Any of you guys ever think of something that you never read before and tried?

One I came up with was an on the spot idea many years ago.

I dug a trench on a sandbar Threw a chunk of fish in the bottom..then I built a roof over it laying down sticks and leaves and then putting sand on top..
I kept the ends open big enough for a 120… and to my surprise,,, I actually caught mink with it,,, even a double once,,, first and only time I’ve ever done it.

I eventually made a few using 160s and I did catch a few raccoon,, but for the most part they wouldn’t poke their head down inside..it seems to work better for mink.

Yes a double dirt hole for coyotes. Never have really gave it a name. Got the idea from trying to come up with a dirt hole set that takes advantage of coyotes wanting to work the set from a slight angle instead of straight on and use only on trap instead of two covering both angled approaches.

back in the eighties,tin foil on the trap pan in a shallow running crick for coon.maybe someone else did it to, but pretty sure i came up with that on my own,as i was pretty young and trapped by myself

Every time I have come up with something I think is original, I’ll find out someone else has been doing the same thing. So no, I cannot say that I’ve come up with any new sets. New to me maybe but not new to the trapping world. Sometimes a new to you set is just intuitive based on the location and animal behavior. I think that’s where most new sets or variants of existing sets originate. It’s a good bet someone else has had the same idea.

Yes my fisher and marten set in straight up and down tree using just Conibear,bait,lure,evergreen bows,and wire,cable

Trapping in Mississippi some years ago my sets were gettinget covered up rain and the bait- lure would wash away or the bait hole filled with water. I'd seen where coyotes would mark trash soda cans bottles ext.
I would rake up a small dirt pile and bury a baited can or bottle with bait in the top of the mound with th trap placed in front of the opening. Not sure when the pipe dream set came around put the set was the same idea.

Every time i think i do, i get on the stupid internet and find out it's old news, lol. I've been using ole seldoms disco set and didn't even know it.

Along the river bank where there are beaver and I'm trapping coon, I will lure a DP on the high bank with castor. Then create a slide and guard it with a snare/trap for beaver. Catch one of each species at the same set site.

Intresting Seldom. The principles you used to develop your set are very similar to mine. My set is designed for them to come in from either side. My winds here aren't too consistent and swirl in a lot of places so i cant be sure which will be the downwind side. And i dont have to block off one side thus leaving the set more open which i think can help with coyotes.

I need it, i want it, i gotta have it makes a difference doesn't it

Read an article in I believe Outdoor Life or maybe the Scout magazine Boy’s Life about a similar set. This would have been mid to late 70s. The trapper used silver tensile wrapped around a stick with a trap on both sides of the tide. It apparently was to mimic minnows swimming against the tide.

It sure does work Seldom, and like you, the real fox and coyote diggings look nothing like the standard dirt hole. But there's no denying they work. I try things on my dogs, lol. I have one now that i dig a half moon trowel in the dirt and put a small hole on each side with bait and lure. I know dogs aren't coyotes but they worked it in a way that i never would have caught one.

Yes, I did twice.
First was a variation on a run pole set I used for bobcat. Demonstrated it at the OTA Rendezvous at Waldo Lake.
2nd was the way I make a KORO Rodent trap work for trapping spotted skunks.

"The Possum Puke Set"
I am certain that this set has never been published.
Me and my trapping partner, each 13 years old, set off to run our long line after supper.
My partner was habitual food inhaler. Never chewed it, just heaved it in and swallowed like a coon dog.
We had spaghetti that evening.
We got to our first trapping site and set a #1 victor longpring under a crabapple tree. We had read about how persimmon trees draw raccoons from miles away, but we never seen a persimmon tree before. Close enough we thought.
After the trap was set, my partner bent over and wretched up his dinner that he had wolfed down. It landed in the snow and looked just like it did an hour earlier on his dinner plate.
With our longline completed (we only had the one trap) we headed back on an arduous journey back to the house, across the street.
After a sleepless night in anticipation, we headed back out at first light.
There was possum tracks everywhere, but no possum. There was however, no sign of the spaghetti either, not even a pink spot.
We were clearly onto something big, something fame worthy. We were going to be the next Jerimiah Johnson.
My partner went on to join the Army and was a cook for twenty years. I went on to college and became a professional trapper. That excursion sticks in my mind as the beginning of the rewarding journey I have been on over the last 55 years and counting.

I did.
It only works in the city or where there are a lot of coons and a lot of traffic.
Its called the fat on the freeway set.
You smear a bucket of bacon grease in the middle of the freeway where it goes thru some good coon habitat or thru a city where there are lots of trash pandas,then early in the morning go and pick up all the dead coon.

… shoot I created all kinds of my own sets as a kid with the half dozen long spring traps I had

…that’s why I saved my money and bought some books lol

same

I ate some asparagus the night before I went beaver trapping ..

And the next day ..I set a 330 in about 8 inches of water at a fresh

Pullout .

I then relieved myself about 2 feet behind the set.

Had a big beaver in that set the next morning.

Called the set " Simply Irresistible".

I saw that same set in a trapping video that I rented from a gun store back in the 1980s on a VCR. I tried it and mostly lost bait, no matter how dense I had the little spruce or hemlock branches covering it and the trap, just leaving the bottom open.
I have seen many renditions since, but for my money, a box out-produces it many times over.