Bobcats

Ohio

Contributors to this thread:

Zbone 18-Dec-22

goyt 19-Dec-22

Old Reb 19-Dec-22

Pat Lefemine 19-Dec-22

Zbone 19-Dec-22

sir misalots 24-Jan-23

Zbone 25-Jan-23

DonVathome 25-Jan-23

Grasshopper 28-Jan-23

Stressless 09-Feb-23

Zbone 19-Mar-23

From: Zbone

18-Dec-22

Since we have Ohio bears and coyotes thread, why not an Ohio Bobcat thead... Lets see some pix...

Last winter or maybe the winter before got into a good discussion over on the main forum with one of the experienced trappers and talking about fur quality and grading of bobcats pelts... He was from one of the northern states, I think maybe Minnesota, but anyhow I guess color phase has much to do with their worth and if I remember right along with size a lot had to do with the white patterning of their under belly, I think the spots patterning in the white and the amount of white fur on the belly... I think it was the less white on them the higher the grade and the much more money they brought from the furriers...

What do these Ohio Bobcat bellies look like?

From: goyt

19-Dec-22

Gary, We have a lot of bobcats.

From: goyt

19-Dec-22

From: goyt

19-Dec-22

I stopped saving bobcat picture after a while. This year I had a camera that in a matter of a few weeks I had multiple pictures of coyotes, sometime several together, bobcats, and two different house cats. I don't think that the house cats lasted long. I would be more willing to trap if I did not have to worry about releasing a bobcat from a leg hold trap by myself. I spoke with ODNR about 5 years ago and they thought that we would have a bobcat trapping season within two years. The populations are high enough. A couple of years ago, they said that the politics were not right to have a season.

From: Old Reb

19-Dec-22

A few years back ODOW proposed a limited bobcat trapping season but the idea got shot down after some public uproar. That's about all I can recall off the top of my head. I'll have to try to google up some of the details.

From: Pat Lefemine

19-Dec-22

In my home state of Connection we have so many bobcats that we call in ten bobcats to every one coyote. It’s ridiculous.

No season for Bobcats in CT either. It’s ridiculous but since liberals run our state we know it will never happen. But I can’t understand why ohio doesn’t have a season yet.

From: Zbone

19-Dec-22

I could get into hound hunting bobcats...

Cool pix Cliff, thanks for sharing...

From: sir misalots

24-Jan-23

they have been here for over 40 years. was chased by two when I was 20. Im 63 now.

From: Zbone

25-Jan-23

I'm 63 also and when a kid probably 50 years ago, there were rumours of them in a certain area locally, so yeah, I believe the 40 years part, but not so sure about the chasing part though...8^)

From: DonVathome

25-Jan-23

I had no idea! Cool pics Cliff!

From: Grasshopper

28-Jan-23