Trapping Season 2025-2026

[jagermeister]

Trapping season kicks off on Monday, November 10th. Who else is getting ready? I took some time the past few days in between deer hunts to prepare traps. I mainly target marsh critters… muskrat, beaver, otter, and sometimes mink. My go-to traps for the muskrats are #1.5 coil springs (preferably Bridger, but I also have Dukes), rigged up with Hagz brackets on fiberglass rods. I also really like #155 Bridger conibears for rats… They just seem to fill the runs at bit better than #110’s on these big Lake Erie rats. Trying speed dip for the first time this year. So far, I really like the convenience of it!

Anyone else getting ready?

 

[bowhunter1023]

I'm looking forward to knocking down the ring tails, and have two weeks off at the end of the year, and will set some traps for yotes. I enjoy trapping, just need to make more time for it. Good luck, JB!

 

[GoetzTalon]

Doing some snaring this year. Haven’t set steel in a few years. Speed dip has to be pretty good compared to messing with black walnuts. Tight chains!

 

[jagermeister]

I'm looking forward to knocking down the ring tails, and have two weeks off at the end of the year, and will set some traps for yotes. I enjoy trapping, just need to make more time for it. Good luck, JB!

Good stuff man. I guess I had muskrats on my mind and I wasn’t even thinking of raccoons! I do like trapping them too… just wish they were worth more than zero dollars.

 

[jagermeister]

Doing some snaring this year. Haven’t set steel in a few years. Speed dip has to be pretty good compared to messing with black walnuts. Tight chains!

Last season I used the traditional logwood dye and then dipped my coil spring traps in wax. It worked well, but was a LOT more work than this speed dip. Fingers crossed that it works just as good.

 

[bowhunter1023]

Good stuff man. I guess I had muskrats on my mind and I wasn’t even thinking of raccoons! I do like trapping them too… just wish they were worth more than zero dollars.

Turkey egg stealing sum bitches get dumped over the hill in the same spot as the yotes. I'm not skinning any of them out, just out there to protect the animals I care about.

 

[Wiley E Coyote]

Coons for sure, yotes depending on my work schedule in January. On the speed dip just make sure to clean your dog notches and where you latch or you will get misfires in the water with the body traps.

 

[jagermeister]

Turkey egg stealing sum bitches get dumped over the hill in the same spot as the yotes. I'm not skinning any of them out, just out there to protect the animals I care about.

Glad I’m not the only one. Up here they make excellent eagle food. Toss em in an open field and the eagles clean em up before the buzzards even find them sometimes.

 

[whitetailjunky3]

I’m definitely going to target the local raccoon population around me. They are getting out of control kinda like the squirrels I’ve been working on. Plus my daughter loves all things trapping.

 

[giles]

This just might be the motivation I need to do more.

 

[jagermeister]

This just might be the motivation I need to do more.

Do it! Your kids would have a ball helping you too!

 

[md1]

another thing I enjoyed doing that I may never do again just because of importance with the time we are given. There are not enough hours in our lifetimes to pursue all the cool stuff humans can do. I wish time could just stop for years so we could all enjoy everything or just simply catch up with life. There's not enough time to enjoy life's awesomeness........I have an aunt that is a fashion designer/clothing maker that ive talked with in making me a waist strap muskrat hand warming muff, or a coat made of some type of fur. I still hope to do this someday, but I doubt ill ever achieve it....

 

[GoetzTalon]

It was always a blast waking up and going to check them! The high dollar fur this year is for skunks.

 

[md1]

I spent many hours from 14-25 years of age in different fur sheds sitting by blazing wood stoves laughing my ass off with friends. Many people around here would just go hang out in these spots that have zero interest in trapping but loved the free entertainment. It's a shame fake fur and I believe tariffs against Russia? in the Clinton years ended good fur prices, (I think if I remember right). Im just glad to see some people still interested, most of the old trappers from my youth are dead or to old move much anymore.

 

[GoetzTalon]

For sure! Fur auction back in the day was like a mini rendezvous lol. Still some old timers out this way. They don’t care about the money they just do it because they love it.