2021-2022 Trapping Season

I understand that some states have already started trapping this year, and most others are very close, so lets start putting up your sets, catches, tips or anything else relating to your line here. Tight chains everybody

Starting Nov. 8th!

Nov 15. Here, good luck author trapper

November 10th here, I can’t wait!

November 17th here

november 6th here in west virginia

November 15th I may put a couple out. I doubt I’ll have time

I just sat on the porch listening to the coyotes carrying on over at the neighbors place... Only two more weeks till I get after them.

One week left now, I made up about 2 dz. Stakes last night and am gonna make another three dz. tonight.
Good luck out there author trapper, tight chains lets see some pictures of a couple critters in the morning!

Have to wait a bit on that. I'm on a contract job with a guy and won't finish for a few more weeks.

Well thats to bad, good luck on your job though!

Thank you. It ought to make me some truck money!

My sister came along with me to set today, I got out 6 canine sets and two dogproofs, I wanted to get another half dozen canine sets in but it got dark early lol we'll see what happens in the morning

Well I struck out last night it was extremely cold so I dont think they moved well, its supposed to warm up the next two nights. I got in another set on a creekbank where ive seen coon bobcat and grey fox tracks, im going to get out more dps in the morning.

First catch of 2021 is a nice coon on a dp, with dogfood and cavens moonshine! Still no canines but i'm hoping lol.

Awesome pics ratrapper keep us up to date!
Great to see some pic on here! Lets get the kids forum rolling again!

Caught another coon this morning, about two inches longer than yesterdays, I forgot to take a pic till it was in the shed lol.

Keep at it rattrapper1234! I got my cable restraints boiled yesterday and camouflaged today, and my traps dipped in "Bullet Proof" today as well. Come Monday...look out 'yotes!

Caught this guy this morning bridger t3 dogproof with cavens moonshine dogfood and fish oil

Starting TODAY!

Three so far this week, plus a coon that some stray dogs killed in my trap.
The top 'yote was a jip, caught in a Duke #1.75, offset, 4x4, at a set I learned from Barry Goe, with coyote scat & Southern Snare's Coyote Urine.
The middle coyote was a vocal male, caught in a Sleepy Creek #1.75 offset, 4x4, at a 2-Scat set, using Southern Snare's Coyote Urine, Mark June's "Coyote Frenzy", and coyote droppings.
The bottom was another jip, caught in a Duke 650 offset, 4x4, at a urine post set, using Southern Snare's Bobcat Urine & Mark June's "Smokey Post."

Nice yotes, I wish I could catch em like that lol!

Mr. Le pew came out to play this morning. Modified victor 1.75 at a corn cob set with rebel mountain red fox urine and hawbakers red reynard 700. I pulled my last line and moved to another property... Lots of sign here

4th coyote for the season! It was a jip, caught in a Duke 550 offset, at a dirt hole set, using Predator Potion's "Predator Bait #1" & Billy Dorris' "Buffalo Oil". Left paw, pad catch too!

Coyote #5 for the 2021-2022 season! 2nd made of the year, caught at a Texas Shoot Set (learned from Barry Goe), in a Duke #2 dogless, using red fox scat & bobcat scat, with red fox & bobcat urine from Southern Snares. 2nd night, right paw, pad catch!

Those 550s are killer traps! Nice pics man!

Camera shy coon this morning in a step down dirthole, with a modified northwoods 1.75 and lenons fox super all call. I put bait in the hole as well but can't remember what it was lol...... I'm thinking it was carmans bushwacker

Nice one!

AuthorTrapper how do you set a Texas shoot set?

Caught this 30# tom on Saturday in a Sleepy Creek #1.75, offset, 4x4, at a Flat Set, using Mark June's "Flat 365" and Young Bait & Lure Co's "K-1 Plus." First kitty of the season!

Caught this jip yesterday! Duke 550, 3-scat set, bobcat & red fox scat with Southern Snare's bobcat and red fox urine and Mark June's "Coyote Frenzy." #8 for the season!

I caught my 9th coyote of the season on a dirt hole set, using homemade groundhog bait, homemade liver bait and fox hollow bounty hunter.

When does everybody check their traps? I trap one farm at a time and get up at five thirty to walk their before school, I usually run 3-4 traps in good locations and a couple dogproofs if there is a big ridge or a creek that runs through the property. In a couple weeks when we get out of school for christmas break and I have tidme to check I have a little over a half dozen farms to trap and will have out roughly fifty canine sets and 75 water sets for mink coon rats and beaver, so break this year should be a good one.
Do ya'll check before or after school and how many sets do you run?

