Saw one of first mink...nice location

[mudmarlin70]

Ive been watching this one place since Early spring. There were a few trails through some wetlands that were real narrow in a nice wetlands spot. Just a handful of rats in this spot, which is more than about everywhere else Ive got. The rats I've got figured out, but they dont use the trails I was watching. Saw quite a few coon digging up snapper nests in that area too, but not on these trails. They just looked "minky". real narrow and dipping below really low branches and debris.

Sure enough last night I'm within sight of the trails, and I see a mink go loping by. Really neat. About a half hour before dark. Nice spots to snare I think..Pics are a bit deceiving, but the trails are probably less than four inches across....whatcha think? "minky"???

http://www.myfishpix.com/gallery/data/500/MINK2.jpg
http://www.myfishpix.com/gallery/data/500/MINK1.jpg

[ub1243]

since i can never catch one, but my buddy catches them with my snares, i'll offer what i see.
i see no water, you can't drown them. 3/64 is out. so go with 1/16. that small tree looks great. anchor to it, support from it and fence it down. with all that grass and sticks i would think it would be hopping not a straight walk. so good luck on the loop height.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/ub1243/SUC50092.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/ub1243/SUC50154.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/ub1243/SUC50155.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h149/ub1243/ratsnare.jpg
here's a few that never hit.:)

my buddy chris makes his sets on a brick, like space does. the snare is anchored and supported off of the brick. yes they can pull it a little, but they head to water with the brick. they are very fast to set. you have everything in one, anchor, support, fence.
i will snare one sometime in the next 10 years.:D

[mudmarlin70]

Pics dont show the waterway UB. Those trails are probably no more than ten feet from a stream that connects a river to a pond. It's all wetlands though. The stream runs through a small pipe at the point where those trails come off the stream. The rats swim through the pipe, it seems the mink for whatever reason leave the water and cross over top on land where the pipe runs underground. Neat place....all wetlands there. YOu should see the frogs!!!! I've never gone for the, but my god they're stacked up there!

[ub1243]

if that pipe is the rat runway, get a colony trap in front, or at least a 110 if it's covered. those frogs are why that mink is there. in the winter they will take the rats.
also, i would gang set that mink run. the males will run the females. also they follow each other by a few days with scent.
don't pass up those swamp chickens. get you head lamp and gigg.

i saw a dead mink the other day. but it's in a very high traffic area. not worth the problems it could bring. nice mink stream though.

[redneck]

If you saw a mink it is minkie LOL if the trails go from water to water it will be minkie give me a coni and a bottom edge set lol but snares for mink not so good :huh: