What can you trap?

The big prize of water trapping, taken at dams, lodges and channels with heavy body-grip traps or foothold-and-drowning sets.…

The classic first furbearer for a new trapper - abundant in marshes and ditches, easy to pattern, and forgiving of mistakes.…

A slim, restless water weasel with a fine, valuable pelt, trapped along stream banks and shorelines where it hunts. Mink follow…

A large, powerful water weasel with a thick, durable and prized pelt, trapped at its latrines, rolling spots and crossovers…

A large invasive marsh rodent that has done huge damage to southern wetlands, so trapping nutria is as much habitat control as…

One of the most abundant and beginner-friendly furbearers, caught readily in dog-proof traps that a raccoon's clever hands…

The wariest, most challenging land furbearer for many trappers, and also a serious predator-management target. Catching coyotes…

A beautiful, valuable pelt and a classic dirt-hole quarry, the red fox works open country, field edges and hedgerows. Slightly…

The gray fox is the woodland cousin of the red, sticking to brush, thickets and rocky slopes rather than open fields - and,…

A northern specialist with a thick white winter coat, trapped on the tundra and coast by those who live in the far north. It is a…

A high-value, beautifully spotted pelt and one of the most sought furbearers, the bobcat is a cat - so it hunts by sight and…

The lynx is a big-footed northern cat tied closely to the snowshoe hare, with a luxurious pale coat. In much of its range it is…

North America's only marsupial and one of the easiest animals to catch - slow, unwary, and willing to eat almost anything. The…

Caught mostly as nuisance control and for a modest pelt, the striped skunk is easy to trap but tricky to handle for the obvious…

The smaller, more agile cousin of the striped skunk, the spotted skunk is a lively, climbing little animal famous for its…

A powerful digging predator of open prairie and grassland, the badger follows the burrowing rodents it hunts and leaves big,…

A tiny, ferociously effective rodent hunter that turns white in winter in the north (when its pelt is called ermine). Long-tailed…

The short-tailed weasel, called ermine in its pure-white winter coat with the black tail tip - the fur once reserved for royal…

A large, powerful forest weasel with a dark, dense and valuable pelt, the fisher travels the big timber and is one of the few…

A small, agile tree weasel of mature conifer forest with a soft, luxurious pelt long known in the fur trade as sable. Marten are…

A shy, big-eyed relative of the raccoon with a long banded tail, the ringtail lives in the rocky canyons, cliffs and arid brush…

The largest land weasel and a legendary wilderness animal, the wolverine ranges enormous distances through remote northern…