Curious as to what most guys like for anchoring your traps with. Do you use one type for all traps, or mix and match for different kinds of traps? Examples would be something like super stakes on coyote traps, disposable on D.P.'s, or drags on cat sets; that sort of thing. What’s your preference, and why? Personally, I’m cheap and still use rebar cross staked for coyotes because I can pull them and use over and over. Coon cuffs, I like just a looped 1/8 or 3/32 cable to wrap around a tree/ sapling on most , with disposables on the rest. beaver sets generally are extension cables wired to strong roots or trees , and cage traps that are sometimes anchored with an electric fence rebar rod.
For trapping creeks I typically use 14 gauge wire doubled up and tied off to roots, or big rocks. For land trapping I use wolf fangs made by wolf creek products in Ohio. They make ones that are double the size of the standard wolf fang and they’ll hold anything we have.
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Chain super stakes on cat/canine traps. I’ll attach extra chain with a drag when and where needed. On DPs I use the hd Berkshire disposables.
No particularly reason why. Thats just what I ended up doing. If I ever start running DPs much again, I’ll probably switch them over to super stakes also. Just so one stake driver will do all traps.
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i have super stakes on all my footholds.
have standard berkshires on my DPs
thinking i might go to all berkshires next season. them super stakes can be a killer pulling them.
especially with a bad back.
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I started out all Birkshires on foot holds but after trying dozen superstakes with retriveable cable I’m deffinately going all superstakes. It’s a breeze to pull them up.
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Wolf fangs with about ten inches of cable then chain. They are ok but have been thinking about trying super stakes.
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Superstakes on dry land,rebar in the water or cable on to a tree or root
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Cable chain drags or rebar I’m a tight wad for one thing the other is that wolf fangs are aggravating to pull and reset out of a boat.
I pulled 80 sets once anchored with wolffangs from my boat and got down in my back pretty good switched back the 30" rebar after that.
They get you in a bind from a floating boat and work your guts out,even with a puller, On dry ground it’s not “as” bad.
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I use super stakes, some with chain and some with cable Water I use rebar T stakes or cable to tie off of a tree pr root.
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Just my first full season but I was using wolf fangs with cable for foot holds. Areas I’ve been trying to trap the ground has been mushy and wet even 12-16” deep and I was able to nearly pull the wolf fangs out of the ground when setting. So I switched to super stakes finned style with chain. They are hard to pull out as I don’t own an atv. Been using a 30” wrecking bar and 2x4 for leverage. For DPs I use some wolf fangs, but I made some cable with loops and ferrules and attach to trees or a log, I like the cables better.
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You are in luck if you want to try the super stakes, as I believe that’s what the MB 550’s I have got you have on them.
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I have some Chained superstakes I am going to try next year on my canine and cat traps. For coon traps i make pogos or cable to a root or sapling.
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I liked wolf fangs for a while but I’ve had trouble with them bending and not setting. Next year I’m going to try something else.
My first ten years or so I trapped I used the stakes made out of a 2” piece of pipe with a nut welded on the side. Jeff Robinson up in Ohio makes them. There isn’t much to them but I never lost a trap. They are easy to pull and are indestructible.
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Funny you say that about the Wolf Fangs Mr. Pickard…I have used Wolf Fangs for years with no issues really until this season. It seems like every single one I put in the ground bent, many in really not that hard of ground. I have replaced a bunch of them this year and the new ones bend just like my older ones did. I have made my decision to switch to Super Stakes this summer.
Chained super stakes on my land traps is my go to…
I do use drags on occasion with 10 feet of #3 machine chain
Used to use wolf fangs and berkshires, bent too many of them on rocks…
T bars, drowning rods, or drags in the water.
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If I use the cabled anchors I’m thinking of trying the high desert spears. My ground is so hard I’ve actually had the cast bullet anchors break trying to drive them and they won’t turn good when driven in. I set a lot where 50 tons of dirt and truck have driven over it thousands of times. When I can drags fill the bill there but sometimes it’s too open to trust.
I probably could go to 15 inch cross staked rebar and it’d hold fine.
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If I’m driving to sets, I find myself using double rebar. They are easier in hard rocky ground and pull so much better.
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