Big PA Bobcats!! Haysets are tearing it up! Episode 14

[@MarkJLarsonOutdoors]

I haven't had any luck with hay sets yet this season! Thank you for sharing how you make them! Those were very nice cats! Merry Christmas my friends!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@MarkJLarsonOutdoors Thanks Mark. I definitely think hayset are better for foxes but I always pick up a few coyotes in them. Appreciate all your support, and wish you a Merry Christmas!

[@MarksTrappingandOutdoors]

Congrats on the catches Jake! Looks like you had an awesome day. Thanks for sharing

[@Keystonetrapper]

@MarksTrappingandOutdoors Thanks for watching and your support. It was a fun day for sure. I wish you the best of luck on your line!! Tight Chains brother!!

[@WilliamAyers-sp4tt]

Awesome video Jake. Congratulations on a beautiful tom. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Hay set looks awesome. Thanks for sharing

[@Keystonetrapper]

@WilliamAyers-sp4tt Thanks buddy!! Really appreciate you watching! Give them haysets a try. I think you will like them. Merry Christmas

[@lockdoc854]

Congrats on your bobcat. The hay sets look super easy to do, and you explained it perfectly. Thank you for sharing them.

[@Keystonetrapper]

I am glad it helped you out. If you put any out and connect on anything please shout out!! Glad to hear success of other trappers!! Merry Christmas!

[@lockdoc854]

Just curious, I assume your wax dirt is in the blue barrel with screw on lid. Where do you get those I would love to get some of them?

[@Keystonetrapper]

@lockdoc854 There is a guy at the PA rendezvous every year with some for sale. Usually $20 ea. I know I am going to own a couple more this coming year. They are the perfect size

[@hickoryhives8372]

Merry Christmas! Congratulations on a beautiful cat! Headed north tomorrow...you got me pumped!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@hickoryhives8372 I really wish you the best of luck!! Please reach out if you connect on one!! Tight chains brother, and Merry Christmas!

[@hickoryhives8372]

Well we didn't get into the bobcats , but Dad and I each caught our fishers. A male and a female..1 mile apart. Good luck the rest of the season! Jason

[@Keystonetrapper]

@hickoryhives8372 Sorry to hear no bobcats on the trip, but heck yeah with the fishers!! That's awesome!! I missed my first fisher every this weekend because of traps frozen. Lessons learned the hard way I guess!! I am hoping he comes back through! Again congratulations on the fisher and really appreciate you watching!

[@LiveMoreOutdoors]

Awesome day! Congrats on the catches! Merry Christmas to you and your family.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@LiveMoreOutdoors Thank you Jim for all your support brother. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Prayers for your wife buddy

[@hilljackoutdoors2808]

Congratulations man. Thanks for showing that hay set. I'll have a try that at some point. Y'all have a Merry Christmas

[@Keystonetrapper]

@hilljackoutdoors2808 Thank you buddy!! I wish you the best of luck at your friend's farm. Tight chains and Merry Christmas!!

[@SeldomFales]

Very nice video that you record what you’re seeing rather than us looking at your face! I’m an absolute lover of the blind trail set for cats & coyotes, bare ground or snow. I’ve had good luck with hay sets here but I make them hourglass shaped with 2 traps but I like your loaf of bread shape and can see why they work. When they work in PA, they’ll work in MI.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@SeldomFales Thank you sir, blind setting is one of my favorite ways to connect on critters. There telling you were there walking, it's just a matter of them placing there foot on that 2x2 pan! Appreciate you watching and commenting. Happy new year!

[@BoneHeadTrapping]

Nice cats, thats awesome! I'm about to get some hay sets out myself, fingers crossed. Thanks for sharing!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@BoneHeadTrapping Thanks Brother! They were fun for sure! I wish you the best of luck and I appreciate you watching.

[@coyotewacker]

Nice work guys , Great Catches Beautiful Cats ! Goodluck Out There BeSafe

[@Keystonetrapper]

Thanks brother! Appreciate you watching!

[@andrewruble7706]

Looking like a good time Jake. Nice to see Dwayne is doing well also. Enjoy the break and good luck.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@andrewruble7706 Thanks Andy, having a blast during our little break in work!! Appreciate your support and commenting. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

[@alanbostdorf7122]

Congrats on hitting 50 (counting bobcats) canines! Quite an accomplishment! When you run your “big line” for two weeks, how many traps are in the ground? How many miles do you drive to check your line each day? Enjoy watching your channel!

