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Old 03-26-2010 | 08:43 AM
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petasux
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If your only able to trap on weekends you may find coyotes to be kinda frustrating, the scent you leave around youre traps wont have time to go away before its time to pop them again.Snares in yote trails however may work well as you can simply close the loop and then reopen it again without much disurbance or scent left behind.

Coon, rats and mink you can all target near water.If you do it right you can also cut way down on non target catches like skunk and possums.Trapping on a limited time frame this may help you catch more target animals without having to sort through the less desibable critters to get them.

Mink you can catch in pocket sets, where you dig a small hole in the bank and bait it with fresh fish , fresh muskrat meat works as well, these will also pick up coon so use a trap that will hold either.

You can also catch them with traps in thier travel corridors, these are harder to locate and set properly than a baited set but work well once you figure out what your looking for.

Coon are easier to catch, they come into just about any bait and are always curious.Theres about a million ways to catch em and the only limit is your imagination when making sets for them.Theyll go right ino the water after a bait and normally skunk and possum wont so setting in and around shallow waters the easiest way to target them and not the other two.

Muskrats you have to look for where they come in and out of the water and just place a trap at these locations unless you can locate a den and trap the entrance to it.Often times these will also produce mink as they both use the same travel areas to get in and out.

Connibears in the creek edges work well as someone mentioned though I dont use them much.

Most important thing is to pay attention to where the critters are moving, the best set in the world wont produce unless your on location where there will be animals moving.
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