank you Brian for starting this thread. Two of us did our northern rat run again. We left home on Thursday and came home today, this Tuesday. We did two checks and got 142 rats. This may be the only trapping I do this fall. We moved into our new condo on Wednesday the 15th! We have our old home to clean up and close on and a condo full of boxes and bags. All my trapping stuff is in a hay barn with no fur handling set up yet. I have a ton of stuff in another storage shed, so tons of work to do and and all the new utilites, garbage issues and phone, inernent and TV to get going as well.
Good luck to all on the line.

Bryce

A lot of wind and rain today got another 23 rats between the two lakes I have set , Gona pull the small lake and move to another area tomorrow

great job guys ,keep posting

Gorgeous weather to get out. You timed that well Bryce

Caught 8 more today. These are huge rats and have no fat on them. But the nice thing is those 16 rats are worth $560.00. Setup fee Is $400.00 and $10.00 per rat.

Brian, nice temps, horrible winds while in our canoes for Sunday and Monday. Color was great and with 2 days of wind a lot of leaves came down.

Bryce

Pulled the small lake outlet marsh yesterday and moved traps around on the big lake marsh got 18 medium to large rats got a very small beaver that I was able to pull the trap free from his toe thank god I weaken the springs on the 1 1/2 coilsprings rain in some form all day

All I got this morning is 2 rabbits

I put out four coyote sets today and 10 DP's for skunk, lol. Can't believe I'm trying to catch them after all the years of trying to avoid them, lol.

All traps out of the water for know. Time to bowhunt

When does everyone start trapping coons. I know season is open but dont want to get them if the hide wo t be prime. Thanks

I'd wait until at least November 1, if not another week after that.

How's the hide on the rats?

I had 2 coyotes out of 4 traps and two coon out of 10 dogproofs. I tried not to catch the coon and mainly set up on skunk sign.

Nice work Lance. Looks like it was a frosty morning.

Thanks. Definitely had a hard frost. I skinned the two coon and two coyotes. The large coon was ok but the smaller one was pretty blue leathered.

If you are setting on skunk sign, the last trap you want is a DP.

LOL

I've caught a lot of skunks in DP's but I'm sure I could catch more with dirt holes. The end of next week I'll have the full arsenal of traps out including footholds, DP's and bodygrips.

I agree. Last season set on coon sign and caught mostly skunks with my Dp's. Good start guys!

I pulled my rat line today and ended up with 42 rats. And I've caught 3 beaver off this property. No beaver action today so I will be pulling the beaver traps tomorrow. I have a neat pic of some beaver I caught.

I'm going to start trapping coon and skunks on Monday. Might even hang some cable.

Way to go guys tight chains to all of you.

Good luck Beav. I caught 4 coon today in my DP's and still no skunks. Two of the coon were nice big boars and looked pretty good. The other two were small and look pretty curly on the back.

Last photo is pretty neat, thanks for posting. Getting a lot of huts up in the last few days here. Got the itch already and a month to go......jk I meant that for the photo of the live muskrat on the hut.....jk

I'm trying to help a guy get his first fox and coyote this year, I'm having him set all the traps so he can say he caught it, had a fox step on jaw of trap, [trap didn't move he got the bait] he should come back, yesterday we had a coyote step on every side of the trap and dig up the dirt hole and get bait, we only have a few set out,

Of course she had to mess up a perfectly good coyote set.
Blue as a new pair of jeans.

Slung some steel in the central rat opener yesterday and was able to catch a few. Water is low and not much sign, but it's still fun to be out on the water.

we pick up a couple of coons
and they are looking good,