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I am not sure what you mean. Can you explain what you are talking about?

@@SchmattzOutdoors If you put two clips in each end space, that would limit the distance the wire could slide.

I thought about that but I really wanted the corner to be tightly pulled together because if it is loose at all, it doesn't want to stay as square and could foul up the door. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching.

I'm glad it was helpful. I hope it helps you get a few extra dollars for your fur this up coming season. Thanks for watching.

I appreciate the kind words. I hope that it might have been beneficial and you got a few pointers. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching. Any new location can have a learning curve but the basics are a good place to start. Good luck with your channel.

Hopefully they are full for several at least several weeks each season. Thanks for watching.

I will be getting those done as well probably mid September as well as a few new traps. Thanks for watching.

I had looked him up a few years ago and the timing of his route that got close to me didn't work with me trying to also send furs to the FHA auction as well. I will see this year what his routes look like and if it works out, I may try to see what he offers. Thanks for the tip and for watching.

The hair was pretty thin and the guard hairs were sort of patchy. I have never trapped them in the middle of the summer until now so I was curious as well. Thanks for watching.

I now am wondering if it has something to do with me putting them in plastic grocery bags after dispatch and not taking them out for a couple days sometimes before I have enough to make it worth skinning them. I am going to try a few thing to see if it improves. Thanks for watching.

It is a good idea but I can't take credit for the idea. It was part of FHA's design. Thanks for watching?

I have 4 now. I had 2 and I built 2 more for this video.

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks for watching.

That's a bummer about the martin. I probably would lean towards a different wood choice than plywood for them. For raccoons, skunks, and Badgers, I haven't had any issues so far. Leon does make good boards but is belly boards seem to be way taller than they need to be. Thanks for watching.

​@@SchmattzOutdoors Rally's H. dad (RIP) made some good marten boards we got 400 from him once. No the belly boards have to be seen = longer

I just can't justify the cost of basswood when cheaper wood will do the same job. I am willing to sacrifice a few pins. Thanks for watching.

I generally have a few points I want to make figured out ahead of time otherwise it is all of the cuff and most of the time shot in 1 take. Thanks for watching.

Those are the things that I think as well. I will continue to try a few things and see how things turn out. Thanks for watching.

I few ideas to try but I still don't know. Thanks for watching.

My buyer take them raw and they do the cleaning. Thanks for watching.

I will have to give that a try if I can't figure out what is going on. Thanks for the idea and for watching.

I used Dawn dish soap this year and had the same issue. Thanks for the idea.

Maybe it has something to do with the essence in a skunk.

That is what I am thinking as well.

It works very well. I only wish I had shortened my cable by about 2 inch so that cable bottoms out before the clamp is fully extended. It works well for coyote but the cable has stretched a bit over the years and doesn't always work on fox. The Y works very well, better than both coming straight out the end. Thanks for watching. I hope it work well for you.

Have you ever tried poly under your pans? I started with poly decades ago, went to pan covers of various types- waxed paper, cupcake papers, toilet paper, etc and cotton under, fiberglass under, foam under- and finally stuck with screens for many years. but I felt I was getting a few misses because of the screens that out weighed any gain in more kill area, so went back to poly 5 or 6 years ago and wondered why I ever quit using it. Most people that use poly use way too much and it can freeze or interfere- just a small piece spider webbed out a bit is all you need- doesn't freeze solid, no odor, and no digging as other under pan things I tried had- and no pan cover to mess with. You can even use it in water sets where sand, muck getting under pan is a concern.

I have never used anything but muffin wrappers and testing paper towels for pan covers. I think that most anything will work if used right but I have my system down pretty well. If it starts getting to be an issue I will look to change.

Thanks for the ideas. I will keep my traps close to the end of the pipe. I didn't think about them coming from the side. I am not worried about the light trap as I won't be trapping in water that is that shallow that if the trap goes to the end of the drowner that won't be able to get to the surface. I am not using the weight of the trap to do the drowning. I like the idea of the bolts but that is going to really make them a hassle to stack in the off season. I only have a few sloughs where I would ever be worried about my plate moving with a coon catch. I will just stake the deep end instead of the plate.

