Getting in the Game!

[Turner89]

I finally was able to get ahold of the right guy down at olympia, to look up my trapper education card # today. I bought my license on the way home for the first time since 1986 when I was a sophmore in high scool. My son and I built 4 colony traps tonight, and can't wait till thursday to get out, and set them.
  I have really cought the trapping bug, after following the great trapping threads you guys have been posting. Hopefully I'll have something to post up in the next couple of weeks.

[Machias]

   Good luck!!

[3nails]

 There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. 

[Machias]

 

[Carp Commander]

There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. 

 

It gets so bad for me sometimes that I had to put a note book next to my bed. If I write down what it was that woke me, I can SOMETIMES get back to sleep.

Welcome Turner and good luck. Keep us posted!

Doug

[ouchfoss]

  
And here I was thinking I might be weird.

[hardkorrhunter]

Only one word can truly describe it " addictive ". Somebody late last year told me about hunt Washington and when I stumbled up on the trapping forum it was over I was addicted. I wonder if there is a rehab program for trappers because I don't think i can stop. I have no intention of stopping but if that day ever comes I'm gonna need some serious counseling.

Welcome turner good luck and cant wait to see some snap shots.

[Cultusman]

You will also make new friends at your local farm store for cage wire and your steel supplier for your frame work on your cage traps you will soon be building.
 Even after the trapping season ends you will still be doing something related to trapping.
Good Luck

[Trapper John]

That Trapping Bug ................  ...........Bad Thing going around.  Once you catch that "Soft Gold" Bug, it is a hard thing to get out of your veins.
JC 

Remember to join your state and national trapping associations

[lokidog]

Good luck, I just set my first two off-property, away from the chicken coop, traps.  Hopefully I can pull a mink or two off them.

[Turner89]

There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. 

I was up till midnight building colony traps.

[Turner89]

You will also make new friends at your local farm store for cage wire and your steel supplier for your frame work on your cage traps you will soon be building.
 Even after the trapping season ends you will still be doing something related to trapping.
Good Luck

I've been hitting Mclendons hardware, the last few nights on the way home.

[Turner89]

That Trapping Bug ................  ...........Bad Thing going around.  Once you catch that "Soft Gold" Bug, it is a hard thing to get out of your veins.
JC 

Remember to join your state and national trapping associations

I filled out the application last night, and forgot to print it off today at work.

[onetrapper]

Yep the trapping bug is different from the hunting or fishing bug...if I could only choose one it would be trapping. Hopefully won't have to choose 

[justsomedude]

Turner89, were you able to find J-clips at Mclendons or are you using a different clip/method to build your colony traps?  I'm building my own without any clips, but would like to build some with clips.  Thanks.