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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Hilltophustler on December 13, 2020, 09:46:20 AM

Title: First official furbearer
Post by: Hilltophustler on December 13, 2020, 09:46:20 AM: I have lurked in the shadows for a while now reading and learning this crazy hobby of trapping from this page. I have met some of you in person and others have pointed me in the right direction and I would just like to say thank you. Its been very fun learning and figuring out how all this work. I definitely look at the woods a little differently now.

I set up a trail cam with a bait station up in a tree and let is soak for 2 weeks. I covered the bait with some tree branches to avoid the aerial preditors. A hawk must have been spying on me :chuckle:. He was at the bait an hour after I left. I had put a good chunk of skunky lure up as well. So multiple videos of a hawk messing with my bait and then night falls and low and behold 2 civit skunks desperately trying to climb the tree. They would try just about every night. Over the corse of the 2 week soak i got the the skunks, a big wooly coon and 1 maybe 2 bobcats. Pulled the camera and put in a few sets
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Hilltophustler on December 13, 2020, 09:54:31 AM: I checked every 2 days in anticipation. First check nothing :'( Second check nothing :'( Third check. Bingo. Must be a lucky box because my 3 year old thought he would help by coloring it with his crayons. I heard the second skirt off on my third check so I left the other box in place with plans to check the next day. Sure enough, there it is. Thanks again to the guys on this page :tup:
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Katalla on December 13, 2020, 11:30:31 AM: Well done!
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Turner89 on December 13, 2020, 12:28:06 PM: :tup: now you should be hooked.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Norman89 on December 13, 2020, 02:37:20 PM: Very nice now call up bruce and collect your 25$ bounty :chuckle:
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Post by: Kain on December 13, 2020, 04:15:27 PM: Awesome. Good looking little fella. Congrats.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Axle on December 13, 2020, 04:33:25 PM: Very nice! I remember my first civet cat. That was back in the '70s. Trapping is a way of life and so much fun :tup:
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Humptulips on December 13, 2020, 05:34:51 PM: Quote from: Norman89 on December 13, 2020, 02:37:20 PM
Very nice now call up bruce and collect your 25$ bounty :chuckle:
I don't know about $25. I can go $15 though.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: wags on December 14, 2020, 01:04:12 AM: A spotted skunk was my first catch also; back in 1968.
Remember it like it was yesterday.
Congrats
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: ne kid on December 14, 2020, 01:22:45 AM: My first one was a house cat still got the hide.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Humptulips on December 14, 2020, 02:08:01 AM: Because I have received a number of PMs about this, the trap is a KORO Rodent trap. Legal trap, we have a letter from the Director approving their use. Not a conibear of any size which would not be legal.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Kain on December 14, 2020, 09:01:13 AM: Quote from: Humptulips on December 14, 2020, 02:08:01 AM
Because I have received a number of PMs about this, the trap is a KORO Rodent trap. Legal trap, we have a letter from the Director approving their use. Not a conibear of any size which would not be legal.

Cool. I assumed it was a regular rat trap in there. I had not heard of these before.
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: Hilltophustler on December 14, 2020, 09:36:32 AM: Sorry...Should have mentioned there were KOROs in there as they were not cages :tup:
Title: Re: First official furbearer
Post by: JakeLand on December 14, 2020, 06:53:25 PM: My favorite little trap !