Fisher season closed for us Dec. 31st so we pulled our winter line for now. Even though we had tracks we did not catch any fisher but we did catch 5 large and very prime coon. All were caught in square white buckets set with Belisle 160 traps and baited with our Muir Creek Greg’s Great Coon Bait with a little of Porter’s Grandma Porter’s Pie Lure. Don’t you just love the names of some lures? It shows the creative side of trappers!  Anyway, Grandma Porter’s Pie is a sweet lure that should be appealing to fisher and coon. We also smeared some Porter’s All Season Call above the set to provide a good skunk smell. We had some of the 160′s rigged with Rod Scott’s Wood Conipans and some with the stock wire triggers. Both worked but there were a few misses with the conipans-I suspect small critters can set these off. Not a problem if that critter is the likes of a mink . The coon trails were deep and wide in the deep snow but the trail sets did not produce. The coon were not rubbed and the pelts look good.

    We didn’t catch any mink in the water sets even though the sets looked attractive. The Pocket Poppers hold the 110 bodygrips in place without freezing down. I can see where the double spring of the 120 bodygrips would hold the trap in place in the Popper but the 110′splace well also. We are adding the Pocket Poppers to our website-please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about them. Pocket Poppers will be $3.60 each or $36/dozen.

     The heavy snow cover has increased the interest in cable restraints for coyote catching. We don’t have those on the website yet but we do have some WI legal cable restraints in the showroom. Let us know at 608-797-0550 if you are interested.

      Please feel free to leave a comment about how your winter lines are doing.

     Happy Trapping !

Tom Roskos