I just checked with UPS and it shows my 25 lb box of goodies from Fleming is sitting on my front porch now. I cant wait to get home from work and check it out. It'll be like a kid opening his big box of stuff on Christmas, lol.

Take it inside by the fire with your wife and check out the traps and make sure you open all the baits and make sure they hadn't gone bad. You can store them in the kitchen pantry.

Yeah, good idea, lol

Bridge dogless

You gonna get the man killed, or worse, cut off. Especially if he ordered Dunlap’s Hellfire.

Everything came from Fleming except my anchor chains, free hat and knive, they are out of the free stuff,lol.
I called them yesterday and the anchors and chains are on backorder but they did have some 12 inch cable and bullet type anchors so they are sending me a dozen of those to get me going for now. I've got my traps sitting in a 5 gallon bucket bath of hot water,dawn and a shot of muratic acid as we speak now to get them degreased. I'll take them outside tomorrow to start the rusting process, then cold dye them for a few days in brown logwood dye. I don't have wax so I may end up trying things out without
waxing . Wax off,wax off.

Did you read up on nightlatching? I prefer to nightlatch my traps. Others on here may have a different opinion. Not hard to do with a flat file. I would go ahead and do that now too if you are going to do it. That click sure is nice when you are resetting in the dark.

Yes sir I did. The mb's that I got are already night latched out of the box. Ive got them hanging on a chain link fence drying/airing out as of yesterday to let the logwood dye get good and dry for a few days. Thanks !!
Still waiting on my anchors and chains from Fleming......

Hey guys, the week is FINALLY here that Im gonna get to go trapping for the 1st time. I'm headed down to Forkland on Friday and will stay until Sunday afternoon. My plan is to put traps out not long after I get there on Friday, say around noon or so. Ive got 7 of the mb550 traps. I just hope it hasn't rained as much as it has here, although they are calling for yet more rain Thursday afternoon or evening,...go figure ! Some of the places I want to put the traps out down there may be too wet to get to with my truck, we'll see.
Yall wish me some luck for some success, Im gonna need it I think !!

Not sure how much land you have, but, you might try baiting a few extra dirt holes with some can dog food and see if they get dug out. If so, you can set/move a trap to that location and see if they come back. Hard to get a lot of action in just a couple of nights on 7 traps. But, definitely need to try it. Put your bait holes away from your trap sets. If you pull your traps, I would definitely bait the holes afterwards and you can see if they get dug up before you get back. I've got some holes that were hit the last couple of weeks. Gonna try and set on those when the rabbit guys are done.

Update from last weekend's first trapping outing for me: of course it had rained nearly every week day last week which is not good and there were flood river warnings out...not good either. But hey I went down to Forkland on Friday anyway.
The ground was saturated with wetness and water was up in some of the fields and the roads were just a muddy mess. I put out 4 traps Friday afternoon at intersecting roads and green fields. The kinda bad thing at all my sets is I never saw any yote tracks or scat anywhere, but still made some sets. It of course rained Friday night/early Saturday morning so I set out 3 more traps Saturday morning on the opposite side of the property. Where I was really wanting to go was under water so that ruined those plans. The Black Warrior river surrounds the 2400 acres on 3 sides. Water was up out of the sloughs and into the hardwoods as well.
I did make my sets with some dry dirt out of a 5 gallon bucket. I checked all the traps Sunday morning before getting ready to come back home but had no takers....nothing was moving, no tracks anywhere near the sets, no set off traps,...nada. Im going to chalk this one up to the wet weather. I did get experience with making sets...thats a good thing for me I feel.
I left most of my earth anchors in the ground and marked them with ribbon. I'll go back down at some point and give it a go again. MAN that yote bait sure stinks,...lol

It took me several weeks to catch my fist dog - doing it 2 days at a time is also more challenging- leaving them 6-8 days r longer helps
You got some experience- good luck

Agree with you Tdog...2 days is not much but its what it is for unfortunately. I'll give it another shot in the next few weeks.
The yotes bait I got from Fleming is almost too liquid, its very runny. What are y'all using and is it thicker than mine?

Cravens Hiawatha predator bait mostly - I got 4-5 diff lures also I can use - usually use a bait and 2 lure - I hv also used Dunlap predator bait

Both thick

Does anyone here use the spring carabiner type snap hook link that goes between your chain/cable and the trap? Ive got the threaded type 3/16 quick link but just looking for something a little easier to disconnect. Those quick links can be a pain a little if any dirt gets in their threads or if the ground is a liitle damp.

Locklear’s Primal Paste is doing good for me. Got about 3 different gland lures I’m using. Using some red fox and coyote urine too.