Coyotes are one of the most adaptable species in North America, and their diet and food habits can vary drastically throughout the year. If you're interested in finding a good bait to attract coyotes to your traps, it's important to consider naturally available foods in your area as well as foreign types of food that coyotes are attracted to. Natural Foods The coyote is … [Read more...]
Best Coyote Trapping Lure
Having the right lure to attract a coyote to your trap set can be one of the most important aspects of making the catch. While there is not 'magic' lure, some formulas certainly work better than others. Let's go over some basics on the different types of coyote lures, and then I'll give some recommendations you can try out. Types of Coyote Lures There are three basic … [Read more...]
Habitat Matters When You’re Marten Trapping
Habitat drives populations. One of the first things you learn as a fur trapper is to spend time in the habitat that best supports the species you’re pursuing. Abundant water and young aspen draw in beaver. Cattail marshes are muskrat magnets. Coyotes like open spaces and the forest/field edges. Marten need mature forests. As a marten trapper I learned early on to look for … [Read more...]
Two Weasel-like Creatures Vying for Forest Turf in the Northeast — Furbearer Conservation
Jeff Traynor over at Furbearer Conservation put together an excellent piece on marten and fisher, their distributions and interactions with each other and the landscape, and how this relates to us as trappers. As a marten/fisher trapper myself, I'm always fascinated by where I see these guys out in the woods, and my observations here in northern Maine are fairly spot on with … [Read more...]
Beaver Trapping Rules Tweaked for Jackson Hole WY Streams (jhnewsandguide.com)
Source: Beaver trapping rules tweaked for Jackson Hole streams | Local | jhnewsandguide.com … [Read more...]
Walter Arnold on Otter Trapping
The otter is a fascinating furbearer. Both playful and fierce, this water-dwelling, fish-eating mustelid makes long circuits through its home range, typically over the course of several weeks. Its long range movements combined with varying habits can turn otter trapping into a game of low percentages. But with enough practice, the patient and intuitive trapper can master otter … [Read more...]
U.S. Moves to Lift Remaining Gray Wolf Protections
Source: U.S. moves to lift remaining gray wolf protections | Peninsula Daily News … [Read more...]
Under Ice Beaver Trapping – Jeremiah Wood
This article was previously published in the Northwoods Sporting Journal Maine winters are long and cold, so naturally you’d expect ice fishing to be a popular way for outdoorsmen to pass the long dark days until spring. That’s what I did when I moved back to Maine. Every year I put out at least one fishing cabin on proven smelt water, and spent a lot of hours sitting in the … [Read more...]