Ask a trapper about B&B methods and you’ll get some strange stares — and rightly so. The phrase means overnight accommodations with breakfast. But in my trapper dictionary it means Blind & Baitless, and while certainly not serving breakfast, there’s

The big male coyote approached the windmill and its overflow puddle as he’d done a hundred times. The thick South Texas brush prevented him from seeing more than 50 yards, but he used his nose to discover new odors. And a new odor was found — a small

My friend was bummed. For the first couple years he owned his hunting grounds, a lush alfalfa field was a magnet for turkeys and deer. Then, time and conditions took their toll. When it came time to replant, the renting farmer switched up to grains.

Knowing the behavior of the coyote during different times of the year can help the coyote trapper understand him better. I know it has helped me in a lot of situations. I have gained a lot of respect for the coyote through the years. Their life cycle

Mink do a lot of damage. Whether it is destroying fish populations in farm ponds and hatcheries, raiding chicken coops for an easy meal, even lakes, rivers and gardens are not safe from mink. There are several repellents that are available on the mar

Over the seasons I’ve acquired a number of farm ponds on a number of properties where muskrats, tunneling into the embankments, were a nuisance. A lot of these ponds were grazed by cattle, and between the muskrats tunneling and the cattle stomping, i

The value of cubby trapping has been well documented in trapline literature. Any trapper targeting raccoons, skunks, martens, fishers, mink, weasels and similar small, curious, easily fooled furbearers will quickly find that cubby sets are among the

When the American Trappers Association dissolved in 1936, its founder E.J. Dailey helped members from the Keystone State form the Pennsylvania Trappers Association (PTA). A small group held its first meeting at a one-room schoolhouse in Centre Hall,

Looking back on my trapping career, I don’t think I was ever more enthusiastic than when I was 10 years old and just getting started. It was an adventure. I didn’t have any equipment except a handful of No. 1 longspring traps, and some wooden stakes

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I’m standing knee deep in the water staring at a pile of concrete rubble that had been dumped against the bank in the summer to prevent erosion. That was a good use for the rubble. But not good for me. Usually I would dig a pocket in that bank to mak

Trapping is one of the oldest professions known to humankind, but is it becoming a thing of the past? Low fur prices, high expenses and few buyers make it hard to justify trapping for any kind of income. The fur boom of the late '70s and early '80s i

Without a doubt, there’s nothing with quite the same excitement level as checking traps for the first time each season. I’ve long believed that if one could somehow capture, bottle and sell it, that right there would be the most popular drug ever! Wi

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Everywhere you look there seems to be geese. They are common in parks, golf courses, backyards, the drainage ponds at Walmart, and even in large cities. If there is a water source nearby, you’re likely to have encounters with these large waterfowl. I

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Back in the day, I ran my traps on foot. Granted, that’s a slow way to run traps. But I tried to make it as efficient as possible. I mostly trapped along the banks of the local creeks. There I could target water animals at the shoreline, then set can

In the history of trapping there’s never been a more time-honored standard than the tradition of dyeing traps. When I began trapping back in the 1950s the old-timers insisted that all traps should be dyed annually, giving all of the common-sense reas

By now, seasoned trappers and new steel setters alike ought to be familiar with trapping best management practices (BMPs). Initiated in the early 1990s in response to Europe’s ban on importing North American fur, the BMP program was created out of an