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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 12, 2011 11:58:32 GMT -6
I will have momma read me a bedtime story Wayne. ;D Might be the last oppurtunity for a while.  LLL |
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Post by bradphillips on Oct 12, 2011 17:26:36 GMT -6
I just threw out the $300, as a place to start. As for myself I am pretty sure that I don't know everything. I would guess that "everything you know" would be great but I might already know half of it. So will you be okay with 150 if thats the case  If I were to take instruction it would be to further my education, not start it. |
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Post by jeff on Oct 12, 2011 19:33:20 GMT -6
You can read books and take lessons from the greatest trappers out there but some people just have "it" and some people don,t. I don't know what "it" is but I have seen "it". Example I have a friend that can find shed antlers like crazy I swear he can smell them. He has showed me how and it has helped but when we go together it is almost mind boggling how he just walks right up to them. I asked him once how he decides which direction look and he says he just goes by his gut! You cannot teach that. Its instinct. I think the greatest trappers have great instinct they just know where to put their sets it just feels right to them and it seems like no matter what they do they connect all the time.
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Post by jkl on Oct 12, 2011 19:46:10 GMT -6
bullsnake how many mink do you cath in a season to get denied instructions ?
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Post by dalebillingsley on Oct 13, 2011 19:45:14 GMT -6
Gerald Schmitt taught me how tocatch mink. I tell ya feelas that man can roll the mink. I dont have many mink in my end of the state. My best season on them was only 63. But I think the fundamentals are the same whether you roll up 50 or 500.. A minks is a mink is a mink.
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Post by steven49er on Oct 13, 2011 19:47:37 GMT -6
I agree dale.
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Post by minnow on Oct 14, 2011 16:17:17 GMT -6
Trapping mink are not that hard to do. You have to have the mink to begin to trap them. There are never alot of them in one given area. You have to trap a lot of locations to get them in any numbers. Once you have these locations you know where to go.
I think it was Bud Hall that said you can never drive too far for a good mink set.
Gerald Schmitt book is tops, Steve Guorky book is quality reading for mink trapping. (Steves book got me trying muskrat for bait)
Trapping mink can be addictive, or at least to me.
Larry, I'll take you trapping with me this season. December is my best time to take you. Let me know if that will work.
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Post by blackhammer on Oct 14, 2011 16:40:26 GMT -6
I started getting more mink imo when I went from muskrat to fish a number of years ago.Guess I would be interested in other people's opinion on that.
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Post by Chris O. on Oct 14, 2011 17:01:24 GMT -6
minnow can you just rent a bus and take us all with you for a day?
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Post by LLLTrapper on Oct 14, 2011 17:08:32 GMT -6
Thanks Joe. I would be dumb not to do that. LLL
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Post by 4fur on Oct 14, 2011 17:34:27 GMT -6
I donated those books with some others to a 7th grade science teacher's class. Sorry about that!
Crib Notes version; Dig a small diameter pocket no larger than the 1.5 c.s. trap that is set tight against the entrance with an inch of water over the pan, which has no tension. Bait with a big chunk of bloody fish.
Basically, what Kelly said. If you trapped 50 miles west of here, you would be giving mink instruction on the number you caught last season. Just no mink there. Like said earlier, mink are easy unless you don't have the population.
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Post by braveheart on Oct 14, 2011 21:32:01 GMT -6
As the Bud would say a swimming mink is a dead Mink.I like my trap in 2 in. of water.
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Post by jdrogge on Oct 14, 2011 23:53:22 GMT -6
Joe, how thick are your bases for your 110 stands on bottom edge sets, I'm wondering how heavy they are I guess. I'm gonna make some up and I want them to be heavy enough that I don't need anything else for a anchor. Thanks
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Post by ~ADC~ on Oct 15, 2011 21:33:24 GMT -6
JD, DSpree has some already made up in the for sale section. They are 3/8" - 1/2" and 4x6" I believe. If you got to buy the materials his about the same price as if you build them. If you got the materials or a cheap place to get them that size is real close, if not the same, as the ones Joe uses.
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Post by dspree on Oct 15, 2011 22:25:34 GMT -6
The plates I was making were 3/8 x6, But I have a little bit of 1/2 x6 if you want a little heavier. I have enough stuff to make about 30 more 3/8x6 if you are interested. Send me a p.m.
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Post by minnow on Oct 19, 2011 10:25:52 GMT -6
Jd. You can make the base out of just about anything. If its light weight make sure they are tied off to something. Most of my plates are 4x5 x3/8 & 1/2" thick.
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If I were to take instruction it would be to further my education, not start it.
