collapse

Advertisement


« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4   Go Down

Author Topic: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26  (Read 7132 times)

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« on: December 13, 2025, 07:38:11 PM »
Tomorrow kicks off bobcat season here in Idaho and everything’s ready to roll. The truck is loaded down, the yellow notepad has 40 plus sets scribbled out, and the route is dialed from start to finish. Two totes full of traps, a stack of 220 buckets, and a big tote of bait are all packed and waiting.

I’ll do my best to grab a few photos along the way and keep everyone updated as the line comes together. Hope everyone else is having a great season and staying safe out there.
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline JakeLand

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (+35)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 4556
  • Location: Wet side
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2025, 09:49:54 AM »
Can’t wait to follow !!  Take some pics of your sets will you ?
Logged

Offline Turner89

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2011
  • Posts: 3256
  • Location: Startup, Wa
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2025, 03:09:50 PM »
Right on!  This should be pretty good.  :tup:
Logged
" if your a 20 year old and not a liberal, you don't have a heart. If your a 40 year old and not a conservative,  you don't have a brain"

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2025, 05:16:23 PM »
Very productive day! I got 20 different sets in. Walk-through/rubs, blind sets, dirt hole sets, and cubbies. Ton of ground covered. I have tomorrow off too so will be headed back out. I’ll do a better job carrying my phone for pics. I wasn’t able to get into a few of my spots still because of high water and being unable to cross streams. This is one cubby and one walk through/rub set I put in. I used a combination of beaver castor, fox glad, bobcat urine and gusto at my sets, plus a chunk of bait in the cubbies that is partially buried in the back of the cubbies.
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline JakeLand

  • WA State Trappers Association
  • Trade Count: (+35)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 4556
  • Location: Wet side
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2025, 06:13:28 PM »
Can’t wait to see that cubby torn up with a big Tom bouncing !!
Logged

Offline Kingofthemountain83

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2023
  • Posts: 597
  • Location: Puyallup
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2025, 06:23:27 PM »
I need to get into this...
Logged
I love you... I really do...

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2025, 01:20:24 PM »
I feel like a drowned cat today…
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2025, 01:39:39 PM »
Couple more
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2025, 01:44:38 PM »
Bind set, pretty wet out…
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline Kingofthemountain83

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2023
  • Posts: 597
  • Location: Puyallup
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2025, 05:45:31 PM »
Pretty cool! Good luck!
Logged
I love you... I really do...

Offline Machias

  • Trapper
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 19036
  • Location: Worley, ID
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2025, 08:46:41 PM »
Good luck and be safe!!
Logged
Fred Moyer

When it's Grim, be the GRIM REAPER!

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2025, 06:36:07 AM »
Quote from: Machias on December 15, 2025, 08:46:41 PM
Good luck and be safe!!

Lack of snow, high water and 70mph gusts of wind this week don’t help 😜 Good luck to you as well!
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline outdooraddict

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2011
  • Posts: 775
  • Location: spokane
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2025, 11:21:40 AM »
i have not seen traps left uncovered, wondering why you dont cover them. not criticizing your sets, just asking in a teaching moment and trying to learn new tactics.
Logged

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2025, 06:24:14 PM »
Quote from: outdooraddict on December 18, 2025, 11:21:40 AM
i have not seen traps left uncovered, wondering why you dont cover them. not criticizing your sets, just asking in a teaching moment and trying to learn new tactics.

On sets just for cats they still produce great. Coyotes will avoid them and that also keeps my sets functioning going for what I’m targeting. Cats really are not trap shy. The sets you see smoothed over are for coyotes.
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

Offline TeacherMan

  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2008
  • Posts: 4481
  • Location: North Idaho
Re: Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2025, 06:27:42 PM »
Couple critters from today.
« Last Edit: December 21, 2025, 06:35:08 PM by TeacherMan »
Logged
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.
Pages: [1] 2 3 4   Go Up
« previous next »
 


* Advertisement

Quick Links

* Recent Topics

Returned Idaho tags by trophyhunt
[Today at 12:17:23 PM]
Called in my first bobcat! by brokentrail
[Today at 11:13:17 AM]
Best bird taxidermist in washington state? by Special T
[Today at 10:48:43 AM]
Stick with the 50's by Ghost Hunter
[Today at 10:46:38 AM]
What's flatbed pickup life like? by Fastass350
[Today at 10:44:06 AM]
Drew Moose Tag by highside74
[Today at 09:25:30 AM]
A cougar tries to steal my cat by redi
[Today at 08:31:26 AM]
LINCOLN !! by pd
[Yesterday at 10:20:02 PM]
Idaho Non-Res draw results by teanawayslayer
[Yesterday at 08:10:44 PM]
Are all case trimmers created equal? by HighlandLofts
[Yesterday at 07:00:40 PM]
Very Little Trapping Posts by Naches Sportsman
[Yesterday at 06:52:01 PM]
Wildlife Obsession Duvall WA Taxidermy Closing its doors by RileyH
[Yesterday at 06:08:45 PM]
2024 Quality Buck coming home by RB
[Yesterday at 01:38:21 PM]
Idaho Trapping Journal 2025/26 by TeacherMan
[Yesterday at 01:34:08 PM]
Taneum Elk Cow tag problem by boneaddict
[Yesterday at 11:21:24 AM]
great podcast on cougar by HntnFsh
[Yesterday at 07:36:43 AM]
SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2026, SimplePortal