East TX Trappin & Wildcat Slappin

Got a few sets in after work … plan to get up to 50 or so and run for a couple weeks

.. loggers in the place heavy but we’ll see what happens

Even a blind man could catch something there.

Why did you take a dump right by your sifter? You should have gone off in the woods and then flagged it with white before you left.

Positive comments only … this post is about love and understanding

My most sincere apology. In that case, nice Diller.

Thats s fine fine tecate holder

You be careful, I here there's strange things that lurk in those piney forests.

Good luck Savell and can’t wait to follow along.
Jim

X2

… thanks Jab .. killed 57 coyote off this place (2 consecutive years 27 &30) and then let it rest a year… we’ll see how quick they came back

… there’s definitely a group running the north end … didn’t cut much other than singles here and there in other places

Nice looking sets.Love that bare ground.Good luck.

Go get ‘em. Can’t wait to follow along. Eric

Good luck Savell!

Hope ya smack 'em!

My knees have been killing me and I'm slacking on the trapping.

… imagine I’m right behind you Uncle Swamp… think I tore a meniscus jumping out the back of the truck earlier lol

There is no doubt in my mine you won't do well. Great sign is a huge deal.

Somehow..I've torn the miniscus slightly in both knees. Right one is worse. Had fluid drawn off right knee and steroid shot about a month back...didn't help much...but that was the 3rd or 4th time on that knee.

Ol snowy said I won’t do well… even though this is a post of love and understanding… he’s probably right

Good luck Savell.

Can you use any snares down there?

… we can use anything aside from a nuclear warhead

Always enjoy this adventure. Good luck!

Love to see this thread. Thanks for sharing Savell. How many acres you gonna be trapping on this go around?

10,000… half of it cut off by logging

… might get a call from down the road for another 5,000 but haven’t heard from him yet

Good luck

Good luck sir dont litter the government land chucking lonestars

Since they logging in there, vienna sausage's are the best bait to use, don't ask me how i know.

Good luck Savell ! Cat trapping is something I need to work on. Most of mine come off coyote sets. Look forward to following along!

That's a fact!

And never pass up making a set near those styrofoam lunch plates from the local choke & puke that the loggers pitched out at the loading ramps.

I came here to see that cat slappin thang you said about

However I behold learning how to eat and log wood sausages and see prints !

It's been a whole day now ???

This is like the movie trailer that play over and over till it comes out…..

have a few of these

Texas has big trees????

What are they cutting?

East tx does, pines mostly. West tx aint hardly got a tree over 4 foot

Cotton he don't need the bowel trouble while trying to check those amateur want to be coyote/cat/possum sets.

Go get em Savell.

It’s a start

Do ya actually skin those coyotes??

Nice bobcat.Congrats

… no lol

… getting more sets in

All the sets ....road sets ???

Coyote yes… cats you need to beat the brush a little sometimes

Good deal Savell keep them set pics coming.I was going to get started today but the smart ones of the bunch decided to add 2 extra days of deer season because of a snow storm so now I cannot get into my areas until next weekend.

Good luck must be fun trapping in dry area without constant freezing and thawing

Between 10 inches of snow and five inches of rain over the past few weeks up this way, that dry dirt sure looks nice.

X2, it looks sandy, easy and fast to pop a set in.

Looks like you're off to a good start compadre....keep them pics coming.

40 years ago that area would of been over an in 30.00 grey fox. I guess there isn't a one left now?

Savell are you in northeast Texas or southeast ??? Just wondering I use to trap the northeast up around Atlanta Texas

…. Grey fox dead and gone from here for the most part…. You can find a few around corn feeders with the coons

Southeast partner

tear em up!

Need more pictures

… slow day … probably be like this for awhile with the warm spell

.. had this fine specimen lol




… and shot this chupacabra…

That coyote looks guilty............

Good work!

Yep my thought as well...lol

Pitiful!

… that’s what I’m saying lol

I think that coyote is pretending to be a grey fox

Skeeters were biting up this way and the spring peepers were peeping. Coons should keep you busy through the warm spell.

thanks for taking us along,

This early?

Peeper's peep here year round now, middle of Jan. iced over one day them going at it the next. I got to get back to the swamps tomorrow, hadn't thought about bugs and snakes, thanks for letting me know it's back to being miserable, enjoyed the two week winter we had!

