hey i've seen this in the trapping only and i thought i would post it on this one only mink pics and info please and thank u!

A few from last season, my first, all were taken in pocket sets using muskrat or fish/fish oil.

cool any more guys

a tid bit of info, mink will often be caught in blind sets for 'rats, you can also lure them to a pocket set with fresh bait(i often use chunks of muskrat carcasses) or mink glands, weasel glands will cause them to become enraged, like a territorial thing. Mink are very cautious to new things so digging a hole preseason is wise. sometimes it will take over a week for them to return to the area because they have a long line of travel. Mink are very beautiful animals that always amaze me and teach me something new, so get out there and start learning

I've posted these before but here's a couple.

cmon guys keep it coming! lol

heres a the second mink i caught last year. was caught in a bottom edge set with all the ditch froze over except the bend which was open water and thats where i caught him.

CMON ANY MORE OUT THERE!

one of my favorite trapping pics of mine.
this is the second one i got. same set as the first. 110 at a muskrat den. The first night i set it, i got a rat and i checked the next morning and its head was chewed off. i set it again and the next night i had my first, then a few days later had this guy. both were bucks.



here is the first one.



here is the second.

6 inch pvc with clips to hold a 110, burried in the bank and baited with chunks of rough fish and fish oil on the bank by the set

You guys got me fired up Now!

Here is a 1 week catch on a short line in Northern Iowa around Thanksgiving last year.

SLAM POCKET SETS, BAIT WITH CHUNK OF FISH, 1.5 COILS, REPEAT! BAM! BAM!

Best 24 hour check I had was 8 mink with 61 sets out, I hope to have a double digit mink day this year

wow some of those mink are fatties haha. nice catch you got there!

are you ONLY using pocket sets then? just curious?

I disagree. At least evidence last year showed that the majority of mink I caught were in the first couple checks.

A fresh dug hole to a mink is ATTRACIVE.


Also my opinion that mink arn't the circuit runners like most say. Unless somene can prove otherwise with radio/gps study?!?!?

Weather will push them.

Nothing I want more than to get my entire line out, and have a light snow of 1 or 2 inches that night, kind of trap check a Mink Trapper DREAMS of right there!! Or you could replace that light snow, with a light mist. Man Oh Man, thinking about that gets me drooooling.

100% Pockets, or pocket set variation of what the soil/bank conditions allow. Get that bait behind the trap secured down is Key. Another KEY to good mink catch is HAVING Mink in your area to trap.

The only blind set I'll consider is a late season bottom edge.

This is just my opinion, LOTS better mink trappers out there than me, and I"ll openly admit my way of seeing mink trapping is different than a lot of others on this site and around the country.

Wise Man once told me that a way of seeing is always a way of not seeing.

By The Way, I feel stupid making these posts about mink trapping, as everything I learned about mink trapping was from Gerald Schmitt's Mink Video & Book. Even at $5 mink, these 2 pieces of mink education are worth their weight in Gold!

GO GET YOURSELF THE MEGA MINK METHODS

What are your coon catches like on your mink line? i see in your one pic above that you have 8 mink and only one coon...in IOWA! haha. Is there something you do to avoid coons and only target mink?

Also how are you securing that fish down in the pocket? ive wondered about the best way to do that. I usually just put a rock on the fish or something to try to hold it down some, but i dont like doing it that way. Thanks!

The Secret of catching few coon in mink sets is very simple and easy.


We don't have many coon in my area.

If you see a tailgate shot of more mink than coon in Iowa, there is a few things you can assume.

That trapper is in Northern Iowa and/or its late in the season when coon have quit running. Or a good combination of each.

Plus if you get to a bridge where a trapper thinned out the coon already, the less coon you'll catch! SUPRISINGLY HUH?

On that line last year, I took about 1 mink for every 1 coon, actually more mink than coon altogether, but about a 1 to 1 ratio.

wow that is quite a large number of mink there, good job