Anyone getting traps in the ground yet?

Chopping at the bit here, pretty warm tho. In the 80s and lows of 30..planning for October 15th for the k9 lines. How about everyone else?

I’m ready, but our season doesn’t open until Dec 1. And deer season is in and most landowners want to wait until deer season goes out in January. Still got a while...

15th I am going to so some limited set for coyotes, we fall calve also so I have some nuisance dogs that are going to run the gauntlet. I keep telling myself this is a test line, but inside I really know its just the start of my season lol. We have already had snow ( actually accumulated and stayed for a couple days) and few nights below freezing so that is hard on a guy thats ready to lay steel.

I’m gonna start getting some sets out in the next week or two. My kids want to get their kit fox lines out

Put out a dozen Coyote sets with my 5 and 2 year old on Saturday. I was going to wait till mid October but my nephew was coming down from Utah and has always wanted to check traps with me. We are doing the first check tomorrow. If we catch anything it will most likely be a kit fox or badger. Still will be fun for him to see something. Our Vegas coyotes worth the same anytime in the fall and winter. I think I had a $5 dollar difference between an October shot coyote and a December trapped coyote. They don’t get to pretty haha.

Our seasons starts the 15th. I've got a place that's easy to check. So I think just going to put 1 set out just for fun. I have little over a month then I get to start my yearly sabbatical as my family puts it.

Waiting until after thanksgiving here. Much better quality here if i wait until then. Well, that, and its well after rifle deer season and a good month after bird season too. So, better fur and less issues for me if I wait until then to start.

with the market the way it is I'm in no hurry, 11/10 maybe..

I have traps operating from July to May of the next year. It varies from beaver to coons to coyotes to meadow voles to squirrels etc. You have to be an all around trapper here to satisfy folks and I get paid for some,,, others pro-bono for trespass rights. I use every tip I have acquired in 55 years of fur chasing to keep a trap working in all types of weather, soil type, society restrictions, landowner requests etc.,,,,,,,,,,, BUT ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I still start to hyperventilate (like you guys-- at a slower pace now) when I get within 2 weeks of setting a fall trapline. Think it may be a genetic flaw ! ! ! LOL

I do the same here. Not worth fighting the orange army, coyotes get shot or stolen or both. I have one pasture I set Nov. 1, but pull them all before deer season. It helps scratch the itch.

I'll start November 1st here. Don't need to let a bunch of raccoons out. I'm just ready to get out there. Fur quality isn't my #1 motivation. I understand the people that it is. I trap in places the orange army are too lazy to get to and do it in the middle of the night.

The season here in Ohio opens around the 10th of Nov. for everything but beavers and otters. These two species open the day after xmas. I don't know if mink will be prime until after Thanksgiving and I'm thinking of holding off setting for them until then. I've got a creek on Nat'l Forest land that just screams mink. With fur prices nowadays it probably doesn't matter. But I hope to skin taxidermy style and tan two of each species that I catch for wall hangings, one bunch for here at home in Dayton and one bunch for the trailer at camp in Gallia County.

I have an early coyote line out that is in an area where I need to get in before Pheasant season starts nov 1. I may not get in there after bird season due to weather. I also have a small rat line out to get some bait to work with. Also have some nuisance sets out for a few folks. Bunch of little things turns into a decent line.

Not 'till Nov. 2nd! We'll be running Sleepy Creek, Wolf Creek, & Duke traps this season!

I will be setting predator traps on the 15th for a week or so then off for a week to work out of town and back and forth all season. Sure is nice that nobody wants to work this year, I have been so busy I can't believe it. I will trap in January. Have the woods to myself then for the most part cuz the softies quit playing out there by then. Little snow and cold don't scare me.

Smart man.

Sounds like the market may only want and be willing to pay decent money for the best of the best.

25th is our land trapping opener. Probably just do a few traps until December, so I can deer hunt for the whole season, then beaver, muskrat and mink will be in as well so my son and I can trap full time until season ends. Love this new job of mine, off November through March!!