[@Keystonetrapper]

Alan I am running about 100+ sets. Roughly 60 miles round trip. I make a big loop. I really appreciate you watching and glad your enjoying. Tight chains brother.

[@thehammerstraplineproducts]

Great job! You’re a hell of a trapper buddy! Merry Christmas!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@thehammerstraplineproducts I appreciate all your support brother!! Merry Christmas!!

[@troyjones5522]

Great video, congratulations on the cat. i will give the hay set a try

[@Keystonetrapper]

@troyjones5522 Best of luck, i hope you do well only it. Please reach out if you do!! Appreciate you watching and tight chains.

[@bmilla35]

Just found your channel, immediately subscribed! I was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, and always wanted to get into trapping. It was really hard trying to find someone to mentor me, so I never did. Time to binge your videos!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@bmilla35 Well I really appreciate you subscribing and commenting. Never to late to learn trapping. Back in the day everyone was tight lipped and didn't want to give up any knowledge. Times have changed and there is alot of great knowledge floating around out there. Just got to weed out the good from the bad. Again, I thank you for your support and watching and commenting. Merry Christmas!

[@williamharkenrider3842]

Great job Merry Christmas to my fellow trappers down in Pa.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@williamharkenrider3842 Thank you William. Best of luck to you, and Merry Christmas!!!

[@swamplivingadventures4574]

Hey Keystone, I am going to do that Hayset shortly and I’ll let you know the results! Great explanation!

[@Keystonetrapper]

Awesome!! Wish you the best of luck with it!! It's definitely a better fox sets but we definitely catch coyotes on it also. Thanks for watching

[@lukasbejcek8841]

Huge congratulations to you and your buddy for those gorgeous tomcats! I am glad that you have already got it! The thumbnail is perfect, nice to two happy trapping guys! Was it hard to decide whether you harvest THOSE, or wait for even better ones, when you have just one chance? Did you dispatch them with your choke pole as usual, were they struggling not too much? And the red fox is nice too, I liked the foxes in your mate´s fur shed, he has a nice fur shed. So, enjoy skinning this beautiful pelt and I am keeping my fingers crossed for you to harvest a good fisher!

[@Keystonetrapper]

Hey buddy, yes sometimes it can be hard to decide what cat to harvest or not. However I am fortunate to catch a lot of them so I know when I catch a good one or a young one almost instantly. I would never discourage someone from harvesting one, especially as long as it's legal and in season. They are such a wonderful creature and one of my favorite thing to target. I am still trying for the fisher, Season goes out on Sunday so keep your fingers crossed for me!! Appreciate everything and you watching brother!

[@lukasbejcek8841]

@@Keystonetrapper Hey! I do believe it can be hard to decide sometimes, but as you are saying, you probably recognize well which fur is worth harvesting... And when I am looking at these two beautiful tomcats, I am glad you harvested them and I believe that you don´t regrett taking them! So, are the old ones always better than even big young ones? Or is a middle age the best? It must be a pleasure to skin and handle this gorgeous fur... It is really an unique fur in the fur industry, I admire bobcat fur coats, blankets and such things very much. Have you kept any bobcat pelts for you too for such projects or for mounts, wall hangers and so? What a pity you havent more tags, at least 2-3! But reading the comment below, I join to the congratulations on hitting 50 canines! Wow! And 100+ sets, 60 miles around... That´s awesome, you have my huge respect, buddy! And I am having all my fingers crossed for you to catch the fisher, sincerely, buddy! Do you best today! I like you as a person and appreciate all you replies to me. How many sets are you having for fisher?

[@lukasbejcek8841]

@@Keystonetrapper Hey buddy, how are your traps working? Have you got a fisher? Or anything other? Fingers crossed, bud!

[@FLYFISHTIE]

So we do is driving me insane! great video

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@FLYFISHTIE Thanks, i really appreciate you commenting and watching!! It was a fun day!!

[@Mtn_Dewpider]

What do you do to dispatch the animals? .22?

[@huntready1435]

Congrats on the cat! Hay sets for the win!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@huntready1435 Thanks, they sure were and have been the win all week. Appreciate you watching, and happy new year.

