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Cold weather coons
#774509
07/02/08 04:30 PM
07/02/08 04:30 PM
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Posts: 660 The Thumb - Michigan - 26
12Valve
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For all of you expericanced Northern trappers at what temp do coons stay in thier den and not wander around looking for my traps?
"Don't Hunt What You Can't Kill!!!"
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: 12Valve]
#774512
07/02/08 04:34 PM
07/02/08 04:34 PM
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huntinglonewolf
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When it gets down in the lower 20s
"Oh make no mistake, it’s not revenge I'm after—It’s a reckoning":
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: huntinglonewolf]
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07/02/08 04:39 PM
07/02/08 04:39 PM
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12Valve
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When it gets down in the lower 20s really, I believe you I just thought it would be more like lower 30s. So you are saying if it is 28 degrees to keep after them. Interesting.
"Don't Hunt What You Can't Kill!!!"
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: ub1243]
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07/02/08 04:55 PM
07/02/08 04:55 PM
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rags57078
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I have caught coons when lows was in the teens here
Off in my own world
Fish on !!!!!!!
47 years in this game of trapping
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: ub1243]
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07/02/08 04:55 PM
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Jim Blakley
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Here in SE.MN., in Nov, almost every night is in the 20s my catch is good right up to freeze up. Last year it came on nov. 28th.
Last edited by jimby; 07/02/08 04:56 PM.
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: Jim Blakley]
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07/02/08 05:17 PM
07/02/08 05:17 PM
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Nick C
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Nick C
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Yeah, I agree with Jimby. Typical nights are in the mid to high 20's. Not uncommon to have the edge of cricks or culverts with ice on them.
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Re: Cold weather coons
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07/02/08 05:26 PM
07/02/08 05:26 PM
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ADC
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ADC
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I've caught coons many nights with temps in the single digits to slightly below zero. ~ADC~
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: 12Valve]
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07/02/08 05:33 PM
07/02/08 05:33 PM
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Corey Hain
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Corey Hain
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"I've caught coons many nights with temps in the single digits to slightly below zero"
Ditto...I catch alot of coon on some danged cold/rough nights in my cat traps and snares.
Corey
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Re: Cold weather coons
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07/02/08 05:38 PM
07/02/08 05:38 PM
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BuckNE
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BuckNE
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Corey, when you are catching those cold weather coons in cat traps and snares, how would you say they are in relation to water. Do you think the coons actually AVOID water at those times, because all the food is froze up, and hunt away from it instead?
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: Dave Plueger]
#774654
07/02/08 07:21 PM
07/02/08 07:21 PM
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goldy
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It's been my experience that the first significant snow really slows them down, especially if there is a bad cold front behind it. Coon still move somewhat, but for me coon movement is always greatly diminished. It can pick up again though if the snow melts.
"They that can give up essential liberty to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety" Ben Franklin talking about guns
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: goldy]
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07/02/08 10:03 PM
07/02/08 10:03 PM
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bsd
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now you can get in to trapline management philosiphy. can I catch coon at zero degrees? YES. do I want to run a 200 mile trapline for 2 weeks at single digit, to sub zero temps, burning feul at 5-6$ per gallon? not on this budget. stick to the low 20 degree temps and above, for a productive efficient coon line, I dont care how big it is. that seems to me to be when the most coon are running most of the time.
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: bsd]
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07/02/08 10:20 PM
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another thing, Im not trying too tell u you cant be productive in very cold temps Im just saying thats what has worked well for me. another thing if you want to get into specifics,? I'm talking averages in low to mid twenties, (now that i think about it) these nights seem to produce good coon movement, but yea there are also some other variables like said above.
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Re: Cold weather coons
[Re: bsd]
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07/03/08 10:04 AM
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Youngtraprs Dad
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I think it depends on if there's snow on the ground and also how long the snow has been there. If there's not any snow they'll move well down into the single digits. My best night(26 coons) the overnight low was 6 or 8 degrees and the highs were somewhere in the low to mid teens. Most of those 26 were caught high and dry in trails leading to cornfields or buckets set near den trees and/or toilets. Like Goldy and Dave said that first snow really seems to slow them down for awhile. But when the overnight lows start getting into the 20s, they seem to start moving again. When the overnight lows get up to the high 20s and/or low to mid 30s they'll really pick up again.
I'll never forget one big boar coon caught on a night that the wind chills were sub zero and actual temps were low-single digits...came out of his den tree and made a B-line through 6" of snow to a dirt hole set about 50-60 yards from his den. Seems like they'll run when and where the sows and yearlings won't.
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