we're up on a ridge we're distant deep woods there's a few little food plots around here that are maybe a quarter acre I'm not going to hold any attraction to pretty much anything so a lot of guys find themself trapping in woods and they try to rely on dirt holes and things like that one thing to keep in mind when you're trying to put a dirt hole in a wood setting like this every time the wind blows your dirt holes and everything's getting filled up with leaves so I like to try to keep stuff up or I want to have flat sets where they're a little bit protected and we're going to show some flat sets this is the sets you don't always find what this is basically it's just no stump that's rotted out it's almost like peat moss and all I've done here real simple real simple set but it's eye-catching and I'm going to show the location of why this is important here in a second but all I did was take a mattock and I just went down and raked it out and I'll put some some some woodchucks up here just to kind of make a roof and I've got some primal place bait and stuff back in there and up in here I've got a very very small amount of Khalu because the animals are not concentrated in the woods like this do you have to set a lot of traps you're not going to have a high percentage per trap I don't know of anywhere that's got big woods that covers a large area where it's not between fields it's going to hold a lot of animals so what you try to do in a situation like this when you're in big woods I like to set the ridges which were on this Ridge here goes about Pum about a mile and a half before I'm off the property and then I don't want to set the valleys the stuff in between on the sides unless you see a big game trail something like that I really wouldn't get that concerned with it go high and low if you come across you find a big shelf or something I take a look at it animals on these ridges just because there's a road here doesn't mean that's where they're traveling so whenever you're looking at a place just take it only takes a minute walk off a little bit 30 40 50 feet till you get over to the crest if you don't have a big game trail you come back with roads and you go to the other side because a lot of times because in open woods an animal can it's like an open field with trees in it they can go anywhere so if you got a big major game trail say if we had one back here about 30 feet I'd probably set that up plus the road because you're going to have animal tracks up through here there's not a lot of cows here at summertime which you probably see from the greenery behind me so it's a nice cool balmy about 98 degrees right now but a lot of guys you know when you're trapping in the woods you try to make sets that look like if you're trapping in saw it you know because that's why most of the sets are out in open fields when you get in wood situations you got to be a lot more creative and we're going to have several sets I'm going to show while I'm in woods like this so you can kind of get an idea of how I do it and that way you can modify that or emulate that however you feel neat but all I've done here is where this is rotted down I just dug a trench out and put some of this for a covering now just white stuff right here which I'm getting ready to show you just experiment and I wish there is more couch where I'm at to see what this is this is mill worm casings or webbings it's where I get them from a factory that they produce mill worms and trapper out of Ohio which I won't say his name because I don't know if he wants me to or not but he feeds them through his chickens and he has a lot of cows and a lot of Coons that come up and raid him every night when he puts these things out there's a lot of protein there's a lot of worms actually still in here they're dead this way but I'll show you a close-up of that so I've got I've got my standby type bait stuff up in here but I'm gonna I'm gonna get this casing up in there it's got kind of a strange dead worm smells what it's like and I scattered but you won't be able to see but there's little meal worms dead ones out through here in on this contract I'm shooting for and couch that's pretty much the two targets I've got here there's not really any Fox there may be a cat or two no big deal at summer time I'm not really concerned with him I'll get him in the winter I'll make set specifically for him now a set like this is real showy impossible it could take a cat that's part of what I'm doing - I tried to warn him a little bit but I said like this is real simple with as you're driving down the road either on your full wheeler or in your truck keep your eyes focused out ahead of you and anything that really grabs your attention like this does up here because everything's just leaves basically in trees this is dark it stands out if this was wintertime and it snowed this that hole would have to fill up that much before it would quit working so even in the winter time this is a good set and I'm using the long chains while the guys wonder about the long chains I'll show you another good reason why you use them it's a number if I remember right the number three sleeping Creek I'll put in and I've got the chain basically going just around the tree and I just clip it to itself so I don't have to use an extension or anything use a drag here which I'm using a lot of but if I've got something handy like this little live tree I'll just run the chain around and clip it all the way the wolf trappers do it it works really good on couch Coons Fox everything else but when you're going down through here look at this and I'm gonna back off and you're gonna see how much it stands out this is the top stuff you're looking at and if you'll notice I've kicked all this stuff down in the road anything coming up or down besides the odor they're gonna have I feel and it's hard to get a pill in the woods because the leaves and everything messing with you if you make your set flat so get it up this will hold a tremendous amount of rain before it even thinks about messing with it because the holes up it's not going to fill up the trap is in peat moss but it's also in this dirt that's dry as a bone because the natural oils that we're in the tree so in if you've ever been around if you've ever played around us a rotten stump like this you'll know even in the winter time very rarely are they frozen so it's it's a good thing to use year-round and it's just one of the set today when I find them I set them up even if I'm on this road now we've got a reason we're sitting here which I'm getting her to show you behind the camera but if I was on this long Ridge and I came across this and there's not a lot of them I'm gonna set it up even if there's only one travel light here on the road instead of having another road coming out and meet it but I'm gonna show you I'm gonna show you what the the casings look like and then I'm gonna show you what the the location this is and you can say cue the kind of what I'm thinking of why I put it here because it is a good location okay I'm standing by the set we're just on the ridge you can see it drops off on both sides I'm trying to move slowly so no one gets sick but what makes this such a good location is right next to the Polaris you see this other road comes out and where that goes in about a mile and a half it hits a big field where there's cover and there's gonna be mice and this Ridge goes almost to that then drops off in this road goes to a gated off fence so it's going to be a predator travel way and this is only about 15 feet from her stump and I'm standing on another tribal way which is right on top I'm gonna turn around and show you the set so we've got our stump we've got a little bit of color up here I've just kind of moved those clods there's nothing unnatural about it the trap is in the summertime I go back even further it's about 1618 inches back its bedded in peat moss you can see the casings up in there but you're going to have I appeal and it I'm sure does have a decent odor for stuff and over there I got my chain real simple set not a whole lot of energy it's important when it's about 98 degrees you try not to beat is steaks in you try not to dig holes if you can help it and this is a casing this is an experiment I don't want anybody to think that I'm saying that this is the new latest and greatest bader for counter couch I don't really know but you can see the webbing all the mill worms and stuff it's dead in there I believe the the trapper that told me about it he has no reason not to tell me the truth but that's that's what I'm gonna be playing with for some