Any trappers on here?

[Elkslayer]

I didn't set any out last fall but here is a few pics from the year before!









This one is going to the taxidermist instead of the fur dealer.

[billythekidrock]

Great pics. I hope to take the test sometime this year.

[boneaddict]

Sure a difference in the attitude with the first pics versus the latter ones.     Cool pics.   

I was gearing up for it, bought a bunch of traps off ebay and from folks and then BANNED

[mossback91]

Chunky one on the bottom...nice lookin

[Bigshooter]

elkslayer,  What size traps do you use?  And about how many cats do you catch in a year?  Any advice you have on live trapping cats would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks
Bigshooter

[billythekidrock]

elkslayer,  What size traps do you use?  And about how many cats do you catch in a year?  Any advice you have on live trapping cats would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks
Bigshooter

I was thinking the same thing.

[Sagedawg]

  Nice pictures. Ive wanted to get a bobcat my whole life. Ive seen a few but always at the wrong time. Seems like you got it figured out. Good job.


    Sage

[Elkslayer]

Bigshooter and BTKR,
Those traps are the Hava-hart Model 1081's. They are 13X15X40 I believe or right around there. You can pick them up at the sportsmans warehouse for 65.00 unless the price went up last year.
 I just started trapping them three years ago. I got 12 the first year and 8 the second year. Didn't trap last year, but seeing what the fur prices were I wished I did now.
Cats are pretty easy to catch even in the cages if you set in a good location. If ya want send me a pm and I will let ya in on a little known secret for a good trap location. Dont want to throw it out there for everyone to see as it is pretty obvious once you know and an easy way for others to find your traps.
What I use for bait is grouse and pheasent carcasses, just wire them to the back of the trap. I also put a little scent lure on a stick and place it about a foot infront of the trap and off to the side a little. Cover the sides, top and back of the trap with branches or whatever, I use pine boughs they seem to work pretty good and help keep the snow out as well. I'll have to take some pics of some of my setups this year and post so you can see.

[Jackjr]

Looks fun to me.  Those are some cool pics

[Bigshooter]

Elkslayer sent you a pm.

[saylean]

Forgive the ignorance, but once you have em in the trap, how do you finish them off? .22 to the head?

Just curious...cool pics.

[tlbradford]

Drowning or a noose is the cleanest.

[saylean]

That makes sense....thanks Tlbradford.

[Houndhunter]

most is 22 to the head, unless its a skunk or somethin like that

[alecvg]

I would love to get into trapping next year, does anyone have any advise they could give me?  On this thread or by PM.  Thanks

[Houndhunter]

take you test 3 months in advance to season starting, because if you fail you have to wait 3 months to retest. that is if you are dong the home study

[Fishhunt223]

I dont think it is possible to fail the test.  I took mine half way through trapping season this year but it takes forever for the state to send you your license.  The test and class itself are almost all about illegal trapping methods.  If anyone is wanting to get into trapping, they should attend the Trappers Rendezvous at the chelan count fair grounds.  I think it is the 3rd weekend in august.  They will give trapper education classes there and they will have seminars and such.
Travis

[Houndhunter]

i failed my first time, got a 88% i guess thats failing

[BrushChimp]

I didn't know you could fail either. When I took it (literally 2 months before I-713 passed) back in 2000 I was 12 and got a 92%. I watched my friend take it, get a 78%, and the instructor passed him with an 80%. That was the lowest you could get and still pass. We know he got a 78 because we reworked the score in the car on the way home. Laugh about that one for awhile. Anyways, 88% should be passing.

Does anyone know if I can still buy a trappers license without my trapping "card"? It would be equivalent to a hunting green card. I don't have the hunting card either but all my stuff is already in the system so it doesn't really matter. I probably wouldn't be in the trapping system. That is if it's different.

[Fishhunt223]

Houndhunter,  Where did you take your test and who was your instructor?

Does anyone know if I can still buy a trappers license without my trapping "card"? It would be equivalent to a hunting green card. I don't have the hunting card either but all my stuff is already in the system so it doesn't really matter. I probably wouldn't be in the trapping system. That is if it's different.

If you have been a licensed trapper before and you still know your trapper number, I believe you can.
Travis

[BrushChimp]

That's the thing. I've never been a licensed trapper and don't know my trapper number. Guess I'll have to take it again.. I have a feeling they won't have me on file for taking it the first time.

[Houndhunter]

i took the written test at the deparment of natural resources, you have to have a 90% or better to pass the test

[billythekidrock]

Does anyone know if I can still buy a trappers license without my trapping "card"? It would be equivalent to a hunting green card. I don't have the hunting card either but all my stuff is already in the system so it doesn't really matter. I probably wouldn't be in the trapping system. That is if it's different.

Sounds like you passed the test but never trapped (purchased a trapping license)? They probably won't have it in the system.
A few years ago my father and I wanted to get copies of our hunters ed cards and F&G told us we weren't in the system and we had to sign an affidavit that we had taken the course. I took mine in '79 and my father about ten years earlier. They also told my father that they did not have him on file as taking the trappers course.
We signed the document and later both found our cards in an old box. In that box was also his trappers card. Moral of the story...keep everything.

[BrushChimp]

You think they'd let me sign an affidavit for the trapping course?

[billythekidrock]

You think they'd let me sign an affidavit for the trapping course?

I would push the issue and the fact that you took the test.

[Bigshooter]

Season opens this weekend.  Is everyone ready?

[yotesniper]

If you are going to start trapping, be rich and have a forgiving wife. Check the Washington State Trappers Association for classes on trapping and "what can and cannot be used", .

[rasbo]

starting sat,and muzzy late buck