Schmitt Enterprises Inc.

Details snare making, set locations, skinning and fleshing. You go along on set checks with many catches shown. All snaring in this video is done in tough winter conditions. 

60 minutes.

A sequel to “Snares, A Coyote’s Worst Nightmare”. It clearly shows the benefits of using inline swivels on your snares; plus the use of the Power Snare. Shows a time saving method of putting up coyote pelts.

1 hour.

The Dirt Hole has caught more animals than all the other sets combined. The main reasons are: #1) because it's used the most, and #2) its eye appeal. Once you learn the basics of making the dirt hole (from the size of a mouse to a badger hole, from a well-blended set to four feet of scratched out rough digging) you will see they can be used in any part of the country and are deadly. Shows fast, simple and effective sets made using good equipment and good lure, in the right location. Location is the Key in all Trapping! 

2 hours & 30 minutes.

This instructional coyote video concentrates on making variations of Flat Sets, East and West of the Mississippi. These sets can be used anywhere, but really come in to their own at game trails, dry washes and all types of Access Roads. Use any type of backing (bone, wood, rocks, etc.) for different ways to blend them in. People walk right by. By using a variety of Flat Sets, you will be more successful at trapping coyotes, especially the wise guy. Fast and easy to set up, but a lot of trappers over look their effective use. 

2 hours.

The most extensive fox and coyote locating and trapping video on the market. Two hours of pure trapping fundamentals and locations.

Detailed, advanced predator trapping video. Shows good set locations, proper tools, and has a segment on trapping in snow and ice conditions. Includes a section devoted entirely to the eastern coyote. 

90 minutes.

Filmed on location in Idaho, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania. Dozens of locations for Canines East/West. Detailed construction of sets for Fox, Coyote, and Bobcat. Special segment on change-up scents/lures. Important information on Fox studies disclosed. Dozens of actual trapline catches. Segments on set presentation, double setting and trapping with a low population. Pure predator trapping methodology explained in a simple and down to earth fashion. Exclusive night vision segment on Fox.

Approximately 90 minutes.

It’s been said that location-finding methods is the key to success with canine trapping. This video covers the art of location finding in all parts of the country. Filmed in three states, dozens of locations are showcased. From coyotes in the west to coyotes in the east and red fox trapping in the last great fox stronghold, all aspects of location finding for canines is explained. Filmed on actual working traplines. As a trapper for over 25 years and a student of some of the finest canine trappers of today, he gives the viewer one on one instructions on proper and deadly canine location finding techniques. This is a must have for any canine trapper.

2 hours.

Wayne has thousands of coyotes to his credit, and a vast knowledge of trapping them gained through years of fur trapping, working for the USDA, and as a private control trapper.

1 hour & 45 minutes.

There are over 50 years of experience using the dirt hole in this video. Bait and lure usage is fully explained with the different variations. The different positions of the trap in relation to the hole is explained for targeting red fox, gray fox, coyote, or raccoon. How to avoid most non-target animals is explained and shown.

1 hour & 46 minutes.

Explains sets that have no holes to fill with water, blowing sand, or leaves. It shows and explains a dozen and a half ways of making different Flat Sets. Some of these Flat Sets have no eye appeal, and are constructed to blend in naturally with the surrounding area. Other Flat Sets have great eye appeal and can be seen for hundreds of yards in level, open country or rolling grasslands.

2 hours.

Professional trapper, Brian Fischer (from South Central Minnesota) passing on 30-plus years of trapping techniques and methods. A DVD showing sure fire sets that will put numbers in the fur shed. Explaining detailed fundamentals to trap setting on locations. Spacing, lure location, backer and blocker staging. Pointers and tips that will keep an animal working the set for better results. An important section on trap preparation from how to setting up a trap, cleaning, trap preserving and trap storage to protect your investment.

85 minutes

The best tactics for the worst time of the year.

Learn proper coyote trapping technique from true professionals. The action unfolds on Tom Miranda’s trapline in Central South Dakota and covers equipment, set locations, sets, lure use, innovative anchoring techniques and special sets. Actual coyote catch footage along with proper fur handling technique.

John Graham is, without a doubt, one of the best canine trappers in the U.S. We are proud to offer his first video to our customers. Topics include: Locations, Equipment, Simple-Effective Sets, Remakes, Reading New Country, Locating Coyotes, and other valuable tips and information on understanding canines. Several catches shown. It will make you a better canine trapper. 

2 hours.

Modern Methods for Maximum Results

Filmed on John Graham’s Fur and ADC Snareline in Scenic Eastern Montana. Learn from a veteran professional snareman with thousands of coyotes in various states to his credit. Topics Covered: Picking locations, bait stations, snare height and loop sizes, cable and lock preference, support systems, break-away usage, and equipment for snaring. Trail snaring and fence snaring covered in detail. Snaring is an effective means of harvesting coyotes, learn from one of the best. 

