And lost a trap to a bear

Good job!! Keep after them. I might get started here next week slowly. Our deer rifle season is the following week so really have to wait till after that. Keep after them Bruce!!

Well done! After my second this year

Now you know to secure the trap better! Can you keep a bear in a trap?

Have held a bear in a #2 double long spring once in the past.This was probably a much bigger bear.I couldn't get a stake drove into this set so I cabled it to a tree.This is a nearby tree where it must have first got caught up.That bear was not happy.

Not the best look for trappers.......

I disagree.Bear get into traps here in northern Maine.They destroy the trap.Its just a minor inconvenience to a bear End of story.

No non-target catches, it's right at the top of the page.

Please show me the picture of the nontarget animal that I posted.

Please show where it says it has to be a picture?

If you had your trap properly anchored, the bear would/could have pulled out most likely. But instead ya now have a bear running around with a trap on its foot..... which can give all trappers a black eye. And then you post about it, fcol!!

Nope, that trap is laying mangled in the heavy nearby evergreen cover.That trap is not going to last long.The trap was properly anchored.

Also bear are trapped.Nontarget animals are rabbits,birds,etc.Right now fisher,marten,and bobcats are not allowed to be trapped and have to be released.Does that make them a non target animal?

… Yeah tell her Bruce !

… say go on and git … the men are talkin

… that’s what I do anyway lol

That's what ya get for assuming yotey.

Didn't assume anything, girl. He said the bear took his trap. So, obviously it was not anchored sufficiently for bear country. And he's guessing it's laying in the brush..... he never said he found the trap. Work on your reading comprehension.

A trap can never be anchored 100 percent for all bear.They are to strong and to smart.

How much $ for killing the tree?

I doubt the critters have any money including.bear,moose,deer,rabbits,beaver and other animals that damage trees in the woods

Did Tom Miranda make you sit in the back of tge class and forget to tell you to take notes on your big chief tablet with your number 2 pencil?

Never been to a trapping class in my life.Only what my step father showed me while trapping fox with him.