Gimme your one indispensable trapping book

Title says it all. What's your favorite?

Trapping North American Furbears - Stanley Hawbaker .
Can give it to any kid and lite a fire !

"High Rolling Fox Trapping"

By Leslie Craig O'Gorman.

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Ken Smythe's bottom edge mink has put 10 times as much fur in my shop as all the others i've bought since combined.

I don't have a very extensive library, but of the few trapping books I have, I like Coyote Fever best.

Land sets and trapping techniques, i have a signed copy from 80s and it's my predator trapping Bible.

Just like jabNE, Land Sets and Trapping Techniques. Its one of 2 books that I kept when I sold off my collection because it had the best information.

another vote for "Land Sets and Trapping Techniques" by Charles Dobbins.

solid info, and a lot of it!

A modern trapline by Bob Gilsvik

This is mine, also. I love Charles Dobbins way of writing.

For a DVD, I would have to say Don Powell's Mink after Mink on Purpose, and also Eric Space's Mink Snaring videos.

PRACTIAL FARMLAND TRAPPING by Ray Lindroos. Dad got this book in December, 1946. I found it in the bottom drawer of the desk, in 1964. Was the first book of dad's I felt was actually good.

Also, at the same time a manila envelope from Herb Lenon with the 5 books he wrote. This was the books I read over and over.

Morgan Bennett's "Trapping with Prejudice".

And a fifth vote. That reminds me, I should dust it off and read it again before I get to trapping next week.

Morgan has a book? Never saw it.

Bob Noonans trapping fisher

Hoofbeats of a Wolfer

Daily log book.

"Alaska Wolf Trapping Manual"

Land Sets and Trapping Techniques by Charles Dobbins made the biggest difference for me. After that it was Ron Leggett's Fox Trapping Methods.

Land sets and trapping techniques.
Signed copy, well thumbed pages, my favorite book to read before each season.
Jim

Hoofbeats of a wolfer or biermans professional fox and coyote trapping.

Another vote for this one.

For water trapping it would be "Water Trapping and Related Sets" by Mike Marsyada

Del Kramers trapping 101

Ken Smythe's bottom edge mink.

I have many how. to trapping books I bought overs the years.
however the one that has increased my catch 100%.is
Land sets and trapping techniques by Charles Dobbins.

I have enjoyed the Alaska Trappers Manual, and is very good for a beginner here in AK

Phil Presjack,(sp),there is one trick espoused most minkers pass over

??? ex wife? for bait?

I can't believe you don't understand trapper spelling. EXPOSED LOL

The School Boy Trapper by Pat Sedlak. First trapping book I owned.

I might as well write all the titles down, toss in a hat and draw one lol.
The one you cant live without? Hmmmm.....
For an all around species book - farmland fur trapping by Barringer
For enjoyment reading, tales of a wilderness trapper by Negus

Ditto

I have a signed copy.

For coyotes Mark June's Book helped me the most

Longliner fox trapping was recommended by a friend when I first started and it filled in some gaps on my "puzzle" of learning to trap.

i thought wife for bait was kool Beav!

hawbakers for a kids all around

X2 Still got mine I bought around 2.00 in 1974. Looking at it right now sitting in bookcase.

ole s stanley did a great job!!

Rich Faler's mink book was one that will put mink trappers on the right track.

And that's a fact. I think that may be the best mink book In print.

Depends on the wife. LOL

I have to go along with Trapping north American Furbearers by Hawbaker. When I was a kid there was Science of trapping and another that escapes my memory. But one was written by kreps and the other by lynch. Those two were on my father's bookshelf.

"Scientific Muskrat Trapping" by Oscar Cronk

This book gave me an itch that can't be scratched.

Honestly, Stanley's book made trapping much more complicated them it should be for me. As a kid, I tried to exactly copy the sets in the book. It was all about the set instead of about finding the sweet spot. I think it was Carmen's foxes by the hundreds that first led me to understand how simple fox trapping could be. Also, for the basics, Gerald Weiland's fox and mink books are super. The first book to teach me how to think like a trapper was the second edition of Slim Pederson's book. I don't think you can get it anymore. Slim didn't just diagram a set, he tried to get across how to understand the animals behavior.

For coon, Austin Passomontes book is an excellent book on location, no matter what kind of traps and sets you use.

Trap modification by Charles Dobbins