2 hours.

Very intense instructional video. Shows set locations and different types of sets. Coyotes in each type of set. Talks about coyote family structure. Shows Gary trapping the wilderness area by horseback and packhorse. 

2 hours.

Follow professional trapper, Matt Jones, through the forests, upland fields, and river bottoms of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Eastern trappers trap in some of the worst weather conditions in the United States, dealing with rain, snow, and wet conditions on a daily basis. The methods in this video will show you how to keep your coyote sets working in even the worst weather. This video covers traps, equipment, and techniques. These methods will catch you a truckload of coyotes, so sharpen your skinning knife.

Matt started canine trapping in l977 and has thousands of predators to his credit. Watch how he hammers coyote after coyote (plus red fox, grey fox, and bobcat) in traps and snares. Follow along as Matt harvests 82 coyotes in eight 24-hour checks. Will make understanding location easier than it ever was before. If you have an interest in coyote trapping, in the ever-changing weather conditions, this is a MUST SEE video.

Veteran longline trappers, Matt Jones and Len Williams, team up to reveal the “Secrets of the Eastern Longline.” Learn the methods these trappers use to take truckloads of bobcats, coyotes, and red and grey fox. These methods will show how Matt and Len are able to harvest the maximum amount of predators from an area in a very short period. This is an advanced-type video focusing on fast effective sets with great emphasis on location and location set-up. They not only show locations but show them with the predator standing there. North, South, East, or West - This video is sure to help the full time longliner, as well as the trapper with limited time, to increase their catch.

Follow Clint Locklear and Matt Jones as they fight through 7 inches of rain, deep mud, competition and freeze-thaw conditions on their coyote line. See for yourself how these two veteran trappers keep their traps and snares working in the harsh conditions that face every coyote trapper in the east. Better yet, learn how to keep your coyote line in operation, when your competition is stuck spinning their wheels in the mud.

2 hours.

Advanced Eastern Coyote Trapping. A video for the thinking coyote trapper who takes coyote trapping very serious. If you fully intend to catch a canine with every single trap you set, this wet weather methods coyote trapping video is for you. This video will keep you catching coyotes even if it rains two inches every single day.

2 hours.

Ride along with Professional Trapper and biologist Mark June on his predator trap line where he explains in great detail what it takes to consistently catch coyotes. Well-known for his trapping expertise, high energy, and ability to catch large numbers of canines, Mark provides two hours of non-stop instructions and action packed trapline footage!

Learn from one of this country's Top Coyote Trappers!

Professional Trapper and biologist Mark June dives deeper into catching more coyotes in Volume 2, as you ride along with him on his high-production coyote trap line. Well known for his trapping expertise, high energy, and ability to catch large numbers of canines, Mark explains in great detail ADVANCED METHODS that will consistently catch coyotes anywhere.

Learn from one of the country’s Top Coyote Trappers!

2 hours.

Join Kyle Kaatz for two seasons of New Mexico Sandhills Coyote Trapping. This is not your regular instructional DVD. Filmed on a working trapline, under regular conditions.

The first in the "Trapline Anecdotes" series.

A two-hour DVD on the actions and patterns of coyotes around dirt holes. Clear night vision footage that shows the trapper how a coyote will and will not work a dirt hole. See for yourself what it takes to keep a coyote at your set for several minutes to three hours. You will probably never set your trap in front of a hole again. For the first time in history, you can let the coyote teach you, not by a man’s theory.

2 hours.

Predator Control Group is proud to show you how coyotes work flat sets. The more a coyote trapper knows, the more coyotes he will catch. Half of this DVD is shot in night vision footage and half is shot in digital day time footage. Now you can learn how a coyote really works a set, not just a theory on how a coyote works a set. 

Follow with Predator Control Group as Clint Locklear goes into great detail on the art of picking coyote locations and their travel ways. For an hour, Clint covers several different eastern coyote locations and why they are or are not important to the efficient coyote trapper. Without effective locations, all else is a waste of time.

Follow with Predator Control Group as Clint Locklear goes into great detail on dirt hole methods that out produce the “standard dirt hole methods”. This DVD is geared toward the coyote trapper that wants to be above average on his trap line. One hour of intensive advanced dirt hole techniques that equal more fur in your fur shed.

Follow with Predator Control Group as Clint Locklear goes into great detail on EASTERN FLAT SET methods that out produce the “standard after thought” flat set. This DVD is geared toward the coyote trapper that wants to be above average on his predator line. The flat set is the most underrated coyote killing set in the trapper’s arsenal. One hour of intensive advanced flat sets and no hole techniques that equal more fur in your fur shed.

Follow Mike during a summer heat wave, drought conditions, rain and freezes controlling urban coyotes. Mike gives you a proven game plan and highly successful strategies that allow you to take on the urban coyote and win! Includes Urban Fox Control. 