Love hearing peepers.

Unfortunately.

…. Pan tension keeps them out mostly .. but they sure can wreck a set

Should get good next week up this way. Back cool next Monday. Trapping a small deer lease now along a swamp. Now about half of it is part of the swamp with the 5 inches of rain last Thursday. Water going down now and should be back to normal...about the time it's supposed to rain again. lol

… got a few today

Nice mixed catch

I like that live kitty pic!!

.. thanks

…. Going to try to catch one waiting on the bus

Whack em'!

Nice catches and nice looking set.

Go get them Savell

You mean you actually trap outside the internet? Good work and keep racking them up!

Hammer them!

Looks like your truck was parked in a barn for a decade with pigeons crapping on it, lol

Love the pics. Thanks for sharing

wtg thanks for posting

That last coyote looks like a possible skinner...nice colors. Good job!

Ol Chewka trying to get another 5.00, lol.

Sorriest looking coyote set ive ever seen, they must be dumb as possum's down that way.

… as stated earlier this is a post of love and understanding… so your negativity has no place here

… I got a flat set or two out … but they’re gayer than an Alabama government nutria trapper

That's a good days haul for the spring like weather we're having. All I had was a couple greasy possum.

… had one of those too catrapper… how he fired the trap with the tension I’ve got is beyond me

Dang I would pee on that rock

Im on medication and idle minded from nutria slaying all day, forgive me. Id forgot your trying to catch those spotted thingy's too.

Be careful when you squat over it. Sorry, the devil made me do it.

Nah, I lift my right leg.He would have me caught by my Left leg.....

…. That’s not very loving 160 .. aught to be ashamed

Why you not put the possum on top? Hiding him in the back is discrimination to slick tails all over.

Looks like you're having to bog thru some mud holes on that property.

Dang log trucks make the roads rough...if it rains a little.

… uncle J … still can’t figure out how he fired it … coons usually have to rare up on their hind legs with the tension I run

… yessir… it’s a little wet in spots uncle Swamp

Probably sat or layed right on the trap

A caught a possum by the tail a few weeks back. Made a heck of a catch circle. lol

Nice going paahtnah !!

Excellent thread Savell. Keep it going Sir!

WS

Thanks for the ride along!!

… coyotes didn’t make many tracks last night… but this cat messed up

Nice cat Savell! Wish we could use feathers here...great eye appeal.
Carry on.

Nice looking bobcat.Way to go

dang, is everything in Illinois that screwed up???? Ok to give abortions every day of the week but heaven forbid the use of feathers in trapping. Same thing with those stupid blue laws in the democrat stronghold of the New England states. cant hunt on Sundays, but you can kill unborn children on that very same day.

Need to come haul a load of beaver out there to dam that ditch up before the whole works wash's away. Plus them spotted things walk across those dams, make's it easier to him them up.

Very sad.

Nice looking areas

great pic, nice cat thanks for sharing

… nice and warm tonight lol



… no cool weather till Monday

Savell, you ever seen a bobcat with the mange? Caught one yesterday that had a bald spot on it's belly. Keep after them.

It is only 70 degrees colder here.

… I’ve seen bald spots…. Usually an old injury

Could be. Was about a jar lid sized spot as bald as a baby's butt.

Seen one a friend caught in Hells Canyon one time that had been in a wildfire. Hair on it's front legs, chest and parts of it's belly was just starting to grow back and only about a quarter inch long. Not a top lot cat, lol. Seen bald spots on quite a few over the years, but as Savell said, always from an injury or maybe small ones where they got pitch in their fur and pulled it out. Never seen anything that looked like mange though.

I took a picture of it on my phone. If I figure out how to post it on here I will and get y'all's assessment.

… it ain’t all sand and butterflies like some of yall yanks insinuated lol

… made a couple friends

Stack em up

First time for everything I guess….

Yep, that's how its done.

Nice work! I am jealous of those temps....but not the tornadoes you guys get.
Did that turtle come to a certain/special lure.....lol

Some sketchy bridges in this place… crazy ol boys driving loaded down log trucks across em at 30 miles an hour lol

Now you're just showing off. It must be too easy, and you get bored with just trapping those wildcats, so you chase one down and put a javelin through it's neck once in a while?:)
Keep em coming brother.

