Favorite muskrat/mink set

[MEtrapper]

What are your favorite sets for muskrat and mink.

For Muskrat i like to attach a number one coil spring at the base of a large log and put it into the water. Almost always a muskrat will move up the log and get caught in the trap.

For muskrat i like to use the box setup with a #110 conibear.

[KYtrapper17]

I'm like you. I like a #1 coilspring set on a log that slants out of the water. I really like it when there are droppings on the log. I found some slate rocks that stick up out of the water in the river behind my house. They are covered in rat crap. I plan to set them up on opening day.

[jim-NE]

I like #110s in runs in front of bank dens or huts. After I clean out the rats, I leave the trap for a few more days after the last rat is caught. My initial setting may have 2 or 3 traps blocking that run. After no action for a couple of days, I pull all but one near the den opening and leave that one set. I may check that empty trap for another week or more, but I have taken enough mink at these locations by doing this that it is well worth the wait, too.
My other favorite mink set is those tiny, little trickle streams that are often dry in hot summers or if there is water they are little wider than a #110 itself in spots. I find narrow points in the flow, block it with a #110, and fence off the trap on either side up each bank if necessary. I catch a lot of mink in these little hidden spots.
Only other set I make for mink is in same little stream locations but is a baited pocket set and I make this to take either coon or mink.

[TJF]

Most of the water is froze here when they mink prime up and I start trapping them.  Favorite sets for mink are mostly blindsets.  Finding were they run along the bottom of a high bank and enter the water (springs/seeps keep it open after everything is iced over ).  Setting trails in the cattails with 120s.  I also like setting a 120 in small colverts that the mink like running through.  

  The only type of set I will bait, have a lot of faith in and use alot is were they have dug into a musrat hut.  I will bait the hole with a fresh 1/4 of a muskrat (fur still on ).  Set the trap in front of the hole and cover with cattail fuzz and sift a little snow over top to hold the fuzz from blowing away.

Last year I found a couple natural pockets in a seep area and was impressed how well it attacted mink.   A few coon were still running and they hit  it hard also.  I didn't have to bait them as the minnows would be swimming in the water going into the two holes.  There were a lot of dead minnows/half eaten minnows were the bottom of pocket went above water level.  Just awesome spots.   I will make some and set more of these in the area were the springs/seeps keep the water open.  I wish we had more spring feed sloughs.  LOL

Tim