Takes me back ,I lived just outside of Ely in the late 60's and guided and trapped in winter. Now trapping the mountains of North Idaho. I deeper snow to contend with but warmer temps. I'd rather have cold temps than 4 or 5 ft of snow. I would like to try one more Minnesota trapping season,but at 71 I'd better plan on it soon. Thanks for the video.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. That's awesome both places I'm sire have been quite the adventure. It's really cold today it was -18 below this morning actual temp. Thanks for watching plenty more videos to come.

Thanks For sharing the great trapping video I am from leoma Tennessee again thank you for sharing be safe out there and God bless

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching I really appreciate it. Amazing how many people from so far away watch and get enjoyment out of it. Makes me happy.

Found your channel thanks to Dan today.. Great video! You now have a subscriber in Nova Scotia Canada.🙂

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for subscribing and watching. I hope you enjoy the videos. Spread the word, I am hooked on trapping now plenty of videos to come.

I'm from NY... Great video thank you for sharing

@northernmnlife8547

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Check out my other videos I don't have a lot but enjoy making them and being in the woods.

Great commentary. Best way to learn how to trap is to try new things, experiment, but more importantly get out and do it. British Columbia Canada.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I totally agree just gotta try something. Thanks for watching

Some good looking sets! Preloading your snares is pretty important. Be patient Brother!

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I have all my snares preloaded now.

Great video, my first time watching, but good luck with it,.....it just takes time, aways learning

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, This is definitely a learning experience. Hope you enjoy the videos.

I'm watching and lm form Shreveport La.

@northernmnlife8547

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting hope you enjoy the videos. New ones from this year will be posted in a few weeks.

Pa, Ca, Az. I’ve been in motion like the WHO . Enjoy you and your interest in learning , hope you son also gets interested .

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome thanks for watching I am trying to post a video every Sunday. My son has been coming along more he's in my upcoming video.

@christinamoneyhan5688

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 👍✌🏻

HEY!!! From lake of woods good videos keep going!!!!!!!😊😊

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you. And thanks for watching. Catch a big one on LOW for me.

Im from North Louisiana, going to start trapping bobcats and fox this comming Monday deer season finally goes out the 21st Good job

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and good luck out there. Do you set foot holds then ?

@dennisdial7872

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 FOOT HOLD AND CAT BOXES WITH 280'S SOME SNARES

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@dennisdial7872 280s nice we can't use that big here. Good luck

I would use binoculars for checking your sets. Stay back as far as you can to avoid spreading your scent around. Coyotes are pretty smart. Good luck

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Them seem to be pretty smart alright. Thanks for the tip. Thanks for watching

Just found you I'm down in texas but Yankee born in chisholm mn I sure miss the snow

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

We're getting plenty of it right now. Glad you found the channel welcome, and enjoy the videos. True minnesotan at heart

We just harvested six grouse for the remaining bobcat season…time to get one. I have a buddy that set in my area and took 3 bobcat already this year…I’d told him several times I found the best place to set and he beat me to it.

@northernmnlife8547

7 ай бұрын

Always nice to get some fresh grouse. Glad someone is having some success with thr cats. But sorry he took a spot you found. Is he using footholds or snares? I want to set footholds but this year isn't going to work out for me to do that.

Great content and videos! I just started trapping/snaring again this season. I hadn't trapped since 2014 and this is my first season setting for Bobcat, but no luck yet. Im from Pengilly, MN

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. Good luck I hope you get a cat. This is a fun skill to learn thats for sure.

Great video!

@northernmnlife8547

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for sharing your joy, from Texas.. +

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope you enjoy the videos.

Good job Atleast your leaning Am from lester Prairie mn over by winsted where they have the big country music festival Been going there ever since it started. Good luck trapping

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Only way to learn is to try I might fail I might succeed. In my eyes I will succeed no matter if I catch anything. Another fellow minnesotan that's awesome thanks for watching.

Hey...great videos...I live in northern Minnesota and do a little trapping...I have found if you find rabbits you will have cats...cavens gusto is a good attractant...good luck

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting. I am seeing rabbit tracks so fingers crossed I will look at the gusto lure.

Enjoyed the video. Something that worked for me, with snares, Was to take a length of light grey sewing thread and tie it loosely from one side of the snare to the other. It will look like a cobweb or thin piece of grass. Tie up near the lock and drape the thread across the loop. I did this with coyote snares and it will get caught up on any cats that travel the same trails. I set my snares with a ten inch loop, but a cat will walk right through a coyote snare. The thread will close the loop on any cat going through the loop and it is ignored by the coyotes. I have had red fox slide through a five inch loop that was set on a woven wire sheep fence without triggering the snare to close. He didn't quite make it through a second snare fifty yards away. Had him by the hips.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for the tip. I've never heard of that. I can see how that would stop them from sneaking through and now making it catch the small animals that would otherwise sneak through. Thanks for watching and for the tip

Watching in michigan

@northernmnlife8547

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Eastern part of Virginia. Fascinated by Northern trapping. So different here.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting. This is definitely a learning experience for me.