[@canislatrans8285]

My best season was 81 foxes. 60 of them were caught in hay sets. The last time I trapped foxes 3 years ago I had all 7 foxes caught in hay sets. The dirtholes caught nothing. Though 1 was dug out some and the trap had frozen in despite using waxed dirt. It had rained a few days earlier, then temps got down to like 20 degrees. 6 foxes were caught at same property, all in the hay set, within something like 2 weeks. I used trapper j all predator lure and fox pee. I collect from fox bladders and have a good bit still. Years ago I used rendered aged red fox butt gland lure someone gave me. That was super stuff.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@canislatrans8285 Thats some awesome numbers!! Also the percentage of other sets compared to haysets it crazy but not surprising. I really appreciate ypur support, and for watching! Merry Christmas!!

[@canislatrans8285]

@@Keystonetrapper with all the rain and freeze thaw crap, hay sets shine. That year I got 81 was nuts, reds all over the place like crazy. I had 1 grey fox. A couple locations were marginal, but even the worst one I got 7 foxes. I had 2 locations yield 17 each. I was catching doubles left and right. I only had about 7 spots. I had an 8th come up late in season and all I caught was a possum. The people had issues with foxes, and I set on what looked like good locations, but nothing. It was in PA and if the mink season didn't go out so early, I may have caught one on the little creek running through the place if I set it. MD mink season runs to march 15 along with muskrat, beaver, otter, skunk, and raccoon. I think the 81 fox season was also the one i caught around 40 coons, a dozen or so beavers, 7 mink, some muskrats, and 2 otters. MD and PA. I lived by the state line and loved trapping so much I didn't mind the non res fee for PA.

[@lukasbejcek8841]

@@canislatrans8285 Awesome numbers, you have my respect for that! Thanks for your comment, it is nice to read. What a shame that the fur market is not what it used to be and that people are not so interested in wearing real fur anymore because of all the "animal rights" and such sh.t

[@canislatrans8285]

@lukasbejcek8841 well, I got an order in to make a red fox hat for a raging liberal. She lived in FL something like 40 years, and now lives in MD. She is not used to the cold here lol, and knows how warm fur is vs anything else. I just have to only tell her the fox died of old age at the fox retirement home LOL, her words not mine. I had shown her my fisher hat I just made. I also know a vegan guy who had to start eating meat again due to poor health from being vegan for years. And there are hecklers at peta videos pointing out fake fur and microplastics, and how that kills more animals than real fur. There may be hope, be optimistic.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@canislatrans8285 That would be awesome huge benefit of living on the state line!! Great stuff!! Love hearing you guys talk trapping!!

[@BLUEGRASSTRAPPER]

Nice catches and sets

[@Keystonetrapper]

@BLUEGRASSTRAPPER Thabks brother!! It was a good day for sure! Appreciate you watching. Keep after them critters down there!

[@Crittergitteroutdoors]

Im gunna have to give them hay sets a try in nebraska...we have bad freeze thaw here too

[@Keystonetrapper]

@Crittergitteroutdoors Absolutely!! See how you make out. Would be curious to see if you get good results with them. They are definitely a better fox sets than coyote but most coyotes can't resist coming over to check them out. Appreciate you watching and support. Please keep in touch, Would love to here how you do

[@scotthackett4500]

Will straw work as well or is Alfalfa a must.? Here in Michigan..have the Same weather as well. Thank for the Knowledge..& all the info..Good Stuff!!

[@Keystonetrapper]

@scotthackett4500 yes sraw will work. I prefer the stuff there barn floor because it's much finer and the stalks won't bring the swivels up like full length straw. Let me know how you make out with it. Appreciate you watching and your support.

[@buckmales1865]

Do you have trouble with deer setting off traps in the hay sets?

[@Keystonetrapper]

@buckmales1865 Very rarely do they bother my sets. Every once in a while one will get snapped off at a hay sets, but that's because of the urine. Most people think they will eat the hay, but they don't. Again if I have a deer snaps and it usually only once a season on haysets, it's because of the urine. They don't bother it again once they snap it off.

[@paulmorgan2042]

What brand of bobcat urine are you using ? I mostly just use red fox urine on the hay sets.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@paulmorgan2042 Bob Jamesons ultra blend. Very good bobcat urine. Appreciate you watching.

[@jhall9543]

Where did u get the long release pole?

[@Keystonetrapper]

@jhall9543 www.cooncreektrappers.com they have anything you need. Give him a call and he can get you what ever your looking for. He has a wide variety of poles. I really appreciate you watching.

[@jhall9543]

@Keystonetrapper thanks. I will check them out

[@williamwaychoff8710]

What lure do you use on haysets? Maker and type?

