I usually put an 8oz styrofoam cup over mine for eye appeal and it keeps the rain out. If I have a mouse stealing my bait I will put a golfball on top and the mice cant get in.

Good idea w/ the golfball. Tried the styrofoam cup once and ended up having to clean up a mess. Grant Woods spray paints his trap and tin cans white for eye appeal like you are talking about.

Yaz.....your just too good at trapping and trapped your way out of business.... h.h.

I think I found a couple yaps to work on. I had forgot about a trail camera since before Christmas. I thought it had dead batteries, and I turned it off. I pulled it tonight, and apparently not! Had a couple thousand pics! There was been a pair crossing the lane where I have seen them all summer. They have been through there about 4 times a week. No snaring there, as the fence is down. Gonna have to make a couple sets there. If that don't work, gonna have to have Tristan come down and show me how to catch coons!

Now the pressures on.

I'm gonna catch his arse RIGHT where he is standing in that picture!!! HH, it would not hurt my feelings if there wasn't ANY around to catch. As of right now, we have not had one single problem with them in the calves. The barn lot where I caught the majority of them last year has produced 0. Not even a track in there.

Hope you can connect on those yaps so you don't have to resort to chasin coons. Tristan said his fees aren't cheap... :p

He nabbed these yesterday. Screwed up and didn't take live pics of them. The one coon had yanked out the 2' rebar stake and made it about 30 yds before getting hung on a limb and was stuck. And boy was he ticked off. Soooo, with all the excitement it slipped my mind about getting pics.

Good pick of Tristan and the catch!

Way to go Tristan! h.h.

Coons can be some real mean critters....

Snared another Male coyote today but did not take my camera or phone with me. The wife wanted to go to town so I had to hurry up and run my line. Isn't it funny everytime the wife wants to do something we end up dragging something home. Needless to say she was not too happy she had to wait on me to skin the thing out. I was in the "Yote house" for a few hours until she cooled off. You think after 17 years she would realize she comes after hunting and trapping.

Congrats! But, you must remember, we are your "extended" family and we need pictures! Buy her flowers, post us pictures!

Ahhhhhh..COME ON PARKER!!!! WE NEED PICS!!!! I forgot what one looks like!!! :rolleyes:

Put a couple more sets in the ground, and put up 4 snares. Still not much sign. My friend and neighbor went with me today to learn the snaring ropes. We called the neighbor that farms east and south of us, and we are going over there to make some sets tomorrow. He said he has been hearing them south of his his house, which is about a mile as the crow flies from our farm. WIth everything else I have going on right now, I can't handle all that, so my buddy is going to run and take care of those. So I "recruited" some help, and expanding the line!

ALSO, made a couple coons sets.........just to show that young punk Tristan that this old man CAN catch a coon!!!!! :p

Nice........lol...........congrats on another one!

are the dp traps worth it for coons? that easier to set looking into them for next season. gonna get serious about trapping any info helps, thanks.

The dp's are worth it. You can pre-bait and set them at home and then stick a 1 inch dowel rod in them. You can just take the dowel rod out and set the trigger slam in an earth anchor and go to the next. I have 2 dozen duke dp's but I think the new Z-traps may be better. The trigger on them are push or pull where as a duke is only a pull trigger. Dp's are alot quicker.

I took her out to eat and let her shop some. I am out of the yote house until next time. I will make sure to take pics next time for you guys.

All three of my coon sets that I made yesterday had one in it today. I set a DP, and a bucket set 6' apart, and had both of them there. I made a pocket set under the bridge, (hoping for a mink) and had another toon there. Still nothing in the yote sets.
Little Frisky's tuna and salmon was the bait in all three. Left the shiny foil containers right with the traps for eye appeal. They seem to like it!

Nice going. So, does anyone eat these coons? I remember a guy I worked with many years ago in Lafayette making "hamburgers" out of coons. I think he did mix it with regular burger.

i have eaten them twice in my life. Don't think I will be eating any more. I do have an older guy that I work with that I have to give 3 or 4 a year to. His Mother fixes them once a year over the Holidays.

Down in Florida... Folks around Orlando would drive two hours north to get coons that people trap up there... Funny thing is is that anyone who trapped one would have to leave the feet on it or they wouldn't accept it.... Apparently, people were trying to pass cats off as coons....LOL

Jr. said to tell the OLD MAN he's falling behind... :p

3 more coons for him over the weekend along with 2 possums and a mouse. Had something stealing the mallows out of the one trap, so he set it so it would fire with the slightest movement. Had Mr.Mouse waiting for him yesterday... LOL

Traditionalarcher17, the DPs are for sure worth it!!!

Tell Jr. 11 more days left in the season.....he better bring his "A" game if he thinks he's gonna beat me!!!!! :p

BTW- Ask him if I can borrow his metal detector to find that #3 I set and can't find now!!!! :rolleyes:

Congrats Tristan! Ya might beef up that chain for the mouse sets next time...

def convinced me to get some dps. my only problem is my trapping/hunting land is 2 hrs from my door so i get down after work to set traps late thursday nights bout 7 pm and have to head home saturday bout noon so i dont have much time for them to sit. this year im at 3 coons, 1 opposum, 1 coyote and 5 beaver

Trad,

You won't have a hard time at all finding a farmer let you trap coons!!! They do Waaaaaay more corn damage than the deer ever thought about doing.

Yes I know, that's on my spring agenda got a few places on mind on my way to my sons school and we could check em after I pick him up on the way home

TA...you still around Camby??

I caught a few coon this year in Duke Dps. Below is a pic from last year. I made a rookie mistake and didn't anchor the DP properly and he made off with my trap. Well, 4 days later about 300 yds north, I caught him again in another one of my DPs.

Well Haymaker......you just went and spoiled the whole idea of catching those "crafty, and intelligent" raccoons!!!!!! That one obviously wasn't very bright!!!!

Yaz I live south now greenwood/whiteland area now.

Haymaker I had the same thing happen with a beaver this year. He broke off with a leg trap I was sick to my stomach cause i just knew he had that trap on his foot and was caught somewhere and died and gone to waste but the next week I caught him by his front foot in another trap same slide, with my mb750 on his back foot.

Haymaker, that coon was worth some money after the first escape!

Yaz: Them bandits can be pretty slick. I've had large marshmellows removed from under the trigger without tripping the trap.

TA: I was sick too when I lost him due to my bonehead mistake. Glad to hear you got him and your MB750 back. They don't give those traps away.

Delaney: your right, his value more than doubled on the second catch.

That's crazy that you caught that coon again Haymaker. Good thing you did... LOL... Tristan had one pull a 2' rebar stake, but he got the trap caught on a big limb and only made it about 30 yards thankfully.

He had this one waiting on him yesterday. Biggest coon so far for him. Old warrior boar with broke off canines.

Yaz, Jr wanted me to let you know this makes #7..... :p

Good picture. The fawns and ground nesting birds surely appreciate your guys efforts. We are going to have to tally the numbers after season is over for all HH fur chasers.

You are correct!!! Lots of quail and turkeys lost to nest raiders! Same goes for the corn!!!!

Wtlhaven, Tell him I'm just letting him get a good head start!!!!!

Do you still have to boil or wax the dp traps? Has anyone tried that full metal jacket dip yet, if so any opinions??

No - do not have to dip. Coons don't care. I have seen guys actually paint them white for eye appeal. Does not get much simplier than a DP.