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Title: Scoreboard 2012-13!!!!
Post by: 3nails on November 30, 2012, 04:24:58 PM: We couldn't wait for someone else to start this thread. We got our first beaver of the year today. Only had out one cage and on our second check got one 55 lbs. How's everyone doing? Us:

Beaver-1
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Post by: Bigshooter on November 30, 2012, 06:13:10 PM: I'm taking trapper ed tomorrow. I should have something to post in a few weeks.
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Post by: pips4bucks on December 02, 2012, 12:29:56 PM: Quote from: 3nails on November 30, 2012, 04:24:58 PM
We couldn't wait for someone else to start this thread. We got our first beaver of the year today. Only had out one cage and on our second check got one 55 lbs. How's everyone doing? Us:

Beaver-1

:tup:

Give me a buzz when you're headed out sometime. I can pack a trap or two for ya if need be.
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Post by: 3nails on December 02, 2012, 12:34:02 PM: How 'bout packing a 55 lb beaver? :chuckle:
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Post by: pips4bucks on December 02, 2012, 12:36:34 PM: HA! You betcha pal. I'll bring my pack! :tup:
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Post by: 3nails on December 09, 2012, 01:18:08 PM: Hmmmmm...... Not much interest this year?

Me:
Beaver- 2
Mink- 1
Muskrat- 1

I've been strugling with water levels so far with all of the rain. Hopefully the fluctuations will calm a bit.
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Post by: trapperguy22 on December 09, 2012, 02:03:52 PM: Been very slow for me this year with the new daughter, but the partner is doing pretty good. going to try to put some mink traps out soon.
15-beaver
1-otter
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Post by: pnwmtnmn on December 09, 2012, 02:30:50 PM: Having somebody run my traps ahead of me this week so moved them today.

19 rats
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Post by: Bigshooter on December 09, 2012, 02:46:21 PM: Been waiting for the water to shape up a little better. Gonna try and get some out this next weekend.
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Post by: pnwmtnmn on December 10, 2012, 02:10:06 PM: 22 rats
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Post by: onetrapper on December 10, 2012, 09:07:03 PM: what kind of set did you make
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Post by: saylean on December 11, 2012, 03:33:10 PM: 1 possum...does it count? :chuckle:

Add up another possum...as of Dec 29th.
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Post by: Austrian Hunter on December 11, 2012, 03:51:12 PM: Pics??Pics??? Did not happen if we don't see the pics!
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Post by: saylean on December 11, 2012, 03:53:53 PM: I lost my freakin Lumix camera battery charger, hence why I have not posted pics recently of my brothers late buck hunt, and other cool travels i have done.

If you dont believe me, you can ask the possum. :chuckle:

PS...they like red vine licorice. Im actually after a skunk.
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Post by: 3nails on December 16, 2012, 04:58:18 PM: 2 Beaver
3 Mink
3 Muskrat
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Post by: 3nails on December 26, 2012, 05:33:10 AM: 3 beaver
6 mink
6 muskrat
1 skunk
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Post by: fatslinger on December 27, 2012, 07:54:28 PM: 6 Beaver
8 Muskrat
2 Opossum
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Post by: 3nails on December 27, 2012, 08:02:34 PM: Nice grinner. :chuckle: Is that one of Mercers' traps?
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Post by: fatslinger on December 27, 2012, 08:24:18 PM: Yep, it's a Mercer bobcat trap. Dang grinner ate a whole beaver leg and stunk up the trap. My truck was too full to take the trap home to wash, so I threw a handful of duck feathers in the trap and left it for another day. Has anybody ever caught a cat in a trap with 'possum stink left in it?
Title: Scoreboard 2012-13!!!!
Post by: sirmissalot on December 27, 2012, 08:44:28 PM: Pictures. This thread needs pictures.
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Post by: onetrapper on December 27, 2012, 09:28:33 PM: yep nothing like packing these heavy expensive traps into the woods and going to the trouble of setting up for cats and coming back to find a possum and bait all gone. Changing the bait is pain too. I gave up on that. These traps are a bunch of work for cats and then you worry about theft. Not to mention having to check them daily?////!!! We need to get that changed if nothing else. But I don't think the Game dept cares about that..just easier for them politically and another way to catch someone in violation of something. this year I'm wiring some beaver carcasses out and will wait for a cat hit before I set a cage.
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Post by: 70sdiver on January 02, 2013, 12:00:07 PM: 5 coyotes so far. Just starting for beaver. I'll set for rats when duck season closed.
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Post by: TheNoob on January 02, 2013, 01:50:04 PM: you shooting or trapping the yotes?
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Post by: Humptulips on January 02, 2013, 08:39:01 PM: 7 beaver
7 otter
3 rats
3 civets
1 raccoon
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Post by: 70sdiver on January 05, 2013, 06:54:37 AM: Shooting them .
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Post by: 3nails on January 06, 2013, 01:18:46 PM: 4 Beaver
8 Mink
21 Muskrat
1 Skunk
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Post by: fatslinger on January 06, 2013, 04:43:32 PM: 7 beaver
8 muskrat
3 'possum
1 salmon
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Post by: 3nails on January 06, 2013, 06:40:53 PM: Quote from: fatslinger on January 06, 2013, 04:43:32 PM
7 beaver
8 muskrat
3 'possum
1 salmon
Oooh.... I've got 4 salmon this year. Had a double in a Comstock! I also caught one in a rat colony trap. :yike:
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Post by: saylean on January 09, 2013, 06:21:46 PM: Got my first skunk tonight! Pics tomorrow.
Now...I got to read up on what the heck to do with it! :tup:

