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Post by RiverRat on Mar 9, 2005 14:22:03 GMT -6
A few yrs ago I caught 15-16 coon from one pocket set and in a dirthole bout 5 feet away I caught 5-6 coon. It has never came close to producing like this since. I do rember it didnt miss a night for over 2 weeks, it was producing so good that I threw in the dirt hole. I didnt think it was that good of an area to start with so only had the one set. in that small streach. It was the first yr I had trapped the area an the first time in A LONG time since anyone had been in there after fur. Whats your best?
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Mar 9, 2005 14:46:02 GMT -6
My best on fox was 10 from one set, this was in the earlt 90's, along an interstate in a bean field on top of a terrace, just kept resetting and catching more fox. My best on coyotes was 5 all from the same set just kept remaking it and had a 48 hr check: each time I came for 5 straight checks I had a another coyote. This was on top of a nob, with a 2 track trail comming up and over, out of a river break. I once had 5 snares hanging on a trail to a corn field and came back the next day, day after opening and had 5 coons, in those 5 snares. Fox and snares I had 3 snares on a trail in an overflow ditch and had 3 fox the next day. Total of 7 in 1 week from this area.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 9, 2005 14:55:34 GMT -6
1) mink- 5
2) coon- 15 or so
3) rats- 20-25
4) canines- 7.....4 coyotes, 3 reds in 10 days
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Post by td on Mar 9, 2005 15:11:02 GMT -6
6 coyote in 8 days. The next 2 yrs, none in about the exact same spot,althought the second year,I did catch 2 a couple hundred yards away. One left a turd nearby about a foot long and thick. One of the biggest I've seen, a real trophy. I don't think he was hungry.
1 coon,2 skunks, 4 possum in 8-9 days in a coyote/cat? set this year. Guess I should have tightened the pan,but didn't want to miss the smaller cats.
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Post by bobwendt on Mar 9, 2005 16:19:11 GMT -6
that was me did the turd. I was running I80 back from wyoming and missed the gas station pull off at north platte and had to jump the fence at midnight. The t.p. must have blown away. Honest , never saw your sets and never meant to ruin the area for years. Just a case of there was more room out than there was in and a man gotta do what a man gotta do. Not one trap, but once got 18 pups and 3 wet females and a dog fox from one den. coyotes got 3 doubles in a row out of 2 traps 8 feet apart, then two singles for 8 total in 5 days. My pig farm dump I am up to 20 coyotes now this year out of 4 traps spread over 30 feet at the most. forgot on rats and coon, but a bunch. Most coyote pups out of one den was 12 and I`m sure all one litter, not two as they were all the same color and size. never approached that again, about 8 was the next biggest. Have got maybe 50 double dens on fox over the years(9-10 pups,2 females and a dog)
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Post by Stef on Mar 9, 2005 17:04:57 GMT -6
My best is 19 red fox from 2 traps on 1 location second best is 17, same place...LoL
Did many times 11 -12 -14 in some area
But its a rare thing.
Most of the time is 2-5 fox and no more!
Stef
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Post by Bubber on Mar 9, 2005 17:23:05 GMT -6
14 skunks in one set in about 25 days. I was even trying to catch them.
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Post by td on Mar 9, 2005 18:52:03 GMT -6
I think we now know the secret for Bob being able to run all day and half the night. Gobs of hair/fur in his diet.
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Post by bobwendt on Mar 9, 2005 18:56:42 GMT -6
I ate at the lotus garden opriental all you can eat buffet in rocksprings the night before, hmmm.
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Post by Maineman on Mar 9, 2005 19:28:34 GMT -6
I caught 12 mice under the freezer in the garage...and guess what I used for bait...
“Mouseottier”<br>
;D
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Post by Stef on Mar 9, 2005 20:31:20 GMT -6
Hey Dave, are you joking or what?
Stef
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Post by coyote on Mar 9, 2005 20:37:46 GMT -6
best I ever did in one trap was 8 reds.
got 16 reds at one spot, but used three traps...all three within about a 10 foot total spread.
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Post by Planes & Poison on Mar 9, 2005 21:47:30 GMT -6
This is slightly off topic, but I thought I'd throw it out here.
Last fall I had two dirthole sets in a good location with a lot of fox. The sets were about 20 feet apart and in my eyes were virtually identical in every way, construction, guiding, attractants, etc.
During the time I was set there, I caught 11 red's in one trap, and the other set was never touched. When I pulled out of there, that trap was still setting exactly like I left it. It did receive some visits (foxes walking past a few feet back) but no catches.
I've seen this exact same thing with coyotes and bobcats.
Anyone have any theories as to why one set will constantly produce (moreso with foxes than anything else) while a completely equal (to our eyes) set never gets touched?
I know that with foxes the attraction of the circle is supreme and is almost sure-fire for more catches. But with coyotes I've seen a set go dead after a catch, while three miles down the road one set keeps catching while another one is untouched.
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Post by bobwendt on Mar 10, 2005 0:15:38 GMT -6
foxes beget foxes, the more you catch the more you catch. Chances are if the other set had made the first hit that it would have been the hotty. Coyotes, whole different story, but reds line up to commit suicide.
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Post by John Porter on Mar 10, 2005 4:47:06 GMT -6
I have one muskrat toilet here that catches a rat a day until freeze up. This past yr, I took 47 rats in 47 days off this set. John
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Post by cowman on Mar 10, 2005 6:11:11 GMT -6
I caught 31 muskrats at a tile set, and when I was a kid got 9 skunks outa 1 den hole in winter.
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Post by Iowa Badger on Mar 10, 2005 12:51:40 GMT -6
4 coyotes out of a single 1.75 and one yote out of another one a few feet away.
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Post by NittanyLion on Mar 10, 2005 17:00:15 GMT -6
My record for one set in a 24 hour period is 5 muskrats. I checked that trap 5 times, maybe I should have checked it more often. Season record is 14 muskrats in 17 days (not the same set where I caught the 5 in one day.) Mink 5 Coon, don't really know, a guess would be 5. Fox was 7 in about 12 days in the same set. That location caught a couple more in another set.
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Post by PAMINK on Mar 10, 2005 19:44:56 GMT -6
7 greys out of the same trap in 7 days. Terry
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Post by thunderbolt on Mar 10, 2005 20:23:13 GMT -6
I caught 7 mink out of one set. Every time I would catch one it was a female or a young mink. They would be half eaten. The tracks in the snow showed it was another mink, so I stayed. After 10 days I caught a big male that I assume was eating my mink. The set went dead after I caught him that year, but it is still good for 3-4 mink a year. My dad traps it now.
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