No its not, even an idiot novice kid can go out and whack that amount of mink, like trapping muskrats.

Good Minnesota/Iowa mink trappers are taking 10 times that many, Seriously.

1 week run last year!!



Best day !



Our best day! 17

well thats quite a bit for my area, we got mink but not that many IMO, the only mink i ever catch around here are in muskrat sets, but with muskrat numbers going down my opinion is that the mink are wiping them out, they are now a target for this year haha i might catch that many in a season but not in a day

ITS OBVIOUS WE'RE RELATED BIG T!!!

nick c i think that big t is a testiment to your previous statement good job guys

Time to Brag.................My best check... 46 mink in 1994. Taken with about 200 sets ( pockets ) at 90 stops on a 3 day check .
Jim

Nick don't sell yourself short. I don't doubt you at all in saying 10 times that many mink can be taken. I would also bet that if you had the time you would be one of the people taking that many.
My personal bet day is 11 mink. I did that in 1984.

great pics guys~

Nice job everyone. Me too Cisco! In 1996 I caught 11 mink after a snow storm ....all in bottom edge sets. My two sons were along that day grouse hunting and we spent more time hauling fur back to the truck than hunting. Lots of rats that day too.

awesome work guys! I am a beginner and have a question. I have a few blind 1.5 coilspring sets out and this a.m. one was snapped with nothing to show. I believe i may have made a crucial mistake...the jaw with the dog was on the inside of the bridge. The loose jaw should be closest to bank/bridge???

JR

Do you have ANY pocket sets out baited with chunks of flesh? whether its fish, duck, goose, rabbit, squirrel, muskrat, etc?

If not, try it and see what happens!

I don't yet, but plan on it this weekend. I have goose meat i'd be willing to part with. what about venison scraps? i just got done butchering a nice 8 ptr I shot.

Yeah Man! Big chunks of meat/flesh. Mink doesn't even have to be hungry, its instinct to grab piece of meat. Make it visible in back of pocket, and WHAMO!

are slider locks really neccessary or can i count on the 1.5 coil on drowning the mink?

Don't know about your area or locations, but I can count on over 90% of mink to be dead on 24 hour check in my area without drowners.

cool guys any more pics out there!

I had a mink toe in a 1 1/2 ls this morning. Thats happened twice this year already...any ideas why? Weak slow trap? Hate to find that.

Either slow traps or pan creep before the trap fires would be my guess. Slow traps may mean rusty traps, but probably means weak traps. You don't need much strength in a trap to hold a mink, but you do need speed, and the only way you can get speed is by using strong traps. Dyeing and particularly waxing helps speed them up even more, and you cannot have a trap that's too fast for mink. It's hard to comprehend just how fast they are, and if the trap fires slowly or if the pan creeps before the trap fires, you will get a lot of misses and toe catches. If pan creep is the problem, filing the dog and the pan notch square will eliminate it.

Maybe you need a better swiveling system!

Wow thats awesome!