Can you explain your comment for me and all the trappers and outdoorsman on this forum?

Thanks Catch! I kinda actually agree with you on that, just a little bit though. I’m ok with him releasing it because that’s one of the good things about footholds, you can release an animal unharmed. For what ever reason.

I personally would have kept that bobcat, but totally nothing wrong with him being selective and wanting to release it.
Now if he was using bodygrips and was chucking the dead cat in the ditch because he didn’t want it, that would be a problem in my eyes.

Thanks to footholds, he has that possibility.

When I go fishing I’m always trying to catch some for supper. I target Walleye, but will release the very small ones and if I caught a 30”er I would release it too. It would suck if I was expected to bring home 10” walleyes and count them as part of my limit for the day.

Just a bit though, I get it somewhat. All of us set for a target critter and catch incidentals. It's nature, things happen and that's ok. Releasing is ok and sometimes law abiding. Maybe I'm the way far exception to the rule because I don't see the video like 99% do. Yes, I love he is trapping. Yes I love he has gotten his Daughter trapping and gets to spend time with her out there.

However he said in the last five years he has released 50 cats when in Michigan they have a one or two tag limit. I personally don't find it ethical to set for one particular critter, come upon it, judge it, then release it on what he deems good color. Trapping is so much more then this. Think what you will, I do not think this video shows good light.