Schmitt Enterprises Inc.

Detailed instructions, and pictures, showing how to adjust your traps so they are more productive. Covers longspring traps, coilspring traps, jump traps and guard-type traps. Will bring your traps from “maybe it will work” to a piece of equipment in which you will have confidence. 86 pages.

This book eliminates loss of fur due to poor anchoring and theft. If there’s a way a trap can be fastened, it’s in this book. Covers slides, stakes, grapples, wire, chains, etc. Coverage from rats to coyotes. Includes photos and drawings. 107 pages.

Explains and illustrates making various flat sets under all conditions. These sets have no holes to fill with water, blowing dirt, sand or leaves. 88 detailed photos, 78 pages.

Not only deals with fox and coyotes, but also with making land sets for bobcat, raccoon, mink, and otter. How to stabilize a trap, when using lightweight materials for antifreeze. Use of call lures. Use of trails. Use of electronic squeakers. Explains the use of psychology on the target animal to take its mind off danger. Explains WHY each different set works to take the wild canines. 184 pages.

Bait and lure usage at the dirt hole, also traps and equipment. Different positioning of the trap in relation to what animal is being trapped. Blending is explained and how it is accomplished under different circumstances. Over 80 detailed photos to help you catch more fox, coyote, bobcat, and raccoon. 72 pages.

Sets are described and illustrated for high water, under ice, on top of the ice, floating sets, land sets, wet and dry tunnel sets, pocket sets in the water, pocket sets on land, pocket sets with multiple traps, dirt hole for mink, the use of foothold traps, the use of bodygrip traps, and many more things the trapper can use to increase his mink catch. 92 pages.

Perfected open water trapping methods for both beaver and otter described in detail. Proper size traps and how to make them produce are explained and illustrated for foothold traps as well as for body gripper traps and snares. Drowning methods, bait, food lure, castor-based lure, location, dry sets, under water sets, wet sets, blind sets, fur handling – It’s all here! 114 pages.

Excellent book by trapping legend Charles Dobbins. This is not a method book, rather it describes in great detail how to determine both the limits and capabilities of lures, baits, and urines. It doesn’t explain how to make lures or baits, but deals with testing lures, baits, and urines for effectiveness. Tells you how often to re-lure, and will help you determine which lures work best on your own trapline. You will know how far a certain lure will bring the target animal under different weather conditions. 110 pages.

Stories of Charles Dobbins’ various traplines and experiences. Contains chapters on Charlie’s first coon, coming up the hard way, evolution of a trapper, killer coyote, and many more. 120 pages.

This book relives Charles Dobbins’ beginning days of trapping in the 1930s and beyond. The mistakes, the triumphs, they’re all in this educational and fun to read book. 129 pages.

This is the last book written by Charles Dobbins. Starts where “The Great Teachers” leaves off and covers his life through the mid-1960s. Interesting, informative reading about his trapline adventures. 84 pages.