5 coon and 2 grinners today. Pulled one property and set up another property.
Got some pics but I'll post them later on.
I'm going to weigh some of these coon. I'm betting some of them are in the 30 LB range. And we have not caught any dinks yet.

3 of them went 24 26 28. They seemed a bit heaver when I was hauling them out. LOl

Those are huge Beav. Have you noticed that the coon are incredibly fat this season? My line was pretty poor today so I'm hoping it was the weather. I went from 12 coon to 9 coon to 3 coon in the last three checks. I did finally connect on two skunks. I've had some very tiny coon this year as well a extra small possums. Must have had late litters or do they have more than one litter a year?

How are the coon as per being prime?

They still need some time. The larger coon have some white leather but the smaller ones are still slatey. The sows are pretty weak yet.

I caught 5 grinners this morning I was tempted to toss them but .50 cents is still .50 cents. LOL

Set on all kinds of coon scat locations and nothing.

Beav,
I've had the same thing happen in the last two days. Only caught 3 yesterday and 5 today and I have a lot of sets out. All 5 coon today were in 160's, nothing in the DP's. Maybe the strong winds are making them travel less, just not sure.

Just 2 tiny possums today. And 1 coon in an alfalfa field, obviously sick. Head tucked in, just rocking in place, its in trash panda heaven now. First coon I've seen in a few days. But not set for them much either.

DPs seem to be working as to catching coon but the jury is still out on catching skunks in them. In the past when I was trapping coyotes I caught quite a few skunks in those sets. Maybe I should be using some type of tainted meat bait in my DPs. And I haven't even caught a grinner in any of those DPs

Beav, I'm surprised that you are unsure of the dps for skunks. We have great luck using them up here. But maybe there is a difference between your skunks and ours, kinda like muskrats on floats in the fall from one region to the next.

same here on coon not many I believe distemper went through again, not many on the roads, had a lady call and had a dead one on her porch

What are you using for bait?

General a homemade smokey fish bait or a homemade bacon bait.

I'm using cat kibble mixed with either peppermint or anis oil or molasses. I don't think skunks are drawn to that type of bait. But It sure works on coon.
Will be making some changes this week.

Thanks

Today's catch was 4 grinners 1 coon and one skunk.

Today I had 6 coon and 4 possum so it picked up a bit. Was fairly calm last night.