It's an I'll wind.......blew me some good though.

[Rolfe 2]

I was just about to start placing a few mink traps out on the feeder streams to the golf course lake to give the nesting wildfowl some protection..........when we had some high winds that blew down a couple of trees straight across a little overflow stream. With a little modification they will be ideal to put a couple of bodygrips in cubby's or some Mk 6 Fenns on in a wire tunnel. Normally i cage trap this area but this has given me a few more options....... last season i took 8 mink from around the lake.......nearly all were silvers.

I did notice that i caught more mink running up stream than i did going with the flow so to speak.....just wondered if anyone else had noticed this.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Im sure you will get results on the trees that have bridged the burns, that sort of trap was always very good for me when I trapped a few mink, I used fenn mk6 sat in a chiselled-out section making the trap lie flush with the upper surface of the wood, with a mesh tunnel with wire restrictors...

 

I ALWAYS trapped more mink moving into my ground from downstreem, only caught a few from the upstream side...... I had always put this down to the fact that on the stretch of river that I was on (upper), there was going to be a lot more comming from downstream as there was simply more river that way???

 

Will be good to hear other opinions.

[Born Hunter 17,818]

Theres going to be far more knowledgeable people than me to comment on this but with respect to which direction the mink are most likely caught, could it be becuase the mink 'work' the river against the flow becuase water holds scent well? So by working against the flow, scent will be literally hitting them in the face as apposed to going away. Like a dog working into the wind.... ??

[ferret boy charlie 0]

isnt it becouse when they are hungry they look for food by moving upstream and floats down looking or something along those lines ?

[ferret boy charlie 0]

Theres going to be far more knowledgeable people than me to comment on this but with respect to which direction the mink are most likely caught, could it be becuase the mink 'work' the river against the flow becuase water holds scent well? So by working against the flow, scent will be literally hitting them in the face as apposed to going away. Like a dog working into the wind.... ??

i dont think scent carries in water does it ?

[Born Hunter 17,818]

Theres going to be far more knowledgeable people than me to comment on this but with respect to which direction the mink are most likely caught, could it be becuase the mink 'work' the river against the flow becuase water holds scent well? So by working against the flow, scent will be literally hitting them in the face as apposed to going away. Like a dog working into the wind.... ??

i dont think scent carries in water does it ?

 

Yep, guarantee that, water holds scent better than dry ground.

[ferret boy charlie 0]

Theres going to be far more knowledgeable people than me to comment on this but with respect to which direction the mink are most likely caught, could it be becuase the mink 'work' the river against the flow becuase water holds scent well? So by working against the flow, scent will be literally hitting them in the face as apposed to going away. Like a dog working into the wind.... ??

i dont think scent carries in water does it ?

 

Yep, guarantee that, water holds scent better than dry ground.

yeah but how would they sniff if they did they would surely drown ?

[Born Hunter 17,818]

Theres going to be far more knowledgeable people than me to comment on this but with respect to which direction the mink are most likely caught, could it be becuase the mink 'work' the river against the flow becuase water holds scent well? So by working against the flow, scent will be literally hitting them in the face as apposed to going away. Like a dog working into the wind.... ??

i dont think scent carries in water does it ?

 

Yep, guarantee that, water holds scent better than dry ground.

yeah but how would they sniff if they did they would surely drown ?

lol, the water carries the scent in the form of insoluble(sp) substances like oils which are carried on the surface of the water, these slowly vapourise into the air where they can be 'sniffed'. Like beeing able to smell a petrol spillage

[snareman 3]

I was just about to start placing a few mink traps out on the feeder streams to the golf course lake to give the nesting wildfowl some protection..........when we had some high winds that blew down a couple of trees straight across a little overflow stream. With a little modification they will be ideal to put a couple of bodygrips in cubby's or some Mk 6 Fenns on in a wire tunnel. Normally i cage trap this area but this has given me a few more options....... last season i took 8 mink from around the lake.......nearly all were silvers.

I did notice that i caught more mink running up stream than i did going with the flow so to speak.....just wondered if anyone else had noticed this.

rolfe i usually avoid these tight elbow bends as the mink usuallyrun across them, better on the straights, also i found that mink usually run the left hand bank going upsteam on big rivers and good sized streams , there is one local stream that i set, ive seen me taking 9 out of one trap on the left bank going upstream and 4 from the right downward side , 13 out of two traps on the downward side of a small stone bridge, if there is more cover on one side they will always keep to this bank , if good cover on both sides the kill rate is about equal , if there happens to be an outstanding feature on the bare bank they will cross water to visit it.

