Trapping - What did you catch today. 2008

[bigg edd]

[bigg edd]

[snoozebutton]

That's really cool that you can get your kids out with you bigg edd!!!

You guys that trap have my respect. I used to help a friend out years ago and it ain't an easy hobby, that's for sure. I did trap one woodchuck this summer that decided to make his home under my garage and started digging up the garden.

[rattlem'up]

Would any of you trappers be willing to share some info on trapping. Couple buddies and I are just starting to trap and have some idea what were doing but would like to know how others are setting there traps and where, what to look for. We have caught a few coon and opossums but would like to catch more and other animals as well.

Any info would be awsome.

My email is breakdown55336 at hotmail dot com

thanks

[mrklean]

haha i like the pics of your little girl poking it with a stick

[bigg edd]

The girls have been trapping with me since day one. They both love it. I don't run a very long line, two hours in the am and I am done. I started on the family farm when I was nine and it's something I wanted my kids to experience. I don't think it's something a lot of kids get to do anymore. As long as they want to go i will take them.

My oldest wanted to take a coyote pelt for show-and-tell at school. i told her maybe after it's tanned.

She gets mad because little sis gets to go every am with me to check traps and she has to go to school. First thing when she gets home she wants a report of what we caught.

[Scouter]

thats very cool.

[The Grebe]

Ya done good Bigg Edd, enjoy it while you can. My three boys used to come with me all the time on the trapline, the oldest even trapped on his own for a short time, but now, for all three of them, it is just a memory....for their pop to! Sometimes life takes you in different directions then where you think you may be going! I thought I'd always be a trapper?

[David Kasten]

22 coonsn1 night with DOGS

[The Grebe]

Used to do that to once in awhile myself coon hunt behind dogs...had a friend that ran of all things, Norweigan Elk hounds....little huskie squat dogs with a curled tail? They were some kind of Norweigan dogs, they weren't hounds in the true sense.

They were the trailers and tree'ers...really good at what he trained em to do....he had a little redbone that was the kill dog...that little sucker would grab and kill wounded coon that looked to be as big as he was! Grab em by the neck and shake em like they were little tube socks!

That used to be fun! At the time, I could put up with the late night hustle, long hunts, bloody shins, being whipped in the head by branches, (Once I had about a 7 pound ear of dried field corn whip back and hit me across the bridge of the nose...didn't put me down but I bled for a good 10 minutes! I thought a Sasquash had punched me from the dark corn row!) falling down chasing the dogs and all the rest that goes with it, mud, dirt, water, it was all good.

[tanman]

MY GOD THAT SOUND AMAZING 22 COONS IN ONE NIGHT ....that must be a blast

[David Kasten]

32 is the most we ever did, hide opener 2 years ago. Doing it with dogs is the only way to go. Thats hunting sun down to sun up though, and them nights can be far and few between. Some nights everything just goes right.

[David Kasten]

Used to do that to once in awhile myself coon hunt behind dogs...had a friend that ran of all things, Norweigan Elk hounds....little huskie squat dogs with a curled tail? They were some kind of Norweigan dogs, they weren't hounds in the true sense.

They were the trailers and tree'ers...really good at what he trained em to do....he had a little redbone that was the kill dog...that little sucker would grab and kill wounded coon that looked to be as big as he was! Grab em by the neck and shake em like they were little tube socks!

That used to be fun! At the time, I could put up with the late night hustle, long hunts, bloody shins, being whipped in the head by branches, (Once I had about a 7 pound ear of dried field corn whip back and hit me across the bridge of the nose...didn't put me down but I bled for a good 10 minutes! I thought a Sasquash had punched me from the dark corn row!) falling down chasing the dogs and all the rest that goes with it, mud, dirt, water, it was all good.

This pic might bring back a memory or two then!

[123fish]

This must be the good old days of coon hunting? Has there ever been more than the last ten years or so? Cool pic. It was not a good night to be that coon.

[David Kasten]

huh?

[123fish]

I'll try again . Coon hunting must be as good now as it ever was. Seems to be a very big population over the last ten years or so.

[David Kasten]

It is good but theres man things that play a factor in it. You have to spend a lot of time getting permission to hunt spots, I got 1500 acres or so worth of private property I can hunt, But i have countless hours and gas spent in driving around getting them spots.

[2thepointsetters]

I was pheasant hunting yesterday and my setters pointed a coyote. I shot him in the neck at 20yds with #4 birdshot and dropped him instantly. close to 50 lbs. I was only able to get a cell phone pic. The landowner is going to skin it.

[fishermusk]

Here are a couple more K9's and a coon from before the snow.

[rattlem'up]

awsome pics

[LOTWSvirgin]

Good work guys.

[kc0myy]

I have been thinking of getting into trapping now after looking at the pics I really want to get out. I think I might have to go get me some trap for next year.

[ironman]

Was at my sisters in st. paul today and there was a possum on the compost pile today....wonder if the coons are going to get active in this warm weather?

[sheepheadslayer]

Seen there where a couple sets of coon tracks on the river. The must of moved a little last nite.