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Whats your most memorable catch?
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:06 AM
Mine Was this otter I caught a few years ago
I should have mounted it !
Posted By: Bogmaster
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:08 AM
86 pound beaver and a triple on otter.
Tom
Posted By: Law Dog
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:09 AM
1st cat in a 1 1/2 NW weasel set shook my head several times thinking it was not real.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:11 AM
86 pound beaver and a triple on otter.
Tom
Wow...Tom. 86#
My biggest Beaver was 70. And I thought that was large. Did you take a photo?
Posted By: Wild_Idaho
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:13 AM
That otter is a pig! Wow. Gotta be 35 pounds?
My most memorable catch would be my first live otter, toe caught in a Belisle 330 and it was interesting getting a shot at dispatching him, as he was caught at a restaurant attached to a marina and had gotten himself underneath the restaurant with 12 feet of water beneath him.
Posted By: rick olson
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:22 AM
Probable my first red fox Oct 17 1981 dirt hole Deer Creek #1 guessing it was a gland lure,i think they where based out of Maryland,first coyote and bobcat were right up there too.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:29 AM
1st cat in a 1 1/2 NW weasel set shook my head several times thinking it was not real.
Thats Awesome Law Dog!
Wild Idaho...gotta Lobe the Belisles, Thats a big otter too!
Mine was 61" nose to tail...didnt weigh it.
Rick ...A first Red was memorable for me too. Snared it.
Posted By: Boco
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:34 AM
First lynx in a marten cubbie.
Posted By: Foxpaw
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:40 AM
A muskrat! When I was in the 7th grade I knew where there was a muskrat in a pond 250 yds from the house. My 7th grade teacher told me I needed a #110 conibear and that Montgomery Ward catalogue had them . I bought two with my blackberry picking money, for $1.19 each. I couldn't compress the spring so my dad set it and I carried it carefully the 250 yds and set it in the hole and caught him the first night. Two nights later the water froze over and I had to cut the ice and I couldn't see the trap, stuck my hand in to feel for it and got my hand caught. I was able to unwire it with my left hand and get on the bank and squeezed the spring enough to pull my frozen fingers out. Amazing how strong one can be when he has to. Its just like it was yesterday.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:46 AM
First lynx in a marten cubbie.
Now thats a Catch!!! Boco
Foxpaw... Thats an Awesome Story!
Posted By: Leftlane
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:47 AM
It will be hard to forget this little knot head because he managed to get caught in brand new trap (zero bait or even residential odor) after I had ran out of daylight tuning it up.
These stupid things really are suicidal LOL.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:51 AM
Hahaha Leftlane
You get an Award for that catch!
Posted By: Tactical.20
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:52 AM
I got five on one farm one morning
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:55 AM
Quite a Day Tactical !!! Great photo too!
Posted By: Wild_Idaho
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:56 AM
First lynx in a marten cubbie.
That's wild.
Posted By: RM trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:57 AM
First coyote. Not sure who was happier me or my 3 yr old son
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:59 AM
Your Son looks pretty proud RM
Posted By: Boco
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:01 AM
That'd make a nice hat.
Posted By: adam m
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:06 AM
Hard to pick one.
1st yote snared. To this day there is no way to figure how it got tangled the way it did.
First red fox
First gray fix bit me
First skunk
My big Tom bobcat on my birthday
Posted By: Tactical.20
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:11 AM
Quite a Day Tactical !!! Great photo too!
Thanks! It was early, thought I might get more lol
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:12 AM
Hard to pick one.
1st yote snared. To this day there is no way to figure how it got tangled the way it did.
First red fox
First gray fix bit me
First skunk
My big Tom bobcat on my birthday
I remember my first snared Yote!!!
Some good times Adam!
Posted By: Leftlane
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:16 AM
First coyote. Not sure who was happier me or my 3 yr old son
Priceless!
Posted By: Tactical.20
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:19 AM
One day in wy I called in a triple, then caught 3 that was a good day
Posted By: nvwrangler
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:36 AM
Frist cat ever and my son was with me
Posted By: Bogmaster
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:57 AM
330 that 86 pound beaver took 1st place for the largest beaver at the winter meeting a few years ago.It had spent 2 years in the freezer before I entered it ,so it lost several pounds and was just under 80 pounds at the meeting.
