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Post by marshman on Oct 27, 2013 8:36:05 GMT -6
how many do water and land trapping combined road trapping the first week when very busy? i used to do all almost all land and then start water trapping later in first week and then mostly water the second week. doing more water and along with land the first week like last year and found really slows me down as land is much faster and hate having to change from hiking boots to hip boots to many times and really slow,am to anxious to go and just cant wait to check land traps and at some slow water trapping making a set or checking the first few days and get in a hurry and not maybe careful enough,wondering what everyone else does? i get tired wearing hip boots land trapping for long and just cant much as boots get worn out,there made for wading not walking in rough ditch on land
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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 27, 2013 9:12:55 GMT -6
Where are you from? LLL
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Post by medicdano on Oct 27, 2013 9:42:55 GMT -6
Thats the way I do it too marshman. Water does nothing but slow me down too. If I can get all my land sets checked and have da light I will throw some water sets in. I will have rat sets out initially but I don't need hippers for that. Otherwise, I can set and check land sets almost 2:1 over water sets.
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Post by AR on Oct 27, 2013 9:57:35 GMT -6
I mix, 30% water 60% land. I try to scout out locations in the summer/early fall of places for my water sets and plot a route that makes sense between water sets. And then I fill in the travel time with land sets or private property stops. I will 100% agree water trapping is slower however, i do seem to have more consistant catches at the water sets day and day out which helps me to keep my average up. Land sets depend so much on the weather pushing the coon to run. I will run this type of line until ice stops me from having water sets then I'm all land trapping. That's just what I have found works for me.
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Post by x-demoman on Oct 27, 2013 11:18:13 GMT -6
Mostly water here. Only thing slowed down is the skinner I keep him busy.
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Post by tevins on Oct 27, 2013 15:41:23 GMT -6
I mix, 30% water 60% land. I try to scout out locations in the summer/early fall of places for my water sets and plot a route that makes sense between water sets. And then I fill in the travel time with land sets or private property stops. I will 100% agree water trapping is slower however, i do seem to have more consistant catches at the water sets day and day out which helps me to keep my average up. Land sets depend so much on the weather pushing the coon to run. I will run this type of line until ice stops me from having water sets then I'm all land trapping. That's just what I have found works for me. |
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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 27, 2013 16:00:31 GMT -6
Thats the way I do it too marshman. Water does nothing but slow me down too. If I can get all my land sets checked and have da light I will throw some water sets in. I will have rat sets out initially but I don't need hippers for that. Otherwise, I can set and check land sets almost 2:1 over water sets. Is your catch a 2:1 ratio though? LLL |
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Post by blackhammer on Oct 27, 2013 17:15:56 GMT -6
I'll put my hipboots on Saturday and they will be on till about spring. I actually like wearing them.  I have run alot of combination lines. |
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Post by medicdano on Oct 27, 2013 18:02:32 GMT -6
Thats the way I do it too marshman. Water does nothing but slow me down too. If I can get all my land sets checked and have da light I will throw some water sets in. I will have rat sets out initially but I don't need hippers for that. Otherwise, I can set and check land sets almost 2:1 over water sets. Is your catch a 2:1 ratio though? LLL No, it's the same. And the land coon are bigger too. |
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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 27, 2013 19:20:28 GMT -6
I'll put my hipboots on Saturday and they will be on till about spring. I actually like wearing them. I have run alot of combination lines. Me too. LLL |
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Post by dahlyjr28 on Oct 27, 2013 20:03:36 GMT -6
Hipboots go no Saturday and wont come off until ever things pulled.
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Post by marshman on Oct 28, 2013 15:06:58 GMT -6
have been going though a couple pair of hip boots a year and is hard on them wearing on land trapping when dont got to and slows you done as well as taking off and puttinmg on much. they always wear out in seams
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Post by cody13 on Oct 29, 2013 8:03:48 GMT -6
I run a mixed line. I don't use hip boots or waders in the fall. Just rubber knee boots as most of the water here is low enough. I've been slowly switching over to more snares and DPs as I prefer dry coon over wet, muddy coon. I set every creek I pass so I catch some mink and muskrat but find myself setting way more dryland trails in between.
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Post by hscoonslayer on Oct 29, 2013 12:29:54 GMT -6
I use to set strictly bridges and culverts with water running out of them. I have now adapted with the times and find myself purchasing more dps and now i set more land than water.
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Post by hidehunter on Oct 29, 2013 12:40:56 GMT -6
lol... love the "location police" moniker..  |
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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 29, 2013 13:33:57 GMT -6
I am the self pronounced spelling monitor also.  lol,LLL |
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Post by hidehunter on Oct 29, 2013 14:01:38 GMT -6
Shouldn't that be "self-pronounced"?  |
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Post by Austin K on Oct 29, 2013 18:06:35 GMT -6
I am the self pronounced spelling monitor also. lol,LLL HA! This is true ! |
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Post by brandtfleener on Oct 29, 2013 18:31:24 GMT -6
Water is very quick, and land is quick once you get all your sets in (i'm talking dirt holes) but both combined is slowww tried it last year. I finally just pulled all the coyote sets and targeted water animals and then ended up catching a coyote in a pocket set lol. It may work for other people but it did not work for me.
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I have run alot of combination lines. 
lol,LLL