What is in your trapping bag/bucket/pack?

What tools and items do you consider necessary?

Traps, anchors/drags, bait and lure are a given but for someone starting out (predators mainly for me) what should they have?
Will be mostly on land I own or neighboring property so don't need to haul a truck load of stuff "just in case"

I tried searching but either it has not been covered or I didn't use the correct lingo

I have caught a few coyotes but still very much a novice

Trowel, sifter, hammer, stake driver, good pliers, small roll of wire, few extra j hooks and swivels and trap covers of whatever you chose to use. I try not to carry much more that what I might need as I too trap out of my vehicle so extras are in the truck. A small pail of wax dirt or peat moss and refill out of the truck as needed. Also a small roll of surveyors tape or flags to mark my sets.

Leggett’s trap bag for me. Hammer, small wire, a couple quick links, trowel, driver, sifter, gloves, screwdriver, few extra trap tags, Drill with auger, and pan covers. Pliers are on my belt.

Gloves, hammer, screwdriver, plier, swivels, pan covers, and something to kneel on

add a drill auger lure trap and anchor

My flat set basics would be:

Gloves
Good knee pad
Whisk broom
Hammer & driver
Masonry hammer (for trap beds)
Quality sifter

(For hole sets add a drill with an auger or a punch.)



Any extra tools stay in a bucket in the Polaris

Smells go in their own tote separate from the tools.
(Lure, bait, urine, along with underalls, poly, or pan covers.)


Best of Luck this fall BT!

All the usual stuff and Always some kind of toilet paper in a Ziploc bag

Appreciate the replies

Looks like I have most of the basics but need to add a few things

You'll always be refining your gear based on what sets your using and such. Keep it simple but also an open mind.

For set making (bucket #1):
hammer/digger
trowel
bait
lure
urine
roll of pipe insulation
gloves
ziplock bags with misc objects collected (birds nests, mouse nests, bones)

(bucket #2)
traps, stakes

For checking/remakes (bucket #3):
trowel
bait
lure
urine
roll of pipe insulation
gloves

Jim

Small sledge hammer
Driver for disposable stakes
Mason hammer
file, screw driver, small wrench
the trap, anchor, and maybe some dirt if I need it.
i have a shovel with me for everything but it does not fit in the bucket.

I got tired of lugging a bucket, so I'm gonna try a backpack (school type) this year...may not work, guess I'll find out.

I use a 6gal bucket for K9's

4"- 6" of peat moss in the bottom
Groundhog digging tool
Stake driver
Cookie cutter
One Hand Setters
Sifter
2 traps usually with super stakes already attached
Knee pad and Gloves are just laid across the lid
and Bait, lures and urine is in a small tool bag

I have a separate 6gal bucket with lid kept in the truck that holds additional traps
also another 5gal bucket with lid for additional peat moss



For fisher I use a JC Conner snare bag
holds spare #155
spare wire
Spare Cable extentions
J hook tool
S hook tool
Lineman pliers
Fencing tool
RTS setter hangs on the outside from carbiner
4 spare Spikes are kept in a magazine pouch attached to shoulder strap.

All the Noonan cages are setup with
#155
cable
2 spikes
Wire
Ziploc bag with bait

I try to keep it as simple as possible. Have learned to drive up as close as I can to setting areas.

Lure/bait on outside of bucket boss. Trap, pipe, pan cover, A small bag of dry grass clippings, hammer with blade on one end. 2 cross stakes or 1-pointed 3/8 rebar with a couple disposable stakes on 15-inches of cable.

The drill and auger in the truck go back in the truck if I’m digging dirt holes. Most of my sets however, are pipe-dream sets.

I use a 5 gallon bucket with a Horsudy organizer on it. Or, if I'm on foot, I use a Molle II military pack. I carry my bait, lure, and urine in a separate bag.

Hammer, driver, pan covers, drill and auger, wisk broom, extra j hooks and trap tags, j hook tool, gloves for bait and lure. In outside pockets are bait and lure, urine and butter knife for bait. I have one of Andy Weiser's predator bags.

What is the roll of pipe insulation for?

Tear off a piece and put it under the trap pan before bedding the trap. $3 a roll and does a lot of sets.
Jim

Cool, thanks!

Hammer (2), stake driver, name tags and hog rings, fishing line, polyfil, screen for screening dirt, pliers, tinsel, j hooks and swivels, Wax paper.
Just going by memory. I may think of more later

1” of loose dirt/debris, a few small random sticks, a hole, a few rocks, 7 rusty bent j hooks, couple various lengths of wire, mouse turds, whisps of polyfill, mangled screen pan cover, pieces of whisk broom fibers and 1 small mystery bolt. Jc Conner aluminum sifter, stalker driver, sodbuster. Pan covers

Is this your bucket for midseason work lol

straight clawed hammer, screen, lure/bait, stakes.

Rendezvous thanks for asking, it was a head scratcher. Personally one thing will always be forgotton no matter how much "what if" crud I bring.

A piece of advice from my experience, get Marsh's J hook tool. At $22 it is worth 10X that with less frustration every season over the $10 tools. And it is far better than the imitators I found out too; the F&T/Freedom one is not the same by any means. No blood blisters from getting pinched either. The only disadvantage is the grand children may not learn your special language!

Depending on the time of year i will also have a milk jug filled with wax dirt for winter foothold sets or else everything will freeze down in this area