Sheridan,

Could you elaborate a little more on this set. What size conibear do you use? and is this a food type set?



Thanks,

280 or 330 stream/river castor mound set.

Here you go;


http://video.google.com/videosearch?...ed=0CBAQqwQwAA#



Lure;

http://www.trapperman.com/lure.html

Snares are an inexpensive way to get started. As stated above, the cable is generally good for only one catch. I have more luck with footholds on muskrat and mink than I do body grippers, but they are also effective.

Go the the websites listed, google some more trapping forums, and spend hours reading through the archives. You will be amazed at the knowledge amassed there. Coyotes r us (http://coyotesrus.proboards.com/index.cgi?) and snaremantalk (http://snaremantalk.com/phpBB2/index...98466df5d3a919) are a couple of more good sites. Snaremantalk is a quiet site, but there is a wealth of info on snaring there if you are willing to read it.

Trapping is a addiction man! It is a ton of fun. anyways....
I use #3 spring coil traps for coyote, and #2 spring coil traps for anything that weighs 10-20 pounds. You can go out and spend $8 on lure but I have had as much or more success making my own lure,
bacon grease is one of my favriots, but I have used tuna fish, rabbit intrails, or you can put all those together + a mouse or two, stick it all in a blender blend em together and put all that good stuff in a airtight container and it is ready too go! You can blend just mice too.
Rotten eggs work good and so does stinky meat. You will just have to figure out what works best for you and it also depends what you are trying to trap. for exmpl...... coyote= rabbit guts- blended mice, coons= tuna fish....etc. When setting the trap you gotta think like the animal For example... " if I am a coon I will probaly wanna step here and here" and so then thats where you place the trap. Or you can make it so the coon has to step on your trap, by putting pointy rocks all around it, or placing the trap in a clearing surrounded by brush, or place your lure under the trap and put a thin layer of leaves and dirt on your trap so the coon has too dig for the lure and in the process their is a 90% chance it will get caught. I learned alot by just typing my questions in the google search engeine as well.
Have fun!
GEN

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.

^^ i figured i could just pour water on the traps when i close them and that should get rid of most of the scent right?

Not exacly.The debate on scent control for coyotes is never ending.But youll be seting the traps, and popping them again every two days.

You dont just leave scent on the trap, you leave it on everyhing you touch.The ground you walk and kneel on, the plants and brush you walk through, etc...And youll be doing this repeatedly to set and unset the traps, thats a lotta scent dispersal through the area.

Im not trying to discourage you from trapping coyotes, dont get me wrong, but it seems to me your going to find it very frustrating trying to trap them on that schedule.If you do plan on trying for them I would suggest you goto somewhere like trapperman.com and read up on the scent conrol methods used by the guys over there, this forums good but they have an entire archive of great information on the subject over there and its well worth the reading.

Good luck

good advise petasux

if you pull your traps every 2 days try leaving the least amount of scent possible

wear gloves-they do not have to be rubber gloves

once you pull your traps-let them hang outside in a tree or something outside..

it is immpossible not to leave any scent but if your pulling every to days try doing your best...Have fun, and join up to a few good trapping forums

www.trapperman.com/forum

there are others out there to

A must have is rubber boots! Never check your traps without em, And try not to brush up against trees,bushes, rocks..etc. cause every time you do you leave scent on em.

Pouring water over your trap might get rid of the scent on your trap but you are still gonna leave scent all around the trap, I like to use one route when I check my traps that way I am not leaving scent all around it.
Good luck!
and remember wear rubber boots!

Your schedule is going to make it tough to catch a lot of animals.
Good luck though!