Jim Spencer's "Guide to Trapping" Book is a complete guide to trapping raccoon, muskrat, mink, otter, beaver, and a variety of other species. Jim gives authoritative advice on matching the right trap -- whether leg-hold, body gripper, or snare -- to each furbearer. This book contains species-specific instructions for making sets that deliver and tips for preparing and marketing pelts to maximize profits. Trapping has become somewhat of a lost art, but interest in the sport is as strong as ever thanks to a stable fur market and a growing need to control mammal populations or remove nuisance animals. In "Guide to Trapping", Jim Spencer covers strategies for successfully harvesting popular species such as raccoon, muskrat, mink, otter, beaver, coyote, gray fox, red fox, bobcat, skunk, and opossum. His entertaining and informative writing will appeal to trappers of all levels. Spencer discusses trap styles and the basics of establishing and working a trapline, including techniques for fastening and adjusting traps and a species-by-species review of trapping tactics for the country’s most pursued furbearers. The field-tested techniques, carefully explained and illustrated, will help trappers make sets that deliver maximum results. Jim Spencer retired from a successful career as a writer and editor with the Arkansas Department of Natural Resources and is now a freelance outdoor writer. 224 pages with 120 photos and 7 illustrations.

Ralph Scherder's "The Master Trapper Course" Book is your opportunity to learn from the masters. This 97 page book features Ron Leggett, Red O'Hearn, Mark Zagger, Austin Passamonte, Scott Welch and many more. Ever wish you could sit around a campfire with today’s top trappers and listen to their stories and knowledge gained from decades of running the line? Imagine what could be learned from a single conversation. More than just a how-to book, The Master Trapper Course provides insights into animal behavior and what it takes to make big catches of all species. Many of the tips and techniques shared in this book have never been in print or on a DVD. Reading this book is like taking personal instruction from 12 of today’s best trappers. Chapters include:Red O’Hearn – Making a Living OutdoorsJoe Fennell – A Lure Maker’s Guide to Using Lure and BaitRon Leggett – Developing A System for SuccessDon Powell – The Mink ProfessorAustin Passamonte – Muskrat FeverEd Schneider – One Square MileLesel Reuwsaat – Strategies for BobcatsRusty Johnson – Down to the Last OneJeff Dunnier – The Beaver BusinessScott Welch – Trapping Masked BanditsMark Zagger – A Coyote EducationBob Noonan – Trapping Through the Years

Bruce Hemming's "Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide" Book is a great source of information whether you're a veteran trapper looking to increase your catches or a beginner wanting to start out on the right foot. This book gives you all the information you need. This 177 page book was written in 1999. Bruce "Buckshot" Hemming has been trapping for 25 years at the time of the publication of this book. Trained by Craig O'Gorman, Buckshot is a professional trapper, trainer and consultant who is dedicated to helping anyone interested in trapping increase their catches and their appreciation for the profession, hobby, skill and art of trapping.

Charles Dobbins' "Land Sets and Trapping Techniques" Book describes the red/gray fox, coyote, raccoon and bobcat, and the land sets that will take these animals. Also discussed are the tools for making these sets, electronic squeakers, freeze-proofing and much more. 184 pages of pure trapping knowledge.

Rich Faler's "Trail Cameras for Fur Bearers" Book provides you with the technical know-how to get good photos and videos, and you also get something else: inspiration. Reading this 128 page book will make you want to get out there on the trail camera trapline so you can experience nature in a whole new way. Trail cameras should be used by every trapper. They collect awesome amounts of information that give you an accelerated understanding of how furbearers act. This will catapult your trapping success to greater heights. Running trail cameras is a joy. It gets you outdoors in a productive activity. This book shows you how to use trail cameras easily and effectively for furbearers. These are the methods and experiences Rich has with trail cameras. This book will be an asset to your trapping efforts. Trail Cameras for Fur Bearers is the answer to upping your trapping success.