Tom
Posted By: Has-Been
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 06:13 AM
My first wolf. Snared. Day after Christmas 2019. First year trapping in Idaho. Thanks to all of my "teachers" for giving me advise and encouragement. And my first red fox a week before that. A dream come true on both accounts.
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:15 AM
for now.
Posted By: tomahawker
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:12 PM
Walked up on a muskrat float I’d tied off to overhanging tree branch and this thing was bent way down like a fishing pole. I thought I’d caught new Boone&Crockett record muskrat...nice big beaver in 1.5 longspring!
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:16 PM
nvwrangler, Wow a first Mt. Lion ...that would be One Great memory!
Has been...Im jealous of your Wolf...Awesome!!!
pcr2, Super Congrats on that boxheaded Fisher!!!
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:18 PM
Tom, That's. A crazy Big Beaver
Ah, maybe Next check I'll top 70
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:18 PM
It will be hard to forget this little knot head because he managed to get caught in brand new trap (zero bait or even residential odor) after I had ran out of daylight tuning it up.
These stupid things really are suicidal LOL.
Leftlane,
You stopped a bunch of dig unders on the high fences right there brother!
Posted By: k snow
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:21 PM
My first otter for sure. Caught right near the house and the wife was with me.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 12:27 PM
Mine was my first red fox. I was just a young lad of 12, learning how to trap. I had previously trapped some muskrats and I decided to aim for the big leagues, and bigger money, (the year was 1969) and set for raccoons. Ah ha!
I spotted raccoon tracks on a golf course sand trap that was across from our home on Lake Fenton in Michigan. I was on 'em! I lured it up with some goo of some sort and...
The next morning I had a red fox!
Only problem was....
I had him back footed in the trap -
Plus....
he dug up that sand trap in a monstrous way and he had dug out a good little portion of the golf "green" because the sand trap lay adjacent to it!!!!
You want to see a 12 year old kid dance with a red, - time again and missing, because he's always also looking towards the club house to make sure nobody is coming his way.
Thankfully golf was not in session.
Do you see why we all wear camo
The good old days.
Posted By: Pawnee
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:07 PM
First cat around 1990. Trapping buddy and I got him in a cubbie set with a 220. It was very rare at that time to see one. Kings for a day!!
Posted By: Roger Ringgold
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:17 PM
Three triples on otters over the years.
Posted By: 8117 Steve R
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:36 PM
My first mink when I was 9 years old.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:41 PM
All Great memories^^^
Love it!!! "Kings for a Day"
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:41 PM
I caught 2 beaver in a single MB 750... at the same time...they each had one rear foot in the trap....unbelievable ! ...but true.
Posted By: Alex the dog
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:42 PM
Would be a toss up between my first coyote several years ago and first targeted otter this year.
Dave
Posted By: adam m
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 01:50 PM
330 I wish I had pic of the snared yote.
Nvwrangler that's awesome
Posted By: Flipper 56
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:03 PM
Posted By: Kevin Stake
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:36 PM
Posted By: MnMan
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:52 PM
Two otters in one 330 come to mind also my first mink and first red fox.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:55 PM
330 I wish I had pic of the snared yote.
Nvwrangler that's awesome
I have my pic. Of my first snared Yote somewhere ....
But who knows how to find ....ha!
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:57 PM
Awesome pictures Above^^^
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 02:58 PM
I caught 2 beaver in a single MB 750... at the same time...they each had one rear foot in the trap....unbelievable ! ...but true.
were they bit up??
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 03:00 PM
first coyote--1987--he was champ till we got a cat season.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 03:01 PM
I caught 2 beaver in a single MB 750... at the same time...they each had one rear foot in the trap....unbelievable ! ...but true.
were they bit up??
I missed that....Wow!
Hope you got a picture
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 03:03 PM
i asked cause as a rookie i set 2 footholds,not on drowners,too close together and what was left was amazing to me.
Posted By: Yotegiter
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 03:55 PM
Had a 3 cat day, on public land running 18cages, this was back when cats were bringing big $$$. Also had my wife with me that day, who happened to be pregnant at the time with twins.
