bobcats

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Feathers work very well I save bunches of breast feathers off the spring turkeys we take and use it in several ways for set attraction. One is quite simply spreading feathers around the set so its obvious to a passerby that something has been killed easten and left overs buried to be eaten later. I also take these feathers and mix them with small amounts of food based lures to bait my holes with The feathers stored in a platic zip lock with a half teaspoon of lure will absorb that scent and really help catch the nose as well as the eye.

Tin foil will work as well but I get kinda anal about using unnatural stuf at my sets including the audio tape tassles. Not that it makes any difference in the long run I just prefer to do it with as much natural stuff as possible. Wood duck feathers on a beaver dam or pond edge are a sure stop and look enticement around here as well as a dove wing protruding from your baithole.

Couple things you might consider on the bob cat sets is they wander large areas and dont always use the same trails every day. Just becuase a set is inactive for a week dont pull it sometimes the cat just hasnt been back that way yet. Also more so than other trapping target species location is paramount. I typically wont set for a cat unless I see a regular run established. lastly but not least use a fine tuned trap and understand that bobcats tread very lightly, it needs to have a fast trigger and not require a whole lot of foot commitment to fire. Even with good foot committment most of my bob cat catches are toe catches.

Good luck

Lynches river bobcat


You can see with this footbridge crossing over the canal travel was restricted and very specific. My set was 2/3 up the opposing bank on the left. It produced two nice bobcats and a third that I took with a rifle a few weeks before trapping season opened. Not to mention several greys and a couple of coons. Location Location Location