Toggle Trigger Fishing Variation

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afternoon guys Dave Canterbury back from pathfinder school it's another video for you here gonna make a trapping video I was looking through SSRI issue 3 yesterday when I did the review the stump top review on that for you guys yesterday and the l7 trap was in there by Joe flowers not l7 trap basically is a trigger system that is used for not only trapping for mammals but you can also use to set a fishing trap that will actually set your hook for you as well when that trap is set from the line being in the water and the fish dragging it off the traps that we teach in the Pathfinder system use simple toggle trigger systems and the reason I teach those is because many of those traps can be set up with very little use of tools and very little use of carving of notches and things of that nature and that's why I use them so what I wanted to do was I kind of wanted to show you a trap that I teach and Pathfinder basics that can be adapted to a fishing trap that can also be used to catch mammals with that's a variation of a toggle trigger system which is what we teach in the Pathfinder system and you can make this trap pretty much with virtually no tools on the only tool I'm going to use to do anything is I'm going to use a tool to cut the string of my knife so I'm not dulling my tool by carving a bunch of notches and things like that and I pretty much just got dead sticks here so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the first this stick that I've got I'm just going to break it in half pretty much just like that and then I'm going to tie it together I lash it together with this piece of cordage so I'll tie one overhand knot in this cordage to leave a loop and that will give me a slip and a tail you can see I've got a tail on the end of that knot that now I can use to tie off to once I get my wrapping done for my lashings now I'll just put the other into that cord through that loop creating a slipknot just like I would do for a normal snare and I'll take and lash these sticks together with this just like this and I don't have to wrap them real real tight not that big of a deal and then I'll tie just a square knot in the tag that I left behind and the end of this rope to give myself basically a small frame like I would have if I were using a fork except I didn't go through the process of a harvesting a fork I couldn't find one on the ground and an emergency situation it's very easy just to do this then what I'm gonna do is break out a link I think I need again trying not to use tools if I don't have to to conserve things now I'm going to use this for a spring branch right here and in the situation where I was really going to set a trap with this to try to get food with it I would trim all these branches off to cut down and probably cut it off right in here to cut down on the aerodynamic issues that I would have by these things flipping up into the wind and creating drag because I want this to spring back as fast as possible because I'm going to just use it for demonstration I didn't want to damage this live tree so I'm gonna leave it like it is and I'm gonna tie my snare about right here so I'm gonna put my fork right below that for this simulation I wanted to make sure I had enough depth here that I could put this in the ground pretty far and not get to pull out with the strength of that tree looks like I got some pretty solid ground here to work with so I'm going to break this off just a little bit further up

shove it in the ground as deep as I can get it just like this and now I've got my fork or my simulated fork if I have broke a branch off and made a fork but I just made it by lashing two of these sticks together like this so now that I've got my fork in the ground and ready to go I can continue with my snare and now I just need to use my knife one more time to basically cut my snare to the length I need it so I'm gonna go ahead and pull my branch down that I'm using for my springing device and go ahead and tie off to that you just throw a couple half hitches in that to secure it and then I want to pull this down about the where I want my trigger to be which is about right in here and then I need to leave myself enough rope here to make my snare loop out of then I'll cut it off so now I've used my knife two times to cut cordage and nothing else all right so now I'm going to take the other end of this this is where my snare loop is going to be I'm going to go ahead and tie another small overhand knot in that to create my slip and I don't want this loop that I put in here to be much bigger in diameter than my cordage because I want it to slip but I don't want to foul my trap in any way so I'm gonna make that pretty small now if I were going to use this for a fishing trap I would make this quite a bit longer obviously and my hook would be tied to the end of this and maybe my barrel sinker can you throw it out on a bank line set so right now I'm going to use it on the ground for a snare type set but bear in mind that I could put this out into the water on a much longer string with a barrel sinker and a hook and a half a bluegill or whatever I have a piece of frog bait throw it out there and then I can set this trap without as well I'll show you how to do that in a minute for now I'm just going to take and put my loop back through here to create my snare just like this so now I have a snare loop created that I can use for my trap and I want to make sure that that snare is going to pick that animal up off the ground so if it's not long enough I'm going to need to wrap it around this a couple of times just to make sure that I've got enough space to get that animal lift it up off the ground when this trap Springs now I can go through the process of bringing this over identifying how far I want my trigger down on this trap find another stick it doesn't matter what it is really it doesn't have to be a perfect stick just something that I can break off to make a toggle with I'll tie one loop around two loops around I'll half hitch on one side of those loops just like that I'll half hitch on the other side of those loops just like that and that will secure my trigger to the string and make it fairly easy to get on and off for mobility sake if I need to move it up or down alright so now that we've got our fork in the ground we've got our snare set up we have our toggle trigger system in place we need a bait stick and this is just another straight dead stick that I broke off and kind of pinched off pieces of it to make it sharp on the end so that I can bait it if that's what I choose to do for a snare type trap now I can shove whatever my bait is on the end of this stick whether that's you know a half a frog a piece of bluegill some guts from something or you know your no Lebar or something like that depending on what I'm trying to catch with this trap the important thing to remember about this trap is it is a lever so one end of this stick has to be buried pretty much in the ground so that when it pulls down it doesn't have anywhere to go if it can do this it's not going to work it has to be buried basically so that it becomes an actual lever okay what I like to do with that is stick it right behind my fork and in the ground just like that then what I'll do is I will pull this thing down I'll come through my fork just like this which leaves all my lines the line to my snare and the line or the line to my spring device or my engine and the line to my snare on the outside of this trap then I will take this triggering device and I'll set it to a hair-trigger and I can work on this just to make sure whew

