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Follow Mike Gurski of Ram Connection on a Canadian trapping adventure. He’ll show you a variety of set techniques and tricks of the trade, which he has accumulated over the years. He takes the viewer on two incredible traplines. Mike even utilizes his snowmobile in one segment to gather unique set footage. He shows you techniques for catching almost all of Canada’s furbearers. Whether you are a marten, fisher, lynx or wolf trapper, this video is a must see. Mike shows many ways to catch these creatures with precise regularity. You’ll see various set constructions and set locations. Sure to make you a better trapper whether young or old. You will enjoy an amazing look at the life of a Canadian trapper. 

Join Ron Hauser, veteran trapper of over 30 years, on his Minnesota trapline as he shows you the many tricks that have proven successful and have helped him catch more than 70 raccoons in a day and 30-plus mink on other days, plus additional muskrats and beavers in good numbers. Pocket sets, blind sets, effectively capturing and holding raccoon, mink, and muskrat without time-consuming slide wires, cables, or extra gear.

Join Kyle Kaatz on the trapline in Illinois, Minnesota, and Alabama. This DVD focuses on the basics of trapline success. Covers muskrat, raccoon, mink, coyote, and beaver trapping. The key to trapline success is keeping things simple. Master the basics and work hard and you’ll enjoy success no matter what your target animal! Back To The Basics will show you muskrat trapping with footholds and body-grips, pocket sets and grass wad sets for coon and mink, the trash mound/buried bait set for coyotes, castor mounds, channel sets, and snaring trails for beaver. Lots of catches! Kellen Kaatz explains coon boxes and coyote trapping. Jackie Malone joins Kyle for a river beaver line 'Down Yonder' in Alabama. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned veteran, this DVD is sure to improve your catch!

The second in the "Trapline Anecdotes" series.

1 hour 54 minutes.

Trapline Anecdotes: Roadlining ... Join Kyle Kaatz on the Roadline in Iowa. This 3 hour 2 DVD Set was filmed over 4 days with Kyle on his 2009 Mink, Muskrat, and Raccoon trapline. Kyle explains his simple approach to running an efficient roadline with a career high in 2001 of 416 coon and 30 mink in 12 days. Kyle has the experience to increase your knowledge and make you a better trapper. This DVD covers all aspects of running a long vehicle trapline for the “Big 3”. Pocket sets, bridge walls, black label sticks, and platforms are all explained, plus some #220 trail sets. This is an action-packed video filmed on the trapline with lots of Mink, Muskrat, and Raccoon catches!

The third in the "Trapline Anecdotes" series.

Copyright 2010

Have you ever wondered what a fulltime trapper’s life is like, not only on the good days, but all days? It’s not always pretty, but if you want to follow in the “life style” you can now see what you are getting into. The convention season, making lures, modifying and building gear, supply business, writing books and making videos, then the season starts. Clint traps Iowa, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas and his season is never ending. This is the real life of a fulltime money trapper. Some of the footage may be harsh and there is some language that may not be suitable for children. There has never been a DVD put together like this one. Loaded with quality hardcore info and lots of it. 

Ride along with James Lord on his mixed Tennessee Line. Run with J Lord as he shows his methods of dirt hole, flat, and variations of walk-through sets, as well as set locations and construction for coyotes, fox, bobcat and beaver. This two disk DVD will help you on your line with weather conditions, soil types, and equipment set-up. Footage of before and after sets of coyotes, bobcats, fox and beaver.  

3 hours.

Growing up in a tight knit family along the Mississippi River, Brian Steines and Steve Griebel became as much brothers as cousins as they pursued everything with fur, fins, or feathers. Join them in watching the first video in the Runnin’ the Line series to learn the basics of dirt and water sets. Watch along as you see dozens of ‘yotes and ‘coon work a variety of sets. You’ll also get some practical advice on set location, trap placement, and the use of bait and lure. See how Brian and Steve quickly lay out a line, catch fur, and move on to the next line. Watch the night vision footage of animals working their sets.

Approximately 1 hour.  Copyright 2010

Features top trappers from across the country, showing their favorite sets. Phillips, Spencer, Schmitt, Pedersen, Locklear, Jameson, Smith, O’Hearn, Gregerson, Dobbins, and Graham provide insight and information to help increase production on your line. The first of a series of DEMO Video produced by the NTA.

Features top trappers, showing their favorite sets including:

• Hal Sullivan – Otter and Beaver,
• Matt Jones – Raccoon,
• Bob Jameson – Bobcat,
• Paul Dobbins – Beaver,
• Ron Leggett – Fox,
• Major Boddicker – Predator Calling,
• Rally Hess – Snare Making,
• Red O’Hearn – Raccoon,
• Clint Locklear – Bobcat,
• Mark June – Coyote.

110 minutes. The latest edition of the popular NTA DVD features top trappers, showing their favorite sets including:

• Rally Hess – Under Ice Beaver
• Mark June – Canines
• Serge Lariviere – Snaring
• Dave Plueger – River Trapping
• Kyle Kaatz – Coon
• John Graham – Cats
• Gary Armstrong – Coon
• Newt Sterling – Snaring
• Clint Locklear – Beaver
• Hal Sullivan – Otter 

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.

Larry (Slim) Pedersen has been trapping since he was 8 years old. He’s trapped full time since the age of 34, doing predator control in southeastern Montana for the past 25 years. He also does live market trapping during the winter months. He’s done six trapping and snaring instructional videos, written seven trapping and snaring instructional books, plus two “story” type books about the life of coyotes. Slim has trapped in many states, and has trapped coyotes, bobcats, red and grey fox, kit fox, badgers, skunks (both spotted and striped), weasels, fisher, raccoons, muskrats, mink, beaver, otter, and mountain lions. Slim is an active member of the NTA and several state organizations, and has done many demos for the trapping conventions on a regular basis. 

72 minutes.

This double DVD set is two combined videos in one. You get the full length features "Predators of the Land" and "Working the Water" which cover the techniques for beaver, mink, muskrat, raccoon, fox, coyote, bobcat, fisher, marten, lynx and even the timber wolf. There are many catches in this set from the likes of Alan Probst, Johnny Thorpe, Bob Wendt, Jim Spencer, Mike Gurski and even a 30 minute predator calling segment with 2001 NRA Calling Champion Brad Harris. You can't go wrong with this fully chaptered DVD set and you can bet that you will learn many techniques and methods that will help make you a better outdoorsman while you’re in the field.

4 hours.

Welcome to the new age of modern, humane trapping. Very fast paced, up close and personal, instructional video. Covers all aspects of trapping cats, coyotes, foxes, raccoon, and beaver. Twenty years of trapping experience cut down to 1 hour and 18 minutes of must see footage.

"Dakota Style". How are those huge catches of 500-plus mink, 600 fox and over 1000 coons possible? Two words – Road Trapping. It’s simply the most productive method of harvesting huge amounts of critters. Road trapping allows you to roll through the best areas of your state, harvest the cream and move on – no permission needed! Come along on a Dakota line outing as premier trapper Mark Steck takes you on his road trapline. Discover a deadly new concept called “pipe trapping.” Cover huge areas working right off the roads close to your truck. Learn a line management technique that leads to large catches. Learn the lost art of blind setting for mink.