Rich Faler's "Perfect Sets: Bedding, Blending & Weatherproofing" Book provides answers to the most asked questions by trappers year after year -- how to solidly bed in different soils, how to conceal your traps from furbearers, and how to weatherproof under a wide range of conditions with many methods. This book covers these critical components in depth and includes many full color photos. Perfect Sets is the answer to upping your trapping success. 128 pages.

Virgil Gonzales’ "Secrets of a Southwest Trapper" Book is full of tips and tricks that Virgil has acquired throughout the years while trapping various terrains and locations and different target species. For some time Virgil has been writing for some popular magazines such as The Trapper & Predator Caller and American Trapper. All of the sets in this book have been proven efficient and effective for over 15 years. This book takes you through trap set up, trap location, types of sets, and bait and lure placement. Don't get caught by learning from your trial and errors. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn from Virgil’s. All of the information in this book will without a doubt fill your stretchers and give you the edge needed to be a top producer at the fur sales and auctions.

Clint Locklear's "The Mindset of a Professional" Book is a guide for the guy that wants to dominate his trapping game while taking numbers and making money. This is as close as you will ever get to hearing what a modern professional thinks and has learned over the years in an all out attack Blitzkrieg trapping fashion. This book is strictly geared to the pro or a guy that wants to be a professional that makes good money from the battlefield of the long line. You will find nothing here but open honestly written hard-core information for the hard-core man. If you have wanted a guide to become a full time trapper, here it is. Clint explains in detail how to make more than a livable wage setting steel and the mindset that makes this possible. 82 pages.

Kellen Kaatz's "Trapline Principles: 8 Keys to Success" Book is a unique look at the principles that will lead you down the path of trapping success. The information in this 80 page book will help you to effectively minimize and avoid the common problems encountered on the trapline by focusing on these fundamentals: Adjusting your traps for proper pan tension is one of the most important keys to your success. Always set on location and on sign. Always gang set for multiple catches. Be sure to bed traps solid. Kellen Kaatz has become one of the foremost go-to-guys for a wide variety of trapping information. He has honed his personal knowledge through countless hours on the trapline, and has developed a straight forward, no-nonsense style of communicating this knowledge with other trappers.

Kyle Kaatz's "Land Trapping Made Simple" Book gives the trapper seeking fox, coyote, coon and the other land species the information needed to capture them with ease. Predators need not be considered difficult to trap. In this book Kyle goes into detail on each of the aspects a trapper must learn to become a proficient predator trapper. While it is geared to the intermediate trapper, this book is helpful to trappers of all skill levels. 112 pages.

Hal Sullivan's "Trapping Techniques for Beginners" Book contains the most current information on trapping. But more than this, it concentrates on skills, theories and techniques of 21st century trapping as they pertain to any trapline or any animal. Trapping Techniques for Beginners identifies the basic elements of trapping knowledge and arranges them in an orderly and coherent fashion. Each topic is designed to give maximum insight to a particular aspect of trapping and, with certain exceptions, is not bound by any single animal or any single situation. The goal is to provide the beginning trapper with a sound education upon which future traplines can be built. This makes this 148 page book more than a simple training manual. It is an educational guide designed to make you a better trapper by giving you a better understanding of the fundamental theories, concepts and techniques that embrace all forms of trapping.

