What can you trap?
Filter by type, where it lives and effort. Every match links to a full how-to-trap guide. Always read ethics & the law first.
Beaver
The big prize of water trapping, taken at dams, lodges and channels with heavy body-grip traps or foothold-and-drowning sets.…
Muskrat
The classic first furbearer for a new trapper - abundant in marshes and ditches, easy to pattern, and forgiving of mistakes.…
Mink
A slim, restless water weasel with a fine, valuable pelt, trapped along stream banks and shorelines where it hunts. Mink follow…
River Otter
A large, powerful water weasel with a thick, durable and prized pelt, trapped at its latrines, rolling spots and crossovers…
Nutria
A large invasive marsh rodent that has done huge damage to southern wetlands, so trapping nutria is as much habitat control as…
Raccoon
One of the most abundant and beginner-friendly furbearers, caught readily in dog-proof traps that a raccoon's clever hands…
Coyote
The wariest, most challenging land furbearer for many trappers, and also a serious predator-management target. Catching coyotes…
Red Fox
A beautiful, valuable pelt and a classic dirt-hole quarry, the red fox works open country, field edges and hedgerows. Slightly…
Gray Fox
The gray fox is the woodland cousin of the red, sticking to brush, thickets and rocky slopes rather than open fields - and…
Arctic Fox
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…
Bobcat
A high-value, beautifully spotted pelt and one of the most sought furbearers, the bobcat is a cat - so it hunts by sight and…
Lynx
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…
Opossum
North America's only marsupial and one of the easiest animals to catch - slow, unwary, and willing to eat almost anything. The…
Striped Skunk
Caught mostly as nuisance control and for a modest pelt, the striped skunk is easy to trap but tricky to handle for the obvious…
Spotted Skunk
The smaller, more agile cousin of the striped skunk, the spotted skunk is a lively, climbing little animal famous for its…
American Badger
A powerful digging predator of open prairie and grassland, the badger follows the burrowing rodents it hunts and leaves big…
Long-tailed Weasel
A tiny, ferociously effective rodent hunter that turns white in winter in the north (when its pelt is called ermine). Long-tailed…
Ermine (Short-tailed Weasel)
The short-tailed weasel, called ermine in its pure-white winter coat with the black tail tip - the fur once reserved for royal…
Fisher
A large, powerful forest weasel with a dark, dense and valuable pelt, the fisher travels the big timber and is one of the few…
American Marten
A small, agile tree weasel of mature conifer forest with a soft, luxurious pelt long known in the fur trade as sable. Marten are…
Ringtail
A shy, big-eyed relative of the raccoon with a long banded tail, the ringtail lives in the rocky canyons, cliffs and arid brush…
Wolverine
The largest land weasel and a legendary wilderness animal, the wolverine ranges enormous distances through remote northern…
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