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Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1655429
12/13/09 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted By: josh graybill
I'd take 2 conibears, make a elbow in the bank, the opening in the top of the bank and the other one right under water. if you want to you can put bait or lure right where the bend is in the elbow. place a conibear at each entrance.


you can make them horizontal as well I was trying to catch coon with them the part I liked the most was 2 traps 1 piece of bait


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: aprophet] #1655430
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Did you have any luck

Re: Elbow Set [Re: ] #1655460
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i bet you could use a conibear and a foothold. one at each entrance

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1655501
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Its a great set If you want waste time and Putz around .


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1655502
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cohunt is correct on all counts, at least here in the midwest. elbows are too time consuming to make, and a double with one mink on top of the bank and one below is no better than a double with them 3 feet apart and in the water side by side. its still just 2 mink. redig a pocket in 2 minutes after a coon catch. i wouldnt want to have to redig elbows after a day of 50-60 coon catches. pre-digging doesnt give you the fresh earth scent and fresh dug appearance that attract mink. anything pre-dug here this season wouldve been under 2-4 feet of water when season opened. the reason theres not many big numbers mink trappers is that everyone wants to make more work out of it than it really is, and keep complicating a simple thing. i caught my first mink 42 years ago, and took 400 this season in 3 weeks. no blind sets to look for, no elbows to dig, just good fast sets. cohunt, my grandpa was a minker back in the old days, but he died when i was only 2. the stories of him, i think, are what started my fascination with mink, and theyre still my favorite animal too.

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1655549
12/13/09 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted By: josh graybill
i bet you could use a conibear and a foothold. one at each entrance

LOL You are reminding me of this:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65/flatset/trap%202009/DSC02897.jpg


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: Ohio Wolverine] #1655616
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Appears that the old saying about horses and water............

Re: Elbow Set [Re: wr otis] #1655728
12/13/09 04:31 PM
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I agree with ya 100%

Re: Elbow Set [Re: wr otis] #1655948
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Originally Posted By: wr otis
The only mink set that is worth a nickel is one that is directly inline with a minks travels. A terrific elbow set in a perfect bank is no good unless the mink is on that side of the creek. What you have heard about mink sticking their head in every hole they come to is baloney also, they would never get anywhere if they did.



That is very true.
I sure wouldn't just make any set willie nillie.
I have caught many mink is natural elbow sets, commonly called vent holes.
When there's ice the mink use these to get to the muskrat holes under ice.
Every set is limited by it's location in one way or another.
Useing it as a road culvert set it could be like NEON LIGHT for trap theives.
It does have it's place though.
And if made as I said in the right place it will work, weather the bottom hole is submerged or not. One bait is all you need or lure if you prefer.
It can be prebaited also if it's legal in your state .

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Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1656084
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Originally Posted By: josh graybill
Did you have any luck


yea I caught 5-6 coon at each hole then moved on


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: aprophet] #1656583
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5-6 coon is worth my time, i'm into trying out new sets

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1656805
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Back when I started I used to take an hour to make a coon set. I tried everything I could think of. I caught my first coon by putting Hawbacker’s coon lure on a rock just off the shore and setting a trap in the water in front of it. I made cubby sets for coons and caught none. I made trails sets for coons and caught a few. I chopped out trap beds on cross over trees and spent time camouflaging my traps. I sunk a 55 gallon barrel with rocks in a pound with a tarp over the top with a slit in because I just knew the rats would climb up and slip into the barrel. This was in 78 or 79 and there just was not a lot of information out there to help a kid catch fur. I think back on that and laugh. I never caught much fur but I sure tried.

If it works for you do it. Just don’t try the barrel thing it is illegal in this state, a lot of work and even with bait it didn’t work. I never thought of what six or seven rats swimming in a barrel would do to each other either.

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Re: Elbow Set [Re: Oldtoolsniper] #1657756
12/14/09 12:12 PM
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Same thing with me, when i first started trapping here this year it took me about 30 minutes to make a coon set. well, now it takes me about 5-6 minutes. I want it to run me about 2-3 minutes by the end of the year so i can run a bigger line.

Same thing with fox, i heard the faster you make the set, the better off you are.

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1657769
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Originally Posted By: josh graybill
5-6 coon is worth my time, i'm into trying out new sets


I was trapping roadside culverts there were probably 7-8 coon at each one the longer you stay though the better chance you have of getting your traps stolen, a lot of culverts I would set 5-6 traps stay a few nights then move on. Around here muskrats have a hole on the bank that goes to the water the set was already made in a coupla places for me. the suicide set or bottom edge set works just as good


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: aprophet] #1657778
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what does the suicide and bottom edge set look like.

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Re: Elbow Set [Re: ] #1658025
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Oh okay, if thats all they are i've used them plenty of times

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1658188
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What about rock cubbies in creeks, any luck with them.

Re: Elbow Set [Re: josh graybill] #1658215
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ive been taught two diffrent suicide sets for mink. one was built with a few rocks and one large flat one. built into a funnel so to say with teh water flowing threw the open end and leaving at teh closed end. half a muskrat in teh back with a rock with the trap on top of it an inch under water. mink climbs in to get at teh rat current takes him into the trap. or pile up a nunch of rocks at the corner of a bridge or culvert some time ahead of setting the just throw a trap on top. mink gets used to using that as a looking perch for spying minnows and such in the pool of water, then theres a trap there, similiar to the "blue bucket set" except not a joke


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: lennitrapper] #1658235
12/14/09 05:59 PM
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i have found that weathered elbows turn into a natural mink magnets,i classify them as secondary sets like the log crossin set or even the pvc set,theres easier more productive sets but why not mix it up


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Re: Elbow Set [Re: trapper al] #1658280
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I like pvc sets but i haven't caught any off of them yet. I like setting colverts, i've caught coon off of them

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