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This video shows you how to make multiple catch funnel traps that enable one man to catch 1000 muskrats in one week. Methods of setting the traps, retrieving the catch, and skinning and fleshing are all shown and explained. Everything you need to know to operate this new system. 

60 minutes.

Blind sets, lured sets, baited sets, cubbies, tunnels, the use of lure and bait, how to use body grippers and stabilizers, foothold traps, trap fastening, and good location.

1 hour & 20 minutes.

Learn proper muskrat trapping techniques from true professionals. Features Tom Miranda, Bob Gilsvik, and Jerry Herbst. Filmed from the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast, this video shows muskrats being trapped in many different habitats of ponds, marshes, and creeks – as well as through the ice. Gives a complete course in muskrat trapping. Many catches are shown along with proper fur handling technique. 

54 minutes.

The RAT RU$H I$ ON! Join the MU$KRAT FRENZY with long time trapper Ron Hauser in a historic time in trapping history. Hauser puts the pedal to the metal as he cold rolls through South Dakota, trapping over 5,000 MUSKRATS IN 3-½ WEEKS. Hauser gives you the RECIPE FOR SUCCESS as he quickly discards time honored Hocus Pocus and STREAMLINES METHODS THAT WORK. Hauser shows you how to git-er-done in a land crawling with MILLION$ OF MU$KRAT$.

Join Ron Hauser as he efficiently traps the ever-abundant Muskrat using his arsenal of traps including footholds, colony, and body grip type traps. Learn how to trap prime ice rats the easy way, using simple sets that keep working in the extreme Minnesota cold.

2 hours.

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

When the days are short and the prairies are snow covered, somewhere in some state, you will find Rich Kaspar trapping muskrats. He has the frozen sloughs and marshes to himself, as the “open water boys” are long gone. Rich lives on his own terms and his own schedule. He traps for a living. “I’m not trapping to make a video. I’m trapping to put beans on the table.”

1000 Muskrats in 10 days. Rich Kasper is on a muskrat marathon chasing high dollar rats. Rich uses a system that includes floats, bank sets, colony traps and body-grip type traps. On a working trapline, Rich gives instruction as he piles up muskrats in huge numbers. Filmed in Nebraska and South Dakota.  

3 hours.  Copyright 2010

Follow Alan Probst of North American Trapper as he shows you the techniques of modern muskrat trapping. You will see channel, blind, culvert, marsh and ditch sets just to name a few. Jam packed with many sets and many catches and the sound and picture quality is second to none.

60 minutes.

This DVD set is for all of you water trappers looking for that little something extra. This 2 disc set features Alan Probst of North American Trapper showing many different techniques to catching the beaver, mink, muskrat and raccoon. There is over 50 different chapters in this DVD set and it is by far one of the most comprehensive trapping videos on the market and the sound and picture quality is second to none.

4 hours.

Teaches you everything you need to know about catching and putting up truck loads of muskrats. This DVD takes you through an entire season of rat trapping from opening day through late season under ice trapping. Filmed during the 2010/2011 season. During the filming of this DVD, Gary caught and put up over 2,400 rats under highly competitive conditions from other trappers and with a harsh, early winter.

Gary Schumann is well known in Michigan for his immense abilities to trap muskrats in all conditions for over 31 years. Over the past 20 years he has put more than 60,000 muskrat pelts onto the fur market. After giving several demonstrations on muskrat trapping over the years, Gary decided it was time to show everyone how he catches thousands of muskrats every year. In this video, Gary's best kept secrets are shown. He has put his 31 years of experience into 2 hours and 30 minutes of film in an effort to give the average trapper the knowledge he or she needs to put up large numbers of rats.

2 hours & 30 minutes.

"South Dakota Dream’n" is a story about an Old Veteran Trapper and some young trappers chasing spring muskrats. Not so much an instructional video, rather a video with a storyline. A story about friendship, hardship, and some extreme muskrat trapping. Join the fun with Mark Steck, Mayday, T-Bone, Cley, and Tanner, as they pile up 1000’s of muskrats on a dreamlike trapline. In a bonus section, Mayday Wiebe shares the art of catching muskrats with his (unscarred) bare hands.

Welcome to the world of Mink and Muskrat Snaring.

The answer is: At certain locations the snare will out-perform any other method of capture that Trappers and Snaremen have available.