We tried making snares out of fishing line to catch 13 lined ground squirrels when were very young. No success that I remember.

Caught a few coyotes the first year I tried snaring. 3/32 cable and a big ol' washer lock from the Snare Shop in Iowa. If I remember right I literally hung them right over a cattle trail in one of our Summer pastures. Grass was clipped pretty low. So I am sure the snares were pretty visible. Still managed to snare 2 or 3 that first Winter and recall losing a couple to chewing out.

Pretty sure it was a coon

Pigeon, 30 feet up in top of barn. I was a teenager, about 60 years ago.

Probably coon but the first one I remember is a yote. Fence set illegal now.
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My first snared animal was a coyote crawling under a barbed wire fence shortly afterwards I started catching a bunch of raccoons and a few more coyotes over that winter 30 J years ago !

Beaver in a creek. They were swimming under a tree that had fallen across the creek.

A beaver. I expected it to be in the water when I approached. But it was on the bank. The cable was badly twisted and some of the individual strands were broken. At the time, I had no idea what I was doing. I do now.

Red fox. Got a couple that way.

2 yotes about 30' apart in a narrow sliver of woods, male and female.

Otter in a bank crossing set for beaver.

Groundhogs in my grandfather field, then a coon! And I though groundhogs messed u p a snare!

skunk at the end of a culvert ,I thought a coon but when I pulled the cable I instantly knew I screwed up that coon snare lol.

Red Fox, I was 12 years old. Was hoping for a racoon.
Use to buy more traps with my coon money.
Got $75.00 for the fox, saved that money to buy my .243

Beaver

Red Fox ca. 1973

Rabbit, homemade snare out of copper wire

Under ice beaver in 1970.

The first year I tried I had nothing but refusals and knock downs. The next season it took about three weeks and I caught my first fox, then a week later I had a coyote. It took several seasons before I connected on a cat.

I had caught all the beaver in a colony except for the female. She wouldn't go near a 330 and the water wasn't deep enough to drown her with a foothold. So, I resorted to a snare which I had never tried before. I was surprised when I had her the next morning.

Am I the only one to snare nutria? While I was I college I found I needed a heap more traps and had zero money to buy them with. Back then I could whip out a 48” snare if 1/16 aircraft cable and a corner brace for a lock for about 50 cents or less. Snared a heap of nutria back then.