2017/18 season picture thread

It starts with 1, add your pictures, great to share on one thread for everyone to see
(If I could make a rule...it would be NO OPOSSUM)

First keeper of the year, 23lbs boar coon in my coyote dirt hołe set, which îs the norm for me always got to get a big boar coon first it seems


Add your photos to the thread, let's share in each other's catches

yeah,been meanin to ask if you were doin it again this year as i really enjoyed it last year.

First fur for the year caught this weekend. Had 4 sets out in 2 different locations.

Native, hope to see a yote here soon. Slow getting sets out, just put in a couple near the house now


The coon is a 3X


I know the window is not standard. This guy will get tanned for me so I leave more of the belly on

First year trapping. 2 red fox in 3 days. 1 male and 1 female. I've been so excited and waiting for this since I took the state required trapping class in August. Now I'm getting to have fun and enjoy. Still getting outsmarted by those dang coyotes tho.

This is from an ADC job I am doing so I don't know if it counts, the regular season starts on the 28th. Coon opens this coming Saturday.

Awesome Job Scheick13!!

I’m jealous of everyone so far!! I wanna get out there and start haha. We don’t start for another month here and another 2 months for beaver and coyotes. But nice job so far, looking good catching fur the first couple nights out.

Birth tree, those beaver look really dark like almost black. Are they or are they just wet and look like that?

Gotta spend time skinning tonight. First 2 of the year. Made 10 sets on Sunday just because I needed to. Gotta go to Owosso to work next week so didn't put full line out. May take a handful of traps with me. Anyone in Owosso area that wants to go out let me know. Don't know area very well.

@ swick3, yes they are jet black, I was sad to see that big boy in my trap, I was hoping to catch a large black one to go on the wall in my boy's room with the black bear rug hanging up! I may get lucky and catch a bigger one after the regular season opens up when it will be all mine!

Nice pictures and catches

Had to release her since season starts in December. First one ever but only been coyote trapping 2 seasons.

Strike

To bad, we can't keep them at all down here. Hope you get one when season opens up
Thx for pic

This was a beast to get back to the boat, he is every bit of 60lbs maybe more. Those teeth are long and wide and will make a fine necklace!

Great pics,all.

There are a few deer breathing a sigh of relief at the deer camp!

No season here, but here's my first of the year in a snare

Is that a mink Eddie?

I have never caught one this white before. Cross posted.

Added a 4XL boar yesterday, three coon total over the weekend. I was on a mission to try and thin a few out from some river bottom. Done trapping them now and will start to focus on coyote and fox. Good luck to everyone!

Yea sorry, don't know why the picture came out so small lol

First yote of the season,decent young male will go semi.We'll see what tomorrow brings.

Finally something besides a opossum, the coyotes are still eluding me

Setting a couple other parcels today so should be better, I hope

3X or 4x I'm sure
Crapping color but it will go to tannery and I will sell it tanned

Another crapping colored coon this morning


COME ON GUYS ADD YOUR PICS. THUS THREAD IS FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE PICTURES IF THIS SEASONS CATCHES

You guys with these early seasons just make me sick...

LOL, it looks like Bruce is close to meeting his muskrat goal.

You guys get to trap all the interesting stuff. My schedule relegates me to coyotes, badger, and fox. Here's a little female from the other day that had no interest in being friends. At all.

Boco, is that a vertical mink box on the ground? If so, when do you set it vertical vs horizontal?

Great pictures everyone. Love the different species Got a couple weeks still for water trapping here. Thanks everyone for posting your pictures

Sorry to add pics of possum but they were in the pics with the coon. Our first weekend set and we got 2 coon and 2 grinners. Second pic is of my 12 year old fleshing one of the coons. Got them in Door County WI. There are four less turkey egg thieves out there now!

Hard to get great photos when doing checks in the dark but here you go:

Dave




My kind of a Sunday tailgate party:

My boy got a yote before me!!!!

Good job son!!!


30lbs female
In compass set. Flat set

I'm jealous of all you guys.. Keep after them.. Hopefully I'll set some steel soon..

