Favorite fur to trap?

I personally like muskrat just cause it’s simple and fun. Other animals may be more valuable but unless you got a huge line you ain’t gonna make much so why not trap the simple fun thing.

Beaver is probably my favorite

Beaver

Moosetrot

Coon there fun!

Beaver, Under ice.

Coyotes for the challenge of it.
Bobcat when our Midwest cats have enough value to be worth harvesting.
Those are the only 2 animals I've tried to trap other than some nuisance coons around the buildings.

I'm a wanna be cat trapper but I am learning to love penning wild hogs too

Beaver and otter. The problem is in Indiana you can only take 2 otter.

Yotes

Coon for fun with the kids , coyotes cause they make me use my noodle

I have nowhere to trap beaver or otter sadly

What ever animal I am targeting at any given time.

Garry-

Cats are by far my favorite thing to trap. We don't have much of them around here so sometimes it's an uphill battle. One of these years I'm heading where they are like possums just to say I did it.

Well they are just like possums down here- if you dont believe me try to sell a batch of them

I love to catch coons. We don’t have muskrats so coons are the fun and easy thing to catch around here.

I started out trapping rats and 55 years later their still my favorite. Cats are fun too as are otter. Trapping rats takes me back to when l was a kid.

Trapped everything when I was younger, now I pretty much just target yotes - trapping them gets me access to several farms to hunt.

Big Beavah!!!

Coyotes, then mink, then coon.

There is something pretty cool though about standing by a beaver dam and breaking open a big longspring to take beaver. Makes me feel like hundred years of trappers before me doing same thing.

Jim

Especially if they have nice fur!!!

Small young ones are nice too, better eating in my opinion.



Mark me down as red fox as a favorite.

Although skunk is nice too, smells like money to me.

Weasels then coyotes.

Otters for me.. always makes for a good day pulling a trap at the end of the drowning wire and see that big tail break the surface

Pine marten, otter,and beaver. Love riding my sled up the side of a mountain and seeing a nice orange throated male hanging.



Bringing the kids along also helps out tons.

I recall asking dad this question, and his answer was muskrats. Mine is beaver.

Yotes with cats a close second.

Gotta love them skunks but most of mine are incidental trapping reds

Snaring beaver but Bobcats are at the top two.

Wow...one post mentioning mink,..not exactly the best time to reference,but if you have never ran a long mink line,.you are missing something that that will surely stick to your memory.

coyote then coon

Coyote

Fox and Mink was, and will always be, my favorite furbearers to trap.

But now I've gone rogue, and like making war on the interloping coyote.

Mink. Easy to catch, easy to carry, easy to skin.

Red Fox.

Coyotes because they are smarter than me.
Then bobcats because they are goofy.
Then muskrats because of the memories.

Beaver and otter, followed by coyotes. Mason, where are you at in Ohio? It might be worth checking out the DNR beaver and otter lottery, as you can get a few spots depending on your zone.

Raccoon, being I can catch quite a few in a hurry. I do love trapping muskrats in a large swamp all alone though.

Otter
Than Beaver
Than rats

Cats... no.no. fox....no wait...

Coyotes because they challenge me, especially late season in snow.

Then Red fox , then mink. I used to love trapping beaver till I got old

I'm gonna put some time into muskrats this season too..

I'm getting tired of avoiding Bobcats , not allowed

I can only trap 1 otter so what's the use...

Muskrats because they are dumber than me!

Chris

Beaver for the friends I've trapped with, Bobcats cause they bailed us out$, coyotes for the people I've helped, mink for fun, weasels from my youth, possums cause I left them,lions for the rush I get and a dog to add to everything!

Muskrats, I like the smell of a muskrat pelt. Next comes moles. I get a lot of satisfaction killing one as they try to ruin my lawn. Mink used to thrill me. Now I get more pleasure catching possums as they are delicious baked with sweet tators.

Muskrats have probably always been my favorite. The problem is that they have basically not existed in my area of southeast PA for the last twenty-thirty years. I really wish we had the numbers we used to.

So I target my second favorite; the red fox. Around here they are plentiful, easy to catch and easy to put up. I have found alternative markets for my catch and have been averaging around $16.00 while I see a bunch of folks letting there's go for $5.00-$6.00 averages at last season's Pennsylvania Trapper's Association auctions. I would stop trapping them before I sold them that cheap.

Animals.

Coyotes for land critters. Beaver are a blast for water critters. But I'm always pretty happy when I get an otter.

Coon.....they're the bass of the fur world. Easy to catch, looks good on camera....ain't worth a thing though.

Will always be muskrats

First has always been wolves.

Followed closely by wolverines.

Take THAT you muskrat wranglers......!

Pete

I never even tried to catch a wolverine but It would be pretty cool to catch one. Caught a couple of wolves and some lynx.
It would have to be beavers for me.

I guess whatever brings the most money at the time.

Mink then beaver

1-Lynx 2-wolves 3-wolverine 4-marten

Otter! Hands down!

Coyotes

These guys

Red fox/grey fox, cats then yotes. But nothing better than being on a big slough trapping a ton of rats