Season begins a week from Sunday here and the steel is going in

In about 2 weeks I will be starting to lay out my line for the season(coyotes), and I can hardly wait. They won't be the $120+ coyotes of last season, but I am gonna go for it anyway.

As I understand it also and do not be in any hurry to sell either.

Yep I'm going but I never really stop. I trap coyotes year round. But I'm really starting to get traps out now

I dont really ever stop either. I just take small breaks from time to time and catch hogs and go on out of state trapping adventures! LOL!

Season starts Nov 10 for me.getting traps and stuff ready, finish up some scouting till then .might catch a coon or two just see how blue they still are the second week of season then set steel full on.hopefully il get drawn for the controlled beaver/otter lottery

Season starts Nov 10 for me.getting traps and stuff ready, finish up some scouting till then .might catch a coon or two just see how blue they still are the second week of season then set steel full on.hopefully il get drawn for the controlled beaver/otter lottery

first trap check yesterday

Great check Oregon!!

Season opens tomorrow, and rain and snow mix for the next 6 days, at least it is sand so the water drains off quickly

Next Friday!

I’ve been slapping new chains on, adding swivels and tuning traps all day. Slowly switching over to drags from super stakes now that I will be trapping high desert and mountains instead of prairies and farmland. Just got my new tags in, have to add them to all my traps for the address change. Then boil and wax about 3 dozen traps that I haven’t got to yet. Gotta clean out my horse trailer, as I no longer have a skinning shed that will have to suffice for this year. Probably have to buy or make more stretchers. I’m hoping to have steel in the ground this weekend, if nothing else help my kids set a kit fox line. Get some coyote sets out maybe. Then November 1 bobcat opens and I will be running full tilts and hopefully seeing spots.

My wife said if I set every trap I own this year she will let me buy more. Challenge accepted lol.

I would accept that challenge too! She didn't say WHERE you had to set them. Set them all in your yard, take a picture for proof and go shopping!
Our land season starts today. I will probably throw a few coyote sets out after I get out of work (7:30am).

It's still a little early to trap here in the Black Hills of SD. Takes the same amount of gas plus time and effort to trap un prime fur as prime fur. I think I will finish working on traps and snares and maybe clean my wood stove flue in the fur shop today.

Not yet don't weaken

Setting for coyotes this coming Saturday.

Got 39 sets in today.

I expect to see some catch pics tomorrow!

How many possum and coon will be the question. I have the privilege of taking another fellow trapper man on a ride along. Four corners from Ohio just happened to be on a vacation in my town. Should be a good day. Hoping to catch something other than possum and coon. Pictures will be posted....

Nothing this morning?

Was a long day, set another 20 something sets and hunted this evening. That was after Donnie and I checked traps. Was nice to hear another trappers perspective on our different terrain. Saw one coyote from the Jeep. Didn't put any coyote in the back though.

It was nice meeting Donnie, aka Four Corners, made a new friend today.

Forgot to mention the fox was caught in a Duke 550 that I had paint dipped and could still smell the paint. As some may recall, I painted them in late August. Curious to see if coyote will get caught in them.

That is a good looking coon!
If you skinned it, how did the leather look?

The leather on the coon was not dark but still not white. Doesn't matter since I sell to a taxidermist. I do skin all coon I catch. Good feet go taxidermy bad feet go on a board. Thinking about tanning some for wall hangers this year.

First one of the 20-21 season. Nice to look at fun to release.

Cool locations Laz. Happy birthday strike2x

Strike2x it sucks you have to release it. I’m praying I don’t get one in my coyote sets before bobcat season opens. I’ll cry if I have to let a $300 bobcat go lol

Great pics Scout!!

The coon were trapped by request because they were coming on someone's deck and eating cat food, the badger and skunk just ended up messing up a couple of supposed K9 sets. But not a bad 1st night check. At least there was something waiting for me. Some weather moved in and got them active I think. Chased Snow geese today though with ok success.

Well that badger really messed up your remake but the skunk just made that set a canine magnet. I always catch coyotes in skunk remakes. Every time. They just cant resist it

I only trap for prime fur. Thanksgiving & after.