Kenai,yes that is a mink box stuck in a dam by the support pole.The water came high after a rain,and the box was flooded,so I put in fresh bait and stuck it in the dam beside a tag alder to keep the bait fresh and dry.Not normally the way I would set but I was in a hurry that day,lol.

No picture today, the wind was fierce and it was a major struggle to paddle my little boat to the traps and back to the landing. 18 more rats today, I would have moved some unproductive sets if not for the heavy winds. I am wondering just how worth it it is to double set everything? While I have gotten several doubles, most of the sets have singles and even singles with two traps on them (one on the head and one on the leg or tail). Thursday I will move sets around if the wind isn't too bad. The wind and waves are tearing up feed beds and toilets bad!

Monday's check.

Dave

Another 30lbs female. Same field

First year trapping and I am loving it. Its what I look forward to doing every morning.
This year so far I've caught

6 muskrat
5 red fox
1 coon
8 skunk
1 coyote
1 bobcat (collared and released)

Checked my lake sets catching 11 more muskrats.Caught a white tiped tail one and one by the tail.

The white tail rat looks like a big one.

Been havin a blast so far.

Thanks guys those are some very nice pics there keep them coming.

These coon ended up in beaver sets. I had a bunch of 330s on some dam breaks and when nothing came to repair the dams for a few days I told the landowner, he promptly took and backhoe and took out the dams hich dropped the water level by a lot, exposing my other sets on slides. The result was these 3 coons in beaver sets and when I told the landowner he tweaked a little and told me not to kill his coons because he likes them, I explained what happened and he didn't say a word. I do not think I will be going back to this property next year.

Lumberjack: Congrats on your success. How did you Collar and release the Bobcat.?

In Wisconsin you have to have a tag to keep a bobcat. And where I am it takes quite a few years to get a tag from what I understand. The DNR is doing a study on bobcats, so if you catch one and don't have a tag, there is a number you can call and they will come out and sedate the cat. Then they take temperature, tooth size, ear tag, and collar it. It was a very very cool experience. Major props to the WDNR and their bobcat collaring team. It was a very educational and fun experience. Especially for a newbie like me.

It is.Caught 2 more white tipped tailed ones today.Checked my lake sets for the final time today pulling all of them.Catch was falling off and it was time.7 muskrats today including one caught in a 280 set for otter.Rest will be seed for next year.Total count of muskrats came to 114.

Caught a white tail tip marten today.

Love seeing a marten hanging at a set.

Great pics everyone! Ten more days until our season starts.

Congratulations on exceeding your muskrat goal Bruce!

Awesome pics guys!!!

Another female

Is that really a white coyote? I know it sounds like a dumb question but I'm honestly confused.

Nice pictures! Thunderstorms in November, gotta love it, lol. Trying to catch something despite the lousy weather.

Thank you

Awesome catch

Set traps this am...in marsh...first time he has trapped in a marsh...checked traps earlier in night...4 rats so far

Sure is

That is awesome. I hope you find a good home for her. I could only hope to catch a white or black one. Great job

I've caught plenty of black dogs around here but never a white. That's truly unique. Congratulations

Nice looking muskrats TRapper

Go get them rats....I learned on rats when I was young and now am hooked on all trapping. It make one really think....love the challenges.

A few from the last week or so.

Nice catches.Love seeing a red fox in a trap.

Slow start but they are starting to come

Same set as the above yote. 6 days later




Hey let's see your guys catches. Water trapping is open many places now too so should be lots of pics to Sahara in here

headed out right now to finally put in 2 dozen canine traps at spots close to where i'll be mink trapping starting Saturday.

im still waiting satisfying the itch any way I can lol its not a verystrong scratch but better than nothing

Looks like you're getting your coyote and Fox bait together anyway.

Well four coyote sets destroyed this morning

Way better than opossums

That's $6 worth of coon right there, paid for the drive over AND back

Heres some pictures from this year, the fisher was released

im hoping by Thursday I got some pics! Laying a line in the am

Was wondering if you mind sharing what type of set you use. My terrain looks similar and looks like you have some great results. Thanks

Looks like some of those are flat sets? maybe all of them are, a few rocks and bones in the pictures!

I use bone sets, black block set and dirt hole sets. I also make them all walk through. Strictly use Keg creek and John Graham baits and lures this season.

