The 1st Annual United Trappers of Idaho Rendezvous

[Trapper John]

Hello All,   
If you haven't heard yet.......The 1st Annual United Trappers of Idaho Rendezvous will be hosted in N. Idaho on June 21st - 23rd. The event is sponsored by the Intermountain Fur Harvesters, Foundation for Wildlife Management, Upper Snake River Trappers of Idaho, and Idaho Trappers Association. Location of the event will be the Fire Fly Ranch - 13199 N. Idaho Road, Rathdrum.

Daily activities will include demos, vendors, games, and Saturday night dinner with raffle and auction. This is a great opportunity to learn new things, socialized with other trappers, and generally have fun!

Dinner Saturday night will be catered - Pulled Pork or Brisket Sandwich and sides $20/person, collected at the event.
More details on the event will be sent out soon!
See you all there
JC   

[Trapper John]

Here are some of the Demo's for you to see.
Great line-up for starters there are more to come:
Idaho is seeing more trappers from Washington going after wolves and coyotes.   

Wolf Trapping ~ Dan Helterline, Justin Webb, Robert Roman, Gary Finney, JR Petterson, Paul Coward, Mike Ward
Wolf Snaring ~ Morley Smith
Water Trapping ~ Steve Sluka
Grading Fur- Cats & Coyotes ~ George Brady
Bobcat Cage Trapping ~ Bernie Nelson
Idaho Fish & Game ~ Furbearer Biologist- Presentation and Q & A
Long Line Coyote ~ Rusty Kramer
Bobcat Trapping in North Idaho ~ Frank Getsfrid
Bobcat Trapping in South Idaho ~ Rusty Kramer
Making Wax Dirt/Sand ~ Neil Mason
Beaver Skinning ~ Todd Smith

Here are some of the Vendors that will be there for starters:

NO-BS Traps- Kendall Obermier
Cascade Biological- George Brady
Idaho Fish & Game
Harris Traps
Lorna/Weezel
Doterra Oils-Denise
Carol’s Crafts
Vicki Wildlife Crafts
Wildlife Damage Management
Keith Gregerson Snares
Weiser Lures
And more are coming

[Machias]

This is going to be a really nice event, I hope to meet several of you.  Let's make a point to set up a meet time and location.

[Fishhunt223]

I’ll be there. It would be great to meet some of the Hunt-Wa crew. This is also a great event for people who are interested in getting in to the sport of trapping. Lots of seminars and learning opportunities.

[Trapper John]

Fred,
Stop over and see me, I'll be tailgating it.  I have a bunch of traps to sell
JC   

[Machias]

Will do!!!   

[Machias]

Coming up this weekend.  looks to be a GREAT Rondy, 40 booths!!!  I'll be there Sat and Sun if anyone wants to meet up and chat!

[Machias]

Hopefully you all can read this.

[nwwanderer]

How did it go?  Thanks

[Machias]

I had a great time and got to hang out with some great trappers.  Food was excellent, weather was great and the demos were very good.  The live auction raised a BUNCH of money.  They had a nice fur show.  All the vendors I spoke to said they had a good show.  One vendor who had 5 booths, broke down in MT, so he was not able to make it.  Great event, beautiful spot with plenty of room for parking and spread out nicely.  Really good turnout I thought. 

[Machias]

One of the demos, as you can see, great turnout.

[Trapper John]

Great Rendezvous for their first rendezvous.
Friday I think they said 325 went through the gate.  Not sure what Saturday numbers were.
Food was real good even the hamburgers at the food truck.
I took in a couple of demo's.
NO-BS traps SOLD OUT of everything he had.  Vendors made money.

Live auction went real good, no body was sitting on their hands and they spent money at the auction.......example:
The 1st Idaho Trapper Magazine that I put together for them was autographed by the guy on the front cover went for $680.00 the first time (Buyer sent it back) and sold the 2nd time for $160.00.

I sold quit a few of my traps.  People were in the spending mod for sure.
JC