Those will handle the Tacoma easily.

Those loaded log trucks are 80,000 plus pounds...

You'll "feel" it if it gives....lol

Nice catches.

Lunchtime

Don’t get beaten up……

… out of lonestar… had to settle for a little Colorado coolaide



… and some boudin egg rolls

trapping an eating in style.. nice cat

Keep at em'

Hope ya took some extra napkins or paper towels along after that meal 🤮

Fried turds and mule whizz, wonderful! My mom's maiden name was Corbin so that ol boy playing saturday night might be worth hearing.

Might get a few coins for that cat!

keep after them, thanks for posting,

Sure is warm up here in Arkansas, is it pushing 90 down your way? Tough trapping.

been 85 darn near everyday this week. too freaking hot for first of February

That weather keeps up y'all might need to trade in the traps for jig poles.

That one has long legs and looks heavy, but if a neighbor left his dog out, so be it. How much do you reckon that one weighs?

… I don’t weigh em Carl… they are easterns in this part of Texas and some get fairly big

Oh dang! That Texan has a gun and knows how to use it! Critters beware.

Missed this post somehow. Nice job sir. Good to see the youngin out with ya.

Thanks Dan… this hot weather has things slow … pan tension keeping most coon out but they’re molesting all the sets lol

Nice Photo

We catch the all sizes and colors out here on the east coast. They haven't been here for very long. 20 years ago, you got called a liar if you said you saw one. They are EVERYWHERE now.
Most of them are 30-40 pounds, but every once in a while I'll catch one that looks as big as a German shepherd. Biggest ones top 60 pounds.
They've done DNA studies and found out that significant number of coyotes caught out east have a little dog in them. Based on the size of some of these coyotes, I'd say those ones had a big dog in them at some point in their lineage. lol

… here’s a dogface Carl

Good thread keep after em Texas

Great thread!

You need to make some t-shirts that have the title of your thread on them. I’d buy one lol

You are darn sure doing it right taking your son along. Great photo. I'd frame that one.

The Rifleman! Can he sling it around like ol Chuck Connors could? lol

Long ago you would of been as excited about catching those coons as you are a bobcat, those seem to have a nice color to them. Put you a few D/P's out around your predator sets and you wouldn't have to fiddle with your traps everyday due to those things poking around.

… couple biggins

Nice! Still stacking them up. Back to work tomorrow or do you have more time off? Might be nice to get back to work where you can take it easy. lol

lol… I’ll be going into work on and off… I’ll keep the traps out a little longer for this cool spell coming Tuesday

Keep after them. Stacking them up.

Tell your son ...it's Bettah than pushing snow .

Woke up to 10 inches of snow

You can have that snow lol

We got about 4 inches of snow here from that last storm.

update this you birthday goober

Great pictures as always Birthday Boy.

… gonna get washed out the rest of the day and tomorrow

… then it’ll be get under a bridge for dry dirt and rebuild lol

Fixed it for you……..

… this was just a sprinkle Vink … gonna come down next 24 hours…. I’ll need a good head to get things back going lol … even then some spots will be a lost cause

Nice catch of fur.

… ain’t nothing nice about it Bruce … those are some homely lookin critters lol

then gonna not rain Thursday and commence to raining again Friday and Saturday. 1.5" already today, calling for another 1.5 or more tomorrow. May be time to just pull em Savell.

Thats alot of rain.

I got a big beaver project pulled up right in the nick of time today, whole place be under water for the next two weeks. I was done with it anyway just hadn't had time to get my crap out of there, too many meetings going on this week! Drought got me spoiled, worse than a little girl now having to get my 'hair' wet.

… lol … back to reality I guess Jtrap

Just another day in the neighborhood. Heading down to the Gulf of Amerika week after next anyway for a week, hopefully don't have a hurry cane and wash my cage traps away.

… lot of rain… glad I was looking forward

Nice catches.That little pothole ain't nothing

You dont suck as bad as people think you do,,,,,,
Nice job,,,, CSK

You can't say that out loud! Based on the weather you have been having down there, it is a miracle you caught anything.

Just give it more GAS, go all Duke boys on that road.

Great pics, thanks for sharing

4” of rain and the peat still held up in quite a few places

…. It’s cooled off nicely… got most of the sets operational…. Should have a few more in the morning

Good Deal

So when is your new dvd coming out Wildcat trapping and slapping?