The Mule Deer trip I was talking about in this video was the trip from this past fall. It will probably be several years before I get a tag again.

correction- I recaught 4 of already collared coyotes in same sets, same lures.

I agree with the first part of you comment about the males moving more and what happens as I catch some but I have some issues I have with your theory. This year the YOY were quite a bit smaller than the adults. I had a couple Large graded coyotes so telling the YOY from the adults was pretty easy and I only had 5 that I could tell were YOY and the rest would have been adults. I also look at the teeth once I get home. So that is less that 33% catches and they should be the easier ones to catch. I do tend to send a lot of what I think are travel corridors so that is an interesting theory as well. The reason I put the same lure in a set over and over is that next year I will change to a completely different bait and lure on almost all sets to maybe catch some I may have missed the year before. I agree with the types of bait and lure when using 2 sets but I have plenty of spots that may only be good for 1 coyote every other year so do I really want to put 2 sets there every year. No. I have been putting 2 sets in more locations that seem to produce more consistently and then I do use two completely different bait, lures, and sometimes different sets. Part of it is after making a couple catches in a single set, adding another set in that location that year to help pick up those other animals that don't want that bait, lure or are shy of the catch circle has helped on my line as well. I also don't have enough traps to even get every spot I would like to trap much less get double traps at every location. Also having enough time to check every thing is always an issue. As for the 10 female thing, Catching Males first at high numbers is something I have tracked for 5 years so it isn't just a 1 year thing. For both coyotes and raccoons.

@@SchmattzOutdoors I'm enjoying our discussions, I can see you like thinking/talking about coyotes as much as I do. Let me throw this out there. I've gone back and forth on a clean set. So a couple of seasons ago, I did this for 2 straight seasons: Any time a location had a coyote in each set. I' d leave them but add a fresh set. This didn't apply to incidentals- if all sets had incidentals but one not a coyote I wouldn't set fresh. I kept records for those 2 years, running 80 or so raps for 4-6 weeks. I found that the coyotes I caught in the fresh sets over the remakes, was so low, meaning almost never, that I concluded it wasn't worth the time and money. So why did I get those results when others find just the opposite to be true. The conclusion could only be they found remakes more appealing over a fresh set, for an unknown reason. Could it be that the attraction of the remake itself, combined with a whole bunch of different odors, made the difference? I don't know, but that could be a fair assumption. In any case I never set a fresh set unless to much mud, etc. I do however believe in the 3 day rule that the Leggitts promoted with rust- after a catch, if no new catch after 3 days, I change the trap out. While I agree old rust doesn't deter coyotes, I know fresh rust, combined with the whole set construction, raises alerts and they will step everywhere except over that fresh rusted trap. if you are getting 33% YOY, then you have a stressed population. How does that % compare to the last few years? About the same? If so, it would explain the pattern. I had several good locations where 4+ coyotes was the norm, not having a trap touched or catching 1, an adult male, and then nothing. Another indication of a stressed population (meaning unnatural distribution of ages, classes) is when you catch a pup the 1st night- then nothing. Pups are still often running together or in the same area, so in a normal year, catch 1, catch a bunch. A word of caution though on aging, When I did the collaring, we took measurements of size, girth, length, etc plus ear and teeth inspections, general well being. Both the tech and myself, thought we were predominately getting adult males based on size and teeth. Some big boys. But when posted, most were YOY. Teeth can be tricky based on diet causing different wear patterns, and that here the average age of the coyotes is low- in the study the average of the posted coyotes was 2.5 years, and so not much difference between YOY and a yearling. What will be interesting both for you and me, is next year- will this non winter cause a boom in all populations? I would think it would with food sources as good as they could get.

My coyotes rarely have lice. I think they get a little mange once and a while and I think what some people call shoulder mites. The hackle and the top of the neck will have no under fur and the fur is almost oily. Usually my animals with mange aren't to bad like you see pictures of sometimes. I get more just plain rubbed coyotes than anything. I trap only a few spots with cattle around. Some pastures but the cows are removed before I will trap or my traps are outside the pasture. It isn't actually a dairy in my videos, it is just a feed lot where they raise male dairy calves and beef cattle. I do agree that cattle can lead to coyotes. I think it has more to do with rodents that tend to be around the cattle that the coyotes are after.

