The best trapper I've ever known was an old guy I met while serving exchange duty in the Canadian Armed Forces in the '60's in New Brunswick, Canada. All he used were snares he made using light steel cable. Thinking back to all the lugging around #3's and #4's I did in high school, I figured this guy was a genius--he could carry 40 traps looped to his belt! He always got more than his share of coyotes, bobcats, ferel dogs and fox. He liked to find places where a run went under a fence, but he used holes, hollow logs and trees, culverts and anywhere else a trail narrowed. He told me once he caught a cat by hanging a shiny tin can lid 2 feet off the ground in the center of a snare loop tied to a branch. Steve