Thank You

Took my 3-year-old son trapping yesterday, it took us 6 hours to put in 6 sets but we had fun doing it (even with the frustrations). This was our first set we made, I picked the location and let him pick the trap from the pile of traps I had with us, he touched the trap and walked all over the area and we still caught this beautiful large gray fox. I made this just a pee post set using the little pine tree as the post. The Bridger 1.75 with about 3-4lbs pan tension caught him in the center of the pad.

I was dreading to find any coyotes on the line this morning. Figuring if I had any they would be mud-puppies that were going to need a lot of cleaning

But this little gal must have stayed on her feet all night Didn't get to her until 9:30 this morning

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Tony, is that mouse set called "The Double Header?"

I keep the fox and a friend thinks he is going to get rich off the free coon I give him. We will see how good a friend he is when he gets his big fur check. LOL

Been a great week here so far!





This is the same cat as the second picture.



Jim

Things starting to pick up. Currently only have 5 sets out that are not body grips.

Nice little grey yesterday.


Second set held this cat this morning.

Here's a few from the last couple of days

Some pics from this season.

This morning brought a small Red
Had him by both his left front and right rear feet.

A couple reds from this year.

All nice catches and pictures.

Couple from today.

Nice pictures everyone, been real slow for is here. But we set our first beaver and otter sets yesterday

Son scored this 33lbs beaver

First one I have ever taken. Found good sign so had to set it. Having a blast trapping again. Been at it for a fewyears now after not trapping for over 20 years. Won't ever quit again.

She has lice, but will not kill any fawns this spring
34lbs female in a compass set 50 yards out in to a harvested bean field

"If they have the food, give them something to smell"

I am going to be using that compass set this week! The farmer cut the corn and knife plowed it all up good, need to check sign there but he hasn't been able to plow up the bean field yet (he asked me to wait to put anything out in the field till he could knife it up on the outer edges) I don't think he will get to do the bean field now but we will see! Thursday I will be setting the corn field.

One more today and I was very surprised since it was way windy and warm last night. Snow and colder tonight...

Nice black coyote

I have 3 more I was trying to post but it says the file is too large. Anyone know how to fix that or make the pic right side up?

Fix the picture right side up on your computer file before downloading it on here.You can also resize it smaller before downloading on here as well.

Can that be done on an android? Sorry I'm technologically impaired

The wife figured out how to post pics for me on the computer. Couldn't make it without her. had 4 yotes in 3 checks on 3 farms. Farms are 40acre,60acre,and 20. I'm happy with the results for what land I'm trapping. Hopefully its a good sign to come when I can set my larger properties after deer season goes out

20 yards from yesterday's female

34lbs male. Guessing her mate

Not a sign of mange on him. I really figured he was going to have it, along with any others I caught on this property

Pulled 8 sets of the one farm and had just a few to check this morning including the beaver culvert set, Got him 3rd night, my first true under ice beaver lol, he was bigger than I expected around 30lbs a bit more maybe, my son is 40lbs. this was the grinner we caught in my set that took the gray and a very fat coon.

come on guy's,i had to go to page 3 for it.pics guys,pics

One way to catch a skunk!


A few of my catches for this year.

Yote double

Nice catches.

Nice looking bobcats possumcatcher and coyotes LD08

rick olson, that first pic of a coyote is a great shot!

Tough conditions here temps in the teens at night. Freezing all in ground sets and we can't run CRs until January which I suck at anyway

So as long as I have a few inches of snow. Traps with drags put in walkways it us for me

1 of 2 today. Forgot to take a pic of the second one

Nice catches.

Been slow going on the snare line this year. Had some issues with #265 Senneker break aways opening up resulting in the loss of 2 coyotes and had 3 more chew out, so last night's check was a welcome change. Hope we get some snow soon to get things up and moving a little bit more then what they have been.

Got my 4th bobcat this morning, haven't caught a coyote in 4 days now. This one was a pretty female. I've caught 2 Tom's and 2 female
Ft

Nice bobcat

Caught outside yote circle from yesterday

Nice looking Grey fox

Enjoyed the line with my daughter this morning. 1 mangy yote but the second yote and fox got to take a ride in the dog box.

