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I understand your wanting to trap coyotes. But as a first timer you're setting yourself up for a lot of disheartening results. Zero in on coons over time you'll learn by your mistakes but still catch fur. After a couple of years you will have honed your skills and be ready to tackle canines. If your a deer hunter you already know about funnel areas and pinch points other critters besides deer use them also. You need to be able to read sign really minute sign. You need to identify a furbearer by its poop. You need to know why they are there what they are doing there and most important when are they there. Creekbanks are not very productive for coon when the fields all around are full of corn. I've trapped the better part of forty years. I had no one to teach me so I learned by trial and error mostly error. Today if I set a goal of 100 fox for the season I usually exceed it.

As a beginner get magazines Fur-Fish-Game is good but so are the Trapper predator Caller and the Trapping Post which long time TPC writer Bob Noonan started. Do yourself a favor start with racoons and muskrats. Both are easy to catch. Coons are very forgiving when it comes to poor sets. Hell, when I started I was using victor 1 1/2s which have a hole in the pan and I used monofiliment to tie half a creekchub to the pan. Hey, it worked. Also along shallow streams in moving water I wrapped pans with tin foil shiny side out. Any coon walking by had to investigate and would grab it.

Wife got called this morning starts Mon. Wanted her tomorrow but she's going in for a colonoscopy. FUN WOW!!!!

You'd drink to the sun coming up!!!!

We still have fish(halibut and silvers) vacuum sealed and frozen from 08 can't tell the difference between them and fresh. Tillia Food Saver is great for all sorts of things. and thogh they say this or that will last x number of months-years we've had four yr old venison that was perfect. But we also keep our freezer on Maximum cold.

Springville NY overnight dry grocery stocking. But I have plans first do my best manage to get to be a supervisor than up the ladder to manager.

Filled two!!!!

Don't even ask about lost knives stuck some in tree trunks and somebody beat me to them before i got back.

Maybe now that my 17 month unemployment drought ends tomorrow!

205lbs 45 min two shots in the head with a 410.

After a job drought of 17 months I start work at WallyWorld tomorrow!!!!!!!

bpb you may legally trap animals on your own property or do it for someone who asks you to. all animals must be destroyed(DEC"s word not mine) on the property. UNLESS you hold a NYS nuisance wildlife permit. Then you can transport live animals to a place where A you can destroy(DEC's word again) and bury them OR release them on property which you have permission to release live animals. YEAH RIGHT like some farmer will let you release coons in his sweet corn.

The meeting is for fisherman and bait dealer input. There is talk of establishing corridors where uncertified bait may be transported. From what i've heard bait caught in Lake Erie could be transported along the lake shore but not cross past the I-90. In effect I could catch bait in the Niagra river and transport it along the lake shore to use in Dunkirk etc. There hasn't been a documented case of VHS since the ban.

Been up in the woods a couple of times but the deer flies are terrible. Last time donated a pint of blood. No sense sitting covered in bug spray.

As long as you are on your property OR property you have permission to trap what the neighbors think is irrelavant. I had a series of farms three one next to the other. People were complaining to the owners and writing letters to the editor that "someone" (They knew it was me) was trapping along the village right of way through the property. They were told in no uncertain terms that a village right of way is not village property but belonged to the individual farmer. The only ones who had a right to be there were village workers maintaining a drainage ditch and people who had permission to be there......me. And if they were caught on the farm they would be arrested for trespassing.

I did the same thing for the DEC only for Lake erie walleye, trout, and salmon for ten years. Never got no patch

When I was in college I ran about a hundred traps. Up at 4:30 had The Wizard coon light from Nitelite. Be done about an hour before I had to be in class. Skin when I got home stuffed some food down my throat and off to bed. Avg check for those days ran $1200. And I didn't go to college till I was 45.

There is a show on at 10PM Nat Geo on the Asian carp. These fish represent a grave threat to the great lakes multi billion dollar fisheries. In Asia they are considered a delicacy. Take some of Obama's stimulus money and develop a fishery to catch, clean, and freeze them and supply them to Asia. As they say the waters they inhabit are cesspools compared to US waters. I'd be willing to relocate and net the rivers for them if there was a future in it. With all the money his Royal highness is throwing around you'd think funding to set up fishermen and processing plants to protect the fragile ecosystems these creatures threaten would be a no brainer. No brainer that's right up obama's alley!

Check pg 35 Hunting regs.

If you have an 4x4 ATV with decent rubber you can drag it up into a tree then lower it onto the back rack. Pack the cavity with ice ASAP. If you want a rug made make a B line for your taxidermist he can skin it properly and probably quicker than you can. Remember one thing bears can and do carry Trichanosis meat should be frozen then cooked well done. Something I learned in Veterinary Technology. Yes I passed and hold a license.

Ears look like there on the side of the head pig eyes = big bear.

I own several military rifles. I shoot them at the range but never hunt with them. I've got a Garand a Springfield 06 and a Nazi Mauser. All in fine to excellent condition. I had a Chicom 7.62x25 autoloader picked up after a firefight. Guy here just offered too much $$$$ to refuse.

The guys at Westwind Archery are great. Whenever I have work done there they give me free range time to dial things in. And will even come onto the range to lend a hand.

QUIET!!!!!! Have most places to myself. RELAXATION sit in a tree and contemplate nature and the universe. ADVENTURE I see things most others never see. Great Horned Owl preening ten feet away. Last year I'm up in my tree and there's a blow down maple ten yds in front of me. By the root end a chipmunk had a den. He'd come out run halway down the log and stand up to look around then run to the far end and return with cheek pouches full. He did this same routine maybe a dozen times. Then he came out stopped halfway down the log stood up suddenly I catch movement out of the corner of my right eye. Redtail hawk bye bye chipmunk.