Abstract: A cable clamp and method of use for trapping animals, which can be clamped onto a drowning cable or wire at an appropriate position to provide the length of cable or wire with the amount of tension or slack necessary in the cable when it is anchored in the water and on shore, by using a cable clamp, longer drowning cables may always be used. The cable clamp includes a connector for connecting to a drowning cable anchor and a plate having a first aperture receiving a clamping bolt for clamping to a drowning cable. The plate also has a locating tab projecting from said plate to serve a locator guide to help a trapper position a drowning cable in tension under the clamping bolt. A channel tab extends upwardly from the plate at a distance from one side of the clamping bolt sufficient to form a channel through which a drowning cable can pass after passing by and contacting the locating tab.

Abstract: A trap-holding bracket for holding both conibear style body-gripping traps and tang-equipped leg-hold type traps. The bracket comprises a hollow, generally box-shaped body with top, bottom, front, and rear walls, a tang slot in the front wall, and tab arms extending outwardly from the sides of the top and bottom walls to define extended jaw slots configured to receive and hold the inner wire ends of a body-gripping trap in their set position.

Abstract: A trap-holding bracket for holding both conibear style body-gripping traps and leghold type traps. The bracket comprises a hollow, generally box-shaped body with top, bottom, front, and rear walls, an enclosed horizontal slot in the front wall, horizontal tab arms extending outwardly from the sides of the top and bottom walls to define extended jaw slots configured to receive and hold the inner wire ends of a body-gripping trap in their set position, and a vertical L-shaped tab arm extending above the front end wall and defining an open-ended lateral slot for receiving an outer base end of a leghold trap in a lateral sliding motion.