Man, I am gonna make a sweet skunk cap, thats for sure.
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Post by: 3nails on January 09, 2013, 06:29:27 PM: Read up on the skunk help thread. Probably saved my life! :chuckle:
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Post by: onetrapper on January 09, 2013, 08:25:30 PM: [/quote] Oooh.... I've got 4 salmon this year. Had a double in a Comstock! I also caught one in a rat colony trap. :yike:

How have the Comstock worked for beaver as a swimthrough trap so far?
Title: Re: Scoreboard 2012-13!!!!
Post by: 3nails on January 09, 2013, 09:32:58 PM: Quote from: onetrapper on January 09, 2013, 08:25:30 PM

Oooh.... I've got 4 salmon this year. Had a double in a Comstock! I also caught one in a rat colony trap. :yike:

How have the Comstock worked for beaver as a swimthrough trap so far?
[/quote] I am far from a beaver expert but in my experience the last couple of years they are deadly! The doors really slam with authority from out to in so if a beaver or otter are moving quickly I think it stuns them and slams them back into the trap. Checked 3 last night and had one in each trap, one being 50 lbs.
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Post by: onetrapper on January 09, 2013, 10:55:51 PM: that is cool I have one...but I ordered some new traps from Kirk DeKalb and I should get them tomorrow. I plan on giving them all a good tryout over the remainder of the season. I have some ideas on where to set..up till now I have had two swim thrus out and have had no luck. One was sprung off twice and I had to pull it so I could modify it. The other is my Comstock and went to do my second check today but he rain yesterday put the creek out. What kind of place is bestt? Active beaver dams or just creeks with sign.? Beaver dams are fairly scarce here now for some reason. I thinks part predators and part year round trapping by timber co's
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Post by: 3nails on January 10, 2013, 05:33:59 AM: I like to set them upside down in the travel channels either around dams or misc. channels in the river. Caught a few otters last year in those. I've also caught guite a few either right above or right below the dam where they cross. What kind of DeKalb trap? I have one of his double door spring loaded traps but I don't do very well with it. I think it has too big of a profile.
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Post by: onetrapper on January 10, 2013, 08:36:17 AM: he built a new one 12 by 12 by 36 and did some modifications for me to make it a better swim thru such as bar doors to make it faster. i will be getting them today and will post pics. He also posted a Utube video on it..I'm not sure if you can bring it up yet ..he gave me a link
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Post by: 3nails on January 10, 2013, 06:07:00 PM: If you can, post that link or a pic when you get it. I'd like to see it.
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Post by: onetrapper on January 10, 2013, 09:59:54 PM: got em today and had to set one on the way home from picking them up. Apparently you go to kirk Dekalbs utube channel and he has a video posted. Iwill post pics tomorrow
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Post by: 3nails on January 13, 2013, 04:02:40 PM: 8- Beaver
9- Mink
26- Muskrat
1- Skunk
4- Salmon :chuckle:
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Post by: pips4bucks on January 13, 2013, 06:25:26 PM: Quote from: 3nails on January 13, 2013, 04:02:40 PM
8- Beaver
9- Mink
26- Muskrat
1- Skunk
4- Salmon :chuckle:

:tup:
Title: Re: Scoreboard 2012-13!!!!
Post by: onetrapper on January 13, 2013, 07:00:51 PM: Quote from: onetrapper on January 10, 2013, 09:59:54 PM
got em today and had to set one on the way home from picking them up. Apparently you go to kirk Dekalbs utube channel and he has a video posted. Iwill post pics tomorrow

Did you see the video?
Title: Re: Scoreboard 2012-13!!!!
Post by: 3nails on January 13, 2013, 07:31:04 PM: Quote from: onetrapper on January 13, 2013, 07:00:51 PM
Quote from: onetrapper on January 10, 2013, 09:59:54 PM
got em today and had to set one on the way home from picking them up. Apparently you go to kirk Dekalbs utube channel and he has a video posted. Iwill post pics tomorrow

