Posted By: BayedUp
Need information - 03/07/21 04:12 AM
Most of my woods time when Deer and Turkey season isn’t in is spent catching hogs so I have access to a lot of land. I have recently had a couple land owners ask me if I would be interested in trapping for them also. I’ve ran Dp traps for years but I’ve never really had much experience with trapping coyotes, bobcats, otters, and beavers. Therefore I don’t have many traps other than dp’s. It’s a pretty good drive for me so I definitely want to set enough traps to make the most of my trip. I’m gonna order some more traps and equipment but before I do I wanted to see what some of you more experienced trappers think would be a good number of traps and make sure I’m not overlooking some equipment that I may need.
Property Details- 3 different locations all close to each other. They total up to just shy of 5,000 acres. Mostly swamp bottom with a small portion of high ground pine thicket.
Equipment I Have- Dirt sifter, quick links, hand tools, gloves, waders, 36 - dp traps all with 18” rebar stakes, 2 - 220 conibears, 3 - duke #4, and 1 - duke #1.5
What kind of traps and how many of each would you recommend? Price doesn’t matter but I will be doing this mostly when I’m on nightshift so I will have ideally around 4.5 hours to check and reset traps. Everything is easily accessed by ranger so traveling to and from each set won’t be much waisted time. I just don’t want to buy more than I realistically have time to run.
Also if you think of any other equipment that I need let me know. Thanks.