Schmitt Enterprises Inc.

Finally, a dog-proof trap that solves the problems of all other dog-proof traps on the market. In actual testing in Arkansas, the push-pull trigger reduced bait theft by a 12-to-1 margin over conventional pull-only type traps! No more bait clean-out with no catch! Can be pre-set and pre-baited in safety position, saving time on the line.

• Exposed lower tube and bail prevents clogging and allows easier clean-out and resetting after catch.
• Diamond shape opening allows for better grip by applying pressure to all four sides of the paw instead of two like most others.
• Larger drain hole in bottom.
• A unique triggering system which allows a push or pull operation.
• A pre-set safety position so one can bait at home and is less likely to fire as others.
• Can be switched to a pull-only in seconds.
• Large stabilizer for better support.

A high quality instructional beaver trapping video. This professional trapper has caught 11,000 beavers in the last 11 years. “Watch this video and you’re going to catch some beaver (A lot of beaver). As many beaver as you have the ability and ambition to catch!”

1 hour & 10 minutes

Can be used for Raccoon in many states which do not allow a larger body grip trap. Excellent for Pine Marten and Fisher.

Introducing the long awaited Duke DP "Dog Proof" Raccoon Trap! Features heavy duty machine chain with swivels attached. This trap comes equipped with a stake attached directly to the bottom of the trap. Set it, stake it, and forget it. It's that simple. Features heavy duty coilsprings and trigger system.

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

Sharing over 30 years of experience! Join “The Animal” Darin Freeborough on his professional coyote trapline. This is another season with “The Animal” showing you down to earth methods that will make you a successful coyote trapper. Darin also shows his favorite bobcat set.

2 hours.  Copyright 2010

The best tactics for the worst time of the year.

No more guesswork. No more trap-shy beaver. Dusty Hough shows you exactly how a professional racks up big numbers in open water. On a working beaver line, Dusty reveals it all as he takes 25 beaver in a 7 hour check. Dusty also takes you to the fur shed to show how he harvests the valuable castor and oil glands.

2 hours & 41 minutes.  Copyright 2010

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.

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

Skunks: The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make. Covers all aspects of handling skunks. Skinning, fleshing, stretching, essence collection, handling, and storage. Skunks are the best investment you’ll make! 

43 minutes.

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

Big-buck Bobcats is a new Tom Krause dvd loaded with innovative and creative methods to take bobcats in traps and snares. Learn about colors, catching multiple cats in the same sets, new set construction discoveries, set attractors that will blow you and the cats away, cat magnets and set locations you have passed on by, and tricks to turn those average sized pelts into high dollar extra-large sizes. Loaded with information to add to your fun and profit. Filmed at actual high production sets in the American West.

2 hours & 20 minutes.  Copyright 2010

Follow along with Clint Locklear from Predator Control Group as he explains in detail his system for taking numbers of bobcats anywhere in the country. For four hours, Clint drills down on commercial cat trapping, not hobby or sport trapping methods. Clint’s system allows you to attack a cat population, get them caught and get to the next group of cats. You will understand how a cat works a set and why general predator set are not a high percentage bobcat set. Besides the instruction side of the Cat Collector DVD, you will see several cat working sets, getting caught and fighting the trap in Night Vision Footage! If you are wanting to learn a serious cat system, you will not be disappointed.

4 hours.  Copyright 2010

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.

For Fur Trappers, Control Operators, Mail Order, and Supply Business

This is not a “how to catch” animals or a “how to make” a set DVD. This is a how to make more money from your trapping efforts DVD! Clint goes into great detail on how fur and control trappers can build several income streams from their trapping efforts. Learn why most trappers and mail order businesses are flat lining in profits and how you can keep from making the same mistakes. You will not believe some of the information that Clint turns loose. Making money is not luck or wishful dreaming; you have to out think your competition. Don’t make the mistake that to produce real money you have to be the best trapper. You need to look outside of the trapping industry and apply modern money making, advertising, client service and perception strategies. You must become the modern trapper that understands and executes profitable business strategies.

Learn how James Lord catches Bobcats in the South East. He shows tips and tricks including construction of numerous sets including walk throughs, rubbing post sets, T-bone, and of course dirt hole type sets. The information in this DVD will help you catch more Bobcats regardless of what part of the country you live in.