Posted By: waggler
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:29 PM
That's a tough question; probably a couple of them, all first of the species catch when I was a kid.
Spotted skunk, got sprayed really good. 1968, I was in 5th grade
Mink 1969
Beaver 1971
Marten 1974
I can remember everyone of those like it was yesterday.
Posted By: Ryan McLeod
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:38 PM
Lots of memorable catches but my first wolf comes to mind. Caught it in an mb 750 on a drag. I still remember the feeling of following the drag marks.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 04:44 PM
That's a tough question; probably a couple of them, all first of the species catch when I was a kid.
Spotted skunk, got sprayed really good. 1968, I was in 5th grade
Mink 1969
Beaver 1971
Marten 1974
I can remember everyone of those like it was yesterday.
You forgot.... beaver in 2018 Pilot point
jk
Posted By: grapestomper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:10 PM
I had both my kids with and we got a Bobcat, Coon and a fisher on our little line.
That was a good day.
Posted By: thedude055
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:15 PM
I worked on a single red fox for 2 weeks in bad snow so i was trying to learn to snare as i went. I caught that fox on the last day of trapping season in a snare. First Snare first fox. I learned more from the mistakes i made for two weeks than i ever have trapping before. Very Humbling experience. That is when i got hooked on the mental side of trapping.
Posted By: James
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 05:58 PM
In Ohio: My first mink. And first red fox.
In Alaska: First wolf. First marten and first otter.
Jim
Posted By: pcr2
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 06:04 PM
and i must admit--my wife is and always will be the best catch i ever made but number 2 comes close at times.
Posted By: The hammer
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 06:11 PM
My daughter's first coyote she did everything from digging the trap bed to bedding the trap. I only helped with setting the trap shes not strong enough for the 4 coils yet.
She also can't drive earth anchors in very easily so was on a drag.
Posted By: The hammer
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 06:12 PM
and i must admit--my wife is and always will be the best catch i ever made but number 2 comes close at times.
Nice save pcr2. Haha.
Posted By: bblwi
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 06:44 PM
I had been trapping for about 15 years running about 7 properties and catching say 30-50 coons, a handful of reds, some mink and rats in about 3 weeks of trapping. My first year of setting out a longer line with about 70 sets I caught 26 coons the first day! For me that was unbelievable and the most I have ever caught in a day since was 19.
Bryce
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 07:01 PM
Awesome Stuff^^^
Especially Hammers kid doing the Yote catching!
Posted By: jbyrd63
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 08:24 PM
First fox. Set 4 traps had a grey fox and 2 possums. Back in early 70's.
Posted By: Nittany Lion
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 08:27 PM
First mink, caught in a 110 Victor conibear in a hole in deep water, it was a female. That catch was made in the fall/winter of 1963.
Posted By: KeithC
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 09:33 PM
This groundhog, who I called Frosty Francis, is probably my most memorable catch.
Keith
Posted By: 20scout
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 09:48 PM
My first fed fox caught in my first snare. Set under a fence and caught him the next day. No picture but was a beautiful cherry red, something I have yet to catch another of. Got $45.00 on the carcass and for a kid in the mid 70's who was getting .25 for pocket gophers, that was big $$!
Posted By: Killbuck
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 10:12 PM
albino raccoon ca. 1973.
Posted By: GotFur3
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 10:45 PM
First coyote on my dad's birthday
Posted By: MJM
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 10:48 PM
A case of crabs on a boat.
Posted By: patrapper1989
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:10 PM
Walking up on my first coyote double. I'll never forget that day. We dont have many coyotes around my area so it was a nice surprise.
Posted By: Getting There
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:22 PM
A skunk I got when I was 12 years old. Set a foot hold in front of a hole under the house. The trap was under the house and the stake was outside the house. Pulled on the chain and seen it was a skunk. Hook a 10 foot pole to the ring of the trap and took the trap and skunk down to the creek to drowned the skunk. Put the skunk in the creek but the water was on 8 inches deep. The rest of the story does not smell that good. LOL now.
**You are never to old to Vote! **
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:35 PM
I caught 2 beaver in a single MB 750... at the same time...they each had one rear foot in the trap....unbelievable ! ...but true.
were they bit up??
