Forgive me if this has an obvious answer. I'm new to trapping and just trying to teach myself through books and YouTube. So how do you remember where you set all your traps on your line? Do you mark their GPS with an app? How do you not forget where you put them when you have over a dozen?

4.00 for the Go Trapping app on my phone is more a log but also it sets coordinates on Google maps like a GPS does.

I like to take a notebook and draw a map of the line.. and then you can keep more details on your set such as what type of set ,what bait, and lure if you used urine.. what you caught at the set.. what type or sign you see around or what else you do to set like if you had to rebed cause a deer stepped in it or something dung it up its good to keep notes. Especially if you can't remember where you set traps

Notebook and GPS. I mark a waypoint at every point I stop the truck. And the notebook then fills in where the sets are at that stop, usually only two or three.

Before GPS I used the odometer in the truck to mark stops. And used the notebook the same.

The odometer gets me to within a tenth of a mile. At each stop I would often lean up or place a stick or branch on the side of the road. Obvious to me but not to anyone else.

When I forget where I put my traps......it's time to hang it up...cuz eventually they will be looking for me...lol

I run mostly snares in shelterbelts and use flagging. On private land so not worried about theft.

I've strategically placed many a faded crumpled beer can to mark a stop.

Paper cups from gas stations too.

Mike

So far I just remember where they are.

[quote=Mike in A-town]

I've strategically placed many a faded crumpled beer can to mark a stop.

Paper cups from gas stations too.
After drinking all that beer how do you remember where you were by the next day?

I never have out more than 50 traps, and drive up to most of them(private land} so if I go onto state land I usually use
some sort of flagging tape low to the ground so it can`t be seen from the road.

I used to mark my county maps, but that never seemed to work for me.

note book but the gps on phone sounds good

I always mark them in case of snow...nothing buries a set more than snow can here. I remember where and how many sets are on each location/farm. But then to find them it comes down to markers. Post sets are easy if they still stick up above snow. A nearby prominent weed or tree helps too. I even use a bit of surveyers tape or a colored twist tie from grocery store on a nearby fence, weedstem, branch, etc. Will help find them after a snow.
In Dobbins land book he uses natural markers like a stick stabbed vertically in ground 10 paces or so each side of the set. When it snows the two sticks show the set is halfway between each and easy to locate so you can broom off the snow from the set.
As far as remembering that's just something that came with practice. I generally don't have more than fifty or so sets out on about seven farms anyway.

Jim

Note book how many times a week is your phone dead when you need it?
Google earth maps are a big help also

For land traps I use GPS essentials and set waypoints. This works well for me but that is just in case I forget about a set. I have to check once a day so after a few days it is just routine. I map a route and drive the same every day. I have run it backwards and that is when I catch myself back tracking for the set spot I forgot. For water trapping g I flag everything well because once snow and Ice set in it all.looks the same. Don't normally have anyone bother my water traps since most people don't have waders in gbier truck or it is just to cold for most to bother.

I do also keep a notebook for # of sets and lures, set type and such. If anyone has an update on the go trapping app. Let us know how it works. I read bad reviews earlier so I have not downloaded it yet. Hoping to get rid of notebook.

Memory

Anything over 80 gets written down.

This, as I don't see how if you check every trap every day how you can forget them

But I also do not set all my properties on day one. So I build my line over time On new properties, there is a reason I selected a
Set location so after a few days of checking them I remember where they are

I trap all private land & only have 2 dozen footholds so it's not terribly hard to remember. I use a notebook w/ notes on what type of set, bait, lure, catch, etc. Flagging for my snares since I'll usually have about 2 doz. of them out also.

I keep a legal pad on my dash in the truck. When I get in the truck after making a set or setting a snare I write down the location of each set... and lure used. I flag some flat sets.... but never right by the set. Even when I water trapped and flagged.... never right by each set. But an X number of steps to the right or left of the flag. usually around 20 steps or more.