Tally for the year

[tcoop]

Here is what I've got for the year. I will try to keep this updated as I go.

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 0/1/0
Coyote 2/0/0
Beaver 2/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 1/1/0

tcoop

[tcoop]

Hey Ruler,

For some reason it won't let me modify this post. I forgot to add that I caught one squirrel in a coyote set. :o :-[

tcoop

[tcoop]

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 0/1/0
Coyote 2/0/0
Beaver 2/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 1/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[tcoop]

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 1/1/0
Coyote 2/0/0
Beaver 2/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 1/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[tcoop]

Today it was a major thunder storm when I went to check my traps. I wish I would have checked them in the AM before work. But I caught 1 really muddy coyote. It sure took me many years to figure them out, but now they seem to come easy.

tcoop

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 1/1/0
Coyote 3/0/0
Beaver 2/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 1/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[Jerry]

Hey Ruler,

For some reason it won't let me modify this post. I forgot to add that I caught one squirrel in a coyote set. :o :-[

tcoop


Sorry there's a time limit on doing revisions.

[Jerry]

What sizes of coyote do you seem to catch the most and sex.

[mt.bronk]

you got a start of a good year going there tcoop!3 yotes weth 12 traps in a week. keep up the good work. up here in the 80s it wood take 20 to 25 traps to do that.
happy traping ;D mt.bronk

;D ;) ;D ;) ;D ;) ;D ;) ;D ;)

[tcoop]

MtBronk,
Yes, I have done well on the coyote and beaver. But for some reason I haven't done well at all on the coon. I should have at least 10-15 by now. I ran into an ole' timer trapper who said the same thing about coon. He has 30-40 sets out and only 4 small coon.

I have added a few traps since my 1st post. Some new sets and some replacments because of a digger etc.
Here are the total # of traps I have out now.
Coyote 9
Beaver 4
Coon 4 (I can't see taking the time to add more when the ones I have aren't producing.)
Mink 3

Ruler,
Here are what my coyote have weighed so far this year.
M-37 lbs.
F-24 lbs. (This years pup)
M-43 lbs.
M-32 lbs.
Here are what my beaver have weighed.
55 lbs.
47 lbs.
67 lbs.
24 lbs.
21 lbs.
50 lbs.



ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 1/1/0
Coyote 4/0/0
Beaver 6/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 1/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

tcoop

[tcoop]

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 2/1/1
Coyote 4/0/2
Beaver 6/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 2/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[tcoop]

3 days ago I missed something in one of my foot holds for coon. Yesterday I caught one w/ the right foot and the left had been skinned up. Probably the same coon. 6 days ago I released a real small coon. He had some damage to his foot. Today I caught the same coon in a conibear.

In one of my coyote sets, I've had a digger. He has dug up my trap 3 days in a row. Yesterday I had him for a little. The trap was snapped and pulled to the end of the chain. There were a couple of hairs. Today I got his toe nail. In another set right by this one, he stepped just off of the pan. He is pretty well educated, I'll porbably have to hunt this one.

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 3/1/2
Coyote 4/0/3
Beaver 6/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 2/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[tcoop]

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 3/1/2
Coyote 5/0/3
Beaver 6/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 2/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0

[tcoop]

It's been a while, so I'll catch up on it a little.

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 10/4/2
Coyote 5/0/3
Beaver 6/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 2/1/0
Squirrel 1/0/0
Otter 1 - This had to be turned over to the DNR as it was in a connibear and they are not yet legal to trap in IL.

[mt.bronk]

tcoop. if you have not caught that digger yet? then just us 3 traps in a row about 3 feet apart. that well work most of the time.

trap 3feet trap 3feet trap then smart dog well get dum.most of the time youl get 2 feet and he cant get away. mt.bronk
p.s. keep your chanes stakes close as you can to the middel so the dog well tangle up in them.

[tcoop]

mt.bronk,

I'll have to get that digger next year. I've moved on to another spot. I had been at the other spot for about 2 weeks and was going to pull my traps on Sunday as I wasn't doing very well there. Well, the water was up and I couldn't get to some of my traps. So I left them. Sure glad I did, I've got 1 beaver, 2 coon and 2 coyote there since.

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 19/4/2 5 from hunting
Coyote 7/0/3
Beaver 7/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 10/1/0 2 from hunting
Squirrel 1/0/0
Otter 1 - This had to be turned over to the DNR as it was in a connibear and they are not yet legal to trap in IL.

[OKTrap]

With a very light trapping year and even more limited time behind us, we removed the following:

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
yote 6/0/0
skunk 5/0/0
coon 4/0/0
opossum 15/1/0
beaver 1/0/0

[tcoop]

I guess I need to update this a little. Here are the final totals for the year. (I may do some more coyote or coon hunting yet though.)

ANIMAL #CAUGHT/#RELEASED/#LOST
Coon 46/4/2 32 from hunting
Coyote 10/0/3
Beaver 9/0/2
Groundhog 0/1/0
Oppossum 13/1/0 5 from hunting
Squirrel 1/0/0
Otter 1 - This had to be turned over to the DNR as it was in a connibear and they are not yet legal to trap in IL.