I homeschool but I check in the evening after school and right now I have 4 sets out.

I put out some DPs at the creek last night and had a nice coon this morning.

My dad caught this coyote today.

First yote ever this morning! Caught in a modified northwoods 1.75 at a step down dirthole baited with dunlaps rage bait and jameson fox cream.

Congrats! Is this your first season?

Nope it'll be my fourth, the first I caught nothing, the second I only ran dp's and caught a few coon, last season I almost strictly water trapped but dabbled in fox trapping some, this will be the first season I have seroiusly targeted canines. But I've always wanted to catch a coyote since that first season.

Well, congratulations! I can still see my first ever coyote back in March of 2018. That was my first season, but it took 3 months straight of trying to get 'em! Stay after 'em!

Congratulations!

Today my sister caught 2 coyotes and I caught a possum.

Awesome man!!!!

Thanks!

is two legs common?

I dont think so.

For possums it's not very rare.

Today my sister caught a coyote and a possum.

Catching possums in 2 feet might not be rare but the color of this possum is. [img]https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2021/12/full-51571-117650-20211210_164330.jpg[/i

I've seen black ones, but none THAT color!

Very nice

Ended up with my worst check week so far this season. 1 coyote, 1 skunk,

You guys and gals are sure putting the hurt on those coyotes, good job.

School is keeping me busy, but here’s a few from this year!

Nice rats ave!

I set five rat traps on a little section of river along my coyote line and had three rats out of five traps. One in a 1.5 ls blindset at a slide, one in a #1 ls in a pocket set baited with apple slices and one in a 110 conibear blind set

Nice! I hope to get my first coyote this year.

Got these two jips yesterday! #9 & #10 for the season! Cooler temps are sure helping!
The first one was caught in a Sleepy Creek #1.75 close-jaw 4x4, that Strained Chains Trapline Modifications Canadian-jawed for me, at a dirt hole set, using Young’s Bait & Lure Co.'s "Ambush" predator bait, Southern Snares' "Bango Tango" bobcat gland lure, and Winter Wildlife Control's Bobcat Urine. Left paw pad catch...no way she was getting out of that rascal!
The 2nd one was caught in a Duke 550, at a Flat Top Set, using Young’s Bait & Lure Co.'s "Ambush," and Predator Potion's "Predator Bait #1", in addition to Southern Snares' Mink urine. Right paw pad catch once again!

Two rats and the first red of the season this morning, the rats were caught on the pocket set and conibear from yesterday the red was in the remake from the coyote. A step down dirthole with a modified northwoods 1.75 using carmans red fox gland and cavens hiawatha valley

Another rat yesterday and three rats today, one was bit up badly though. Up to nine rats in total now

Coyote #11 for the season is on the books and I have reason to celebrate! I've been chasing this guy for 13 months! Caught him in November of 2020 by two back foot toes in a WOLF CREEK #3 dogless. When I arrived he popped out of the trap and jetted out of there! Since then he's be haunting me, stealing bait, scratching off pan covers, etc.
Well, today I finally nabbed 'em! He fell for the old 2-scat set, using red fox & coyote scat, with Winter Wildlife Control's Red Fox & Coyote urine, plus Mark June's "Predator Frenzy" lure. That's a Duke #1.75 offset that he's in. His fur is now successfully on a Sleepy Creek coyote stretcher!

Cool! I caught a possum today.

put ten DPs in today for the first time

Nice job

Two more rats today, up to eleven in five checks out of five traps, don't think i'm doing too bad for just playing with a couple sets for them. Tommorrow I'll be getting a few things ready for my christmas break trapline and loading up my chariot...... When was the last time you saw a rat caught like this?

#12 for the season, and boy he was in BAD shape! Was glad to get this one out of the equation. That's what trapping is about: to maintain a healthy population and keep diseases like THIS from spreading.
Caught him at a scent post set, in a Sleepy Creek #1.75 offset 2x2, using Winter Wildlife Control's Bobcat urine, and Blakeley's Trapping Supplies' "Predator 360." Left hind paw -pad catch...if he had a pad. That paw was a club. What do y'all think? Natural deformity, old injury?

Mange?

Yep!

First check of the christmas break trapline, and the second red of the year. Step down dirthole in an mb 450 using leggets fox exciter #2

nice!

Good one!

Got four coons today, three were kits that I let go but I kept this one whch was a decent sized sow.

All caught in different brand dps, because i'm doing a bit of a test one in an fps, a duke, a bridger, and a wolf creek. All set in trail with cat food and cavens moonshine.

I ain’t had a trap out all season. I didn’t even buy my license.

