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Post by mark572 on Jun 15, 2011 22:54:23 GMT -5
Though this thread will help some of the beginners out on scouting for mink locations and mink sets!! these areas will also produce rats coon otter!! rock cubbie is my favorite set at these locations! make sure you use at least a 1.5 here on downer rigs!! Here is my favorite way to set up a rock cubbie!! for mink rats coons and otter! look for a nice spot with sand or loose gravel so you can bed you trap solid! this pic is at the bottom so you can see what I'm looking for to bed my trap in If i can find spots like this all the time i will always make a cubbie here there is a nice shelf for your bait to set up on.. now when you do this you want to either wire your bait so it wont come out easy or stick a stick through the bait so you can wedge between the rock so the mink cant just reach up and pull it out! Next i will set a big rock on the top! bigger the better that way a coon cant roll the rock off and steal your bait! I have pulled so many mink from these areas over the years. most people will not set here due to the large amount of rock, I love them my self!! Hope this helps some young trappers out there !!! any questions just ask ill do my best to answer them..
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Post by happersilderness on Jun 16, 2011 5:24:19 GMT -5
I've always wanted to try a rock cubby but I don't have enough rocks to make the set.
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Post by minifoxer on Jun 16, 2011 6:15:20 GMT -5
Thank You Mark!! Sure do appreciate it!
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Post by lyonch on Jun 16, 2011 7:29:54 GMT -5
I use this set a lot for coon in my water line as well. I have caught mink, coon, and muskrats with thise set. I like to find a sandy bank, then grab a few larger rocks and place them at the waters edge. Then bed the trap in the sand right in front of the opening in the rocks. Adds great eye appeal too!
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Post by cornfedcoon on Jun 16, 2011 9:56:15 GMT -5
Thanks a lot!
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Post by barrynl on Jun 16, 2011 10:14:11 GMT -5
I have always found that when trapping mink think corner's.
Corner's at the outlet of colvets's, corner's at the head of deep pool's, and corner's of beaver house's and dam's.
I am not sure if these places are good because they funnel mink or if they are places where back wash bring's dead fish.
Although the the commen wisdom is that mink are hunter's, not scavenger's some time this pattern makes me think.
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Post by bill1958 on Jun 16, 2011 14:02:40 GMT -5
corners are pinch points and yes even funnels.if you take long high banks right were they stop slopping thats were the mink will eather come out of the water or enter .these banks funnel the mink .if they are swimming against the current they will goe up the bank like i said at the slope so check for the trails along the bank ,some will stick out like a rabbit trail and some will be very faint but just the same they are there.
another point about the old buck mink they can be caught a ways from water.they will check out every hole,debre pile,under cut bank and pinch point on thier travel route.look for the pinch points and you will do very well for otter or mink.
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Post by barrynl on Jun 16, 2011 18:03:30 GMT -5
How can this location be a pinch point LONDEN. If you look close you can see the rock cubby and the mink to the right of the outlet pipe. This kind of deep pool at the outlets of culverts always, and I mean 90% of the time produce mink for me. Look at this location no cover what so ever yet two mink last year. This is the first one: This is the second: I find it is always the outlet to not the inlet to culverts. Over the years I have found them to be the best locations bar none. One of this mink was a nice second year male the other was a YOY female. Notice also that this is the area where the backwash would hit the shore. I do not know, makes me think mink might scavenge more then we think.
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Post by ewoktrapper on Jun 16, 2011 18:25:51 GMT -5
Barry
Why where those mink there?They were diving a chase'n fish hunting in that big pole below the outlet.Thats why the bottom edge set is so deadly.Now that being said.All critters,mink included are opportunists.They like free meals too...
Now most trappers only know how to set that up with either a pocket/cubby or a blind set under the pipe.Very few will tell you how to set that with a bottom edge set...
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Post by bill1958 on Jun 16, 2011 18:29:11 GMT -5
this is not londen
.this is bill
what is a cuvert ? a pipe with a HOLE. take a look at the bank looks steep to me ,the water has current and that will force the mink even closer to the pinch point .pinch points can be narrow spots or high banks .to me a pinch point is any thing that forces the mink to enter or exit the water .now i might be wroung
i do agree also that mink will scavenge more then we think.i found a spot one year in wyo that had a piece of small ply wood that made a natural cubbie in the root system and it produce several small mink but what i did not know until i was checked by the warden there was a dead duck under it that was rotten ,now i did not get a ticket because of the fact it was illegal to use wild ducks and when he pulled that plywood back he showed me that duck,so in this line of facts i do feel you are thinking right and i agree
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Post by bushdog on Jun 16, 2011 18:30:31 GMT -5
All right Mark, you got me again!!! (my old stomping grounds). Thanks, I think I know where this is, Dolby?? I used rock cubbies just like those in your pics.
Nice pics Barry. I have had good luck on the "out" flow from culverts also.
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Post by mark572 on Jun 16, 2011 18:45:28 GMT -5
Yes bush dolby i have caught so many mink there in the past its crazy!!!
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Post by bill1958 on Jun 16, 2011 19:14:25 GMT -5
dang mark you might be keeping me there all season lmao
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Post by mark572 on Jun 16, 2011 19:18:36 GMT -5
lmaoo bill you will love it here for sure!!!
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Post by barrynl on Jun 16, 2011 19:32:45 GMT -5
Bill ( sorry about the name mix up)
I am a little bit confused so you are saying that the mink are going through the pipe then running along the edge of the shore.
Ewoktrapper
Around here I have seen mink hunting and the way they do it is they go along the edge of the bank, right at the water's edge nosing about. I have only seen a mink catch a trout once, I was fly fishing just by a old railroad trestle, I head a splash and turned around did not see anything. A couple of seconds later seen a mink about 2 foot under water right in front of me. Believe me they are pretty good swimmers, he swam about 20 feet under water then came to the top and swam to the bank and hightailed down the side of the pool, with a trout in his/her mouth.
I think a lot of mink do not like getting wet. The reason I say this is because I have seen them hop from rock to rock across shallow streams. I have even seen them hit a tipsy rock and scrabble back up with what I would describe as cat like behaviour.
Sometime it would be interesting to look at the stomach content's of mink. I think mink spend more time under water after ice up then before.
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Post by ewoktrapper on Jun 16, 2011 20:12:24 GMT -5
I think mink spend more time under water after ice up then before. Barry That state ment is so true.Thats when the bottom edge shines..Before snow/ice Blind sets.grass tunnels,log crossings is what I use the most.When Ice is on.Bottom edge,cubbies,And dry pockets,blind sets up under root systems are all weather proof.
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Post by dieselweasel on Jun 18, 2011 11:28:57 GMT -5
Ewoktrapper, you have been talking about a bottom edge set. Could you please explain this set?
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Post by ewoktrapper on Jun 18, 2011 17:24:45 GMT -5
Diesel....When I get more time I will do that...................
Basicly Is to set the 110 on the bottom of a stream at points and take the mink and rats while traveling or hunting....
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Post by billford on Jun 19, 2011 6:47:34 GMT -5
Mark thats a real nice picture show, but they sure look different than my mink locations,dont you have any small creeks with undercut banks ?
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Post by mark572 on Jun 19, 2011 9:16:12 GMT -5
Yes we do bill!!! i will take pics of them also when i cant get around the smal streams!
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Post by minifoxer on Jun 19, 2011 10:36:00 GMT -5
Yes we do bill!!! i will take pics of them also when i cant get around the smal streams! that would be real helpfull!!!!!
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