
Kent Weil: Trapping the elusive mink requires scouting and strategy
The fact that I caught my first mink at the age of 12 in a set I specifically made for mink made me very proud.
It still does, because there is a lot of

The fact that I caught my first mink at the age of 12 in a set I specifically made for mink made me very proud.
It still does, because there is a lot of

If you’ve never experienced one of those white-knuckle, heart-pounding, “say a prayer” driving situations at any point in your life, consider yourself among the lucky ones.
One such occasion, which potentially shaved a

My first trapping teachers were people I never met, but whose words taught me so much.
In his classic book “Gone for the Day,” Ned Smith’s passages about his experiences trapping red foxes sparked

By the time you read this, the fall trapping will be over and the serious winter trapping will be in full swing. At this writing I am trapping from a primitive deer camp in west-central

By the time you read this the trapping season will have been open almost three weeks in Illinois. The first week at least was pretty mild, so I’m sure many trappers took advantage of this.

There is no doubt that Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a big impact on the international fur market. If there was not a war right now, fur prices would be better.
It is

A Price County trapper in Wisconsin made four wolf catches over the course of 10 days in October on a large dairy farm just east of the small town of Fifield.
Chuck Koshak, of

Beaver, with a nearly 500-year history of use in North America, is the primary star again this year.

The Iowa DNR is asking trappers for help with a study on Iowa’s gray fox population.
“We’re asking trappers who happen to catch a gray fox alive to contact me or wildlife technician Dave
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