J.S. Opdahl’s "The Scandinavian Fur Trapper & Hunter's Manual" Book is a comprehensive study of the historical methods that have been used to capture animals for their valuable furs or because they have become pests destroying food products or threaten public safety. While the historical perspective on trapping is interesting, a great value of this trapping book is that the most modern, humane, and effective methods of fur bearer and pest controls are presented with many photos and illustrations so that anyone can soon master the modern art of taking animals properly as the needs may arise. It is a fact wild animals are prolific, and population controls are necessary for the good of the species as well as man. It matters a great deal if a fox is killing your chickens, or muskrats or nutrias dig tunnels that threaten dams or dikes in lowland areas where you live. This new book not only brings to life the methods used in times of old, but presents information from true trapping experts from around the world. This manual in how to control wild animal populations properly was surely needed in our modern era. This new 488 page book by John S. Opdahl will fill that void for many years to come. Never before has one work put together with research and illustrations the methods that were used for hundreds of years to capture fur animals and predators, and then included the most modern, humane and effective methods that are used today in many places in the world. It certainly is interesting to see how trapping methods have advanced over time, and for anyone interested in learning proper animal harvesting skills, be assured many recognized authorities from around the world have contributed their expertise in this important new book. While trapping methods may seem complicated, the author has included many photos and illustrations to show just how the ancient as well as the modern traps work, and just as importantly, why they work. The history of trapping is very much like the history of the world. While the incentives for trapping may have changed over the years, the fact remains that animals are often in need of population controls, and there has always been a need for someone with knowledge and modern skills to solve the animal problems quickly, humanely, and effectively. If you wish to learn how trapping has evolved over time, this is your book. There is no other like it.

S. Stanley Hawbaker's "Trapping North American Furbearers" Book contains 381 pages of trapping methods, illustrations and lure formulas. He discloses many of his trapping success secrets. There are 200 line drawings of sets. Every chapter contains the real, honest, professional trapper's methods. Not merely devoted to stories, but every page crammed full of real methods. This book contains 37 chapters, 18 on trapping every furbearer in North America, from Weasel to Bear. No matter where you trap, "Trapping North American Fur Bearers" gives you the right sets and information that will enable you to become a better trapper.

Only the For Mink/Raccoon/Muskrat book is available. Don Powell's "Trapline Score Books" give you an easy way to track your catch during the trapping season. Each book has room for recording the details of over 150 locations on your trapline. Each book has columns for location, diagram, set type, trap type, date set, date pulled, trap nights, date and catch record and notes. The Mink/Raccoon/Muskrat Score Books provide record keeping space for a 7 week season.

Mark Steck's "Longline Road Trapping" Book details a potent system for knocking down big numbers on water and land. Since 1971 Mark has logged 1,000's of miles road trapping in several states. The methods you'll read about in this book have allowed Mark to make large catches. 72 pages.

Bernie Barringer's "Complete Guide to Farmland Fur Trapping" Book is comprehensive and excellent for any trapper living in agricultural country. Extensive coverage on muskrat, mink, raccoon, beaver, red and grey fox and coyotes. Great information, hundreds of photos and illustrations. 300 pages.

Dean Wilson's "The Alaskan Trapper's Handbook" contains 96 pages of excellent and entertaining information.

When Mike Lapinski set out to write Seasonal Pro Trapping, he brought to the effort two essential ingredients not always found in texts about trapping -- he is both a quality book author and nationally published outdoor writer for Outdoor Life, Fur-Fish-Game and a quality trapper with years of in-the-field experience. In other words, he knows what he's writing about. Mike Lapinski's "Seasonal Pro Trapping" Book, in 6x9-inch format, 150 pages, 15 chapters and 60-plus photographs, gets right to the core of how you can make your part-time trapping efforts today profitable. Mike has written this book for you because, as a part-time pro trapper himself, he knows what it takes to achieve financial success in trapping under conditions found out there today. His chapters carry you through the business part of trapping to a listing of the top 10 trapping states, species by species, a special chapter on "Pro Trapping Techniques" in which he tells you how to avoid the basic mistakes that limit your ability to make money in part-time trapping. And then he covers, chapter by chapter, the basic trapping techniques that work for the major fur species -- muskrat, mink, raccoon, beaver, otter, fox, coyote, bobcat, lynx, marten, fisher and wolverine. By the time you've worked your way through his book, you'll know that you've been in the field with an expert.

