I trap them for daming my spillway up which could cause me to lose my pond. Back in the 80s we could get good money for the pelt. We would cash out for 500 dollars or more a week for yotes, fox, the occasional mink, racoon, bobcat, and the crappy day when you had a skunk spray you. We used mostly ankle traps it wouldn't ruin the coat. Also dispatching them a long steel pipe to the head or a 22.

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Posted by smoked hog

Arkansas

Member since Nov 2006

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Posted on 3/6/15 at 12:06 pm to lsueric25

Catching possums is something everyone starts with. Upping my pan tension really seemed to help this year. Only ran a dozen traps for a week but 9 yotes and 2 cats without any possums. My dp and bucket sets were not as lucky.

As far as price, I actually just gave coons to hound trainers this year. Last year I averaged 20 on yotes, 15 mink, 12 on rats and only like 15 on beaver. In ar we get a 15 dollar tail bounty, I have a deal worked out with a few watersheds where it's 20.

As far as waxing, they are faster and resist rusting better waxed but you can catch just fine as long as you washed all the oil off of them.

As to why catch beaver, in some of these laser leveled fields a dam can cost acres of a crop. 2 years ago a farmer called me because beavers had dammed up a tile preventing them getting out their rice. Ended up costing him about 10 acres. 3 days and 7 beavers later the problem was solved. Tons of stories like this keep me as busy as I want. Plus it gets all kinds of permission to deer hunt some great ag land.

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