how can a location be more important than a good lure or a specific set,right!? WRONG and heres why.
if you have a really good lure and a top of the line trap and everytype of set at a bad location you may catcha a few fox. If you have a duke with some cheesecurls( or what ever you want) and a dirthole(or 2) and a scent post at GREAT location you will catch a BUNCH of fox. I ASK that anyone else out there that has pictures of great,good,AND bad locations(preferable places that a beginner would want to set) please post the pics and explanations on why they are what they are

this is a steel bridge going over a a crick that is about 15 feet across and 2-6 feet deep. this spot would be ever better but there is a tressle on some RR tracks about 100 yards away but its still a great spot. i have that side set because of lss human traffic but i would like to have set both sides of the bridge the left and right. the fox more or less HAVE to cross the bridge to get to the other side of the feilds here. the fields are the yards of houses that use to be here years and years ago that have grown up to long grass and small trees. i hav taken takn 7 fox from here in 2 weeks. and it is a 20 step walk from my truck.
here is a day light veiw of bridge location,notice the field in the back ground Yes thats another red you see in teh circle that makes either 8 or 9 from that spot for the year so far,

wider veiw

other side of the bridge. i am aboyut 75 yards from the road that goes over the bridge. this is where atrail from the tracks you see in the background cmes off teh tracks and dumps into this small field. there is a tressle right out of me on the left of the picture that teh fox also use to cross the crick. there is also a good bit of woods on the other side of the tracks there. my set are on the inside of that bend,

this is a Y in a trail one leg of the Y coming off a ridge and teh other coming out of a crick bottom. so this is a 3 way intersection.

this is a huge power line break that necks down to this small crick crossing, to get acroos teh crick the fox must go past my sets which are in the lower right hand corner of the picture.

this just shows how i can set this huge area and neck it down to a 6 by 6 foot area for my sets.


this is where my first double was. its a road cut threw the woods for access to a sewer line. the raod is behind houses and at this point i am just out of their saftey zones. the raod is pretty wide but at this spot it necks down and the crick is right to teh right of teh road and there is about 75 yards of tall weed Bamboo type weeds to the left of the sets, the sets are by my book bag. foxes traveling this road(good dispersal route) will come down and Should huge the cover which is where my sets are.


hope this helps some of ya that have been having problems




This post i wrote last year during season so just to up date a lil on it... Bridge spot took 30 reds thru the season i set it the first day and pulled it the last day i trapped. every spot shown took at least 6 reds most took 10 or so. ;D

Good post Lennie!!

i have it on your site and a few others and i think here at one point, but with the season here and new guys starting i figure ill save em some time lookin and just throw it up here.

great tips

Thanks for the post. I wish we had Reds here like you do there.

Thanks Lenni

ttt

Great.
Thanks. A lot of good info there.

thanks fellas

Great post! Also works for yotes as well. I will walk an area just to find spots likes those before I even think about setting steel.

I like the "natural trail guiding/choking" concept. Here are some pics of the property and where I might set. I would be interested in your perspective........

Here's a ditch crossing.......


Another ditch crossing........


A haul road through the woods.........


An old haul road with a ditch crossing.........

great post

great posts guys

lennitrapper....can you just explain the 7th picture down a little more. the one showing the wide open power line.

Like where did you put the set in that picture and how did you narrow it down? Thanks

Nice job lenni!

in the 6th picture you see the small crick, my ets are just to the left of where im standing. that power line ends with a 3 foot drop straight down to the crick and that lile trail is the only level spot that crosses it. i set off to the side because there was a deer trail ending there and the human traffic seemed to hug the right side more when people walked there.

thanks for taking the time to post the pictures and ariels guys.... the noobs need to spend more time looking at posts like this and less time trying to find the perfect lure/bait....

location is the key... know your critters and their habits!

k.miller i originally made this post on another site Titled LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION... but i dont think people here would look at it because its not specific enough and still i think even after newerpeople look at this they prolly blow it off because my name isnt on a lure bottle or book cover.
i feel this is trapping at its basic fundementals.

.......but it should be. Perhaps when you are unable to run a line you will sit down and write your book.

Here's a couple of locations.



Gap between two picked bean fields. Taken alot of fox at this location.



Corner of field and path. Bobcat in foreground, and red in background.



Corner of cotton field and cleared lane.



Other side of same lane.