Trapping Thread 2025/2026

[Jbotto]

Finally on the board for the weekend. I decided to set some traps for this long weekend so I got 15 out Friday afternoon. The weather has been unseasonably warm lately and I wish I had traps last weekend already. The weather is cooling again now that I have traps out and I’m struggling with ice in the creek now. Go figure. Most of what i have out are blind sets in the creek with a few DP’s and 220’s where I thought it made sense. Yesterday’s check yielded nothing. Today was a single young raccoon in a 1.5 coilspring in a blind set.

 

[sigpros]

Just curious, what didn’t you like about about them? I don’t use conibears enough to discern much difference between the couple different brands I’ve tried.

I had a hard time keeping the sprigs in the right spots and the triggers were terrible. Now this was about 15 years ago they might be better now. And I have read where the triggers switched to 220 triggers work much better. But after handling Belisle 330's I just like their traps. Duke was talking about a 120 super mag and I thought about trying a few of those. Honestly I am not a big body grip guy either but it would allow me to keep some sets going during the week when I work. We have a 24 hour check here but I just don't like checking foothold traps in the afternoon that is just me