Well it looks like u r on the right track for doing this for the first time and I'm running a first time weasel line with my 5 year old daughter and she is having a blast and we have a few catches also we live in upper peninsula of Michigan. Keep it up u will start catching if u keep it up Good luck on the trap line

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. That's awesome your taking your daughter with. That's memory's you will have forever. Good luck as well never been up there heard its beautiful country.

@ryankullar9754

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 yeah it's pretty nice over hear and it's nice in upper Minnesota as well I have a buddy of mine that lives really close to the upper red lake reservation and it's nice up there as well

Nice video!

@northernmnlife8547

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. Thanks for watching

After trapping in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I see your territory is very similar. Good luck, new subscriber

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing I appreciate it. This is a nice area lots of land to trap on and tails for snowmobiling.

I am from Leesville Louisiana long time ago tell loggerhead drive a big truck or living

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting hope you like the videos

@mackmcinnis6087

Жыл бұрын

What I was trying to say I was a trapper tell I had to go to work drive a big truck

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@mackmcinnis6087 you understand it. Sometimes just being in the woods is all a person needs to unwind. Thanks for watching I appreciate it also commenting.

@mackmcinnis6087

Жыл бұрын

I do miss it been in the woods

No cats for me this year. We got a ton of snow on the iron range in mid December and my cat areas disappeared Coyotes have been getting caught though

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Cats seem to be hard to come by. But there around. Yeah that snow Storm really dumped on us to. Thanks for watching

hi from new hampshire

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching I appreciate it.

Believe me, distance from home has no bearing on the fun of trapping .But you can only catch the animals that are in your area. You can always dream of catching the impossible. 😊Just outside of our city limits which is about 3 miles from my house ,I have caught in a rabbit snare in a rabbit trail of course a rabbit,partridge,squirrel,mink,marten,skunk,believe it or not an owl and a porcupine.Trapped beaver, otter , muskrat, mink,weasel and snared both fox and coyote.And unfortunately an accidental catch of a deer .So if your patient enough and trap to the age of 73, there is a good chance that you will catch the critters that are around!!😂. So have fun and good luck doing so.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. I will be getting into it more next fall for sure I want to get an otter as well. The initial set up getting all the traps and snares takes some time. I got more 220s and 160s. Now I need some 330s for otter. Thanks for watching

Zimmerman , MN

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Alright another minnesotan thanks for watching.

Did you use a chin stick under your snare? It will make them hold their head up.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Kinda of I took 2 sticks and made an X under it in hopes they would keep there head up and not hit the snare with there foot. Thanks for watching and I appreciate the comment/advise keep them coming.

Good luck man! We’re on our second year and there’s a lot to learn! Good video.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I just checked out your channel and subscribed looks like some good videos I will be watching.

@CountyLineAdventures

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 Thank you buddy, we’ll hit some bobcats and beaver hopefully in the next week or two and a lot of other random stuff. 😂

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@CountyLineAdventures fingers crossed 🤞

What area are you running? Looks very familiar....

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

I'm up north not going to say my exact location as I've got a few messages from people that are against this. They were not very nice.

@eduffy4937

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 understandable man. I run a pretty long line from zimmerman up to blackduck, over to i falls then to crane lkn then back down to hinkley area.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Oh nice. Yeah you run a big area. I'm starting out small and hope to grow just didn't want to bite off more then I could chew with it. Good luck out there and stay safe.

@eduffy4937

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 no problem. If you ever need some tips n tricks around the area let me know. Ive likely dealt with most things a few times after 35years of trapping, 10 of it for a living.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome thank you. I've had a lot of nice people like you commenting and I appreciate it. Take care

If you want a bobcat use beaver meat with a little castor your snaire the bottom of your snair should be six inches off the ground if you are putting your bait on the ground this is how I did it for year and been VERY successful and Another thing I find when you make a cubby they don’t like things over there heads makes them nervous I think good luck

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the advise. I do have beaver meat in my 220 box. I still have some more I will put some in the snare pen as well. I can also make some adjustments to my pen to leave it open on top. Thanks for watching and the comment take care.

@jeffmaclean3571

Жыл бұрын

I don’t have face book so I can send you some pictures they love brooks and old beaver dams

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffmaclean3571 That's good to know. There's no beaver dam where I am just a low edge. I will be looking for some new spots so I will keep this in mind. Thanks

You need to get some car killed deer for bait for the coyotes. Call the county to get in line they might have some smashed ones for you. The crows come then the dawgs.

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. And for the advice I guess I never thought about that. I suppose the crows are a dead give away for the coyotes like a dinner bell.

@philhanson7624

Жыл бұрын

Do you watch TNT Dewayne Lazar?

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@philhanson7624 No I guess I haven't I will check his channel out.

Bemidji!

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Nice area. Thanks for watching. You ever go musky fishing there?

@cracklehipjones6242

Жыл бұрын

@@northernmnlife8547 no I never have. What part of mn are you in? Have you caught a muskie?

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

@@cracklehipjones6242 in North yet don't want to say ny exact location due to some comments I've received from people that don't like me doing this. No I've tried in lake itaska but no luck.

Somerset Pennsylvania

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼❤️❤️❤️

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

New Carlisle Québec Canada

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the comment I appreciate it.

PNW ͏U͏S͏A. Enjoying this video! Thanks!

@northernmnlife8547

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.