Mink Trapping

No. 1 trap, baited with either fish or muskrat. Such a set should be on the bank of a lake or river, as a hungry mink going along the shore is always runn

ring September and October looking up new grounds for hunting and trapping and finding signs and trails of coon,

ng and by watching their moves in your neighborhood. I have made mink trapping a specialty and for twenty-five years I have been successful in trapping him, and it did not

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le trap, which in my estimation is a Newhouse No. 1 and No. 2. I use these traps for every purpose from a weasel to a large coon. The third one I never vary from, and that is

ood and field for skunk. I have gone the rounds to my skunk traps and found a fine big coon or weasel instead of a skunk, or to my rat t

u know where their trails are. From October until trapping time look for their signs and tracks along water edge, in woods, in old roads, cow paths in woods, pastu

g the place with as little change as possible, and finish the job by brushing away your tracks i

here are many reasons for this disappearance, the destruction of their dens or trees in which they live. No true tra

al habits a very close study, and love to be among them in their wild homes and lo

d to follow him. Inside of a hundred yards I found another hole where he came out dragging something. I still followed. Another fifty ya

and tied with a piece of copper wire. I greased them up with sewing machine oil and started

the traps one in each hole, and took an oak leaf and smeared blood on and laid it on the pan of each trap, and then laid the muskrat in the center of the two so he would have to c

e on each foot. He was the largest mink I got that winter. He was brown

snow. I then take cat tails that grow in the marshes and spread some on trap bed; I then place my trap and next some more cat tails spread on top of trap, and last some snow which I spread over it all with a twig carefully so it will be ni

space behind the trap in which I placed a piece of rabbit. The next morning I should have had a mink but instead of that the mink had that piece of rabbit, and a larger hole alongside the log showed that i

e days more and something had happened. The trap laid sprung in the place I had set it and in it was the tip of a squirrel's tail, and the squi

end of the log, coming in behind the trap after the bait, all the way traveling under the snow. I have never gotten that mi