No Snow-Snow
Same sets
Wednesday


Thursday, same set different angle


Wednesday, Runway Red at local airport


Thursday

Love them reds in the snow.


I haven't caught a single fox yet this season, seems as the seasons go by they are harder and harder to find around here. Seen only two sets of what appeared to be fox tracks but they where in snow that had been drifted over a little

Started a new property that I thought may produce some but only coyotes so far

Same set that had the red yesterday

We don’t have black yotes in Iowa, I think they look cool. Nice looking red fox too.

Double

First yote in the compass set

5th bobcat of the season

Couple reds

Posting this cat for Creek runner 02 will let him chime in on it.

Fixing to get started

Beautiful cats Wayne!

Caught her this morning using a post set smeared with castor and long distance. My biggest female to date at 30lbs. New Mexico is beautiful!!! Ten checks left- stay tuned

Tagged the 1 PA cat I'm allowed

Nice looking bobcats

in my backyard

In my back year

A female. Two days earlier I caught another female in the same trap.

Christmas eve presents

Those were some very nice pics guys love seeing the kids in action thanx for sharing.

All nice catches.

Nice looking bobcats

Bobcats are some pretty.

Thank you bruce

Nice catch of beaver Hutchy and nice looking red fox PAtrapper37

Too dark for an outside pic and too cold.

Cold weather has the cats moving

Nice looking bobcat

He's biggest tom so far.

They are alot prettier bobcat then we get up here in Maine

Nice cat Bruce

Thank you.

That looks like a booner of a cat tho. We don't get them that big very often

I've got diggers, just a few pics from my season

Found some more, Cats were released, Didn't weigh beaver wish I would have, it was my biggest to date any guesses on the weight?
Beaver caught on castor mounds with backbreaker, One cat also on backbreaker rub set

Nice catches

Pretty red fox pictures and catches

These are from the last 5 days

Nice pair this morning

Nice catches

Dang nice cats!!

Had 3 but one pulled out right in front of me. But did bring these two home.

Nice pics Matt!

forgot to add this one last week, my first coyote. fairly large heavily furred male caught in a snare.

Got another red and a coyote today

Here's a few from the last couple of days -30 to -15 temps,Winter at it's finest.....

Nice pictures and catches

Those northern MN coyotes look nice and pale compared to the brown one I caught! is that the norm for up there?

Most grade brn some drk brn some MED some GC good color about 35/40% grade western hvy and the rest are eastern.Last year's high was $122 had one low at $8 over all avg was $63 after commission on the 28 i sent last year.hoping they will be around the $70 avg this year,we'll find out in March.

Mad at that locust!

Had this feller yesterday evening when I got home from work.

Caught a fox yesterday and another coyote today it was -2 which is cold for our are

Here is one from today.

A couple others that I have pictures of...








He was still alive.. quite feisty...

Nice dark one!

I thought he was nice also! Thanks!

Here are some I got the last couple days! Might be the last ones I keep!

Nice cat!

They are on my bucket list for trapping! But, I’ll have to travel to catch one. Which lucky for me, going on a out of state trapping trip is a hope of mine also.

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Nice cat!

They are on my bucket list for trapping! But, I’ll have to travel to catch one. Which lucky for me, going on a out of state trapping trip is a hope of mine also. [/quote]
Thanks! If you got to go out of state to catch a cat, id suggest going further west. Ya we do occasionally get awesome cats here, but they have way better cats further west. Alot of ours here have bad bridge bellies, however this is one of the better cats for our area

Caught my 10th coyote today and he was a 52# male with nice fur

Cat #5 and my first beaver of the year

Nice cat. Your starting to stack then up

Thanks! i should have had about 4 more this season. I checked a camera yesterday and saw that I had one visit the set, but the set was froze. I had another one pull out of a trap, another set froze, and also one walk through or under a snare.

6th cat of the year today. Same set as my big cat was in. This seaosn has been awesome

Nice yote RM!

