Schmitt Enterprises Inc.

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.

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.

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.

• #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.

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.

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

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.

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.