Run with James Lord as he catches Beaver and Otter in this part II of Runnin’ with J Lord DVD. James shows how he catches large numbers of beaver and otter by setting crossovers, runs, pinch points, castor mounds and toilets. This DVD covers what equipment he uses and will give you pointers on how to catch more otter and beaver on your trap line.

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

• #1-1/2 Music Wire Springs
• 4-5/8” Jaw Spread
• #3 Straight Link Machine Chain
• Approximately 15” of Chain with Mid Chain Swivel

This trap is designed for the raccoon, mink and muskrat trapper. You don’t need to add chain, it already has 15” with a mid-chain swivel. It already has strong, fast #1-1/2 music wire springs. Very economical.

• Rolled Edge Jaws – No Sharp Edges
• #2 Music Wire Springs
• Jaw Tips Bubbled
• 5-1/2” Jaw Spread
• Extra Heavy Base
• Smaller Pan for Reduced Toe Catches
• #3 Straight Link Machine Chain
• Approximately 15” of Chain with Mid Chain Swivel

This trap is designed for the coyote, fox, and bobcat trapper. Thick jaws, with a rolled edge to minimize paw damage. It has a thick base, and bubble tipped jaws. Designed with a smaller pan to help reduce toe catches and snapped traps. If you desire a larger target area, we suggest using wire screen pan covers. It has strong, fast #2 Music Wire Springs. Just like the #3 Montana it comes with 15” of #3 straight link chain with a mid-chain swivel. With a 5-1/2” jaw spread, it can be used in many states with jaw spread restrictions.

This trap is designed for the beaver trapper. Thick jaws, with a rolled edge to minimize paw damage. It has a thick base with a base plate and D-Ring installed, bubble tipped jaws, and strong fast Music Wire Springs. It comes with approximately 9” of #5 straight link chain with an end swivel and a swivel off the D-Ring. With a 7-1/2” jaw spread, it can be used in many states with jaw spread restrictions on beaver traps.

• Dogless Design
• Rolled Edge Jaws – No Sharp Edges
• Music Wire Springs
• Four-Coiled
• Jaw Tips Bubbled
• 7-1/2” Jaw Spread
• Extra Heavy Base
• Base-Plate with D-Ring Installed
• #5 Straight Link Machine Chain
• Approximately 9” of Chain with Swivel at End and by D-Ring
• Laminated Jaw

This trap is designed for the beaver trapper. Thick jaws, with a rolled edge to minimize paw damage. It has a thick base with a base plate and D-Ring installed, bubble tipped jaws, and strong fast Music Wire Springs. It comes with approximately 9” of #5 straight link chain with an end swivel and a swivel off the D-Ring. With a 7-1/2” jaw spread, it can be used in many states with jaw spread restrictions on beaver traps.

• Dogless Design
• Rolled Edge Jaws – No Sharp Edges
• Music Wire Springs
• Four-Coiled
• Jaw Tips Bubbled
• 7-1/2” Jaw Spread
• Extra Heavy Base
• Base-Plate with D-Ring Installed
• #5 Straight Link Machine Chain
• Approximately 9” of Chain with Swivel at End and by D-Ring
• Regular Jaw

Ken Smythe’s groundbreaking underwater bottom edge blind set revolutionized mink trapping because traps keep functioning despite fluctuating water levels, ice, and snow. These typical harsh weather conditions drive mink into the water in search of frogs and other aquatic prey, and this set catches them consistently there. It needs only a #110 Conibear and a length of wire, can be made in seconds, and needs little or no maintenance, allowing lines of hundreds of traps that produce for the entire season. Location is the heart of this set, and this 2-hour DVD shows and explains in detail how to find and set up productive locations.

An autobiography by Larry “Slim” Pedersen.

This is the amazing story of a trapping icon.  137 pages.  Copyright 2010

“Living in close contact with nature, experiencing the best and some of the worst has been a wonderful life.” – Slim

“In his 65 years, Slim Pedersen has experienced more of the outdoors than most will ever dream of. This book is a culmination of those years, shared in a very unselfish, modest way, typical of Slim. The generation of the western coyote men that Slim is a part of will one day be gone forever. An Old Trapper’s Lifetime in the Outdoors tells the story of that generation.” – Kyle Kaatz

Land and Water Raccoon Trapping Methods.

