192 FUR FACTS 



Mr. Lynx strongly objects to having anything touch his back. Now, 

 set your No. 3 Newhouse, and place evenly and solidly down about 

 one inch to the right of center of mouth of pen. On each side of trap 

 place a small, dry branch and let lean against side of pen. This will 

 guide him squarely over the trap. As to question of bait, most any- 

 thing in the way of flesh or fowl will do, but sometimes our friend, 

 the lynx, is not hungry, and may pass indifferently by, no matter 

 how temptingly the bait be displayed. Very well then, if we can not 

 appeal to his stomach we will excite his curiosity. Now, it you take 

 a piece of deer or rabbit skin, say, about half the size of your hand, 

 well and vigorously rubbed with some beaver castor, the chance 

 would be only one in a hundred that he would pass your trap with- 

 out going over it to investigate matters. Simply place the doctored 

 piece of skin back in pen, behind the bait, which should be about 

 twenty inches from the trap. If you do not have, or can not get the 

 castor, you still have recourse to fish oil. Take a handful of rotten 

 wood, saturate it thoroughly with the fish oil, and place it well back 

 in pen, and, as I stated before, about twenty inches from trap. It 

 is important that the bait be back that distance, so that if his foot 

 should happen to miss the pan of the trap in entering it will not be 

 likely to miss it in backing out. 



Once caught, the lynx is easily held. I have frequently caught 

 them in a No. trap by one toe, but I recommend a No. 3, as the 

 lynx foot is very large, and a trap needs to have considerable spread 

 of jaws to make sure of him. 



Now the trapper will note that there is nothing at all difficult in 



the modus operandi of taking the big cats, and if instructions be 



carried out as stated in the above, there will be little need for the 



lynx trapper, at the end of the season, to complain of a poor catch." 



W. B. Robinson. 

 Winning Method 



The following method is the one used by me last season for catching 

 lynx. 



"The lynx, like a mink, establishes a runway, or a course over 

 which he travels, making return trips in about five days, and seldom 

 ever leaving his back tra,ck more than few yards, his course always 

 being chosen through heavy undergrowths, in swamps, along lake 

 sides or streams, or, in short, where rabbits and pheasants are most 

 Ukely to inhabit, as these are the main food of the lynx. In such 

 places I go to look for tracks. After finding one I follow it until it 

 goes into a narrow strip of land between water, or a narrow strip of 



