Trapping Question?

[JCDEERMAN]

Trap the hell out of them. We have 27 traps and caught 33 skunks/grinners/coons this past season. Kill them all!

 

[rukiddin]

As I understood it, trapping was extended year round for raccoons and possums. I don't think anyone wants a pack of hounds tearing up their woods during turkey season- trapping has a much quieter footprint and is at least as effective.

Most coon hunters don't want to kill the coon unless it's for a pup. Especially if they're competition hunters. Even coonhounds have changed styles over the years. Not all, but a lot of coonhound guys today are competition hunters and won't kill a coon unless they have to because a dog can't tree or win no money off a dead coon.
I personally think their should be a bounty on coon, skunk and possum tails. Even if was nothing more than $2/tail, it's still more than the fur market woukd give if you factor in time to skin/flesh the critter. Snip the tail off and carry on.

 

[Wrangler95]

@Wrangler95 i did some more digging and watched the meeting from I think June 2nd or 3rd. I believe at hr mark 1:24 or 2:24 they talk about it. It's on YouTube twra meeting. So I'm 99.9% sure trapping is year-round in 2023 season View attachment 138691View attachment 138692

Thank you,good investigating on your part!

 

[Wrangler95]

Most coon hunters don't want to kill the coon unless it's for a pup. Especially if they're competition hunters. Even coonhounds have changed styles over the years. Not all, but a lot of coonhound guys today are competition hunters and won't kill a coon unless they have to because a dog can't tree or win no money off a dead coon.
I personally think their should be a bounty on coon, skunk and possum tails. Even if was nothing more than $2/tail, it's still more than the fur market woukd give if you factor in time to skin/flesh the critter. Snip the tail off and carry on.

I don't know about other counties but there are no coon hunters in my county of Clay anymore!!That is the reason for a gigantic coon population and turkey population is pitiful because of it!There was once a coon hunters club in my county and lots of hunters but not anymore!!

 

[Planking]

Its that way here. I would describe it as a gigantic population as well. I will trap 40 or so every year before the season closes and they just keep coming. At least the coyotes get scarce or even non existent after trapping hard.

 

[Hduke86]

@Wrangler95 this is a follow up email TWRA sent me today.

 

[Flintlocksforme]

Most coon hunters don't want to kill the coon unless it's for a pup. Especially if they're competition hunters. Even coonhounds have changed styles over the years. Not all, but a lot of coonhound guys today are competition hunters and won't kill a coon unless they have to because a dog can't tree or win no money off a dead coon.
I personally think their should be a bounty on coon, skunk and possum tails. Even if was nothing more than $2/tail, it's still more than the fur market woukd give if you factor in time to skin/flesh the critter. Snip the tail off and carry on.

$2 bounty ! Every roadkill raccoon and opossum will be getting their tail clipped. I know I will just to help pay for gas.

 

[timberjack86]

@Wrangler95 this is a follow up email TWRA sent me today.View attachment 138784

I pray this applies to WMAs, hopefully others besides me will start trapping raccoons and possums on South Cherokee wma.

 

[younggun308]

I pray this applies to WMAs, hopefully others besides me will start trapping raccoons and possums on South Cherokee wma.

How many of them do you recover? Or do the hogs, bears, and 'yotes clean a lot of them up?

 

[Hduke86]

I pray this applies to WMAs, hopefully others besides me will start trapping raccoons and possums on South Cherokee wma.

Yeah that one I wouldn't know and honestly it would probably just be wma to wma basis

 

[Wrangler95]

@Wrangler95 this is a follow up email TWRA sent me today.View attachment 138784

 

[Wrangler95]

@Wrangler95 this is a follow up email TWRA sent me today.View attachment 138784

Thanks!

 

[megalomaniac]

SO glad to hear! I run traps every time I come up... to plant, to hang cameras, to deer hunt, to turkey hunt. Before, I could only run traps around the farmhouse and barns outside official trapping season.

SO glad to be able to now run traps year round on any part of my properties I see fit!

 

[timberjack86]

How many of them do you recover? Or do the hogs, bears, and 'yotes clean a lot of them up?

I've never lost one. I mostly use live traps on the wma and dispatch them right there.