If you buy it and watch it, will you make a post about it?

… East Texas coyote trappin and bare butt yankee slappin lol

Savell... that is a pretty disturbing image.

…. It’d be the most limit pushin trappin video to date

You are rolling in the $$ now.

… not for hides lol

Rain cleared out...Coyotes walkin' the roads.

Good catch!

^^^^… and another rain out coming tomorrow Uncle Swamp lol

Sure

That's it Savell...keep a whackin'

Nice work sir!
Jim

Rough going fighting rain and mud, glad i gave it up years ago, lol.

…. Had a timber wolf up on a hill lol

Ugly stuff……. It will always remind me of you,,,, keep posting….

^^^ that wasn’t very nice … remember, this is a post of love and understanding

Love

Vinke…forgot,……

I'm just surprised there ain't no photoshopped video cover for this concept of a trapping video.

Nice sandy ground, need some of this sticky red clay silly putty to trap in.

WTG, keep stacking them up,

we have plenty of clay down here Jtwappah!! hopefully i get to go with him one day next week, maybe two or three so I can set a few trail sets on drags and catch the ones avoiding his sets. always worth a few more it seems.

Well so far it's been the saddest ride along ive been on since we buried my buddy's grand father we had to haul him around to every place in the county he ever went before we took him to the cemetary. Maybe you can liven things up, lol.

Lol

You get washed away like we did? Cold north wind blowing now, guess we going to play winter again.

Yeah…. I’m about to head out and remake best I can lol

Good luck

You may have to put in some pocket sets.
Maybe some drowning rods.

Good luck with your funeral procession.

… lol … got most sets back operating… might pick up a few more down the stretch

That post is more timely than he intended, I think, Savell.

It looks like if you get any more rain you are going to need to switch to "floaters".

…. Got more coming tomorrow .. fun times… Hope it’s not too much and the peat holds

Go get them.At least 3 coyotes and a bobcat or 2 tomorrow

…. That’d be nice .. new tracks were gettin hard to come by before the rain… I put a hurtin on this place 2 years straight

Can you put a bait station in the brush and use snares, rain won't bother them.

… it’s legal .. but I’m too lazy and big bait don’t keep well in 80 degrees…. Turns into slime that’d make buzzards puke….. something similar to yuengling beer

Bait piles attract possums, skunks and coons, all the crap you don't want!

You can take off next year, me and chewka rounding up donation's to send you up north to that famous yankee coyote trapper Zman! With pvc pipes and all that knowledge you will triple your muddy catch over night!

Hey Savell what's yall low temps looking like mid week? I think we're going to be down to possibly single digits by Wednesday night, that will be nice after a substantial rain. The cats have dropped off but I've been catching some of those stinkdogs.

20’s cattrapper… better than single digits lol

Your woods and my woods are remarkably similar.

The mess log truck traffic makes is the same too.

… I bet our beautiful coyotes are remarkably similar too lol

They appear to be identical..

… get a black one every now and then here too Swamp

Good haul there compadre.

That’s from years ago peeler… just showing Swamp we have Georgia blacks down here too.. sheepdog got ahold of it that day

…. I’ve only been picking them off a couple at a time this go round but they’re adding up

Im in between you two and it's same crap logging company land, rutted out roads and ugly coyotes. Trap up here around the house in the hills for them fluffy pale one's with no hair on their bellys, they bring 5 dollars instead of 2.50 if you can find a blind fur buyer.

… what a beauty

A magnetic creature to be sure!
The piney woods are better off with out them. WTG

I caught a black coyote in that same set for 5 years running, caught another in a totally different area on that place the last year Savell and I trapped that place. 28,000 acres and critters everywhere.

The funny thing about that place, Ole Sam Petty came out one year for a week or so. Back then I would have a fifth of Wild Turkey American Honey behind the seat of my old Dodge trapping truck. Every time we caught a yote, cat or a gray, we all had to take a swig of that whiskey. They didnt know it until Uncle Sam caught me takin extra swigs while Savell was remaking a set that a cat pulled out of. That was the day that Sam and I surprised Savell with some funky rotten lure Bulletbox got at a trapping convention and I mean that stuff was definitely not right. Be dang if Savell didnt snag a butt sniffer on it the last day we had sets out. I will never forget the look on his face when he took a whiff of that rotten crap.