2 Disc Set. 6 hours & 45 minutes.

Slim Pedersen caught his first coyote in Montana over 45 years ago. Since then, he’s trapped from Idaho to Maine, California to Georgia, and many places in between. For the last 33 years, he’s trapped full time as a county trapper, as a federal ADC agent, and for the last 25 years has been a full time predator control specialist, fur trapper, and live market animal trapper. In this DVD, Slim, one of the most respected predator trappers and quoted authors in print, shares his knowledge with you. Solutions to predator trappers’ problems that work in the east, west, north and south. Traps and their modifications, easy anchoring methods, proper trap placement to catch all predators, various attractors and their use, correct lure, urine and bait usage, how to deal with rain and snow conditions, new and effective variations of hole and flat sets. There is so much reliable information crammed in this DVD that you’ll have to watch it over and over to absorb it all! Action packed footage of dozens of coyotes, bobcats, red fox, badgers, and more caught using these methods. Shot on the trapline in Georgia and Montana.

Over 2 hours on 2 DVDs.

Just as the name implies, this video takes up where Predator Trapping Problems and Solutions ends, and has MORE reliable information from one of the most respected trappers in print and on video – Slim Pedersen. Covers advanced techniques and sound trapline fundamentals. Some of the topics covered are mental attitude, applying yourself, difficult animals, secret sets and whiz-bang lures, contamination, making your own waxed dirt, catching digger animals, blending in hard to blend areas, using natural baits, making changes when things aren’t working, advanced guiding methods, and studying, changing, and adapting to the target animals. The methods shown here work east, west, north and south. The knowledge gained from this video can save you several thousand hours of frustration and hundreds of gallons of gas plus a lot of wear and tear on your trapline vehicle. Contains action-packed footage of red and grey fox, coyotes, bobcats, and badgers caught using these methods. Filmed in Georgia and Montana (’94-’95 season).

Approximately 1-1/2 hours.

With consistent catches over 100 coyotes a season while working a full time job, Tim’s actions speak louder than words. Proven methods. High competition areas (getting to the coyote first).  

92 minutes.

Actual on the line footage of sets, including winter sets, catches and locations. Based on 50 years of experience.  

2 hours & 20 minutes.

Learn how Randy makes double after double coyote catches as he takes 180 coyotes in two weeks in the mid-west. You will even see a true quad (four) coyote catch. Location is shown in detail along with wolfer sets, remakes, lures and bait. Fast paced and entertaining.  2 hours. 

Copyright 2009

Mark Steck caught his first canine in 1973. Since that time, Steck has commercially trapped fox and coyotes in several states in all kinds of conditions. A trapping free spirit, Mark brings to this video simplistic methods that bust many trapping myths. He gives an in depth analysis of empty sprung traps, a subject most pros sweep under the rug. In dirt, rain and snow Mark adjusts to changing conditions as he takes you on a working trapline.

2 hours and 40 minutes.  Copyright 2010

All aspects of canine (fox and coyote) trapping are covered. Shows the fundamentals of trap adjustment and modification, and set construction including trap placement, trap bedding and covering, along with techniques for blending sets. In-depth look at the hole set and the flat set. 

117 minutes.

Here is your chance to learn from one of the best trappers of all time. Follow longtime trapper Johnny Thorpe on his coyote line. He shows the viewer many sets and techniques in this video which will make you a better all-around coyote trapper. Johnny is the type of trapper who tells it like it is and you get nothing less in this video. “KIS” is Johnny’s motto and that is to Keep It Simple! Johnny covers the dirt hole set, the springhole set, the flat set, the hole set, the tree set and many other variables such as lure, urine use and bait stations. Johnny gets a lot for his personal instruction, but gives all of that information and more in this video for a fraction of the cost.

115 minutes.

Follow Johnny and his trapping partner Pete Hammond on their New Mexico coyote line. This DVD is fully chaptered and you will see some of the most majestic coyote territory known to man. This country is a true coyote badland and you will see snare sets, badger hole sets and dirt holes just to name a few. This DVD will put you a step ahead of your competition and you are sure to put more fur in your freezer with the techniques learned by watching two of the best trappers in the west.

Follow Bob on his coyote line in Kansas as he shows the art of coyote trapping at its finest. Bob takes the viewer on a journey that includes an in-depth view of the live market. Bob is an expert in live market trapping and reveals secrets that he would not otherwise reveal, except for the fact that he is approaching semi-retirement. His extensive look at skunk poling and essence removal without losing a drop of extract is a must see. Bob has made his living trapping for over 30 years, and has 1000s upon 1000s of fox, coyotes, and bobcats to his credit. This footage includes many of his sets using various techniques. You’re sure to learn something whether you’re a beginning trapper or a hard-core veteran. Other videos don’t compare to Bob’s approach, you get the real deal, nothing staged. Even night footage that has never been seen before. On the Dog Line certainly gives you a different look on trapping. 

1 hour & 42 minutes.