Trapping Thread 2025/2026

[Addicting]

Raccoons: 78
Possums: 31
Coyote: 1
Fox: 1
Skunk: 3

Overall: 113

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Glad to see it dried out a bit.

 

[Mallardsx2]

yea, I feel you dog. Mine are gone on loan. Not that i"d have them out myself, but I have a hard time recovering them after awhile. They kind of feel entitled to ownership.

I hear ya. I loaned a couple to my dad and then he loaned them to his buddy. Poof. Gone.

 

[shoots-straight]

I hear ya. I loaned a couple to my dad and then he loaned them to his buddy. Poof. Gone.

The bright side, now you need new ones!

 

[MTTW]

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Idaho Trapper Association fur sale this weekend. Top Bobcat sold for $3,016.23! I’ve never heard of a cat price near that level.

Cats were real high back in 2013. I was lucky enough to have one in the top lot at NAFA.

 

[shoots-straight]

Cats were real high back in 2013. I was lucky enough to have one in the top lot at NAFA.
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You got a nice hat too!

 

[Mallardsx2]

Questions for all of you dirt hole predator trappers.

How long do you leave your sets go without re-baiting or putting new lure?
I seem to have the most luck with my diurt hole sets 1-2 days after adding fresh lure or bait.
I also don't like to mess around the set anymore than necessary. I do have a problem with using wax paper after a rain it appears to be settling into the trap and then hardening and that is causing me some issues. Not so many problems regarding freezing up here I live.

Just curious how often you guys fix your sets.

3-5 days?
After every rain?
Once a week?

 

[Valley1320]

 

[Valley1320]

Questions for all of you dirt hole predator trappers.

How long do you leave your sets go without re-baiting or putting new lure?
I seem to have the most luck with my diurt hole sets 1-2 days after adding fresh lure or bait.
I also don't like to mess around the set anymore than necessary. I do have a problem with using wax paper after a rain it appears to be settling into the trap and then hardening and that is causing me some issues. Not so many problems regarding freezing up here I live.

Just curious how often you guys fix your sets.

3-5 days?
After every rain?
Once a week?

I do once a week on reluring but I dont go light on lure since we are low humidity here

 

[brymoore]

Cats were real high back in 2013. I was lucky enough to have one in the top lot at NAFA.
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Very nice!

My fur selling locations was a circle. NAFA before they went bankrupt (got very low settlement prices on a few items at the final reduction sale), Nevada and Idaho local sales. In the end, local fur buyer was my easiest and best prices.

I didn’t trap this year and wish I had. Marten are high and cats haven’t lost value (I think). Warm winter would have made trap check very often.

 

[Elktrack]

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Feet on fox only a couple bucks more ain’t worth it for me. I’d need more than a couple bucks to make it worth the effort.

 

[Valley1320]

Feet on fox only a couple bucks more ain’t worth it for me. I’d need more than a couple bucks to make it worth the effort.

Ya forsure

 

[Lostinthewoods]

Questions for all of you dirt hole predator trappers.

How long do you leave your sets go without re-baiting or putting new lure?
I seem to have the most luck with my diurt hole sets 1-2 days after adding fresh lure or bait.
I also don't like to mess around the set anymore than necessary. I do have a problem with using wax paper after a rain it appears to be settling into the trap and then hardening and that is causing me some issues. Not so many problems regarding freezing up here I live.

Just curious how often you guys fix your sets.

3-5 days?
After every rain?
Once a week?

After every solid rain & every week. Out doing it right now because mud made me miss a catch last night

 

[brymoore]

Idaho Trapper Association fur sale.

560 Marten averaged $115.
1225 Western Bobcat averaged $1,007.

Great prices.

 

[Elktrack]

Nice to see Marten back up.

 

[Sask hunter]

If anyone has fur in FHA auction grades are up now

 

[Mallardsx2]

2026 Total:
Trash Panda-8
Georgia Silver Fox - 9
Skunks - 3
Coyotes-5
Bobcats-4

 

[CUElk]

Pork anyone?

 

[NoWiser]

Finished up a pair of beaver mitts for my son’s kindergarten teacher yesterday.

Good day today to start on my otter blanket, with the blizzard outside.

 

[sigpros]

Cats were real high back in 2013. I was lucky enough to have one in the top lot at NAFA.
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That was always a bucket list thing for me. I wanted to learn how to put up fur and get a top lot award. Work and kids I never got it done. Going to try putting up my own fur next year for the first time

 

[NoWiser]

That was always a bucket list thing for me. I wanted to learn how to put up fur and get a top lot award. Work and kids I never got it done. Going to try putting up my own fur next year for the first time

I agree. I can do what’s needed to get my furs tanned and get them back to me in beautiful shape for displaying or sewing but, as a perfectionist, it kills me to see how nice some can put up fur. Someday I’ll have time to devote to it.