That's like 12 bricks of .22's. Guy must be rich to afford that!

Is it mostly river trapping with canoe/jon running off a trolling motor, drop sites on the river for coons and wife picks them up and he has extra trolling batteries stashed on the line, dispatches with a trapping stake. If yes,
He's a machine and I believe the numbers.

My bad. My memory fails me at times. Still, it's hard to catch any number of coon in January.

Who is this super hero? It’d take me 2 hours every night just to unload his truck and get the critters situated for processing. Sorry guys not buying those numbers they defy physics.

Nimzy, take it for what it's worth, I know guys I trust that know him. It's the real deal

Don't forget there are those out there who can't fathom the # of mushrats some people can catch and at certain times of the year.

Sets were all on drowners. No dispatch to slow him down. That was back in the years of plenty of water in streams to drown. As dry as is now, drowning not an option in smaller creeks. All sets were exactly the same set-up. Production line efficient trapping.

I'm not rich and I prudently have more than 12 bricks of 22 laying around

You're saying all the right things. In a 5 minute phone conversation I could tell if it's legit or not.

The thing about drowners is that even if the water is not deep enough to drown a coon, it still takes them away from the set so you do not have to rebuild. You can also place sets closer together. Takes a little longer to set them up, but they are more efficient in the long run in some circumstances. Let's say there's a hole with a piece of fish in it, and the first coon to come along goes down the drowner, the second coon gets the fish and he's going to be back to check out that spot again, so you have increased your odds even after having taken a coon in the set.

As a numbers guy myself and always focused on efficiency and a production system, I have to say this stuff really turns my crank!

Without ROW allowed, whole new ballgame.

These #s are heard to fathom. Some of the most impressive catches I've known of were from trappers working other jobs . I Sold to a buyer in Iowa that started buying at 4 in the afternoon he would always have a pile of coon , big dry coon sometimes 40- 50 on the floor from his personal 220 line. This was on a daily check row trapping. 400 to 500 coon are what he said he would generally catch in about 6-8 weeks. I can imagine with drowners on a 3 line rotation some pretty impressive checks could be made. This would deserve some respect for sure.

Not the first time he has been discussed on here if I remember correctly.
As always several doubters with credible reasons.
But it seems that the ones that know him have never doubted him in the years this topic has been discussed.
I also believe he once responded thru a past member on here.
Things started getting personal and he just shut up and went back to catching and selling.
Never to talk about it again.

I may be wrong about this .
But I do know he gets discussed every season since.

He always ran out of his truck, far as I know. No rivers of any size in most of his territory.

It’s been mentioned his wife has helped. We sometimes forget the value of good help. Both physical and mental.

Met guy ran big numbers for two years. Met him at a buyer's location one time. Buyer shared some of his secrets. He did all the trapping one man but had his girlfriend/wife meet him at points and trade trucks. She took most catches to the buyer and would return at times to trade for his catches again. She also supplied all his food, trapping supplies, and whatever else on the fly. This is years back and I was told he moved out of state. I never ran a real fulltime line so crazy catch numbers inconceivable to me. But with planning, drive, and support the right people can do amazing things. Fair weather in a particular season also helps! lol

I believe if you have the coons and are river trapping as said plus ROW and don't need permission and your a tough dedicated trapper with no other job yes I believe you could do it . Skinning , fleshing, and stretching now that would be even more impressive if you could do that yourself also with the catch... Jon

hmmmmm that sounds like probably when the special drug enforcement task force was in pursuit. LOL

It’s not the amount of fur he caught that’s impressive to me, but finding a woman to do all those things for him. Anybody know where he met her?
Farmers only??

f some of these catches I know about were discussed, every paper tiger, and key board warrior would be beating their chest and dismissing the trappers that shared their catch numbers.

Mac

haha, sure has got ALOT of the older crowd quiet about catch's, systems, methods, etc. We went through a stage where everyone was sharing what they knew in print, etc and now we're reverting back to when i first started, ask a fox trapper how he caught those fox, answer was in traps, where did you set them, here and there, lol. Those were short answer's you would get.

Running a marathon for a catch like this though, dang! He'll be crippled up when he gets old, lot of wear and tear on the body. Not sure if he has the coon record but can guarantee he's holding the record for accidentally catching over 700 mink, lol.

You are talking about a different guy. Mike’s wife doesn’t help him trap. I have rode along with him several times. He will instruct me to stay on the bridge and watch so I don’t slow him down trying to keep up. He don’t need any help!

nope