early in the season here before the deep snow flies hang a grouse wing in the same application as the burlap and bed trap underin the center of pine needles or other duff.

Dirtholeman 1 your set sure sounds good to me. I'll be trying it this next season. Never heard of fluffing up the burlap with a wire brush before but sounds good. Stakes are my preferred way of anchoring also and at the price of cats I don't care if he destroys the stake with the burlap. I'll bet I can staple some more burlap to it for the remake.
As for simple sets I like remaking the sets. just build a small mound behind the trap 8" to 10" place any turds that are in the trap circle at the edge of the mound facing the trap. then a small amount of gland lure behind the turds and you are in business. I had one remake last year that caught 5 coyotes and 3 cats. Life time record 18 coyotes in one trap. Now I don't have a lot of luck catching gray fox in remakes but catch cats and coyotes in remakes of gray fox sets. For grays I make a set out side of the trap circle. Good luck to all of you!

Thanks barewire, that remake sounds good too, I will place it in my arsenal.

Hey Dirt, ever since you posted that statement, my phone has been ringing off the wall!

dirtholeman1 both those sets look really great, i use one simlar where i fuzz the heck out the stake to where it reminds you of the top of a pineapple.yours looks like it wood take much less time to set.getting hard to find burlap sacks around here i wonder if the white poly sacks would work.you were generous in letting out your secret.if these work as well as ithink they might i will be indebted to you and will find some way to pay you back

Heres a crude set and a way to get rid of that old X-mas tree. Place the tree on a angle across the frozen stream leaving enough space for a K-9 to comfortably get between a vertical bank and the tip of the tree. Squirt a little fox pee on the tip of the tree. The placement of the trap varies from location to location from the approach the the gap area. Its a sure fire way to take them stream running K-9's
Troy

I remember seeing a similar set, where bush trappers felled a large pine tree over a trail and cut out a hole through the branches in the middle to plave a trap or snare.

Somebody mentioned on here a while back about nailing a hambone to a tree. LOL

hay set. I use it for winter fox. all you do is set two #2 traps on the ground 2 feet apart dont even bed the traps just cover with hay and put a matrix lure in the center with a few drops on skunk.



I know its not in the set but, I did get it in the hay set and many others.

I learned a set down in Oklahoma, that was nothing more than a beaver tail nailed to a tree with some good castor lure smeared on it and a trap out front. Caught a number of coyotes on that, as well as other furbearers.

I use A sement block with the 3 holes in the senter( IIII ) Put fish in the senter hole and traps on both sides. You catch coon on it. You can also put the block standing up and put it in a couple inches of water. Do you get what I'm trying too say?

What statement is that LT ?



kseric I Hope it works well for you, burlap is pretty easy to get her. One good thing about it also is it holds scent very well. I am not sure haow the poly bags will work but well worth the try.


good luck

...........dirt

dirt,... "Lovin' me some castor"...was what I was referring to, which was a post you made on Trap Talk. I take it you liked what I sent you ?
Must have slipped your mind!

After it snows get yourself a chunck of firewood Unsplit about 8 to 10 inches by 18in in size placed on the snow where there are tracks bed a couple traps on the sides and give it a shot of lure and pee and your ready to go

Seems like a good quick set.

I read about the PVC pipe set in FFG two years ago I think. Anyway, I went and bought some PVC cut it 12" long. Early last season I started pre-baiting them with Molassas and Apples. I was scouting and area I had never been before. When I found a area close to a stream with lots of over hanging brush. Getting in the stream, looking at the edges for sign. I found an area the was like a highway for coon, the brush opened up to a 5' Diameter clearing. Just big enough for one set, with tracks everywhere I was not going to pass it up. But with the pvc it was not going to work like I thought it should. But I wanted to use PVC ( Dont ask me why I was thinking again ) I ran back to my truck and grabbed my drill. I drilled a 1/4" hole in the center of the PVC. Put a wire through the hole, and hung it above the clearing next to the stream about 8" off the ground. With molassass dripping out both ends and a paste bait pushed into the center. Last year on that set I caught 10 BIG coon in ten days.

LOL LT ya know I love it, I keep gettin more lOL.

Best castor around. I like the "rain proof" he makes. heavy grease base and hard to wash off.

Was trying to catch nuisance skunks when I first got into trapping. Bought myself a 160 coni but had no idea of it's potential uses. I simply dug a hole about 6" deep and about 10" across. Dropped in some table scraps and laid the 160 on the ground over the hole. The springs themselves supported it and kept it from falling into the hole. Caught plenty of skunks with that crude set. Non target catches weren't a concern at this spot either.

i like to bed a trap then take a car rim and center it over the trap then put bait under the rim on the edges. coons will reach in through the hole searching for the bait. very deadly with no chance of chewing