Day on the trapline

[froese11 1]

Hey everybody I recently had a chance to go out for a day on a friends trapline. I thought as he uses similar traps to you guys in the UK it would be interesting to see his North American sets. He checks his line once every 5 or 6 days, as all his traps are instant kill and the animal freezes preserving both meat and hide. He exclusively uses body grips for the animals he traps, beaver, otter, pine martin, fisher. As you can see from the pictures either a wooden box or steel can is attached to a tree with a bodygrip trap at the mouth of the box and beaver meat at the far end. These sets are for martin and fisher. The beaver sets are all under ice. Near the underwater entrance to the beaver hut there is a trench that the beaver swims along and can be felt for as a rut in the mud. Here a large (330 i believe) body grip is suspended and the when the beaver swims along the trench the trap springs around it. We trapped 2 fishers, 4 martins and a beaver on that outing. Hope you enjoy.

James

 

This is a fisher. Once the trap snaps the animal is suspended dead from the tree to dissuade birds from eating it.

This one is a pine martin.

Here the trap is being lowered into the water.

[salclalin 240]

Excellent Pics Mate,Some nice Catches too.

[John Keswick 119]

It would be interesting to see more topics like this from other areas of the world!

 

Always interesting to see how others go about things

[Coneytrappr 30]

Is the trap in the first pic a Belisle?

Fantastic pics.

[IanB 0]

Yes its nice to see the american and canadian trappers posting on the board.. Lets face it if we had the trap availability, game and land mass they have we'd be grinning from ear to ear

+1 On the rep Froese for the post

[whin 463]

good trapping in the gila mountains ,been out with afew guys who have a furrier bizness and guys who trap for them we caught bobcat silver, red fox ,coyote ,ermine, mink , if the hunting laws piss me off thsat much here i could trap andc ourse over there for 2 months ayear when the fur is prime ,i mafde aguy atrapper ahand made skinning knife and he was ever grateful , so took me out and showed me his ways , simliar ways but he has more freedom to catch fur bearing animals ,got lots of pics one day ille post them

[120-2 8]

That martin has an amazing thick winter coat, but I have noticed even here in the UK with all the cold weather some of the pelts from trapped foxes and mink have been thicker. Except the hairless mange town foxes.

[Holdaway 2]

Snareman told me that when he trapped mink here (Scotland) and sold the fur, the buyers said it was the best quaility fur and among the best presented fur they had seen, and knew that Glenn had trapped in Canada by the way he presented the fur. You would think that the fur would be thicker and healthier in the colder regions but to have high quality fur in Britain compaired to the likes of Canada and Sweden is just amazing.

 

Excellent pics you put up there of the trapline, hope to see more of them.

 

H

[The one 8,542]

Nice seeing somthing differnt mate

[froese11 1]

Is the trap in the first pic a Belisle?

Fantastic pics.

 

I believe it is an older conibear but I am not sure.