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Post by hatracked on Jan 15, 2006 16:49:07 GMT -5
Me and SCtrkyhntr had a good bit of action on the line this morning, the K-9's ran last night! Heres a couple greys.   for the whole story of the rst of the ams events and a couple tough lessons we had to choke down. This morning was full of new information for both of us. www.americasoutdoorsman.com/aoforums/viewtopic.php?t=478 |
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Post by timwilcox on Jan 16, 2006 2:14:29 GMT -5
man I sure do love this picture .... Great job guys, to bad about the yotes. Do you have to use padded traps ? I sure do wish I lived closer, I'm drooling about this trapping trip & knowing I can not go is killing me.  |
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Post by ncboman on Jan 16, 2006 11:48:41 GMT -5
nice pics Hat. I know what you're doin there and not all the critters will cooperate so well.  |
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Post by hatracked on Jan 16, 2006 11:49:19 GMT -5
Thats SC's first fox and first fox picture. It was a doubly good day for him with a great catch and a super photo that will last foever. I have already told him that pictures going to get well circulated. The other thing I like about it is how it reflects truely what an animal does when in a trap. It isnt a big freak out and terror as some would try to paint. This fox was calm as a cucumber and probably would have slept right through the morning had we not had to bother him getting him out of the trap.
Tim, Im not sure your going to be missing out on much, I think its just going to be me and SC down there for a couple weekends. I never really got any solid intrest and committment and with some of the reg changes its pretty steep for non res guys . I will tell you if you ever want to come give it a try, let me know, Ive got more land that I can trap down there in the low country and greys are common as rabbits down there.
We are using victor 1 1/2 soft jaws mostly. I think weve agreed it was user error. The rubbers on the jaws had some previous wear and I believe when waxing them some wax spilled inbetween the jaws and wasnt cleaned off prior to setting. To boot this is year three on those traps , I probably should have replaced all the springs and rubbers before the season. Cost us 200 + and two now trap educated yotes for that mistake.
Today the line was dead. We pulled up and I am going to fix up the traps before this next cold snap rolls in Wednesday night. Hopefully we can catch the next batch of yotes that visit our sets and pick up some reds as well. I havent seen much red sign this year.
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Post by hatracked on Jan 16, 2006 11:59:02 GMT -5
Nah some of them can be downright unruley when you go to finish the job of either putting them down or getting them from trap to crate. Greys arent so bad and despite not believing it when I first heard it a stick scratching the back of their neck usually calms em right back down so you can slide the catch loop right over their neck. I havent shown SC that one yet.
One of the ones that suprised me the most with its vicious retaliation at the trap was a big male otter. He was going for all its worth to tear my butt up. Tom bobcats bad enough, male otter kinda psyco. Yotes can be a handful as well. I know this much theres way to make it much worse on the animal than it has to be. The more I catch the more I have learned how to keep em calm as possible. It helps greatly to have two people so one can catch the animals attention while the other slowly works the catch stick.
It is of great interest to us to keep them from struggling and having a stressful release from the trap it helps all the way around on feet and how well they will do overall when released into the fox pen. In other words if you got any tricks or suggestion my friend , Im all ears! One things for sure I dont go many days trapping that I dont learn something that will improve the whole thing all the way around.
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