I saw a study done on mink. It was a video taped mink box set using a 110 conibear with regular trigger wirers. A mink passed thru it 33 times before being caught, imagine how many times a mink could pass through a larger 160 before if ever being caught. Food for thought when deciding what size trap to use for mink.
Thank you for this educational video. I have never seen a conibear used like this. The deployment and its blind set should be deadly I would think. Thanks for a great new set to put in my arsenal!
i use to make blind sets for mink but i had an old trapper teach me something i would have never guest ,make a pocket set in the bank or out of rocks at the waters edge and usually on the right hand side of the river or creek looking the way the water is flowing if more than three feet across and bait it with fish that has been in a pail with a cover on it with a temp of 50 -70 degs for two weeks, where i live i get two five gallon buckets of herring two to three weeks before season opens and cut them into fist sized chunks i put the heads in one bucket and the rest in another after two to three weeks i add two to three cups of canning salt to each pail to keep them from aging and freezing, then when you make your pocket sets find a tree branch with a Y in it to pin your fish in the top and back of your pocket hole from 8 to ten inches deep slightly angled upword from the water, i'll tell you right now this works great but it will make you want to puke when you first try it after i started doing this i would catch from thirty to forty mink in the two weeks i had off for vacation from work each year another thing i used only 1 1/2 long spring traps for mink they held good and never broke any legs, plus i have also caught fox ,marten, fisher, racoon, otter,and believe it or not timber wolves in these pocket set, all my traps were wired off so the mink would drown, usually to the limb of elder brush hanging over the water with 14 gauge wire and only remember ever losing one trap. if you want to catch mink give it a try you will see just how good it works.
Just caught a young Mink, approximately 300 - 320 feet from a creek (deeper than the creek in this video). I was trying to trap either the rabbit or the possum, that has been raiding my garden. I slid the Havahart Live box trap between two shrubs with the back of the trap against another plant. I had carrot peelings in the trap for bait. So far I've captured rabbits and Possum. This is the first Mink I have seen in my area.
@@NBWildman Thank you. I have just got 2 traps but they are like rabbit traps. I dont want mink but if there is some good money in it , there are a lot where I live southern France.I will think on it. Good video by the way ! :)
Hey man I know it’s been a while since you commented, but I just wanted to say that for some people this is their source of income and food. I’ve actually got 2 squirrels tanning right now. My reasoning is I love the practice and I’m using all parts of the animal for something useful. Please don’t take this as something mean I’m just explaining you know? Anyway have a good day man!
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Right on. Good instruction. I will be watching for more videos. I'm a trapper from Ontario
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I saw a study done on mink. It was a video taped mink box set using a 110 conibear with regular trigger wirers. A mink passed thru it 33 times before being caught, imagine how many times a mink could pass through a larger 160 before if ever being caught. Food for thought when deciding what size trap to use for mink.
Thank you for this educational video. I have never seen a conibear used like this. The deployment and its blind set should be deadly I would think. Thanks for a great new set to put in my arsenal!
Great!! glad you like it, and thanks for watching...
Any tips on setting them up near chicken pens?
i use to make blind sets for mink but i had an old trapper teach me something i would have never guest ,make a pocket set in the bank or out of rocks at the waters edge and usually on the right hand side of the river or creek looking the way the water is flowing if more than three feet across and bait it with fish that has been in a pail with a cover on it with a temp of 50 -70 degs for two weeks, where i live i get two five gallon buckets of herring two to three weeks before season opens and cut them into fist sized chunks i put the heads in one bucket and the rest in another after two to three weeks i add two to three cups of canning salt to each pail to keep them from aging and freezing, then when you make your pocket sets find a tree branch with a Y in it to pin your fish in the top and back of your pocket hole from 8 to ten inches deep slightly angled upword from the water, i'll tell you right now this works great but it will make you want to puke when you first try it after i started doing this i would catch from thirty to forty mink in the two weeks i had off for vacation from work each year another thing i used only 1 1/2 long spring traps for mink they held good and never broke any legs, plus i have also caught fox ,marten, fisher, racoon, otter,and believe it or not timber wolves in these pocket set, all my traps were wired off so the mink would drown, usually to the limb of elder brush hanging over the water with 14 gauge wire and only remember ever losing one trap. if you want to catch mink give it a try you will see just how good it works.
Very clear presentation, thanks.
Thanks for watching...
Great video I am a trapper from West Virginia I have never caught a mink before.
well good luck, i hope you break the ice soon
Population isn't like it use to be. I am from west virginia also and only have caught 1 but they slowly making a come back.
Very Nice! Thanks for Sharing!
thank you, and thanks for watching
great sets we use smaller trap catch lot of muskrats. Save male nuts deep frye dip in ranch good eating sweet meat muskrat balls
Nice set
Thanks
Great video!!!!
Thank you...and thanks for watching !
What is all that green stuff around?
Hi
Any ideas how i can catch mink on land (not water) without the risk of catching a rabbit ??
Thanks!
Just caught a young Mink, approximately 300 - 320 feet from a creek (deeper than the creek in this video). I was trying to trap either the rabbit or the possum, that has been raiding my garden. I slid the Havahart Live box trap between two shrubs with the back of the trap against another plant. I had carrot peelings in the trap for bait. So far I've captured rabbits and Possum. This is the first Mink I have seen in my area.
@@lynlalalalawon't the mink kill the rabbits and possum if you leave them alone?
do you normally set them upward? is there an issue if you set them downward?
just preference, both should work
I prefer 120 and 110s but remember that triggers can be modified to catch even weasel
What do you do with the mink ?
Skin em and send them to auction...
@@NBWildman Thank you. I have just got 2 traps but they are like rabbit traps. I dont want mink but if there is some good money in it , there are a lot where I live southern France.I will think on it. Good video by the way ! :)
The Mink will come right down the stream and slide right behind the big hole behind your trap
good comment, should have used a medium size rock to block that
hope your mink is blind , would be better with a 1 1/2 dbl coil , will catch mink ,coon,otter where your limiting your catch
good advice, thanks
Anyone can do a demonstration at any time of year
Minks are the worst I'm struggling to catch
Them there eating all of my chickens and ducks
Could it be weasels ? Are you sure it’s mink ?
this sucks dude i wanna catch the one in my pond to look at it but i dont want to kill it
Live trap for squirrels
You mean, mean person!
Hey man I know it’s been a while since you commented, but I just wanted to say that for some people this is their source of income and food. I’ve actually got 2 squirrels tanning right now. My reasoning is I love the practice and I’m using all parts of the animal for something useful. Please don’t take this as something mean I’m just explaining you know? Anyway have a good day man!