[Rolfe 2]

I was just about to start placing a few mink traps out on the feeder streams to the golf course lake to give the nesting wildfowl some protection..........when we had some high winds that blew down a couple of trees straight across a little overflow stream. With a little modification they will be ideal to put a couple of bodygrips in cubby's or some Mk 6 Fenns on in a wire tunnel. Normally i cage trap this area but this has given me a few more options....... last season i took 8 mink from around the lake.......nearly all were silvers.

I did notice that i caught more mink running up stream than i did going with the flow so to speak.....just wondered if anyone else had noticed this.

rolfe i usually avoid these tight elbow bends as the mink usuallyrun across them, better on the straights, also i found that mink usually run the left hand bank going upsteam on big rivers and good sized streams , there is one local stream that i set, ive seen me taking 9 out of one trap on the left bank going upstream and 4 from the right downward side , 13 out of two traps on the downward side of a small stone bridge, if there is more cover on one side they will always keep to this bank , if good cover on both sides the kill rate is about equal , if there happens to be an outstanding feature on the bare bank they will cross water to visit it.

Thanks for that...........interesting to get a few different experiences. Where the lake is situated i caught most of my mink last season on the lower side of the dam(where the water flowed out).......as they were travelling upstream to the lake. Tunnels placed at top end of the lake.......where the water flowed IN.......had far less catches.

 

Rolfe.

[snareman 3]

I was just about to start placing a few mink traps out on the feeder streams to the golf course lake to give the nesting wildfowl some protection..........when we had some high winds that blew down a couple of trees straight across a little overflow stream. With a little modification they will be ideal to put a couple of bodygrips in cubby's or some Mk 6 Fenns on in a wire tunnel. Normally i cage trap this area but this has given me a few more options....... last season i took 8 mink from around the lake.......nearly all were silvers.

I did notice that i caught more mink running up stream than i did going with the flow so to speak.....just wondered if anyone else had noticed this.

rolfe i usually avoid these tight elbow bends as the mink usuallyrun across them, better on the straights, also i found that mink usually run the left hand bank going upsteam on big rivers and good sized streams , there is one local stream that i set, ive seen me taking 9 out of one trap on the left bank going upstream and 4 from the right downward side , 13 out of two traps on the downward side of a small stone bridge, if there is more cover on one side they will always keep to this bank , if good cover on both sides the kill rate is about equal , if there happens to be an outstanding feature on the bare bank they will cross water to visit it.

Thanks for that...........interesting to get a few different experiences. Where the lake is situated i caught most of my mink last season on the lower side of the dam(where the water flowed out).......as they were travelling upstream to the lake. Tunnels placed at top end of the lake.......where the water flowed IN.......had far less catches.

 

Rolfe.

always set outlets and inlets.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Scent 'hangs' across water and not in it as said and only very temporary.Hounds will /can only own a scent on water for minutes at a time .Mink like any other mammal are always looking to expand territory and the natural way to go about it is to travel upstream .When you remove a mink from a stretch you create open ground that is filled by another pushing its own boundaries .When the old scent ,spraint ,of a mink gets weaker due to it having been caught then this triggers off movement all along the bank .The only time mink move freely along territories is in early spring when dogs are looking for bitches .These are generally the repeat catches .

[00taz11 39]

you learn something useful every day thanks for that foxdropper

[alimac 882]

Scent 'hangs' across water and not in it as said and only very temporary.Hounds will /can only own a scent on water for minutes at a time .Mink like any other mammal are always looking to expand territory and the natural way to go about it is to travel upstream .When you remove a mink from a stretch you create open ground that is filled by another pushing its own boundaries .When the old scent ,spraint ,of a mink gets weaker due to it having been caught then this triggers off movement all along the bank .The only time mink move freely along territories is in early spring when dogs are looking for bitches .These are generally the repeat catches .

so your saying unless mink hounds are less than a few minutes behind a mink they wont speak on it ?? or have i read yor post wrong

[Born Hunter 17,818]

Scent 'hangs' across water and not in it as said and only very temporary.Hounds will /can only own a scent on water for minutes at a time .Mink like any other mammal are always looking to expand territory and the natural way to go about it is to travel upstream .When you remove a mink from a stretch you create open ground that is filled by another pushing its own boundaries .When the old scent ,spraint ,of a mink gets weaker due to it having been caught then this triggers off movement all along the bank .The only time mink move freely along territories is in early spring when dogs are looking for bitches .These are generally the repeat catches .

Like i said, someone more knowledgeable than me, cheers foxdropper. I was just thinking out loud.