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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: fatslinger on November 09, 2012, 10:24:26 AM

Title: Early season success
Post by: fatslinger on November 09, 2012, 10:24:26 AM: 3 rats and a little beaver . The beaver was a bit of a surprise because this ditch was in the middle of a hay field. Not a tree in sight. The ditch was about 10'wide, but something had built a little dam out of mud and grass. I set 3 muskrat sized colony traps and 2 beaver sized swim-throughs. Good start to the season!
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: Machias on November 09, 2012, 11:31:10 AM: :tup: :tup: :tup:

Last year I caught three HUGE beavs in scabrock country, same thing, nary a tree to be seen.
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: trapperguy22 on November 09, 2012, 08:06:48 PM: Way to go Karen!!!!
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Post by: Humptulips on November 10, 2012, 07:03:33 PM: Looks like 45 bucks to me. :tup:
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: fatslinger on November 13, 2012, 03:09:53 PM: Two more rats today. I know it's not a big deal to most of you, but I still get excited.
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: trapperguy22 on November 13, 2012, 03:24:07 PM: Way to go karen
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Post by: Beartrap on November 13, 2012, 06:07:25 PM: trapping season is like christmas at every set. great catch fatslinger.
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: TheNoob on November 13, 2012, 07:43:56 PM: Nice, what are using to catch and lure them with?
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: fatslinger on November 14, 2012, 05:58:41 AM: I just used colony cage traps set in the runs and in the mouth of a culvert. Apple slices in the one set in the culvert. This is the first time I've had any success with them.
Title: Re: Early season success
Post by: dayn on November 15, 2012, 02:10:33 AM: Nice job, hope to be able to join you all in littlerock on the 1st (I'll give you a heads up a week before, hope thats enough time, I can always bring pizza and share with the class, if that helps) My 1st trapping was on the black river and its tributaries, I bet its clogged with nutria by now, they were there back in the 70s, back then they were worth skinning and the dumbest critter I ever met, well, possums might beat em by a nose....

My biggest problem is time off work, and there is no regular schedule, I work for an auction co. I never know from one day to the next, dont get me wrong I love my job, but, I would eagerly take a month layoff (unemployment check of course) to go lay some cages, I know its all we got, still, it would be fun, at any rate, I'll let you know about dec 1....Go knock em dead....