2024/2025 Trapping thread

[Nine Banger]

says he makes more off skulls than hides

That makes sense. I’ve starting just going back to the mortality pile and I pull the canine teeth and give them to boys at the kiddie birthday parties we go to.

 

[Nine Banger]

Down the next dirt hole he went.


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It just occurred to me that my coyote catch last night was on the dirt hole with real food stuffed down the hole.

Coincidence?

 

[go_deep]

Night 35.

Getting any of them with the new skunky lure?

 

[Nine Banger]

Getting any of them with the new skunky lure?

The coyote from last night hit a set with the half of a Hispid Cotton Rat down the hole and a stick with a smear of that long calling skunky lure on it stuck in the ground just over the hole.

 

[Nine Banger]

Night 36.

You just never know what you may roll up on.

 

[go_deep]

Night 36.

You just never know what you may roll up on.

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You got to tan that one, that is awesome!!! Congratulations!!!

 

[Nine Banger]

You got to tan that one, that is awesome!!! Congratulations!!!

Yeah, we are starting from scratch on that department so I put him in the freezer whole to pass the buck until we can research the next steps.

A week or so ago I mentioned to my wife I wanted to drop the foxes and coyotes and that beaver from the 223 thread off at the taxidermist to skin and tan but my 6 year old interrupted and said "daddy...we'll do it ourselves".

 

[go_deep]

Yeah, we are starting from scratch on that department so I put him in the freezer whole to pass the buck until we can research the next steps.

A week or so ago I mentioned to my wife I wanted to drop the foxes and coyotes and that beaver from the 223 thread off at the taxidermist to skin and tan but my 6 year old interrupted and said "daddy...we'll do it ourselves".

You need advise anywhere along in the process shot me your number in a pm, happy to help, easier than you think. Keep a couple opossum furs to do your first run and and work the bugs out.

 

[Reddish]

Night 36.

You just never know what you may roll up on.

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That's awesome! Congrats.

 

[bpietila]

Got a marten. A couple beavers crawled out of their dry pond during the warm weather this past weekend. One got eaten and not sure what happened to this one. It was frozen solid about 10 feet from hole where it came out of. Looked like there were a lot of fresh cuttings around.

 

[go_deep]

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Got a marten. A couple beavers crawled out of their dry pond during the warm weather this past weekend. One got eaten and not sure what happened to this one. It was frozen solid about 10 feet from hole where it came out of. Looked like there were a lot of fresh cuttings around.

Congratulations on the Marten, and pick that dead guy up for bait!

 

[Nine Banger]

We’re throwing some Hail Mary’s today trying to get the line active again.

We got iced in on Tuesday night which “never” happens here. In my lifetime this has only happened in 1989, 2010, 2018 and now.

The boy and I excavated a half dozen or so that are easy to find.

We cut some fox tracks and bobcat tracks. The deer are beside themselves.

Trying a new set up too with a staked merganser.

 

[Nine Banger]

Night 38.

 

[go_deep]

Another great day on the Marten line!
Pulled some traps, moved a few.
Nothing happening with the bobcat traps.

 

[Nine Banger]

Our line was dead but we used the time to get a few more sets out from under ice.

It’s nice to see the boys realizing on their own that they have to act to achieve.

They’re getting to the point where they are starting to think critically and plan ahead about their own trickery and augmenting sets.

 

[go_deep]

One of the Marten I caught last Friday was running on a stub. Bone was all polished and smoothed out from running in the snow for who knows how long, flesh looked pretty pink compared to the others with dark red flesh.

 

[Hondo0925]

One of the Marten I caught last Friday was running on a stub. Bone was all polished and smoothed out from running in the snow for who knows how long, flesh looked pretty pink compared to the others with dark red flesh.

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Wow that’s nuts

 

[Nine Banger]

Night 40.

 

[Yooper25]

It’s been fun so far this winter

 

[Nine Banger]

Night 42.

Soil conditions are fluxating from poor to worse with the weather we have had but all my sets are above snow at this time and I’m popping and rebedding as much as time allows.


If I overhaul the entire line on Saturday if time allows I hope to get a couple more coyotes before our season ends.




Something ate half my merganser but the trap didn’t pop. I think this interference is avian.