@@SchmattzOutdoors agree- rodents, grain, etc....even enclosed dairys attract coyotes and manure piles esp good. I've seen them following manure spreaders to glean what they could. Yes, shoulder mites are what I was meaning. I only have a couple spots with cows in when I trap- such good locations it's worth the pain. Two things I've found work pretty well to avoid cows tramping on sets. If its a rocky or littered with sticks, etc- you can block them in pretty good, almost surrounding the set with rocks or bigger sticks....looks stupid, and I feel like a fool, but it works. The other option that I prefer, is making a deep trench set. I need to say these are big pastures, wooded areas, ponds, etc so I can make sets out of sight of cattle. I also take a big skull, and put it out in the open in good view, and give it some good squirts of urine. That seems to keep their attention when they do wander by.

I agree that distracting them does work as I have used the urine trick as well and not making the sets in their view will slow them from messing with your sets. I am lucky that a lot of the guys haul their cows home just before the season starts so I don't have to deal with them.

@@SchmattzOutdoors that would be nice. Here I'm faced with the opposite- a couple of my beef guys, several in fact- have most of their land fenced, or the put up a temporary electric fence, and let the cows be in the harvested fields most of the winter. So its crops, harvest, cows in a few days. I do like the places where its summer pasture- those old trials, etc are good locations.

The plan is to keep filming. At least for the time being unless I start getting no views on videos.

He doesn't like to be filmed but I do it anyway just for me.

They don't offer a current map. It takes them over 5 years sometimes to get a land sale updated in the plat book.

Didn't need to be to long. Would have probably been a little bit longer had I videoed the furs on the barn.

I am glad that you are following along and commenting. It is good to get others perspectives on what I can try to be better on my line. There are a couple bonus videos coming so stay tuned for those. I do some scouting mid winter but there wasn't a lot of sign around this year and it was tough as we had a very mild winter with very little snow. I will take winters like this every year. Thanks for following along.

Thanks for the compliment and for watching. I am glad you enjoy my videos.

Thanks for the complement and for watching. I'm glad you enjoy my videos.

I do feed the deer but never at the time of year that the video was shot and I never feed straight corn if I don't have to. Thanks for always watching.

You are definitely right about "Better one, Than none." Multiple species trapping helps me make a catch everyday. I don't know if it was the wind but it didn't help and the weather in general wasn't great for my entire season. The best weather was when I was Mule Deer hunting. Thanks for watching.

I prefer to use a 110 in those situations then I don't have to worry about them not drowning and having to deal with a alive one in a foothold or having them twist off. Thanks for the idea and for watching.

I have never heard about using mink for bait to catch mink. I have heard of shaking a caught female mink on your set to help catch a male mink if one comes by. Get some musk on the set. I have tried the newspaper trick but have had mixed results. Using a milk crate seems to work well as the air from driving around with blow thru it drying them off as you drive. I will throw a super wet one next to the crate as to not get the ones in the crate wetter. I put them up wet or dry every day anyway and then use a air hose to fluff them up after they are dry and off the stretcher. You would never know the difference. On this check I didn't think it was that cold that they would freeze or I would have thrown them inside the truck on the floor mat. There did seem to be less coyotes around this year. It's okay as prices at the auction weren't great.

Some people think squeezing the glands on every mink at set helps- I never bothered since many times it smells minky anyways, but doesn't hurt.Thinking on your mink- don't know your populations, but open water marsh trapping is maybe the hardest mink trapping vs creeks and rivers. You simply don't have anything to narrow their travel, even the culvert spots not so much cause they will cross the road at any point. I know some real good minkers out east, that swear by 220 trail sets for mink- they claim, and I see their point is that a 110 or 120 is just too small a space and mink will avoid it. Some use the pans on the triggers , others use the wire between. But you might be better off rather than pockets, setting shoreline trials, where imo the mink are travelling, esp small trails crossing the road. Just something to think about.