Thanks Gary he looked like few of those big ones you catch, very nice for our area

Coyotes went dead so we tossed out a short mink line

Now the coyotes are back
She hit the pan with two feet in the jaws, I'm guessing one was next to pan and she decided to switch feet for digging and the second one hit the pan

Thought I would go without a fox this season haven't even seen many fox tracks thus season, the coyotes have been hammering them

But this one hit a remake from a raccoon catch from last week

Hey guys where are your pictures, let's see them. It can't be that slow out there

Sold fur

That was just half. Already sold the other half. Then caught a couple coyotes and a really cool colored coyote. The blondest one ive ever seen.

She sure is a pretty one Possumcatcher, looks like you had a good season, nice job!

Things are that slow here Michigan Trapper, I pulled all my canine sets after Christmas, 6 weeks and only the 1 coyote so I cut my losses, ran some rat traps with the boy for fun and people keep yanking my traps out of the huts and not making it worth it, had 0 luck with the short mink line so pulled them too! This was my best season by far and I will be getting ready for some spring beaver trapping when the ice is out. As my kids get older and start Kindergarten I will hit the trapping much much harder! Hoping to make Mark June's academy in 2019, we will see though.

Pretty Tom

That things gorgeous, can't trap cats here hopefully some year I'll go up north and try it

Caught another bobcat this morning, just a small female but I'll take it

Nice

Picked up 4 skunks in the last week, Probably many more this week as it gets in the 50's



Got these two yesterday just 40 yards apart. Not big white stripes like the other two, but they will be used all the same

1 more check tomorrow for us PA land trappers

Don't get these very often on my line. Nice surprise this morning

Feisty little buggers too!!

I'd like to catch on of those myself Michigan trapper. Good job

It's getting slower. But the rats are prime

Coon double Those were coyote sets........

My son picked up this rubbed coyote this morning. Same set he caught one in early October, he re-lured it over a month ago Compass set.

6th coyote from this 38 acre property


Good job son!!!!

So winding down canine season and starting beavers made for a fun day with my son, he had a Drs appointment so I just had take the day off if school. Glad for it

Nice!

One beaver at a time, makes put up a little less time consuming



Son and I are getting about 1 every other day, 6 in the last 10 days. This is a nice pace to finish out our season

One a day is a nice pace.

#15

RM. wish we could still catch yotes here but our season is over and the last one was rubbed and the others I've seen still running are not looking good either

Amazing you have snow down there, we have none up here and it's getting warmer


Nice yote

Yea, its been a crazy winter, we have about 9" of snow now and 2 weeks ago it was 70 degrees. Im about 5,000 ft elevation but you drive 20 minutes and there is no snow and its 50 degrees. I couldn't believe how good the fur was on this one. I caught one Saturday that was eat up with lice. This is my second year trapping and I've caught27 coyotes but that's the first with lice and I've never caught one with mange

Good job RM!

Thanks Gary, I had to release a big tom bobcat today, that's the only bad thing about trapping yotes after season closes on everything else

Our fur season ended yesterday, was a good time. Beaver and otter ended yesterday. Otter eluded us again, but we only set for the last two weeks for them

However ended beaver on a good note. Had two sets in a small drain off a swamp and both connected

So that's a wrap on the 2017-18 season

Wanted just a few beaver to make the wife a vest and needed a couple more for gifts next Christmas

Got 12 out of this small drainage in the last few weeks

It's ADC work now

By the toe. This guy had been working a dam and completely ignoring my sets with castor or food lure. So I kept moving the drowner set around the dam, and he kept repairing without hitting it. Till now

What part of Tennessee you from? I’m in N.C. bout an hour from Johnson City and we froze our hind ends off here in the later part of the winter. Frozen pipes, burnin thru fuel, couldn’t get diesel equipment started at work. Anyways nice pics neighbor

Beautiful Bobcats FrairTuck! !


Those are two of my cats.

I'm glad to see this thread back up. I just love to see others catches, scenery and trapping conditions


Thanks for sharing

All cleaned, tuned, adjusted, waxed, hung outside under a lean-to to deodorize and ready for this coming season. Good luck fellow trappers.

Some nice cat pics, boy I love them cats....cat trapping is so addicting!

So jealous! I always wanted to trap a badger! Still haven't got a trap on the pesky things!