Major Boddicker's "Trapping Rocky Mountain Furbearers" Book is an encyclopedia of trapping, covering all of the major furbearer species, with over 90 illustrations and set diagrams. This book has been used as the textbook for the Furtakers of America’s Trappers College for 15 years. 181 pages.

Bud Boda's "Land Trapper's Trouble Shooting Guide" Book contains extremely thorough land trapping information in 47 straight forward chapters. Problems on your land trapline? Bud Boda covers lots of topics in this book. An excellent book to add to your collection. 87 pages.

Darrell Marak's "Trapping the Big Six" Book features solid, basic information on trapping raccoon, beaver, muskrat, mink, coyote and red fox. 40 pages.

Don Lee's "Beyond the Dirt Hole" Book is a land trapping book that details plenty of flat sets. Lots of good pointers. Special section on bobcat trapping. 54 pages.

Eleven hundred coon in one season. Seven hundred mink in five weeks. A thousand fox in a season. Fifteen hundred muskrats -- through the ice.....Some trappers produce staggering numbers. How can I become one of the trappers who makes those big catches? Can't I at least increase my own catch two or three fold? Can I go from 50 to 500 over the next few years? Can a book really help me? Bernie Barringer's "The Numbers Game" Book will answer those questions as it draws on vast knowledge of several of the top trappers of our time. If you have an open mind and a desire to learn from some of the best, this book can be a great benefit to you. Read it and put it into action. You too might soon be making catches of staggering proportions. 92 pages.

Wiley Carroll's "Trapping with Wiley Carroll" Book is an entertaining book containing good information on traps & snares, lures & baits and sets for coyote, bobcat, badger, beaver, muskrat, raccoon and weasel. 90 pages.

Jim Helfrich's "Learning to Trap Right" Book contains 37 pages of trapping information for the beginning trapper. Many furbearers are covered.

Tom Krause's "Dynamite Predator Trapping" Book features advanced information for advanced trappers. Simply put, this book contains Dynamite canine and feline trapping information. 72 pages.

Keith Winkler's "I Want to be a Trapper" Coloring Book is a one of a kind coloring book that kids are sure to love. Great way to teach kids about trapping. 48 pages.

Tom Miranda's "Master Trappers" Book is a definitive, in-depth look into the romantic history of the fur-men who mapped the continent with the passion and entrepreneurial spirit which continues even to this day in these wild expanses of North America. This hard cover 388 page book contains 650 color photos and illustrations and biographies of the top historical trappers of all time. To give you an idea of the magnitude of materials in this book, here's a list of the biographies, methods and trappers included: Hudson's Bay Company, Hugh Glass, Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, John Johnson, Sewell Newhouse, The Fur Companies, A.R. Harding, E.J. Dailey, Raymond Thompson, Walter Arnold, Dick Wood, O.L.Butcher, Bill Nelson, Curtis Grigg, Bud Hall, Herb Lenon, Stanley Hawbaker, Pete Rickard, Garold Weiland, Pete & Ron Leggett, Johnny Thorpe, Craig O'Gorman, Ray Milligan, Slim Pedersen, Major Boddicker, Charles Dobbins, Ken Smythe, Tom Krause, Pete Askins, Odon Corr, Russ Carman, Tim Caven, Paul Grimshaw, Keith Winkler, Oscar Cronk, Neil Olson, Mark June, Wayne Negus, Brandon Johnson, Jim Spencer, Kyle Kaatz, Bernie Barringer, Don Powell, James Lord, Paul Trepus, Scott Welch, Tom Parr, Tracy Truman, Mark Zagger and many, many others. Artfully woven through the text is a detailed biography of Tom Miranda from his schoolboy trapline days to flying his South Dakota long-line and subsequent rise to ESPN Outdoor TV fame and bowhunting career. Also included is the business of trapping, trapping locations, sets, catches, end of the line photos, much never before in print. Master trappers may be the most comprehensive trapping book written in the last fifty years.