Thread: Trapping time

Had one that climbed a feeder and would hang there scattering feed for his buddies below. Getting physical is the only way to prevent them, but can you get all of them ? I know cats learn about traps.

We have so few red fox anymore that I give them a pass. Coons are just destructive troublemakers though. Might be a good idea to spray paint their tails so you can identify them if they do make that walk back to your place!

Originally Posted by Micanopy

Had one that climbed a feeder and would hang there scattering feed for his buddies below. Getting physical is the only way to prevent them, but can you get all of them ? I know cats learn about traps.

they are little humans , their hands are amazing , have fought them off in lots of spots in the past .
they do learn fast , we used to buckshot em at night around the fish feeder with a spotlight .
them things learned how to "try" to avoid me pretty quickly, had to get sneaky and more sneaky to ketch them every visit .
but as long as you change your approach and methods of attack frequently , you can deplete the numbers to about none with a full fledge no holds barred ,anything goes type of pursuit .
buckshot at night seemed to be the best method to really reduce them , trapping takes to much time , we could whack a half dozen in a night easily when we started , couldn't trap that many very easily, they do get trap wise

Coons respond to calling. During the day, but also at night. Very aggressive response. At night use a red light, and just as the coon gets in close, kill the light and wait for the screams of your buddy. LOL

Lots of videos showing how.

Originally Posted by Micanopy

Coons respond to calling. During the day, but also at night. Very aggressive response. At night use a red light, and just as the coon gets in close, kill the light and wait for the screams of your buddy. LOL

Lots of videos showing how.

I am going to have to find some of those videos

They eat a LOT of turkey eggs and other ground nesting birds.

They are pretty rough on any food source they find available. When I ran limb lines I had 2 lines at the end of a blown down log over the water. when I returned to check the lines those two hooks would be laying on the log. I thought somebody was running those two lines for me. I baited up, paddled off, doubled back and slide under some overhanging limbs and waited. Out walks a coon. Pulls the line up hand over hand, takes the bait off the hook, drops the hook on the log and goes to the next line. I started leaving a can of sardines on the log. Come to find out it was Momma coon with 2 kits. They got to where they would wait on the log for me to get there with there payment.