Like a kid in a candy shop with only 50 cents on hand

[Pete112288]

Since my main seasons are all wrapped up for the year I have been trying to decide where to place my camera for a long post season soak. I only have 1 camera but I can think of a couple dozen locations I would love to let it soak. Do I pack in some apples? Alphalfa? Grain? Salt lick? No bait? Try to find a farmer with a dead calf to see what predators are out there? Or just put it up all natural and see what comes by? So many choices. Do I take advantage of the lessened people activity and place it where I know there are animals but where it would have been stolen for sure if it were hunting season? Or do I go backwoods to where I spend most of my time hunting anyway? Really I have it narrowed down to a section of trail thats about 75-100 yards long that I really want to watch. But how the heck do I decide where along the trail to put it when there are tons of cross trails all the way along it? Guess I am gonna have to close my eyes and throw the dart and hope I get lucky haha. Any tips for post season trail cam placement?

[KFhunter]

50 cents used to fill my pockets with candy 

[Pete112288]

HAHA, Yea I figured that would be someone's response. Now that doesent even pay for half of a standard size candy bar most of the time.

[Pygmy]

Pete,  you need more cameras.  The truth is that you'll never have enough cameras.  But with more cameras it will be easier to console yourself that you can get by with what you have.  You can never say that when you only have one cause there's no getting around the fact that you're lying to yourself.  . Tell the wife that in an effort to be honest there's no way to properly monitor a 100yd trail with only one cam.  Now that honesty should get you one if not two new cams.  I currently have 5 and that still isn't enough but the wife is starting not to care if I can look at myself in the mirror or not.

Just my 

[bobcat]

I put one out a couple years ago in January, in a place I never would have done so during hunting season. I put a few apples on the ground in front if it, as that always helps in getting more, and better pictures. I checked it after one week and had quite a few elk pictures. After one more week I went to check it again and it was gone. Someone had decided they needed my camera more than I did. So...I would be careful where you put a camera even though it's after hunting season.

You mentioned predators- that's what I would focus on this time of year, especially since you only have one camera. I've been doing that now for the last three winters, and it's been really interesting to see what comes in to the bait. Coyotes, bobcats, possums, skunks, hawks, vultures, and once I got pictures of a cougar.

[Heredoggydoggy]

50 cents used to fill my pockets with candy 

I can remember when my mother sent me to the store with 25 cents, and I got a loaf of bread, a pack of cigarettes, and had money left to get a candy bar.