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Post by NittanyLion on Feb 26, 2005 18:44:58 GMT -6
I would think a mink would have many places to investigate in the rip-rap, wouldn't lure or bait in the cubby be more effective? I am asking these questions because I never set up rip-rap but, I think I should be. I just want to go about it the right way.
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Post by Steve Gappa on Feb 26, 2005 19:32:28 GMT -6
looking over rip rpa-= very little of what I have comforms to what I am looking for- and that is a 4 sided cubby (3 walls and a roof) that is permanent and has about 2 inches of water going into it.
Set at the waters edge, with that "permanent" look- its as close to a mink magnet as I have.
most rip rap is jumbled...and while there are nooks and crannies all over- you don't get that "look" from mosto f it.
Several of my cubbies were modified years ago and are used each season.
Bait and lure is seldom used- perhaps in a real cold spell below zero when I know coon are not a concern.
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Post by RdFx on Feb 26, 2005 20:21:30 GMT -6
You dont need a cubby just a small spot between two rocks that you can set a trap in front of and like Steve said with some water going back into it... you can bait or leave blind... Mink will take fish or crayfish up into ledges underneath rocks and you can set any entrance type holes going up inside rocks and they will be mink magnets.... I found a spot where mink had been eating crayfish and i took a five qt icecream pail of crayfish claws and partly eaten crays out for my own bait in other places.... took 11 mink out of that one spot in one year...
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Post by BK on Feb 27, 2005 10:24:20 GMT -6
Cause I can't learn to shut up, I hate to see this thread slip off the board without tossing this im for those trying to make underwater conibears work..........
I've found it best not to make BE type sets on inclines such as PSB shows in his third pic. with the live mink.
It's ben my observation some mink tend to surface on inclines and swim over your sets. Theres a message in his pic. of the mink caught in two feet of water.
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Post by Computerhater on Feb 27, 2005 18:16:05 GMT -6
Coonduke,
Sorry I haven't replied sooner but hurt my low back and haven't been able to sit for more than 30 seconds until today. I've been reading but couldn't sit to type very long. LOL It's heck to get old!!!
If all points were equally as good I would set either B or E for both shallow sets and bottom edge sets. The main reason is that the current will pull anything caught in B under the bridge and make it tougher for thieves to see from the bridge whereas anything caught in C would be pulled out to where it would be visible. Obviously E would be set because it would be protected the best being in the middle. Unfortunately most bridges don't have picture perfect locations at all the points so you have to pick and choose based on what is there. I normally won't take the time to build up the bottom so I can use a foothold trap. I will go up or downstream and find a blind set or pocket set. Much quicker usually.
BK, The message I see is that he used an underwater point which doesn't always have to be the bank or the wall. I had a set several years ago where a big chunk of concrete was laying out in the middle of a deep pool of water. The minnows always swam around that point right in the middle of the creek. So did the mink. Unfortunately they straightened the creek and that chunk of concrete got dug out and that set no longer exists.
Randy
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