I trap two different locations: my great grandpa’s pond, and a very nice man named Mr. fisher’s land. At the pond, I trap raccoon
and possum. At the trail I trap Fox and coyote. It is a gravel road, and what I can trap is on one side between road and a fence .
After catching two raccoon at the pond, I wanted to change things up and start land trapping. So I set 4 #2's ( two dirt hole sets,
and two urine post sets ) using stinky Pete’s overtime lure , and fox urine. Day one I checked the traps, and ...nothing . Day two
same thing. On the third day it had misted that night, and I turned around to my second dirt hole set and saw a skunk . Mom was
not quite happy about that one . I skinned it and gathered the essence into a small bottle . It stunk for weeks. I remade the skunk
set , but after two days I had to pull up traps, the skunk being the only thing I caught . After Christmas I set more traps , but a
week of nothing said that I should probably pull up and start trapping at the pond. At the pond I use cage traps because of dogs, my bait is marshmallows and there’s so many raccoon's I don’t need lure. I set three snares, one 2 door cage trap, a mink box and a 1 door trap. The next morning I had 2 raccoon's; one in the mink box and one in the single door cage trap. I dispatched these, and reset the cage. The mink box I pulled up . Next morning, to my surprise I found a 43 inch male raccoon in the un-bated cage. It was on a sandbank where there was high sand and Low sand. The high sand formed a funnel where the cage trap was, forcing the raccoon into it . The next day , there was nothing . The bait was gone from the two-door trap, which happens very often. Unfortunately, I did not do anything about it, but left everything how it was . Next morning was Saturday and I was pulling up traps, and again nothing. Now I was at one skunk, five raccoon's, and zero possum. One of the raccoon was a record raccoon at 43 inches long, and no possums was a record too. A week later I was back to land trapping, making a urine post set, and a dirt hole set at the same location were I got the skunk. On the second morning, the dirt hole set connected with a prime red Fox, my first canine! I dispatched the fox and re-made the set. After 3 days of nothing, a friend of mine that trapped in Alaska for 20 years came over and we made two more sets, and lured them all with Dobbin's Back-breaker. That was Sunday. On Friday, after it had rained, and we had to go to Arkansas, so I pulled up my traps.
To be continued........