Shame!

not even one

I got Coyote #2 in a Duke 550 at a step down dirthole with dunlaps location bait, lenons fox super all call, and a lure called Foxey made by a member on here
Also got a coon in a pocket set with lenons rat lure an a b&l #1 longspring

Nice

Not a one.


Some of us gotta work. Lord knows I ain’t gonna make no money trapping. Maybe next year I’ll trap some.

Some of us work and still have no money

I got two foxes today and missed one at two different sets lol.
Both foxes were caught in mb 450s at step down dirtholes with leggetts fox #2. One looked good but the other had mange.

The fox I missed again has worked my sets two days in a row, he has figured out how to tell where the trap is then he uses his toenails to pull my pan cover off neat as can be then digs the hole out from the side, he'll have to slip up eventually though.
If anyone wonders what my sets look like this is pretty much it. They vary some depending on soil type and ground cover but thats pretty much as fancy as I get.

Nice! If he knows where your trap is maybe you should try a different set I caught my first red fox a few days ago on a sent post set only using fox urine.

Nice fox mo coyotes, the thing that perplexes me most is just downwind I have a dobbins style remake set just downwind where I caught a skunk a couple days ago and he's doing the same thing. I'll try a post set like you said though, thanks

Last week wasn't the greatest ... no coyotes, but at least we got a 'cat! Top coon was caught in a Duke 550, at a Flat Top, using Mark June's "Widowmaker", Predator Perfect's "TX Twister", and Winter's Red Fox urine. Middle coon was also caught in a Duke 550, at a Flat Top, using Predator Potion's "Predator Bait #1", Young's Bait & Lures' "Ambush", and Southern Snares' Mink urine.
Last of all, Mr 20# Tom Kitty was caught in a Duke 650, at a set I learned from Barry Goe, using red fox scat, and Winter Wildlife Control's Red Fox urine.

It's been a little while since I've logged on to the forum and had any sets out. Been busy with other things but I had to throw a few sets out over break. A couple of my fox catch pics...

nice ones

Awesome pics!

I caught this coyote yesterday.


This is the first coyote I have ever caught that tried digging the stake out of the ground.

I caught a coon today.

This was the last catch of 2021! Another 17# jip, caught in a Duke 550, at a Dirt Hole Set, using Predator Potion's "Predator Bait #1" and Ouachita River Valley Trading Post's "Buffalo Oil." That makes 13!

Caught this 20# female bobcat on Tuesday evening after dark. Caught in a Duke 550 offset, on a drag, at a step-down Dirt Hole, using Young’s Bait & Lure Co.'s "Ambush", red fox scat, and Winter Wildlife Control's "Trapper's Revenge" lure and Red Fox urine. Got a good pad catch too!

Epic bro! Keep at it.

Got a coon yesterday but forgot to take a pic

Here’s a few from my line.

I reset my traps on sunday after all the snow we got, and got this buttsniffer at a flat set mb 450 with hoosier trapper supply vixen elixer and black gold

Good job!

Anyone catching much? Its been a while here... Trapping in the snow sucks lol

Caught my first coyote ever today! Mb-550, small dirt hole, June's Widowmaker, a little bit of Gusto, and some bobcat urine. It has been raining the past few days so the catch circle was a mud pit.

Congratulations Tntrapper243!

Nice job Tntrapper243

Congrats Tntrapper, there will be many more to come!

Thanks for keeping this thread going guys. It's not really looking like I'm going to be doing much trapping at all this season but I may be able to do a few rats in the spring. I dunno.
Great pictures and catches guys.

Congrats! Widowmaker is good stuff!

Got another coyote today! Bridger #2 dogless, small dirt hole, Dunlaps coyote gland lure, Reuwsaats coyote urine, and some scat from the first one I caught. She was at the same gate I caught my first one at.

Congrats... Shes a little cleaner then the first one lol!

Caught this vocal male the other day

Anyone starting trap prep for them coming season?

Pretty soon I'm going to make an order for some trapping supplies and then I'm going to work on my traps.

Not yet. I have a dozen modified Duke #2 dogless that I need to get chain rigs on.

Well basically all my traps are ready because I got them ready last year then moved and didn't/couldnt trap last season.
Went through my stuff today and got a bunch of it upstairs.

I've been modding a bunch of new land traps, and setting up chains on water traps, only 151 days till our season starts

Do you butterfly stake rattrapper or do you earth anchor or both?

Just double staking two 18 inch rear stakes, I tried the earth anchors last year and broke drivers, and bent the stakes going in, had a heck of a time pulling traps, so I decided it wasn't worth it.

That 1.65?

Northwoods 1.75