Good advice!

I do know about that trick but its too time consuming for me personally. If you notice all my coon sets can be made in about a minute or less (except pocket sets, which were made for mink in the first place) so I just toss the trap down right on the cement. lol It'll still work most of the time if you put a real good bait in the block. The sod would help though if you got it handy and have the time.

~ADC~

good info and a lot of nice pics

P Skinny

One of your photos reminded me of this kid I got my first season.. PVC Set in a creek.

They just have that "Hand in the cookie jar" Look. BTW.. call it foolish but this one was released alive on gamelands. You could have fit two of him in a shoe box..just too small for me to mess with.

I didn't see any pics of ADC's block set....is it on here!
That is one that I was impressed with because of it's simplicity and effectiveness.

Are these pictures too big for the format or is it just my computer?

Sorry LT must be you 'cause I can see them.

something i just thought of when cage trapping coons where you can't discharge a firearm. It's a drowiing method meant for a steep sloping bank. Set the trap in the bank with the opening facing the water and pointing "down-hill". drive in 2 rebar stakes or heavy wood stakes found near by on either side of the cage. then take another wood stick and run it through the cage so that it makes contact with the 2 rebar stakes and holds the cage in place. given the destructive nature of a coon in a cage trap it won't take long for him to shred that stick running through the cage thus sending the cage slidng into the water. no cage or coon to be seen and stolen.

The stick holding up the cage must be small enough to fit through the cage wire so it won't take long for the coon to chew enough to release the cage.

This method can be tweaked for setting the trap a little off a ledge and moving the location of the rebar stakes. use your imagination.

Livetrap, that is a great idea!

I can't see the pics LT.

I can see all the pictures fine, sorry if you all can't. The block set is on there LT.

~ADC~

for the guys asking about the bait not slideing down the pvc pipe
i just use a squirt of spray foam down about 3". it will expand and nothing will slide down it and is easily punched out with a rebar stake. water sets with possilble high water such as alot of rain or tidal waters i make 3-4 1" holes verticly in the bank
a few inches apart. if the water rises a bit and covers the 1st 2 holes i still have 2 working......

problem I see with foam in the pipe is the pipe being boyant and floating away.

I have all my pvc's wired to something like the slide wire above the drowning lock.

I just stuff my pvc's with cotton balls and a squirt of fish oil. The tape at the elbow just keeps them from sliding down the pipe, you could also run a screw through the pipe if you go that route.

Wad of dry grass shoved into pipe.

Was that to put your lure/bait on?

the pipe only has a small squirt of foam, they still sink.its just to keep the bait near the top. most times iam useing a squirt bait/lure.....

Hey wildman, get that salmon yet?

here is a spot that screms set me




spots liketh produce things like this , i'll try to get some more pics up as time allows

lt, not yet, they are just starting to move into the rivers

Guys, there is your contact to some of the best 'coon and mink bait available.

OK wildman...how much to send us all a 5 gallon pail of ground salmon off the "racks?"