Hick's Pic's (Trapping Season )

[ms.hick]

Thanks everybody!  Good luck to everyone!

[hickgtx600f4]

OK, well here we go.
Thursday night i got my first bobcat. no pic's but hey it was a lil small so it just headed to the fur buyer. i remade the set and added another set about 50yds up the meadow. glad i did  i got my second bobcat on saturday night. no pic's either. had a rough time with the frost locking up my traps. i remade them all since i had fresh tracks in all over my set's but nothing wearing a steel bracelet. Freeze-proofed all my sets and it payed off. I got out today and had another bobcat in the trap. it was a little small so i let it go. here are some pic's of the process.







and here is the Vid of the release.
http://youtu.be/D77FyJKgFE4

I have always enjoyed trapping for fox and coyote's but never managed to get any bobcats. In the four years I have trapped this property i have never seen any sign of bobcats and now to end up with three within a week.  I think these three bobcats were all recently kicked away from their mother. they were all just making their way down the road on their own path in life. I hope to catch this Gal next year. 

[chuckrudy]

Great pictures and great story thanks for sharing. You are the man.

[hesseltine32]

very cool video

[fishnmachine]

Cool video!!!

[Raquettedacker]

Nice...     

[Squirrel]

thats awesome ive always wanted to see one in the wild but we dont have that many here in NH that i know of.. good luck in the rest of your trapping and hunting season look forward to more pics

[nyduckman]

Sweet pictures sir...always wanted to catch a big cat

[hickgtx600f4]

Thanks everyone !! It was interesting to see her just chilling out after the release. She will hopefully have a litter for next year. And I will hopefully see her next fall when she is a lil bigger. She tore up the set pretty good that's for sure. Maybe a yote will show up and investigate the catch circle. This field has the only two active sets on our property. I hope the fur keeps showing up.

[hunts2long]

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing....hunts2long

[jlaclair]

man Ive always wanted to catch on of those...seen my far share but never really trapped them, its tough where I am too only having state land...

[hickgtx600f4]

ok i posted this in the trapping section but wanted to have it in my pic's also.

ok, i pulled the set that i caught the first coon in. he tore it up pretty bad and figured i would make a new set later in the same area. after seeing the trailcam footage of yote's and a fox skirting the set i know they were in the area. so i put a new dirthole set on the side of a mound in the hemlocks. i put a #2 and used a some powder ridge bait in the bottom of the dirt hole. i also added a cotton ball down the hole so it would have some eye appeal. second night there it connected. trying for a $20 yote and ended up with a high$$ fisher, Ill take that any day. 

[nyduckman]

would ya just look at that...way to go brotha a huge congrats to you

[Spikehorn11]

Great job. What area are you in? Fisher are becoming more wide spread in NY. My first one I had mounted. Big female on a leaning pole set.

[ms.hick]

Nice looking fisher! Good job!