Good luck Zach and yes that ground has been like concrete as I broke my stake driver the other day but got it fixed so good to go again.Keep after those yotes it can only help.I am going after them till the end of the month.
Kaiser's trapping endeavors 2013/14
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Had one trap stollen and another.fucked with. The one that was fucked with must gave caught someones dog or something. There were dog tracks in the ice, which would.have.been slush before dark yesterday. There were also boot tracks. Someone wrote in the snow "flag?" "Name tag?"..... there are name tags on all my traps. He just didn't look hard.enough. apparently the person thinks you need to flag all your sets.
But the trap that was stolen was stolen by the same person. Their 4 wheeler tracks went rt.to it... there was no sign of a struggle, the grass backing was still in place.....but all the J hooks were bent out and the trap was gone.. but the chain and.shockspring were all still laying there.... but they were all seperated at the j hooks laying on the ground
But the trap that was stolen was stolen by the same person. Their 4 wheeler tracks went rt.to it... there was no sign of a struggle, the grass backing was still in place.....but all the J hooks were bent out and the trap was gone.. but the chain and.shockspring were all still laying there.... but they were all seperated at the j hooks laying on the ground
Ricer2231
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Good luck catching the thieving bastard. Nothing pisses me off worse than a thief. Catching his dog or not catching his dog it's still stealing.
Upon further investigation, whoever stole.my.trap was not the one who messed with my other trap. The trap that was messed with but.not stolen had caught a beagle I believe. I followed the foot prints for quite a ways....they had small dog tracks along with them the whole way. The tracks did not go to the stolen trap. Although.....the quad tracks were at both traps. I figure also, whoever stole the one trap would have stolen the other. So why would they have stolen one and left the other? So I put.cams up on the site of the tampered.trap, I took the trap out though. Then I put a cam down the road from the stolen trap.... I honestly hope I don't find out.who did it.....because I can't be going to jail....
Happened to us once and we followed the foot tracks right to the dickheads back door. Caught his dog so he took the traps so we called the cops and got them back. Hope you catch the prick!!!!
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yotehunter
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Big_Holla
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Hope you catch them! And if you don't beat them too badly hopefully the ODNR can stick it to them if you prosecute!
Ricer2231
Senior Member
Sounds like a lot of work but you know as well as I do, if ya don't have confidence in your sets you don't even feel like checking them and your gonna pull them anyway. So might as well pull them sooner as later and get them reset. Confidence is a huge part of trapping and if ya don't feel like you're doing everything you possibly can to get that critter in your trap then you're not gonna be satisfied. I dicked around with traps for a week and a half and didn't feel like I could catch a cold with them and I didn't. I pulled them and reset them and started catching again. Just my .02. Good luck.
Sounds like a couple days of bad weather coming Zach so I would pull them and do a reset after the storm and you might get some good results.Good Luck
The only problem is that I probably won't.be able to.trap this property the rest of the year. I was only able to trap it again because the doctor said I wasn't allowed to go to work because of that nonsense with my heart. Its either take them out tomorrow or Friday. I just hate to take them out early. Damnit anyway
Big_Holla
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Aah I'd just leave them in until Friday then. This new snow should cover up all the extra activity too.
