Anyone else getting excited

[saylean]

Picked up a couple muskrat colony traps, got some more metal tags for the traps and bought a few other odds and ends....looking forward to this year. Gonna try to get a couple pelts...maybe something other than skunks and possums...

ALthough, i gotta say, I like skunks, they are cool animals...if they didnt stink so bad.

You buy those colony traps or build them? Very easy build and work really good. I just picked up another 14 7x7x24 inch Duke single doors. I am going to try and catch a couple of Marten this year and then focus on Mink and Muskrats after the snow runs me out of Marten country.

I bought them. It was like 12 bucks for two of them. I didnt really have the time to screw with it and 12 bucks is nothin, so I figured I would support a trapping company.
They do look very easy to make, but I have enough on the plate at the moment. Good luck with the Martens!

[Humptulips]

Picked up a couple muskrat colony traps, got some more metal tags for the traps and bought a few other odds and ends....looking forward to this year. Gonna try to get a couple pelts...maybe something other than skunks and possums...


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You buy those colony traps or build them? Very easy build and work really good. I just picked up another 14 7x7x24 inch Duke single doors. I am going to try and catch a couple of Marten this year and then focus on Mink and Muskrats after the snow runs me out of Marten country.

I bought them. It was like 12 bucks for two of them. I didnt really have the time to screw with it and 12 bucks is nothin, so I figured I would support a trapping company.
They do look very easy to make, but I have enough on the plate at the moment. Good luck with the Martens!

I beg to differ with you. $12 isn't nothing. It's one muskrat!

[pnwmtnmn]

28 days till start.

[Bigshooter]

I'm getting excited but I still need to get a dozen cat traps built before december. 

[pnwmtnmn]

27 days till start....

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[pnwmtnmn]

24 days 

[Humptulips]

So what are you going to be setting for on Nov.1? My god, it's elk season!

[pnwmtnmn]

Rats and beaver on private land.

[Carp Commander]

I'm hitting the rats hard (private property) for the opening weekend. I need bait for the Marten line.

My buddy and I are leaving on the 4th (after Elk closes) for a 12 day Marten/Bobcat/Weasel trip.

22 days and a wake-up!

What about you Bruce?

Doug

[jackmaster]

some good spot for some connibers right there, oh wait we cant use them, has anyone come up with a sure fire swimm through live trap yet? i have been out of the game since we lost body gripping traps. 

[Jonathan_S]

Well if there is room for the swimthrough to be set up properly and fully submerged, it should be "surefire" set.  Really not even conibears are a certain deal.

[Carp Commander]

There are a ton of great swim through designs that are consistently catching beaver. Most of the trappers I know are building their own. Both gravity and power door style swim throughs and doing very well with them.

 

[Humptulips]

Ist elk, it's unAmerican not to go elk hunting.
2nd Late buck depending on how things go the next couple weeks.
Then around about Thanksgiving I think I'll put out some cat sets and maybe some beaver and otter. I have an area I can only access early so I have to get with it if I'm going to trap it. Otherwise I would probably wait 'till December.
If I had any rats I would be after them as early as I could get away, mink too. Not to be though.
I've kind of got bobcats on the brain this year so we'll see how that works out. Locked gates every where I look so that's a bad omen.

[pnwmtnmn]

Good Luck with that elk, Bruce. 21 days!!!!!