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Post by cnyh2ofowler on Jan 30, 2015 8:16:50 GMT -5
Caught a nice male mink in a trail set on the ice yesterday. It was dark when I checked the set and when I picked the mink up something did not seem right. I turned on my headlamp and saw the mink had a huge bullfrog in its mouth. The bridger 150 killed him so quickly the frog was still in his jaws. Both front legs had been chewed off the frog but otherwise it was in good shape. You see some cool stuff out there.
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Post by 2labs on Jan 30, 2015 12:09:58 GMT -5
Never know what you will have? Cool catch.
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Post by nightstalker1 on Jan 30, 2015 17:01:49 GMT -5
Few years ago...got 'em both
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Post by mole on Jan 30, 2015 17:25:20 GMT -5
mink catch & eat a lot of frogs even in the winter. opened up a lot of mink to find frog skin in their stomachs. can be their demise also in the spring & summer. get killed by cars chasing frogs on the highway.
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Post by k9goodtimes on Jan 30, 2015 17:39:15 GMT -5
I had a female mink run past me a few weeks back carrying a leopard frog down the ice. Ironically I was checking mink boxes at the time...
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Post by Dave Morse on Jan 30, 2015 19:21:49 GMT -5
Any luck with the mink boxes?
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Post by k9goodtimes on Feb 1, 2015 7:33:05 GMT -5
They did a great job feeding the mice. That'd be about it. Blind setting and setting bottom edges has gotten me 6 in 2 weeks. 4 buck and 2 female.
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Post by mrlongbeard1 on Feb 2, 2015 1:05:48 GMT -5
I caught 4 mink in 5 days out of a set that had a frog laying on its back past the trap in the water..
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Post by cnyh2ofowler on Feb 2, 2015 8:03:02 GMT -5
I have tried fish, muskrat, duck, mice, squirrel, rabbit and god knows what else in my boxes and nothing. I once watched a female mink at a launch site on Oneida feed her babies fish. She would bring one in, the 5 little ones would meet her half way across the ramp and take the fish, and off she would go. She was never gone more than 2 minutes and would be back with a fish. Bullheads, sunnies, crappies,small bass, she caught them all. They are a hunting machine. I think when prey is abundant they just like catching their own.
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