Nope...not one hole in the pelts ...they measured 55 inches each....and I had them made into 16 inch Beaver Gloves...needed 2 pelts,which was perfect!
Posted By: Marten Ted
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:57 PM
First coyote I caught on my own. My dad and I had caught a few when I was younger but this one was really memorable to me. Ran half a dozen (mediocre) sets (in terrible locations) for 2 or 3 weeks in the snow before finally connecting. Still remember the sound of the chain jingling.
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/08/20 11:58 PM
330..... I caught those 2 beaver in a 750... in 2006... didn’t have a cell phone back then....and no camera. ..Could I be the only one....to pull that off ??...lol
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:00 AM
My very first catch in a trap during spring muskrat season on a float.Caught a mink.Was in 1966.I was 5 years old.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:04 AM
330..... I caught those 2 beaver in a 750... in 2006... didn’t have a cell phone back then....and no camera. ..Could I be the only one....to pull that off ??...lol
Thats too bad.
My biggest beaver wasn't photographed either...that was 1986
Posted By: stinkypete
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:08 AM
My fist mink trapping with my grandfather. Not sure who was more excited. I know we where both yelling and squealing with joy. Oh and so was the mink squealing. I will never forget that day. That is was 1979.
Posted By: backroadsarcher
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:44 AM
My 1st memorable catch was my 1st mink. Caught in a #1 victor long spring set for weasel on my grandparents farm many years ago. If grandma knew I took one of her old chickens for bait I think I would have been in trouble.
Posted By: strike2x
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:55 AM
This lice infested mutt. It was my first coyote. My avatar is my first fox and that one got me trapping again after a long time off.
Posted By: Hydropillar
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 12:58 AM
Was a Red Fox i caught shortly after we were married... fall of 1980.... comeing home from grocery shopping swung through a set and had a nice red... he broke the chain as we were driving up.... i was in a customised van.... i didnt have a gun with so chased him a ways then stood on the running board while wife drove.... bailed out and chased him.... chased him over half mile as it was a big pasture... i remember laughing cause we were both going so slow... someone at a fast walk would overtake us... anyway i was all in dove for his tail and got him... slammmed him on ground..... got 100 bucks for him.... think we had 80$ groceries... man them were the days !!
that wasnt put up either
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 01:09 AM
Those were the days Hydro
Posted By: Squash
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 01:39 AM
Set a 220 under the ice where beaver and otter were going over a beaver dam. The hole in the ice was just big enough for a 220. I set and anchored the trap , while still standing on the dam I reached for my pack basket to leave, and the trap fired. Before I even looked at the trap I figured a piece of ice sprung the trap. Much to my surprise I had a big male otter in the trap.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 02:26 AM
Set a 220 under the ice where beaver and otter were going over a beaver dam. The hole in the ice was just big enough for a 220. I set and anchored the trap , while still standing on the dam I reached for my pack basket to leave, and the trap fired. Before I even looked at the trap I figured a piece of ice sprung the trap. Much to my surprise I had a big male otter in the trap.
That's Awesome!
Posted By: The Possum Man
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 02:27 AM
I remember the ones that bit me. Stay out the catch circle would be the lesson from that one lol.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/09/20 02:46 PM
I remember the ones that bit me. Stay out the catch circle would be the lesson from that one lol.
So it happened more than once? Ha!
Posted By: pud
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 02:49 AM
Posted By: snowy
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 03:08 AM
Way back in my younger days I caught a cougar and she was a wild one. Sorry no pictures!
Posted By: Hunter23
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 03:10 AM
First fox and first otter. Both were hard won.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 03:13 AM
Awesome cat there Pud
Snowy, I'd bet that was an experience
Posted By: QuietButDeadly
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 03:14 AM
Probably this coyote.....
