Have you ever considered trapping just one fur target? Keeping all your efforts in a focused direction and chucking aside the rest? While this might sound like a foolish, unproductive notion, there are plenty of trappers who get down to a particular hair type and stay there quite content. Targeting a single fur can be a way to keep learning something we can benefit from, not to mention having the skills honed for the day when the prices spike up and you’ll need to get serious real quick.
A SINGLES EXPERT
For anyone working a solo fox, beaver or raccoon line it boils down to a very straightforward work ethic. One and done! While most trappers range all over the county ever alert for countless varied indications, the single-species folks learn pretty quickly to keep everything focused and not get sidetracked. I suffer from being very easily sidetracked and no season ever passes when I don’t wind up way out in the weeds chasing a track or some vague unexplainable hunch. Often to my chagrin when the Big Chance turns out to be a trap-wasting bust. This is why the mink-only and no-other-fur trapper has an advantage over us. With only a single target you’re on the scout for very specific sign and just
