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How Animals are Detecting Your Sets: Part 2 with Kirk DeKalb
In this episode we hear from Georgia trapper Kirk DeKalb on his discovery of the impact positive and negative ions and the Earth's magnetic field may be having on the way animals react to specific sets. Enjoy! Support our Sponsors:Kaatz Bros. LuresOnXMapsMoyle Mink & Tannery Check out Kirk's book here. Browse the Trapping Today Store. Kaatz Bros. are now … [Read more...]
Sticks on the Trapline – Episode 182
Guide, bait, bump, dive and tangle. The trapline requires all kinds of sticks. In this episode I discuss the various use of sticks in trapping, and my experience with each. Enjoy! Support our Sponsors:Kaatz Bros. LuresOnXMaps (use code 'TRAP' for 20% off)Moyle Mink & Tannery Check out the new TS-85 setters and sign up for the newsletter at Kaatzbros.com! … [Read more...]
Trapping Connecticut and Maine with Bruce Fournier – Podcast Ep 181
In this week's episode, Bruce Fournier joins me in the fur shed to talk about his background trapping in Connecticut, and his recent beaver trapping in northern Maine. Enjoy! Support our Sponsors:Kaatz Bros. LuresOnXMaps (use code 'TRAP' for 20% off)Moyle Mink & Tannery Check out the new setters for the TS-85 beaver trap! … [Read more...]
Spring Beaver, Fur, and the Irbis, with Billy Thompson
Billy Thompson and I talk spring beaver trapping, marketing fur, the Irbis snowmobile and more on this week's episode. Enjoy! Support our Sponsors:Kaatz Bros. LuresOnXMaps (use code 'TRAP' for 20% off)Moyle Mink & Tannery Kaatz Bros. have come out with a pair of custom made setters for the TS-85 trap! Check em out here. Visit the Trapping Today Store for your TT … [Read more...]
Spring Beaver with Billy Thompson
In this episode, Billy Thompson and I talk spring beaver trapping in northern Maine. Enjoy! Support our Sponsors:Kaatz Bros. LuresOnXMaps (use code 'TRAP' for 20% off)Moyle Mink & Tannery Check out the new TS-85 trap setters from Kaatz Bros! … [Read more...]
2021 Fur Price Update: April FHA Auction Results
The market for wild fur continues its slow climb out of a multi-year trough. Powered by the low supply of ranch mink, the weakening of the U.S. Dollar, and increasing demand as countries begin to reopen post-COVID, prices ticked up nicely for some species in Fur Harvesters Auction's April 2021 online sale. For others, it was more of the same. Here are some highlights: After … [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...]