Posted By: pud
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 04:52 PM
Thanks 330... It was 6 years ago, before I had ever seen one. Still not legal to keep today ! The true Experience was getting it out of trap with no catch pole. That is 45 minutes of my life i will always cherish
Posted By: cat_trapper_nv
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 05:01 PM
Caught a bobcat with my 4 year old but the cat wasn’t the memorable catch. My son goes walking around the tree we caught the cat at to get a better view of it when I hear “Dad!!!!!! I’m stuck”. We had a backup set on the backside of the tree that he forgot about. I know he looks like he was crying in the picture, but he wasn’t crying from the trap. He cried because I told him I couldn’t get the trap off and would have to run home to get some tools. Once I told him I was joking he told me to take a picture for mom. An exposed MB550 with Mike Kelly’s expanded pans gives you a perfect catch every time, no matter the species haha.
Posted By: TrappinOnTheEdge
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 05:01 PM
Mine was my very first coyote on my own line. Trapped with my uncle every year around Christmas on my breaks from school. Spent one season living with him and my aunt and I ran under his permits with him, caught 12 fox and 2 yotes one day (still me biggest catch day ever).
But two years later when I had graduated and got my first job outta college bought me 2 dozen victor #3's, modified them all myself, got some permission from my boss to trap, permits from the DOW. Three days later caught my very first dog on my own. I remember feeling proud as a peacock when I called my uncle to tell him I was doing it on my own now.
Posted By: alaska viking
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 05:17 PM
First wolverine.
Posted By: Catcollector
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 05:36 PM
first $1200 cat, also to add to a previous thread about A and B bellies this is an A.
Posted By: RM trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 05:48 PM
Cat trapper nv that's pretty cool story, I have two sons that are 7 and 9 and they both enjoy going to check traps especially the 7 yr old and he kinda reminds me of your son. No fear he'll go right in the catch circle to get a better look at a bobcat or coyote. I videod us once and when momma saw it she wasn't happy with my parental supervision on the line. Lol
Posted By: coyotesoldier229
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 06:00 PM
My first triple on coyotes. Pulled up in my side by side and saw one in a flat set. Shut the side by side off and could hear chain rattling so I thought I had my first double, but can’t see the other two sets I had 30 yards away on the other side of the point of woods. I walked down the two track and saw two other coyotes bouncing around and I about crapped my pants.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 09:32 PM
Awesome stories^^^
Posted By: clintp1971
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 10:28 PM
Ole white coyote for me. Caught him on our family farm about 150 yards from my house. Never seen another
Posted By: Nessmuck
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 10:55 PM
Nice......6 years ...and your 2nd post...I’d say,your out of the closet ,there Pud.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/10/20 11:46 PM
Our family was never much for picture taking. And cell phones were only seen on star trek. This is my only picture of me with my first grey fox. I was about 14 in the late 70s. I remember it well.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 12:06 AM
Awesome pic bleeohio
Posted By: Hodagtrapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 12:15 AM
While trapping beaver through the ice back in the 70's I had a nice surprise waiting for me. I had placed a 3" diameter dead tree at an angle through the ice into the mud below. I wired a #4 double longspring about 2' up from the bottom with a bundle of popple tips wired above about a foot below the ice. Went to check the set about a week later and pulled a very large buck mink from the trap. I know they travel under the ice but was odd that it stepped into that set! Brought $28.00 at the local fur buyer. Sure do miss those days!
Chris
Posted By: Digger Catcher1
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 02:12 AM
I've had many memorable days on the trap line. One that stands out for me is I set 60 long springs in a creek for mushrats and the next morning I had 52 mushrats,3 coons and big buck mink.
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 02:32 AM
Yeah, Early 80s. I made more Trappin' than my full time job
Posted By: beaverpeeler
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 02:49 AM
Many memorable catches, but maybe I will submit my first beaver: Actually two of them. I was 16 years old and had been reading FF&G articles about beaver trapping. I had 3 #4 double long springs so I set them up with window sash weights for drowners. There was a slough near where I lived and some beaver where working it so I set up three trails coming out of the water and caught two the first night.
I hardly knew what to do with myself!
Posted By: jabNE
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 02:49 AM
Sorry, but I have two memorable catches, and both were whopper beaver. I do remember my first coyote like it was yesterday, but these two beaver were definitely top catches.
First was many years ago, this huge beaver I snared, went 75 pounds.
second one was one that my then 7 year old son Gunner snared. He was so happy when we caught it. We had checked his empty snare for a couple days then bingo he got it. I was so proud of him!
