I have a lot of drags on chain I like to use. Last week I took 8 foot. 1/8 inch cable with a cam lock cinch n one end and cut a clog from trees or bushes on site and tried that. Nothing went very far. Less than the chain and drag some times.
It may not matter to you young guys but pulling and driving stakes wears me out. Digging dirt holes, pocket sets and drowning wires usually put me off too.
I guess I’ve become a lazy trapper.
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Sounds to me like you have evolved into a smart trapper! You have now entered Johnny Thorpe level! Using what’s around you to the point that you just carry in a trap or two, some wire , or cable, and some lure.
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That where I like to be. I’ve been cutting out more and more gear I keep it all pretty bare bones know. It’s easier and allot more fun to me. Plus I’ve started to really like haveing out allot of traps. Like it even more know then when I was an extra youngster.
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If you want to really get a kick sometimes find some fur boom Trapper and Predator Caller mags and look at all the gimmicky stuff in there and stories written by beginner trappers. Lots of ideas on doing things the hard way.
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Tried the clogs it seems to be a lot easier than steaking. Clogs can become addictive.
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I like brush drags,that’s the way I learned to do it.it is pretty handy
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I used to use brush drags a lot ,
Stupid question?
Describe Clog out of a tree ?
I’m assuming it’s a section of tree
And Brush
Any pictures would help me
Bought some drags this year for the first time
Looking forward to trying them
I carry a little battery powered chainsaw. I cut a limb or small tree about the size of my wrist about six feet long and cinched it down about a third the way up. It made a cumbersome drag on site I didn’t have to carry the weight on the utv.
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Back in the day a brush drag was all you had.
You all using these brush drags for coyotes??
I trap some big open fields be scared I’d lose them
I didn’t catch a coyote in them last week but I was using tough autumn olive limbs. They were heavy enough I couldn’t easily pick them up and move. I saw Tom Krause uses steel fence posts attached a third of the way up or just behind the spade. I was in thick stuff to begin with Perry. That’s why I was catching kittens and females probably. I wouldn’t use a drag of any kind unless very heavy in those soybean fields you have plus I have the confidence of my dog with me. I can think of places I’d rather have a very heavy solid clog than a steel hook on my line. I was just experimenting a bit by not carrying a hundred pounds of chain and drags. Last year on a strip pit with cereasa I used the steel drags with 8 ft. Of chain plus 8-10 ft. Of cable and they couldn’t navigate with all that.
I have in the past caught coyotes in the woods on clogs. I have like wise caught them in 300 acre soybean feilds on drags. These was feilds you couldn’t drive. Stake because of the limestone so we used a O’Gorman high plains plow and 10 foot of number 3 the hey left marks all the way across and hung up when they hit the wood line. Or fence row,but that drag and chain combo would hold on anything for a min it was hard even for a 20 year old me to drag across a field.
Fox and cat wouldn’t hardly go anywhere.
Colrt
I purposely dragged a couple spots on my place last year to test my dog. No drag marks across an open field but coyote tangled quickly in the edge. She smells stuff and knows there’s been a catch before I do. Most cats don’t get out of sight. I’ve had a couple big Toms I can remember getting 30-40 yards.
Thanks for the info guys
Thanks for explaining
Up here in the Urban area were it’s
Always my natural worry to be cautious
Il’l absolutely have places I’ll be trying this
I can think of many places get out of my zone
I like that idea a lot