Targeting Skunks

Hello all,

Looking for legitimate recommendations on books/videos for targeting skunks. I manage to catch a good many incidentally but would like to learn to target them as well.

Disclaimer, I am not an ADC guy.

Thanks in advance!

i think bob Noonan has one out on skunks

watching

I'm told that skunks are a critter that primes up late In the season. Is that true?

Reuwsaats has a video thats pretty good

I feel like they prime early. We don't get very many "blue" skunks other than handful of young of the year very early in the season.

Skin gets white early, but the fur gets thicker as winter progresses. Big difference between a Nov-1 skunk and a Jan-1 skunk. Targeting them is easy, haystacks, abandoned homesteads and culverts are my favorite targets. Make notes during the year where you see them hit on roads. Usually a reason they cross certain places.

what do you guys use for bait , ??

I just use coon sets for them (mostly DPs, but also foot holds and conis to some degree). I target them in the sense that if I see a skunk hole or trail that is active I set it but I don't adjust my tactics from what I would do if it was a coon trail in anyway. I think it is more about getting a trap in their path than what you are using for bait but if you need to know, I just use dry cat food in my DPs.

Does he discuss locations and methods or is it an after catch driven video?

Yes it talks location, methods and handling

I'm brand new to trapping this year so take this for what it's worth. I caught a skunk this last February in a flat set with a Bridger #2 and some Cat-Man-Do. Same location and set I caught a bobcat in the week before.

I think the "Trappers Handbook" from the NTA has some info on skunks.

Good luck on your endeavor.

Fence rows, rock piles, culverts, old barns, ground silos. Den holes along the road ditch's. You don't need any book or flick to catch skunks.

I can catch them, I just want to catch all of them. So, I'll soak up all the information I can