I have never squeezed the glands because I don't want my animal to smell like the glands. All I have ever done is just shake off the water. Keep in mind that I catch so few mink that I have never caught more than one mink in any single set. I agree that open water marsh trapping is the hardest way to catch them but that is the habit and time that I can trap so I am trying to figure out things as I go. I haven't been able to find very little information on this type of trapping so I am making it up as I go and trying different things to see what works. I don't have any or very few channels to trap mink in so that isn't really an option. I am going to try to add a wire on the triggers this year. I have tried trail sets and trials crossing the roads with no luck so far but I do think it should pay off eventually.

There are random albino animals all over just not where I am. Especially for the species I trap. Thanks for watching.

There are albino animals out there but I have only ever seen 1 Pheasant years ago that was white and might have been an albino.

I don't have any creeks that I can trap and there re no rivers close by so I don't know if they would work but I can't see why they wouldn't. I can't say that I have a preference between the 110 or the 1.5. Each has a bunch of applications where the other doesn't work well. As for the way I use each for baited sets, I catch pretty close to 50/50 in each. I am still trying to figure out the mink in my area and what baits they might prefer. Thanks for watching.

I don't know what that means. Thanks for watching.

I have never seen that but it must have been a cool thing to see in person. I figured out that muskrats must be curious of the smell of fish oil or fishy smelling carp. Thanks for watching.

I have been clipped a couple of times. A coyote, a fox, and and a muskrat have all gotten me over the years. nothing serious but each did draw blood. Thanks for watching.

I have never caught any albino animals. One black colored coyote is the only odd colored animal I have caught. Why do you ask?

I have never done a full wash with it but have removed a little blood with borax. I also use borax to dry the feet of animals if I skin their feet for taxidermy. My washing methods works for me. Thanks for watching.

Numbers of coyotes, raccoons, and skunks seemed to all be down this year. I also had spot that produce year over year that I didn't catch anything this year. I also saw no sign of disease or distemper last year or this year to be a cause of the decline. I am thinking that the drought conditions in my area from May to September might have hit the prey animals hard which could have lead to young of the year not making it. The coyote pups were extra small this year which lack of prey might cause as well. Thanks for watching.

I trap in west central Minnesota. Why do you ask? Thanks for watching.

@@SchmattzOutdoors was just curious of what part of the country I was watching. And thank you.

No problem. Its an interesting area to trap because of the diversity of habits and weather.

That is the truth. The more traps you have out, the better chance you have of making a catch but weather and the animals make all the difference.

I was lucky to get a mule deer early in the trip so I was able to reset the line. I will be the first to admit that I am still trying the figure out mink. Mink boxes haven't produce well for me either but in some places it is the only type of set I can make. You are right about the prices but I will take anything I can get for any animal I can catch. The nice thing about running a mixed line is that when one animal is down typically another animal is up. Thanks for the tips and for watching.

Yes, a mixed line is a lot of fun, but as I get older I find it harder and harder to run a mixed line. Way back in the day it was the norm, for either long hair furs or short hair furs to be in fashion- so one would concentrate on those. As you say- coon are down ,rats way up and so on. but lately it seems that doesn't hold true as much. I don't know who you sell fur to, but last 2 years I've sold to Matt Carlson and pleased with his prices, and sold all my fur.

I don't really change my target species on the value of the fur, well maybe coyotes when they were over $100 each. I am all about doing it for the fun and catching as much of everything as I can in the month I can trap. As for selling my fur, I am going to put a video together over the summer on how I sell my fur so stay tuned for that. With the FHA sale just getting over. I did well on most of my fur except for the coyotes and muskrats. A big surprise was $40 each for the 2 badgers I caught this season. my previous high for one was $29. I also did very well on skunks averaging over $25 after commissions. It pays to have the mixed line.

I have seen the same thing happen before and read and seen plenty of other people have the same thing happen to make a pretty educated guess. Thanks for watching.

I can't complain on any day that I was able to make catches. But was it really the end of the season for me? Thanks for watching.