Cats, cats, cats

**LittleM** · May 31, 2019

A sleeping 38 pound male with a new collar.

**JHbowhunter** · May 31, 2019

I been getting more and more pics on trail cams, starting about 3 years ago and have really peaked as of late. None of my pics are as good as any of these in terms of quality so not gonna post.

**Bucksnbows** · May 31, 2019

Sparta last fall on trail cam. I have others, but all from trail cams over the years.

**rgw** · May 31, 2019

Bob cat taking down a deer. This wasn't NJ, vt I believe

**gobblergetter** · May 31, 2019

I was hoping little M would post pics, especially like the coyote chasing the cat and of course the famous log crossing too

**gobblergetter** · May 31, 2019

9 hours ago, Gobblengrunt said:

Mike, I know you’ve handled a ton of cats and have a good grasp of exactly what we have here in NJ. Should we have a season for them? (I know it will probably never happen!). I live in lower Morris county and have never seen a bobcat until about 3-4 years ago. Now I see them with regularity. I think we have to many of them (along with other predators), your thoughts?

When you can't keep cats out of your traps, no matter how hard you try...its time for a season.

When biologists want information on any species, who do they turn too ? The trappers !

When they need population estimates on any game species, they look at harvest quotas.

A limited and controlled season (as beaver, otter) would provide alot of data and information for biologists and the leg work would be free,,, provided once again by the licensed trapper.

**Russ 11** · May 31, 2019

I'm not a trapper so I hope if they ever did open a limited season it would not be exclusive to just trapping . I've had multiple chances over the last 4 or 5 years during bow season .