102 pages. Copyright 2010

A Deep and Complete Long Lining System

This book contains over 170 pages of planning and trapping techniques starting from pre-season all the way through post season to help you multiply your catch.  Powell explains the right way to make mink trapping fun and competitive.  174 pages.

The Fastest Way to Triple your Catch this Season!

The most intense and educational snaring course of all time which covers use of all the major systems of snaring coyotes including the use of Canadian Brush Snares, Kill Poles, Ram Power Snares, Staked Snares, Tree-Tied Snares, Spring Assisted Snares, and a crash course on all types of snaring hardware. A highlight of this video is one chapter devoted to the release of the new Senneker Powersnare trigger, a device that will again change the face of lethal snaring. The emphasis of this snare video is education and will bring any trapper up to speed on modern snaring techniques very quickly, helping the viewer to select the systems/techniques that are suitable for his snaring environments, including techniques valuable to trappers snaring from wilderness conditions to populated environments.

202 minutes, 2 DVD Set

Filmed on an actual working Mink trapline, ride along with Bruce Slater (Narvon, Pennsylvania) to learn the fine art of Mink Trapping – on the blind. Utilizing the innovation Bottom Edge set and Blind sets, Slater explains the simple and effective system in a down to earth manner. Includes: Traps and Equipment, Blind and Bottom Edge Sets, Locations, Line Maintenance, and Slackwater Setting.

2 hours of Modern Mink Trapping!

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

Johnny Thorpe's complete trapping course.  This is a 12 DVD set covering most all of North America's furbearers and the methods and techniques used to catch them in large numbers.  Follow this trapping legend as he shows you how to trap from East to West for Bobcat, Coyote, Fisher, Otter, Mink, Fox and more.  You will also learn how to extract the glands from these furbearers which will help you to make your own lures and baits.  This is the most comprehensive trapping instruction course on the market and you are sure to be a better trapper after watching this NTA Hall of Famer in action.

1035 minutes!

Wolf trappers will take a huge step forward upon receiving the information packed into this video. Paul Trepus has trapped and radio collared wolves for the Ministry of the Environment, trapped for community pastures and ranchers, and managed the wolves within his 1300 sq mile guiding territory. In this video, Paul introduces Marty Senneker’s Triggered Power Snare and takes you out in the field with him on his 2008/2009 snaring season with a winter catch of 20 wolves.

“Wolves are the “Big Game” of the fur trapper and to the many that will never have the opportunity to trap a wolf, watching this DVD will be the next best thing and something that no one should miss!!!” – Marty Senneker

Paul Trepus is one of the foremost canine trappers in Western Canada. His success season after season qualifies him as the man to go to for the very latest in predator trapping techniques. In this video, Paul reviews a number of wolf traps, lures, and gear. He also takes you out into the field and shows some of his successful wolf trapping techniques. Paul covers the basics and the finer points concerning trap placement, dirt hole sets, flat sets, lures and baits. He has the pride and satisfaction of helping out cattlemen, sheep ranchers, as well as government wildlife managers with problem animals. This excellent video will undoubtedly help the beginner as well as the experienced trapper become a better wolf trapper.

Harvesting a wolverine is truly the highlight to a trapping season or a lifetime. Paul Trepus of Inzana Outfitters has worked and trapped in wolverine country all of his life and takes you out in the field to learn the latest most up to date humane harvesting methods available for harvesting wolverine. Paul contacted some of the best wolverine trappers in Canada and with their support and contributions Paul covers Ryan Sealy’s crate set, the log set with his guest Carl Gitcheff, George Noth’s tree snaring, Dennis Smith’s stump set, and Paul’s favorite, the culvert set. This wolverine trapping instructional DVD is the first of its kind and takes the beginning and experienced wolverine trappers to a whole new level in harvesting and managing the wolverines on their trap lines.

Come along with California cage trapping expert Jeff Yancy and gray fox authority Tracy Truman as they take you on the line to learn the secrets of cage trapping these two predators. Learn their caging secrets! Video footage of cats and fox working cages. Actual captures! See the baits and lures that work!  Best cage designs and sizes. See what makes animals avoid cages, and learn how to make them commit. 

105 minutes.

146 pages packed full of the most modern, straightforward methods and philosophies on predator trapping today. Scott catches piles of fur each season in his native Ohio, and his theories will put more paws on your pans this season! This book is really well put-together, with clear, crisp photos and valuable content.