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Traps and snares

Thanks. I checked it out, and it's pretty interesting. Definitely bookmark material. Mulcho garcias!
 
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Bloody hell awesome doc. I'm accumulating quite the collection of PDF threads that have been started by you!
 
I'm bringing this back to the top to try to spark some interest. If you don't want to go to the R.A.T. sub forum, post them here.

Doc
 
How's that song go? "Another one bites the dust............"?

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Doc - I'm going to try and duplicate your pencil-fall tonight. Just been swamped this weekend with work (grant writing). It will be good to put those pencils to another use.
 
Doc,

You know better. You have to start all skills threads with "Hey, check out my new knife!"
Mentioning Batoning helps at some point even if it is about cordage making. Mac
 
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Doc,

You know better. You have to start all skills threads with "Hey, check out my new knife!"
Mentioning Batoning helps at some point even if it is about cordage making. Mac
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Even though that is exactly what I was thinking when I last posted, seeing it in print by someone else made me chuckle. Thanks Mac.

Doc
 
No knife picture, sorry.

I hope I am not high jacking the thread. If I am, mods just delete it.

I know this is not a trigger, but it is something I have wanted to try since 1982, but I haven't yet. I carry rat traps for squirrels, and while fishing I was thinking how I could use my rat traps to catch fish as well as a hook and line. Here is what I thought up, but I have not tried.

Sorry for the bad drawing, but I am sure you get the idea. Drill a couple holes in the trap base for mounting screws and mount it to a stick. Drive the stick into the pond bed, bait it, and set the rat trap. I was thinking that the fish may be able to wiggle free of the trap if it was even alive at that point, so I wanted to drill a hole and screw in a another screw to hold the fish when the trap is sprung. You would basically spear the fish. I doubt you would need a screw sticking out more than a half inch, but who knows.

I would also position the trap so the fish is actually funneled into the kill zone with other sticks or whatever. Just so long as you don't block the movement of the bail.

I was just thinking how my squirrel traps could be used for more than just squirrels. I know this would not catch a huge bass, but for pan fish in shallow water I think it may work.






The other thing I have tried with these traps is using them as spring loaded trigger to set the hook when a fish strikes. Mouse traps work great for this Rat traps work to, but I leave more slack in the line tied to the tree, because the travel of the trap is pretty long and strong. It is a poor mans speed hook if you will. Just tie off your line to the wire bail and the trip. You need to have enough slack when you tie it off on the bail so when the fish strikes, it will pull on the trip before the wire bail. I hope this makes sense. Then tie off the trap to a tree. Again, sorry for the bad picture, but you get the idea.

 
Those are pretty cool ideas Bunker, please let us know if you try them out.
 
Thanks for posting the link. I have even more skills to practice with my Krein Woodcarver now! :D
 
I've thought about using rat traps for lizards but never got around to it. Mac
 
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