Post by catmando1 on Nov 20, 2010 20:08:03 GMT -5
Okay, before I pass out for the evening, I got, I think, some pretty good shots of several sets that are typical of what we use on the line. Most are blind sets, and I'll kinda try and explain them as we go, K?
this is typical of what we might see on any one of the water ways we trap. Notice the apparent featurless features of the creek edge. We can turn it into a great blind set, esp. if it is covered with coon fishing holes, or lots of tracks.
note the fishing holes in the bank
We will use rocks, or sticks, or sometimes nothing at all to crowd the coons into a small space to make them easier to trap. At times, we must block the entire bank slope down to the water. Here are some examples of the crowding.
Then we bed the trap, add blocking along the sides of trap if needed, right up to the trap, and then place step sticks into the bank to cause the coons to plop the front paw, hopefully, right into the traps pan. Looks something like this.
hope this helps! I hear all the time that blind sets are so hard to come by, that people just don't use them much. If you have coon movement and you know where they are moving, you can create a blind set that will slam them. If they are so far and few between, why do I have almost 50 of them?
this is typical of what we might see on any one of the water ways we trap. Notice the apparent featurless features of the creek edge. We can turn it into a great blind set, esp. if it is covered with coon fishing holes, or lots of tracks.
note the fishing holes in the bank
We will use rocks, or sticks, or sometimes nothing at all to crowd the coons into a small space to make them easier to trap. At times, we must block the entire bank slope down to the water. Here are some examples of the crowding.
Then we bed the trap, add blocking along the sides of trap if needed, right up to the trap, and then place step sticks into the bank to cause the coons to plop the front paw, hopefully, right into the traps pan. Looks something like this.
hope this helps! I hear all the time that blind sets are so hard to come by, that people just don't use them much. If you have coon movement and you know where they are moving, you can create a blind set that will slam them. If they are so far and few between, why do I have almost 50 of them?