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 02:54 AM
That Shot of your Son is the Best!!!
Posted By: jabNE
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 03:00 AM
Thanks 330. I was showing him how easy it is to catch them on trails with snares. No big traps or strong springs, just a snare and an extension to lock around the tree next to that little dam and trail they were using. It was all he talked about for weeks...caught it all by himself!
Jim
Posted By: MT bowhunter
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 04:27 AM
Couple for me. First was my first bobcat. It was the early 80's and the limit here was on cat. I had one set with a 330. I had to walk a mile and a half up a thousand foot ridge to check it. After a month I finally caught a cat. Got 250$ for it. Second was my first coon. It was big boar. I set two number two victor coils in the end of a hollow log baited with sardines. The coon was backfooted in one trap and burrowed into the hollow log. I grabbed the other trap and gave it a good pull. The coon came out on the fight and I fired an instinct shot from my old marlin lever action and hit it between the eyes. Lucky cause it would have tore the crap out of me.
Posted By: Pest's Dad
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 05:03 AM
Barn rat in a 220 bucket set.
Was especially memorable as I was talking to my mother, on the phone, at the time. Hilarious! Conversation sort of went like: " Yeah. Weather's as normal here, mum. It's just ..... Umm .....
What The ..... Hang on, mum. I ..... What The ....!!! HOW?! ..... Sorry, mum. What? Ermm; I just got this situation here ....."
Like, I'm swallowing my tongue and trying to comprehend what I'm even looking at!
Posted By: mawdy man
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 12:56 PM
my first mole..after 3 weeks of trying age 10!
my first snared fox even snared with a snare made from bike brake cables from a bike at the tip.
then as i got older a bit the first day i snared 4 foxes..and the first time i got 100+ moles in a single check
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/11/20 01:28 PM
Those are some pretty good days
Posted By: 330Maniac
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/12/20 05:14 AM
This 86 lb beaver when i was 16
Posted By: Cathouse Jim
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/16/20 02:39 PM
Back when I was 17, I went to spend Thanksgiving with my Aunt and Uncle who lived in Roane County WV - I was from Colorado. They had a nice acerage farm that had a small river running through it. I caught my first Gray fox, mink, and possum on that trip. There were also muskrats and coon but I had been catching them in my home state. I felt pretty big in my britches for my first out of state trapping adventure.
Sorry for the old dark picture but it is all I have. left to right - Possums, Mink, Muskrats, grey fox and coons.
First ever Gray fox
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/16/20 03:40 PM
80# Beaver would be memorable for sure Maniac
Jim....those old dark photos just add to the mystique ...Awesome memories.
Posted By: The Beav
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/16/20 03:44 PM
I was dry landing some 330s on this rice plantation and I caught a bobcat and It had a hen mallard still clutched In It's jaws when It died.
Posted By: Castormound
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/16/20 08:03 PM
I could still take you to within 10 yards of the spot I caught my first red fox back in Iowa. I'll always remember my first bobcat up near Hawk Springs in a set made for fox. A few "big days" will always remain vivid in my memory. What a wonderful sport we pursue!!!!!!
Posted By: 330-Trapper
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/16/20 08:24 PM
I could still take you to within 10 yards of the spot I caught my first red fox back in Iowa. I'll always remember my first bobcat up near Hawk Springs in a set made for fox. A few "big days" will always remain vivid in my memory. What a wonderful sport we pursue!!!!!!
Isnt that the Truth ...I can remember many first locations
Beav That Must have been Amazing....did you mount it?
Posted By: Cragar
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/21/20 07:47 AM
Red tail hawk I removed from a ladies house. It had crashed into her screened in porch. Captured it, took some quick pictures and immediately released it due to very strict federal laws regarding birds of prey.
Normally you can't touch these things without special federal licenses and etc. I've learned from my states DNR if it is a bonafide 'rescue ' and it is in the animal's best interests to save it from harm/injuries/death you are allowed to help.
Done this a couple times , 2 red tail hawks , 2 sharp shinned hawks.
Very cool seeing such a majestic animal up close.
Posted By: grayfox54
Re: Whats your most memorable catch? - 01/21/20 06:40 PM
A 40lb coyote