Poor ol Mr Petty, nicest man i ever met and got mixed up with you hoodlums, he told me that story out in AR first time i met him, lol.

Congrats......look like I nailed it on my guess on at least 3 coyotes and a bobcat or 2.Way to go

I bet that stinky stuff was some old horse hoof juice. It stinks enough to make some men want to puke.

That’s not recent Bruce

… just another lone coyote

… ain’t no telling what that was lol

lol.....at least you got one

I think that's the one from yesterday, he just got a different angle on it, lol.

You aren't putting up those butt sniffers are you?

…. No sir …. I don’t need fifty cents that bad

… had him in the last set … skidder had come up the road to start logging a new area and ran over two traps.. had to pull everything in that area lol

Those skidders are not too kind to a trap. Skidder 2 trap 0. My score card is the same.lol!

I can't trap around logging crews or tractors! Saw a tractor in a field that wasn't there the day before, asked ol guy that way paying me to trap in June if he was bush hogging that back field, oh no not till after your done. Came back next day to half the field mowed and 4 flat traps. Pitched a dead skunk in the high weeds about 10 ft. in from where he had stopped the day before. Part of the field was cut the next day and the tractor was gone, didn't ever see him bushhogging again while i was trapping after that, lol.

I swear traps must have some sort of magnetic attraction to trucks, tractors, skidders and quads. Had two Jake Traps run over this past Summer doing nuisance work. The farmer apologized for the first one. So to make sure it wouldn't happen again, I showed him where the new set would be and he watched me set the trap. Next day....run over Jake.
I was hot!

I agree with Mike. I swear some of those farmers just do it to aggrivate me or they are not too concerned about it, figure oh well. I would think we all have had our fair share of damaged equipment.

Tried to hold a bulldozer with a 1 1/2 Duke....

Dredge island in the bay, bunch of fox on it, no bulldozer on set day, next day it got barged in.. Never been a bulldozer before or after that time....

Maybe if I had used a Bridger, or MB500......

Savell your crap trap line post is turning into a yankee tractor post, better post a picture of a beer can, possum or pine cone to get it back on track

Is that Doyle Hargraves on your shirt?

Absolutely… I support my heroes

Lol "im hurtin Linda"

Did that Dallas cold chill...make it down your way ???

…. In the 20’s … now I know that ain’t Yankee cold … but it’s cold for here… that damnable wet cold too

That damp cold sucks and just chills a guy to the bone.

… I was up in Canada at one point in time … it was 0 .. I’d take that of 30 and wet air down here any day

… but that -30 you talk about would kill a man id imagine

This nicer kind stuff is killing me....

Sevell you suck..........
Get back on the pipe....

Love

Vinke

… go on and get weirdo Vinke …. Only hand suckin on a pipe in here is you lol

So your birthday vest ,came in Handy..

It may not kill you but it will make you spend too much time in the house. What year did you go up and stay with Boco?

… that was early 2000’s I went up there 160 … work made me do it

Nice !!! With temps like that ...you and Bruce could be bucket buddies...

… septic ain’t froze up yet lol

Remember you have to back to work soon....

Kiss

0 wind chill tonight down here is about all i care for, wishing now id set those runs this evening instead of wimping out, have to take a axe tomorrow to chop a hole in the ice to get to them! Guess i need to start dressing up like Yukon Corneilius!

Gorgeous specimen

Won’t kill you but it gets a bit sporty!

Still catching them

Nice

… that’s 23 coyote with a couple days to go… looks like they filled back in pretty good

… that’s 80 head of coyote in 3 years off this one place

… I don’t think there’s anyone trapping hard on the surrounding properties

You be known as parvo kid in them parts nephew!!

They hydrophobia got um!

I like that! If you start selling T-Shirts, I want one.

I want YOU...

...to skin my butt sniffers!

Wife giving ya lessons again?

Nice catches on the dogs.

No wonder your trapline sucks, you can't get sober long enough to get anything done, lol

…. I play her like there’s a hundred on the table every time…. She hates me lol

All work and no play,,,makes Jonny a dull boy.

… still managed to kill 23 head of coyote in between honkytonkin… I make sure my customers get their money’s worth lol

Bartles and James don't count as customers

…. Sure beats digging in the frozen mud lol

Have to have higher octane that that mull whizz.

