Schmitt Enterprises Inc.

Pro Fur Handling for the Fur Trapper and Hunter. The ultimate fur-handling video! If you’re new to trapping or a crusty old veteran, this video is sure to put money in your pocket. Covers land and water animals. Proper skinning, fleshing, and stretching as well as drying and fur storage is included in the video. Basic trap sets for canines and cats as well as mink and otter are also shown to get the new trappers started off on the right foot. Everything you need to know in order to handle coyote, bobcat, red and grey fox, raccoon, skunk, river otter, mink, muskrat, and beaver. This is a fun plus educational video that anyone will enjoy. Shows the small things that make a big difference. 

4 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.

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.

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.

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.

Follow professional trappers Matt Jones and Len Williams throughout the bluff and river country of Kentucky, Illinois, and Tennessee as they show the proven methods and techniques that have helped them harvest thousands of raccoons over the years. Eastern raccoon trappers are forced to deal with numerous obstacles such as fluctuating water levels, rough terrain, abundant weather changes, and other trappers. Matt and Len show how they have learned to compensate for these problems and catch hundreds of raccoons each season. Coverage of #220s in coon boxes and trails, plus water sets using foot traps. Includes segments on bait making and skinning. So sharpen your skinning knife and get ready to see “Eastern Raccoon Trapping – Roads, Creeks, and Rivers”. “This is not just another pocket-set video.”

The most informative up to date Beaver and Otter trapping method ever before shown on video.  Ride with commercial fur trapper Matt Jones across the rivers, creeks, and backwater sloughs of his home country trapline. See first hand the fastest most effective methods for harvesting Beaver and Otter fur with the use of foothold and body gripper type traps. Learn foothold slide wire methods and body gripper trap support Techniques never before shown on video. Methods that work anywhere anytime, rock or mud, deep or shallow. Matt also explains fur marketing techniques for the (New) Beaver and Otter market. The days of waiting late season to trap Beaver and Otter are dead and gone. Matt takes you on the trapline and not only talks the talk but walks the walk. The trapping methods in this video are custom made for the part time trapper, with limited time to trap, that needs to make his Beaver trapping pay.

2 hours.

Sets, Catches, and Remakes. Tons of action. Various sets are revealed. Many catches of fox, coyote, and bobcat are shown. The set-remake after a catch is an important part of successful trapping and this video exhibits the set-remake with straightforward approach. 

2 hours.

An instructional video filled with surefire tips and techniques on trotline fishing for all species of catfish. Follow professional fisherman Matt Jones along the rivers and lakes of the Midwest as he reveals his secrets for catching blues, channels, and flathead catfish. He will show you which types of bait, what kind of tackle and when, where, and how to use them. Shows you how to catch bait and the time saving techniques the pros use to clean catfish. Matt is a commercial fisherman from Kentucky who takes tens of thousands of pounds of catfish every year on trotlines. If you have any interest in catfishing, this video is sure to have some helpful information in it. A specialty video we are proud to offer to our customers.

1 hour and 45 minutes.