re: Trapping for fur

Just a muskrat and some grinners. Pics of stuff in drowner sets are to boring to mess with. Found cat tracks right where i marked last night but ran out of light.

If you have any questions just ask. There are some good guys on here. Ive though about making a tutorial thread on trapping.

I'm pretty sure foxes that are pets aren't foxes caught in the wild and trained. They are breed in Russia and come from years of selective breeding

100% troll

Angus possums are the reason I stopped using bait years ago. In the south a predator rarely have empty bellies. I use gland lures 100% of the time.

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a tutorial thread on trapping.

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that was really my goal in this thread it just hasn't worked out the way I hoped yet. I wanted to take pics of the set up and the surrounding area and the catch to get more people interested and more steel in the ground. And just really want to thank Ya'll for your contributions cause as long as there is any any interest in this I will keep updating

the foxes ran around the peoples house like dogs?

I haven't really had a problem till I started using a bait a week ago that was lets just say smoked. Its's slightly tainted bobcat but it has a smokey essence. I don't want to call the name and say its bad til i know for sure but it sure has changed things. I won't be buying anymore though.

I still use bait but won't use tainted bait anymore. Mine gets ground then fixed. 1 possum to 9a yotes in footholds. Dps and buckets have been the only way i catch them.

Wow, this thread brings me back. My buddy and I trapped all through high school and college. We mainly targeted coons but did have a couple of lines for terrestrial predators. Our best bait was a can of jack mackerel(the cheapest crap we could buy) or sometimes fish guts from the fish market down the road. We would mix this with honey to make it sticky and put it in a coffee can. We would stake our traps in about 4 to 6" of water in between two roots of a tree where they formed a v with the trunk. Then we would smear a bit of the bait up the side of the tree. Worked wonders but smelled horrible. We had a thick rubber glove that we used just for the bait. Sold the hides to a dealer and the meat to others.

We used drags and mostly scented lures on cotton balls for the land sets.