Sometimes there won’t be any obvious eye appeal at a set location. This is especially true in flat, open farmland or prairie, but it can also happen along streams, farm roads and other places where furbearers travel where there’s nothing … [Read More]
Mink Trapping
Canadian Municipality Aiming to Turn Mink Manure into Electricity
A Nova Scotia, Canada, municipality is moving closer to making electricity from mink manure. The Nova Scotia Department of Energy recently approved the renewable energy project for the District of Digby, which is located on the western shore of Nova … [Read More]
Fur Handling 101: Skinning Your Catch
By Jim Spencer Well-prepared, properly stretched and dried fur pelts are usually worth more than green fur, but a poorly handled pelt is worth far less because there aren’t any do-overs. Here’s a step-by-step guide for getting it right.
How to Modify and Adjust Your Traps
Trap Modification and Adjustment (An excerpt from T&PC Executive Editor Jim Spencer’s “Guide to Trapping”) Some trap manufacturers have made the advertising claim that their traps were ready for the trapline “right out of the box.” Don’t believe it. Every … [Read More]
Lone Mink Decimates Colorado Chicken Flock
It took 25 dead chickens for a family of Berthoud, Colorado, farmers to realize it had a mink problem. The attacks occurred just in time for Christmas. From the Berthoud Recorder: Over the course of two nights 25 of Busch’s … [Read More]
Gang Setting vs. Blitz Trapping
Here’s the buzz on two multiple-set techniques that help savvy trappers take more fur. [Read More]
The Accidental Long Liner – Part I
Those that catch the full-time trapping bug are anything but “normal.” [Read More]
Do You Need It?
Tools can come in handy, but extra gadgets can weigh a trapper down. [Read More]
Eye Appeal: The Ultimate Universal Lure
The features that catch your attention are likely also what furbearers are looking at. [Read More]
Castor: A Universal Attractor
Lure maker Mike Marsyada explains how to collect and use beaver glands. [Read More]
