River Current strength question

[Kevlar]

Can anybody give me some insight on river current stregth and how it affects rats coon and mink in a certain area.

This river I trap have some very good looking spots where the current is the fastest. The area downstream seems to hold more mink,coon and rats By looking at the amount of tracks). Is this because of speed of the river is slower. Do you guy look for slower spots in the river for your set or faster moving locations? Dose it even matter??

Kevlar

[franky]

I'm just throwing out a guess but is their alot of tracks up stream as well? If so, the rats and mink are probably getting into the edge of the bank, down by where the water is slowest and getting down to the bottom of the river. If so, this would be a good place to make a bottom edge set.

Not sure if I helped any but, I tried!

-Brian

[Kevlar]

There is some tracks sign in the faster moving area's but the slower moving areas have more sign. I was just wondering if this was just the case on the river I trap or every river out there.

I have taken a rat in a bottom edge set in the faster moving water and had a misfire, ( the trigger got caught up in the trap and didn't allow it to close all the way.)

Kevlar

[franky]

I had the same problem with one of my 220's, it fired but it didnt close all of the way due to the trigger being split on one of the "jaws". Good luck on your trapping.

[Joe R.]

Generally speaking you will find more sign in the slower sections of the stream or river. This doesn't mean that the animals don't use the faster water area, but the sign is easier to see in the slower sections since this is where the silt that washes from the faster current settles. For the most part if you want to up your odds when trapping these areas set where the fast and slow sections meet. If you have a flat bank along the faster stretch and it becomes vertical at the slower section set a trap there. This is where the animal entering and exiting the slower section will use. Type of set doesn't really matter. Anything from a blind set to a pocket set will work. Bottom edge sets on the upstream side of the fast water will also pick up a good number of mink and rats.

Joe