Cage Trapping Bobcats tips

Very good Read guys. I was just curious, everyone talks about the catty smells in the cage, how about mousey smells? Has anyone ever tried that?
I started raising mice for bait last year and took the bedding I was throwing away and started bedding the back of the trap with it (heavy) and using a mouse bait. After that I started rethinking what I was doing. I think the catty smells work a little better later in the season towards breeding season but for the most part a cat always has food on his mind. What you think?
I sure am impressed that this hasn't turned in to a Hot dog contest.
 
Never have used mouse anything, it is a thought.
You know that old habits die hard, I have been putting the same stink in or around traps for 40 years it gets tough to change all that but this year I may on a couple sets just to see!!
 
Not every cat goes into a cage because its hungry,that is why you get drivebys---maybe?But a mouse smell could trigger his instincts to look things over!!Most of my moving parts are in the cage,my rods are inside.I know many don't like inside triggers,but you never get the fouled when covering the trap.I have had only a couple messed up by bobby's in the past four years.Now a [beeep] dog will tear up a cage,but only once in mine!!!!!
 
I think the mouse smell would be a good thing to try, but I wouldnt walk away from one of my sets without having a gland lure in it. regardless of time of year
 
I have trapped cats for a few years (leghold and cage), but after spending time with Mercer last year I think more about the where and why I set and what and where to use scents and visuals.(Thanks for the sleepless nights Mercer!
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Visuals are great for pulling a cat in, I know from the tracks left that I pulled a cat across a small canyon from the few feathers I had over the cage. There is no other reason that cat crossed and went right to the cage.
Once at the cage, the smells get the majority of the cats to commit.

I never leave a set without pee, gland, and bait and/or lure in it.

The farther out you get from the canyons, the bigger the cats will be.
Big toms, and females, are able to hold their own against the coyotes.

If you are catching a lot of young of the year, you are in the wrong place, get out of the nursery.

Just my thoughts.
 
Last year for the first time I used sheeps wool for my "duff pile" in the back of the trap.

Worked pretty good and was free. Also I don't have a problem if it blows out or I leave it behind when I pull the cage because it is natural not man-made like pillow stuffing.

ML
 
Do any of you know the dimensions, from 1 inch to where they stop tapering, of your bobcat stretchers are? Just half of the extendable ones. I need to make some. Thanks
 
I am not sure what your asking there TT, most stretchers are small med large and the tapers vary.
I make my own and like how they work so does my buyer.

you might try to rephrase your ??
 
Originally Posted By: Traveling TrapperDo any of you know the dimensions, from 1 inch to where they stop tapering, of your bobcat stretchers are? Just half of the extendable ones. I need to make some. Thanks

FHA and NAFA both have drawings of board sizes on their web sites.

http://www.furharvesters.com/pdf/boardzises-dim.pdf

http://www.nafa.ca/trapper/Resources/NAFA_PeltHandlingManual_2009.pdf

A simple search on google for "How to make wood fur stretchers" will turn up several web sites and youtube video's for your viewing pleasure.
 
The way these are split, the extendable stretchers. So there are 2 halves. Measuring like this. on your stretchers. Unless they are not extendable. Which one works better? Thanks.
 
Word has it he got Otis fired up, which is weird cause Otis don't get mad very easy. That makes two people now I know he got mad at, the other was that Miller character.
 
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