Catmando1/sons trap lines

[catmando1]

Well, as sneakysnake said on his thread, weather was rather nasty this afternoon. The oldest boy, Russ, and I went to setting at noon today on the opener. Russ is going to maintain this particular line and it is a good one. We managed to get in 33 sets, 4 of which were bodygrips, and 29 were foot holds. All sets were made in blind set fashion, save 3, and they were baited. The sign looks promising as most sets have multiple coons going right where are traps are now set.

We hope to get line #2 going by the end of Saturday. It will have almost the same amount of sets, but more body grip sets, done blind style. We shall see.

Both lines we have done much preperation before season. We scouted, punched in slide wires and drowners, punched in stakes for all coni's and stationary traps. We then only a few days before season went in and put in every set all but the last bit of blocking needed. After today, I'm very glad as it allowed us to finish setting that line in only 4 hrs today. would have taken WAY longer if we had waited.

I'll post pics of daily catches, and sets will be posted periodically. We will also try and throw in several trapped on site coon pics. We shall see what the morning brings.

[sneakysnake]

Good Luck Catmando and Cat Jr

[fuzz269]

I can hardly wait for pix, good luck Catman,,,,,,,,,,,,as if you nead it lol

[white316]

Good luck.

[wolf1199]

best of luck and looking forward to your pics

[nightrider]

Good luck guys.

[mohawk]

Well how'd ya do?

[catmando1]

Okay, we ended up with 12 coons on our first check. 2 were over 20 lbs, most hovered right under. A couple were not too big, but still made x-large on a board. All were caught in blind foot hold sets but 1, a nice sow on a pvc set with my homemade beaver meat bait! ;D

Hope to get the other half of our traps out this weekend, and it should prove to be, very interesting

Russ, my son, and I went over some finer points of photography, so next shots should be better.

SO..... our first of the season was also our smallest. (x-large)



Our daily take



We put up 6 tonight and they were all nice and prime........bring on some more!!!!

[Cam]

Not bad for a green horn now i got a favor to ask.

[wolf1199]

Nov 18, 2010 21:34:11 GMT -5 catmando1 said:

Okay, we ended up with 12 coons on our first check. 2 were over 20 lbs, most hovered right under. A couple were not too big, but still made x-large on a board. All were caught in blind foot hold sets but 1, a nice sow on a pvc set with my homemade beaver meat bait! ;D

Hope to get the other half of our traps out this weekend, and it should prove to be, very interesting

Russ, my son, and I went over some finer points of photography, so next shots should be better.

Well your off to a very good start, congratulations . Do you check those sets every day or skip a few. We have no coon here so this is all new to me.

SO..... our first of the season was also our smallest. (x-large)



Our daily take



We put up 6 tonight and they were all nice and prime........bring on some more!!!!

[catmando1]

ask away cam!



wolf1199- yeah, we have a 24hr mandatory check here.

[catmando1]

Can do! We'll get pic's from the next take, hopefully thats tomorrow!

[judd]

Good show guys.

[fuzz269]

Congratsssssssss, nice work them are all nice lookin coons.

[sneakysnake]

Very well done boys, Good Job, Now go get some more!!!!