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