I first met Ed when I was a sophomore in high school. That was 1958 so a lot of water has flown over the dam since then. He and Diane

moved to Montana so he could trap beaver and coyote, while I stayed in Wisconsin.

Thank you to everybody for all of the help.

Traprjohn - that is great advice I will definitely heed.

Mttrapperguy - what do you normally fish for? I do a lot of pile and walleye fishing on the reservoir, but get easily distracted when I stumble onto a school of jumbo perch.

Also, in summer I look for mis-mixed EXTERIOR latex paint marked to $5/gal at Lowes or Home Depot in ANY woodland color like tans or greens or greys.
Then, using a 3" roller paint cages inside and out.
It delays rusting and helps the blending process.

OMG, the guys can't remember where they set their cages now; I can't imagine how many they would lose if they were blended in. Wait a

minute. Do they ever mis-mix fluorescent orange or yellow?

I hadn't thought about painting. Thanks for the advice. I made my first set this afternoon so we'll see how it goes. I'm going to pick up a couple more cage traps on Saturday. Thanks again to everybody for your help. I'll keep you posted.

MTbadgerdad, I usually fish for the bass and like you get side tracted on perch. We have also caught some monster pike over 40". Starting to catch more and more walleye. It is an awesome fishery. I hope you catch some of those fox. Guy

Trap in a trash can is a brilliant idea. Even better then feeding them your muskrats for a few days.

Thank you very much everybody. I am definitely intrigued by the garbage can set. I'm not aware of any garbage raiding foxes in this area or I would be all over that. I feel like I'm more or less guessing on my sets at this point. There isn't really anything to draw them or hold them in this specific spot, just good habitat. I know they're in the area and banking on one coming by eventually.

If you set up the garbage can just right, you can sometimes catch the homeless.

The garbage can set is specific really. we got in on a fox that was coming into the shop, the wood box, and around the property. He was going into human stuff already

I am not a fox trapper but I would find an wing of some type and hang near the trap just to get the fox to come take a look. The wing move around a lot with little wind.

I agree that the garbage can set is pretty specific...for raccoon.