when are muskrat worth trapping?

[WA hunter14]

im new to trapping and i want to start with muskrat but i dont know when i should start trapping them? so the fur is good

[pnwmtnmn]

Around thanksgiving to start through the middle of Feb. That is when you will start seeing rubs bites and spots on the skin side of you hides.

[bob maier]

I wouldn't Wait until thanksgiving trapping eastern wa rats, I've been froze out by then in years past. I prefer open water trapping. Guys are trapping rats right now and those rats will sell. Granted not fully prime but they will sell as fall rats. Choice is yours a lot of variables involved, weather, do you have time now and not later, do you like chopping ice etc.

[pnwmtnmn]

Yeah, consolini is over here right now hitting my spots for rats. but I got lots of others.......

[WA hunter14]

what about beaver are they good yet?

[pnwmtnmn]

Christmas is better for them, but then they are prime into late march.