STAKES, EARTH ANCHORS OR DRAGS Depending which part of the country you are from, fastening your traps has been debated face to face, written or otherwise as much as any issue, if not all. I myself have a variety of some sort of all the anchoring systems in my trap arsenal that I have found […]
If you have never tried this stuff you need to. It stays on a treble hook real good, it is easy to bait, and you don’t have to handle it with your hands. Put your hook in the bait jar and jam it down to the bottom of the jar with a stick. Pull it […]
Driving Cable Stakes For Trapping To save time and a mild head ache, don’t neglect to punch in a pilot hole with your cable stake driving rod. It saves trying to get your driving rod blindly lined up with the disposable end after it is driven into the ground and slips off the end. A […]
Would you like a prepared catfish bait that you don’t have to touch with your bare hands? Team Catfish Secret 7 bait may be your solution. Secret 7 is a dip bait, loaded with all the right ingredients. It has a smooth peanut butter like consistency and is super sticky. I personally use it with […]
One of the finest lures in my bag is Canine Call made by Russ Carman. Russ hails from New Milford, Pennsylvania and has made exceptional trapping lures for decades. Canine Call is just that. A calling lure for canines (Coyote, Fox Wolf, etc) but works equally well for other predatory furbearers such as bobcat, badger, […]
I started a new part time job that I wasn’t real excited about back in the early 90’s. “This is going to suck, but it’s only 4 hours a day” I told myself. I could get through it, and I needed the money worse than bad. You know what? It did suck, and my boss […]
I was listening to Clint Locklear’s Trapping Radio show the other day, like I do most every Monday on my commute to work. In this particular episode he interviewed Tom Miranda at the NTA convention in Escanaba, Michigan. Now I already knew who Tom is. I know he has a show on the Outdoor Channel, […]
This buddy of mine and I usually take an annual fishing trip. We usually take either his or my small boat, the kind you put an electric trolling motor on and hope your battery can last all day and the wind doesn’t blow too bad. My ribs usually hurt the next day from laughing, and […]
When it comes to prepared catfish bait, your choices are numerous. Big box stores and sporting goods stores shelves are lined with the latest and greatest blood and cheese formulas, all of them touting to be the be-all-end-all of catfish baits, and you will never buy another. You can always find these in the stores […]
(This article is an adaptation of one I wrote for the Nebraska Fur Harvesters Association last March) The Muskrat For some trappers, when the winter is winding down and the coon and coyote pelts are starting to show their wear, it means only one thing…beaver and muskrat trapping! In Nebraska where I trap, the season […]