It looks like this trapping game is a lot like real estate…..location, location, location. Got another catch last night along with another set that had been worked but not triggered. I saw a video of one guy that embedded a piece of weenie onto the trigger to insure the coon set it off. May have to try that or some other solution if this keeps happening. I want them to be caught if I get one to stick their hands in the trap.



Traps reset and ready to go again…….

CNC you can spear a marshmellow onto your trigger or if you want a more permanent solution Kendall has some rubber stopper type pieces that you can put on your triggers on his website. No BS Lures

I may have to check those out. I like the idea of a permanent solution. The simpler I can keep things the better. Right now on my set I’m just using corn and tossing in a little crumble of my sweet coconut oil lure. I put 2-3 eggshells at the base of each trap just so the coon would be enticed to investigate it. That seemed to work great last night except for the worked trap and no catch. I actually had a third set where the egg shells had been moved but they didn’t ever work the trap. It may have been the same coon that got my bait on the other one. He’ll be back…..

What is that magnificent looking shiny thing in the hole????


Gonna try a homemade remedy tonight on the same set he robbed last night and see what happens. I left it free floating for now. It's too big to come off of the trigger without the trap being set off.

Caught my bait robber last night…..and his buddy. Apparently the magnificent looking shiny thing on the trigger worked.

Woohoo! I kept playing around my yote traps until I have them figured out now. Y’all are right, it’s about technique. I was trying to use the toe end of my foot and I needed to be using my heels. Getting the pan to make that last little click is still a little tricky. Call me a puss if you want but I’m not brave enough yet to use my finger. That thing looks like it has some bite to it when it goes off.

Bout to go try and make my first yote set.

You aren't a puss, you just don't know any better! Lol! Flip the loose jaw over so there's no way to get your hand caught.

You need to go ahead and stick your hand in one so that you know what it feels like and how to get yourself out one handed. If you're too scared to do that then yea you might be a puss! Lol! YOU ARE GOING TO GET CAUGHT IN YOUR OWN TRAP IF YOU SET THEM ENOUGH!....... There's no way you're any more careful than the thousands of other trappers who have caught their hands.

Good job on the catches!

I got caught yesterday while resetting a trap! It wasn't as bad as i thought....face full of dirt and hand in trap! A little humility is good every now and then!

Just don't get both arms caught in a 330 conibear.

The face full of dirt was worse than the trap wasn't it?

Your pan tension is too light if you set it off without putting a good bit of pressure down on your pan.

Ouch!... I've been slapped by a 330 but never caught.

I wouldn't want to get caught in any of my beaver traps. I'll bet a CDR would bruise your hand up pretty good.

I've never been caught in one, but I have a friend who got both hands caught in a 330. If I remember correctly, he was adjusting the trigger wire. Snares alleviate that problem.

Zero catches this morning.....

I got my hand caught in a 110 conibear one time. Hurt like a @#$%^&*!!. Pinched the heck out of the fat part of my palm. Worse that the few times I got my hand in a coil spring for sure. Bad part is I had to get my wife to help me out of it and she was laughing so hard she couldn't do anything.

One more coon last night. Caught this one is one of my yote sets.

I tried Googling “racoon population density” and “racoon home range” but I really didn’t find a whole lot of useful information. From the best I can tell though, coons are about like deer. The females aren’t gonna roam too far unless they have to and the males are really only gonna roam during breeding season. It says that a female coon will likely not roam more than a ¼ to ½ mile. There’s several different guesses as to number of coons per acre depending on habitat. I’m thinking that I may have to trap the whole lenghtl of a creek bottom though to really get all the coons. I was thinking I may be able to set up a lot of traps for a couple hundred yard stretch close to the road and catch all the coons using the bottom but I’m not sure if they’re gonna roam far enough to do that. Any thoughts?

Interesting! I have wondered how far coons will roam? I know it seems impossible to get them all! I thought i had them wiped out here and then more shows up on cameras! They everywhere here and i don't even have a creek!