who traps bobcats

[Blacktail]

i come across a cat track this week end while getting some ash trees...i had my measuring tape and it was 4 1/2'' long and 4'' wide...i jumped on the internet and the only info that come up about bobcat tracks is that they only get up to 3''.. i have seen this cat before but i am kind of wondering if the track is a small cougar or if its a really big bobcat...so,does any one if they get that big...john

[Justin Snyder]

If it was that big it was a nice sized mountain lion. I have trapped a lot of huge cats and it is rare to see a 3" track. Most are 1-2" and you will even see some smaller. I have even chased a few lions with 3" tracks. If it is 4" in the mud, it could be bobcat, but not on solid ground.

[JW_Halverson]

Where are you located, Blacktail?

Probably one of the young male cougars from the Black Hills.  They tracked one to the outskirts of Kansas City, another in Duluth Minnesota and a third was killed outside Chicago...all carrying radio collars from the South Dakota GF&P!

If you catch him you can keep him.  We got plenty.

[Blacktail]

all i know is that..it was in mud and i measured from the tip of the middle toe to the bottom of the back pad...2 weeks ago i got to see and got a shoot at a bobcat..then 2 weeks after that these cat track where in there..JW,i  am living in southern oregon..

[Sparrow]

Couger  '  Frank

[stickbender]

     I would go with mountain lion, or an awful big lynx!

                                                                     Wayne

[mullet]

 The biggest bobcat tracks I've seen were maybe two inches, and that was in mud.