missing traps
 

okay well ive just about had it! i caught one muskrat the first night i had my traps set out. next night......check the traps and didnt catch anything, but one of my traps is gone about a mile up the stream. then i just came back today and another one of my muskrat trapsis gone and a coon trap is missing![:@] i tell u what, i am sick of this. i spent 2 days of my thanksgiving vacation setting and tending to my traps and im only losing them.the only think i caught was that single muskrat. idk if im doing something wrong or if im just really unlucky but i just wanna give up....

RE: missing traps
 

How do you anchor them. Is there human sign in the area? Could a coon be getting in them and pulling the trap out or a mink moving the trap in the water and the current taking it away?

RE: missing traps
 

i have my traps secured to a rock in deep water with a cable and drowner locks attatched. i thought it might be a coon because i could see coon tracks in the sand and no human foot prints other than mine. idk how a coon could drag a trap out of the water with the rock attatched and not get hung up somewhere, but i searched and searched and couldnt find any sign of him:( idk whats taking the traps.

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I know this might sound little silly but one of those the traps, do you think its possible that one of the whatever it caught, might have dragged it off?

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actually idt that sounds silly at all. i live in PA and there are coyotes runnin around.im thinkinthat maybe one of them got caught in the trap and drug it off. i thought that he would have pulled his foot out before being able to drag the entire thing away considering that it is only a #1 longspring, but who knows. just the thought that someone might be up there stealin traps is really eatin away at me.[:'(]

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Yeah that's pretty messed up if someone stole your traps. Hopefully you find it or at least who might have done it

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just in case someone did know they were there, i pulled all of my traps yesturday (muskrats arnt too active when its 20 degrees anyway lol) and ill set them out again later. this time ill try to keep them a lil bit more hidden.

RE: missing traps
 

put up a trail cam over your trap

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i would but i cant get the cam to work right now and id also be worried that if they stole the trap, they wouldnt have any problem busting my trail cam

RE: missing traps
 

How are they finding your sets?

I hide mine so good that have trouble finding them.;)