I almost let it go and that's good that's what you want you want that thing to be set on a hair-trigger so when it goes off you know it's going to go off now remember your baits up here the object of this game is for the animal top to stand in your snare on the ground here basically to get to the bait so you lay your snare out here and you can stake it out if you wanted to cover it with camouflage Ebates up here now you have something about the height of a normal ground squirrel where he has to stand in this snare on his hind legs to reach up with his face or with his teeth to get to your bait and pull it down toward him when he does that his back end is already in his trap so he's standing here and he's pulling the bait here and he gets hung right here as you can see now that wasn't a very fast trap because I left all the leaves on this not to destroy the tree but you can see that that caught my arm very easily and it would cut your prey that was in the trap now the other thing that you can do with that type trap that makes it very versatile is if this were a long line and I'll just take the snare out of it now and we'll use our imaginations to figure that there's a fish hook on the end of this line we would pull this down by the bank use the exact same rigging or set up as far setting this trap goes we would set it on a hair-trigger just like we did before just like this and then this line that has our fishing line attached to it now we would just take like a half hitch in this line and a loop just like this and attach that right to the top of our trigger stick and then I usually tighten it down a little bit like that and then this line would go out into the water and be tight lined just like this with your bait on the end of it your sinker and it's out in the water so that when the fish comes down and attempts to eat this and take it away

it sets the hook it pulls up just like this and sets the hook and as I said this is not showing a real fast spring because I've got all the vegetation left on this branch if I cut this off and killed this live tree I'd have a lot spring your device but I didn't want to do that in this event just kill a tree just to make a demonstration I couldn't find a good Devlin right here so that will work for the demonstration again the way that works is you take that line you set it through your fork just like this your toggle is here you can hold that with one hand basically and you'll set your triggering device right there on the trap is on the trigger itself on the toggle

and a hair-trigger you would take this and bring it out take one half inch or one bend in your loop and come up so that you create a knot put that over the top and tighten it down so now what you have is you have a tight line for fishing so that it sets your hook when it gets pulled off so that's two versions of this toggle trigger with this X in the ground with this fork in the ground if you use the regular fork out of a tree or a set of X sticks like this that will work very similar to the how the ls7 works except you don't have to waste the time and the energy to cut a bunch of notches this works with very little tools as long as you have something to cut your string with you're in good shape ok I hope you guys enjoyed this little trap demonstration today like I said it didn't go off as fast as it normally would if the vegetation was all cut off in this green tree but I wanted to give you that demonstration day to show you a couple variations of that toggle trigger system that can be used very similar to the l7 for we're fishing or for snaring I'm Dave Canterbury at the pathfinder school i appreciate your views i appreciate your support and i'll be back soon with another video thank you very much you