What was the first animal that you ever caught trapping? mine was a coon.

coon about 15 years ago. you always remember your first

A male possum. Have him on my wall.

mine was a mink caught it under a over pass

Mine was a coon about 3 years ago

muskrat

Coon in 1966

Coon

Possum in 2007 in a homeade live trap that I let go I also got another possum and a weasel in there. THis was in the summer though. Otherwisse in the season it would be a skunk last year.

Coon

coon

Coon last week.

griner about 4 years ago

skunk

I was 12 or 13 and caught a skunk in a old woodchuck hole in a soybean field...

first caught was a coon with the help of my uncle, first by myself was a muskrat with a foothold in a trail through the snow.

Possum. Caught a bunch of those stinky things before anything else.

I can't remember that far back...

Sad to say... LOL.....

Bird when I was 5~ in a box trap

coon this year

The first animal i ever caught was a muskrat in 1961

Raccoon was my first, about 30 years ago, but Dad would not let us boys skin it, we had to learn to skin grinners first.

rabbit when I was 7 or 8 years old so almost 20 years ago

a large black muskrat $2.50 worth .75-$1.00 more back then

Probably made you learn on them so he didnt have to do them! haha

mouse.

Muskrat

Muskrat in a 110. Will never forget...

A mink when I was 6 years old.

muskrat in 110 will never forget that day and squirell in cage trap

1st stop I ever set up, next day DOUBLE on rats!!

An elusive possum.

Muskrat - Victor #1 longspring den run in a small pond. The muskrat got caught and then drowned trying to get back in the hole. Approached the set to see its back feet and tail sticking out of the hole. My best friend was with me - we couldn't believe it. That was like 37 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. (Man I'm getting old)

possum

Catching coyotes and cats with my grandpa doesn't count, so a coon in a beaver set. My next catch was a beaver in a coon set. Then I went and asked a water trapper to teach me how.

muskrat, my dad taught me how to set a easy drowner set.

I remember his face when I brought it home, it was cool

I always remember my Pops when I trap and hunt, bitter sweet it is.

Big sow coon in a dirthole.

I caught a coyote just this weekend on the first set made just by me.

Coon when i was in the 8th grade in a cage trap

skunk

You did good! Where did you learn?

skunk. And yes, he sprayed.

a blond at age 12...

My wife when I was 19 I caught her with my good looks and charm

I set my first trap last season with my Dad and younger brother. Came back the next day, and had a big ol' grinner in my coon set!! LoL

I was just happy to catch something!!

muskrat on a float set baited with a carrot is all I remember about it. I remember my first red fox well though.

Grey squirrel double with a Red Hawk same trap!!

Mine was an all black coon.Caught on the tin foil on the pan set in a riffle.Had caught several coon before that but they all pulled out. Hand me down traps at the time.1976 I think.

Probably a muskrat when I was very young and trapping w/my Grandfather, but I don't really remember.

What I do remember is the first night I ever trapped with Conibears (330s). I set out a dozen and nailed 7 beaver and 3 otter.

I remember my first fox, a grey on a closed landfill. There's a house standing on that spot now.

My first coyote was in a brushed-up creek crossing between two dairy cow pastures with and old square jaw #2 Victor.

My first bobcat was in a 330 set on a sand bar in a beaver pond.
There is a very large man made pond on that site now.

Lordy, lordy, lordy, how the years get by us.

Later,
45/70,
RKBA!

Muskrat when I was maybe 8 yrs old. Next was red fox, and I received a whopping 5 bucks for it too!! I was in 8th grade by then and 5 bucks didn't seem all that bad, and considering my total expenses back then consisted of just bullets and bait, I figured to become rich trapping fox.

Muskrat last week. Got another one today.

Good luck this season,
Alex

my first was a coon

A muskrat about five years ago. Fur-Fish-Game, being out in nature, and, T-man, tought me everything I knew then, and now!

Luke

coon in a live trap when i was 8(all on my own no help). then snared coon followed by some snared beaver. then got showed how to really trap in high school and never looked back!