box loving mink

[musher]

This is for Beav. Only in Canada, eh!





Not the first this year, either. It's the fifth!

[TurTLe]

About how far are these being caught from water? Really wish we had more mink in this neck of the woods. I've caught 4 in 14 years of trapping this part of Kansas.

[northof50]

That phrase should have RED ROSE TEA in it..... pity you say. Just for the Beav.
Your snowshoe hares have changed already.!!!!!!! Ours are only 50 % white

[musher]

The set is about 20 feetaway from a lake.

Some hares are white, others aren't completely changed. Same with the weasels.

[thebeav2]

Your right musher, only In Canada. Neat pics
After getting home from my Canada trip I went out and placed some marten type boxes along the lake shores and edges of streams I left them for over a month. Never had a hit and yes there were mink working the water edges. But none ever entered the boxes.

[RdFx]

beav had same problem, but once it ices up and snow the mink will go into boxes... try some after freeze up.

[thebeav2]

Maybe on the ground but up In trees? Never seen It hapen off the ground around here.

[whiskeyjack]

maybe I'm too stingy with my bait

[trappnman]

only tried it part of one winter, with no success, but made a bigger effort the next winter, with no success-

I do have open water even with plenty of ice and snow- so that might be why-

marshes, frozen ponds might be a good area- but then you would have no concentrator so to speak

[Woodswalker]

I caught a nice male mink today in a coon set. It was a 220 set in a 5 gallon pail with a rat carcass bait ... Usually get a few that way every year.

[musher]

All the sets are leaning pole sets. They are set for marten/fisher. But when they are near water they catch mink also.

[lumberjack]

I wouldnt catch one in that kinda set in 20 years around here. I only ever caught 3 in coni-boxesin streams and ive set a pile or 3 of them.

[northof50]

Hey musher just think if you double ended that box. These guy's would flip to see two @ one set. Seems these mink cruise the balsam forest looking for over wintering frogs, mainly wood and spring peepers before the frogs get too deep in the forest litter.
Did you supply any carcusses to Cathern Shier when she was doing her feeding study out of Alberta?
As for those Kansas mink that's why they have a grade , smooth and course. By the way most of your fall in the later.
Reminds me of a story. Fresh out of high school one of the sweetest girls calls me a year later. She knew I trapped and hunted. She was working in England in the film industry as a prop co-ordinator. She wanted 5 of the smoothest, silkest mink.......yesterday. I went down to Dominion Sudack, (now NAFA) and got them and dropped them off @ Trans Canada tanners and paid extra for a rush order. Shipped them over through a connection of a stewardest. Got my check within a week and a special invintation to a screening of the release of the new James Bond movie, and where did my props end up. In bed with one of James girls. (No doubt that FWS will pull up the clip, I'm not that comp. literate)
ya gota love those silk northern mink in more ways than one.

[Woodswalker]

Some guys here make fair mink catches with coni boxes but they use pans instead of the wire triggers. Mink generally do not like to touch the cold steel.

I think the mink slips past the trigger going in, then gets caught backing out dragging the bait.

[thebeav2]

Yes conditions are the trump card.