Flat Tail Line

[rasbo]

thats cool,im itching to use my conis

[Cylvertip]

Finally got a few traps out after a lllloooonnnggggg dry spell.   Found out later that the guy who contacted me had actually just joined on the site here - ChesapeakeMan (Welcome by the way).  He and his neighbors are having an issue with trees mysteriously disappearing overnight .  I think we found the culprits.

1st pic is of ChesapeakeMan's son with a 41.4 lb'er
2nd pic is of a 60 taking a "water" nap
3rd is of the big man in the distance behind the 60
4th is of the 60 with it's newly acquired "neck ornament"
5th is another of the big man and the 60

I will get some shots of the sets up in the next few days. 

  The 60's at the Taxi for a full body mount - I told my self last year that the next one that I got that was over 55 lb's and had good fur was going in the "dead animal room" as the wife sooo affectionately refers to it....  Should have it back this summer.

[rasbo]

sweet,Ive had no calls on this end

[quadrafire]

Cylvertip You gotta add that last pic to the Photo of the month. That is awsome.

[Cylvertip]

Cylvertip You gotta add that last pic to the Photo of the month. That is awsome.

Done

[Cylvertip]

sweet,Ive had no calls on this end

I think a lot of folks are holding onto their coin.  But this is the time of year where they walk out to the back 40 after not looking at it for 4 months and go "what the hell, where did all that water come from?"  We'll see.

[ChesapeakeMan]

Well here's to the Master Mojo, Top Banana, Grand PooBa, A#1 trapper.  I just checked the traps with Gunner (my son, first picture in the last series of pictures) and there are two more beavers and an otter!   We have to get these things out of here or we are going to go broke paying your fees!  Double edged sword, we either pay to have them gone or they do damage that costs us money or I lose sleep with my shotgun trying to take them out ( I guess that makes it a triple edged sword).  Regardless of the circumstances Cylvertip is a heck of a nice guy and obviously a pretty mediocre trapper (maybe just really lucky?).  Plus,it is really neat to get the full biology lesson on the beavers and share it with the kids.  Gunner hasn't forgotten that you said you had a set of teeth for him.  He has mentioned it several times just today.  Give me a call to let me know when you're going to pick up your protein supplements, hopefully I will be home.  Kirk

[Cylvertip]

Well here's to the Master Mojo, Top Banana, Grand PooBa, A#1 trapper.  I just checked the traps with Gunner (my son, first picture in the last series of pictures) and there are two more beavers and an otter!   We have to get these things out of here or we are going to go broke paying your fees!  Double edged sword, we either pay to have them gone or they do damage that costs us money or I lose sleep with my shotgun trying to take them out ( I guess that makes it a triple edged sword).  Regardless of the circumstances Cylvertip is a heck of a nice guy and obviously a pretty mediocre trapper (maybe just really lucky?).  Plus,it is really neat to get the full biology lesson on the beavers and share it with the kids.  Gunner hasn't forgotten that you said you had a set of teeth for him.  He has mentioned it several times just today.  Give me a call to let me know when you're going to pick up your protein supplements, hopefully I will be home.  Kirk

I don't know about all that Kirk,I feel kind of foolish. Here I thought you had one loner or maybe two - now we're up to 4 All I can say is those little buggers read part of the rule books and then they make the rest up as they go along.  We'll figur er out.  Not bad though with only three traps in there.

Got the chompers in the rig.

[Hannibal]

Sure hope the little guy is telling everyone how cool trapping is and why it need to be done!

Nice job involving the kid.....

[Cylvertip]

Here's 2 more beaver and a decent bore otter.  Notice in the first pick there is one not so full beaver and one very full otter.  First time I've had an otter do that - I've had coyotes help them selves one other time.  The intact beaver weighed 30 and change and the otter was right at 18.

[rasbo]

no wonder yotes small like ass,good job

[Cylvertip]

Haven't added to this in quite some time.  Been doing a bit of trapping but not too much in the last year really.  Went in Sunday on a NWCO job were I called my shot.  Small pond that looked to have only one animal in it.  There was 2" of ice on the pond that added to the degree of difficulty.  I told the land owner that I was pretty sure I would catch the animal before I left.  With the water down,  and I made my way to the den which was under a cedar.  Set a coni in the one entrance to the den, then another about 15 feet down from that.  Put one more at the damn just in case.  Stepped up on the den and shoved a 5 foot chunk of alder trunk down through the top and worked it around .  About 20 seconds later, out comes Mr Beaver, who promptly steps halfway through the den trap.  To make sure he didn't make it through the trap and not set it off, I threw the chunk of alder out in front of him, which made him jump... for the last time.....  I reset the trap and went through the same routine but as suspected it was only the one critter.  Ended up being a 29.6lb yearling. 2nd quickest job I've done.

[Machias]

 

[oldleclercrd]

I wish I would have seen this thread earlier. Great pics