Open table too, no quarters needed tonite

Some hair missing on that first ones tail on the left.

… I know… disappointed as it would’ve been fha top lot otherwise

when your season go out? You kilt all the bobcats ?

our season never goes out. coyotes can be trapped year round as can cats. they are predators down here, we dont have all those sissy homosexual laws that yall have up north. blows my mind that all of the NE states you can have a freaking abortion on Sunday but you cant drink a beer. whiskey or hunt and fish but you can kill an unborn child and participate in the Roman empire sexual assaults of young boys. Wow

Furbearer's have been demoted to pest in the south, it's sad.

…. Always been that way in Texas J

Yep i was down in your neck of the woods in '84. Over ran with high dollar grey fox back then.

… used to be quite a few gray years ago… now what’s left of them seem to hang around deer feeders with the coon lol

Nice picture

You probably wasn't getting 30 average on those grey's though, lol. Back when 30 dollars was like 300 now.

Savell when I get down that way someday I’ll buy you a beer and hopefully we can talk cats and yotes.
Jim

Sounds good Jab

Well it’s pull day…. 36 and raining lol

Rain will help on pulling stakes, sucks for your comfort tho

Don't fall down and break a hip

Heck just back your yota up to the stake hook strap to it. Pull it out.

Jesse Henry takes the best photos I swear!

The best two pics of 6he season. Good goin dad.

… all done for the season…. Thanks for all the loving and positive comments

… took him for a hamburger… it ain’t quite Dairy Queen lol

what kind of beer did he order

Sweet tea lol

What you end up with?

26 coyote / 7 cat

nice....

Considering the monsoon weather you've had the last few weeks you did well. Enjoyed the ride along.

Thanks for the ride

Nice haul Savell ...got some cold Mescin wizz for yah

One last ugly bobcat to end the mudslinging honky tonk trapline! Least the kid got some education, lol.

Nice work with all the rain and remakes. Young Jesse is growing up.

heck yeah ! thanks for taking us along

Thanks for the ride along Savell.

Enjoyed sharing with ya’ll … now I got 500 lbs of mud to power wash off my truck

Appreciate the effort in chronocling your trip for us. It was fun to "ride" along. You ever get up to central tx holler at me, I'll buy the beer and you pay for the pool games...

Sounds like a deal lol

Heck, we'll even let Leftlane come play too

…. That’s fine as long as he dresses up like Reba

Uhhh, okaaay.

… yeah … he’d look good with red hair

Never mind the beer, think this may be a whiskey nite!

lol

Yall ain't right

Thank for the ride along,
That last red headed one is top lot.

Thanks for the ride along Savell

Gives whole new meaning to Red Headed Stranger!

Where did Jesse Henry's hair go???

Thanks Savell...good work on those predators.

Thanks … imagine I left a few cats for seed…every set I had on cat sign caught but didn’t beat the brush too hard

Yote, he decided to cut it.,.. the whole county is mad at him lol

Nice pictures

… as a bonus my boys have an open invitation to kill does and fish white rock creek in there as long as I keep trapping the place

… gonna get spoiled with that easy hunting lol

Very nice bonus

Good deal!

Thanks for the ride along! Really enjoy all the comments and pictures.

Awesomeness

Great opportunity for your kids!

Anyone want to guess how much these hands pay per year to hunt this place?

.. low fence East Tx timber company land

$500?

$7,500.00

Way too low Lefty

FVWC … a little high but close

That's a great deal. Good way to keep the freezer full.

at some point you could buy a place for what they are prolly payin on the lease.

… it’s gotten unbelievable

I bet... Uncle JByrd would have 6 of those deer down in 8 seconds.

They wouldn't know what hit them..

Nice picture.More deer then all of Silver Ridge in one field.

$6,500 a gun per year … and can’t even kill a buck unless it meets some kind of age requirement

… they feed em cradle to grave like livestock

… dang deer farmers have ruined hunting… but it’s good for trapping access I guess as they have a strong hatred for predators… think a coyote is going to eat all the future b&c’s

Shoot I’d roll up on my e bike shoot until barrel melted. Out in the field. 5 wound die for sure. That’s how many rounds ole death and destruction holds. Think I’d get 2-3 more shots off before they got out of the field