re: Trapping results thread. Post anything your catching.

Only 1 yote and 1 skunk this morning, and I'm scared to skin skunks so I didn't stick around long enough to take a pic of the skunk. I need to find a way to take better pics at 4:30 in the morning.

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What do coon hides sale for now ?

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If selling green in the country you're only looking at 2-3 dollars. Not really targeting them unless I'm already going to be on location and then I'll put out some easy sets just to thin them a bit. I'm going to be hanging on to mine for a couple of years until they bounce back. Averaged 14 last year for put up and I think in a couple of years I should be able to up that by a few bucks.

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I am an amateur to trapping, so forgive me, but when you say a predator line or running a line, do you mean a (Line in your mind ) through the woods?

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Line is just a shortened version of trap line. It is just the route that I run. Some trappers can have lines that run over a 100 miles a day covering quite a large area. As for predator line, it just means that I'm targeting bobcat and coyote with the set type that I'm making.

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It does worry me because I have never had a predator population significant enough to pose a problem to the turkeys & quail outside of hawks.

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Be more worried about possum, skunk and coon than coyotes. Those are the real nest predators. Coyote will eat them if they find them but are lower on the list of causes of mortality.