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@williamwaychoff8710I use Coyote, Redfox, and Bobcat pee, I typically use a gland lure of the 3 animals mentioned above or lures from TS Trapline, ringburner, pred sauce, and he has a few other very good lures. I also like Hoosier trapper supply lures. Vixen elixir, coyote carnage. My baited sets are almost all Wilson's wildlife solutions baits. Grave digger would be my #1, happy ending, stiff, and pipebomb. Hoosier trappers supply topdog would be another highly recommended bait that i have a ton of success on.

[@williamwaychoff8710]

@Keystonetrapper thank you

[@rodneyrote6261]

Just found your channel and subscribed

[@Keystonetrapper]

@rodneyrote6261 Well I really appreciate you subscribing and your comment. I hope you have a blessed New Year!

[@moyeroutdooradventures3291]

Congratulations, hay sets tomorrow! Which Dan's chaps do you use? I'm been looking at them.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@moyeroutdooradventures3291 Thank you very much!! I appreciate you watching and supporting. I will have to get back with you on the chaps. I have had them a few season and there holding up well.

[@carsonsanders9409]

What bait do you use for coyotes?

[@Keystonetrapper]

Wilson's wildlife solutions is my primary bait. Grave digger is my no. 1, pipebomb, stiff, happy ending are all good choices also from him. It can be bought at cooncreektrappers.com

[@Keystonetrapper]

Wilson's wildlife solutions is my primary bait. Grave digger is my no. 1, pipebomb, stiff, happy ending are all good choices also from him. It can be bought at cooncreektrappers.com

[@chrisallen3741]

What happens with the meat? Just curious

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@chrisallen3741 Depends on the critter. Bobcat is delicious.

[@PAtrappingNoutdoors]

Nice cat!

[@Keystonetrapper]

Thanks buddy!! I appreciate you watching!! Excited to see you catch some beaver!! Tight chains and Merry Christmas!!

[@David-fv7zg]

Nice cats for our area, what part of PA is this?

[@Keystonetrapper]

@@David-fv7zg Appreciate you watching. North Central PA

[@David-fv7zg]

@Keystonetrapper I thought as much, south central here, not as many target animals here.

[@billc3405]

Why the salt on the hay sets seeing the trap doesn't sit on the ground but the hay ?? Can you expand the reason. Congratulations on the bobcats and great season so far

[@Keystonetrapper]

@billc3405 Bill, I guess it's just the way I was taught. I was told that I don't want the hay sticking to the ground and with a light rain or freeze thaw the salt would keep it from doing that. I understand why your asking the question but unfortunately that's the only reason I can give you. I appreciate you watching and glad your enjoying!

[@billc3405]

@Keystonetrapper thank you for your reply I personally dislike salt as it draws moisture and once the temperature drops below 20 things will freeze up any way

[@Keystonetrapper]

@billc3405 Bill, i can't disagree with that statement at all because it definitely will draw moisture. Again, just what I was taught from a old timer. However I might try it without and see if I have any different results. If there the same results then I would agree not worth putting in the ground. Thanks

[@m1a1abrams93]

I would have liked to seen how you released the other bobcat.

[@Keystonetrapper]

I had a camerman who had nevrr seen anything like that. He was a bit excited and never hit play. Checkout episode episode 12 of my big line. I left one go in the video on that episode. I use a catch pole, always try to get a foot in the loop when doing it and pin them down and let them go. Some trappers use ply wood, or plastic totes. The way you see me do it in episode 12 is how I let 30+ cats go and it works well. I appreciate you watching. Happy New Year!

[@m1a1abrams93]

@@Keystonetrapper Thanks so much. I will check it out. And Happy New Year to you & yours also.

[@randyclark2341]

I started trapping last year i cough a 40 lb tom last year and a 39 lb tom this year central pa

[@Keystonetrapper]

@randyclark2341 Man those are monster Toms!!! Congratulations on some huge cats!! Would love to catch one that big! My biggest is 30lbs. I am central PA also. Hopefully we can meet up some time!

[@yomomma1.6]

So it is.

[@Keystonetrapper]

@yomomma5042 yes...yes it is!! 😎 Thanks for watching!

[@Mtn_Dewpider]

I just subscribed, so I did….

[@Keystonetrapper]

I really appreciate you subscribing and watching. Means alot, Thank you!!

[@BobMartin-up4gm]

do you sell your pelts, please ansher

[@Keystonetrapper]

Why do you ask?