Did you see the video?
Is it the one that looks like the Comstock? :dunno:
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Post by: onetrapper on January 13, 2013, 09:40:04 PM: Yes but 12 by 12 with bar doors and DeKalbs trigger is on the outside so it is safe from the animal. Do you have much luck with cages for rats on dry land
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Post by: 3nails on January 14, 2013, 05:21:36 AM: I caught one in a dry run in a colony but haven't tried baiting them......yet.
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Post by: 70sdiver on January 16, 2013, 05:24:36 AM: Weekend total 2 coyotes I shot, 2 beaver in home built trap and 5 muskrats.
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Post by: aquaman99004 on January 18, 2013, 09:31:12 AM: 55 rats before freeze up. I am looking for advise to trap rats under the ice???
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Post by: UrbanTrapper on January 20, 2013, 01:25:25 AM: Quote from: 3nails on January 14, 2013, 05:21:36 AM
I caught one in a dry run in a colony but haven't tried baiting them......yet.
Use quartered apples for bait, it works.
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Post by: 3nails on January 21, 2013, 05:59:27 AM: 9- Beaver
12- Mink
39- Muskrats
1- Skunk
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Post by: trapperguy22 on January 21, 2013, 04:48:37 PM: Finally had time to get some sets out this weekend.
Beaver- 2
Rats- 5
Yotes- 1 shot
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Post by: trapperguy22 on January 26, 2013, 07:02:20 AM: Beaver- 3
Rats- 7
Yotes- 1
Slow star but still fun!!
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Post by: 3nails on January 27, 2013, 12:51:39 PM: 11- Beaver
13- Mink
53- Muskrats
1- Skunk
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Post by: trapperguy22 on January 31, 2013, 01:13:47 PM: 5- beaver
7- rats
1-yote
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Post by: Humptulips on January 31, 2013, 05:35:19 PM: Beaver- 14
Otter- 9
Bobcat- 4
Mink- 2
Raccoon- 2
Muskrat- 7
Civets- 22
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Post by: big wood on February 01, 2013, 11:30:32 PM: 4 beaver
6 rats
1 coon
5 grinners
2 trout
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Post by: seth30 on February 03, 2013, 01:59:42 AM: what are civets?
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Post by: Houndhunter on February 03, 2013, 02:05:18 AM: Skunk
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Post by: seth30 on February 03, 2013, 02:18:13 AM: Thanks. When I get back I am really interested in trapping some.
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Post by: 3nails on February 03, 2013, 02:08:33 PM: 12- Beaver
16- Mink
69- Muskrats
1- Skunk
1- Otter
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Post by: trapperguy22 on February 04, 2013, 04:32:39 PM: 7- beavers
8- rats
1- yote
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Post by: Humptulips on February 06, 2013, 04:46:09 PM: Beaver- 15
Otter- 11
Bobcat- 5
Mink- 2
Raccoon- 2
Muskrat- 7
Civets- 24
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Post by: trapperguy22 on February 08, 2013, 07:50:54 PM: 9-beavers
8-rats
1-yote
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Post by: 3nails on February 10, 2013, 12:34:46 PM: 13- Beaver
17- Mink
84- Muskrats
1- Skunk
1- Otter
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Post by: big wood on February 11, 2013, 09:08:53 PM: 7 beaver
10 rats
1 coon
6 dang grinners
2 trout
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Post by: big wood on February 17, 2013, 12:28:14 AM: 10 beaver
12 rats
1 coon
6 grinners
2 trout
1 skunk
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Post by: 3nails on February 17, 2013, 09:55:43 AM: 15- Beaver
21- Mink
107- Muskrats
1- Skunk
1- Otter
1- Racoon
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Post by: trapperguy22 on February 17, 2013, 11:48:05 AM: 9 beavers
8 rats
1 yote
2 coon
Still just a small line but has been a lot of fun, soon i will be picking up fur for NAFA so i will have to pull the line to have time. good luck everyone!!!
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Post by: Humptulips on February 17, 2013, 07:18:08 PM: Beaver- 15
Otter- 11
Bobcat- 5
Mink- 2
Raccoon- 2
Muskrat- 8
Civets- 30

This might be the end for me. Almost everything pulled and no place to put the traps. Probably be more civets. There's always more of them!
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Post by: cat daddy on February 17, 2013, 08:37:48 PM: 761 'rats, 26 mink so far
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Post by: 3nails on February 24, 2013, 04:50:57 PM: Beaver- 16
Mink- 21
Muskrat- 131
Skunk- 1
Otter- 1
Racoon- 2
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Post by: cat daddy on February 24, 2013, 08:42:22 PM: 789 'rats
29 mink
1 bobcat
1 badger
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Post by: Bigshooter on February 24, 2013, 09:28:10 PM: Quote from: cat daddy on February 24, 2013, 08:42:22 PM
789 'rats
29 mink
1 bobcat
1 badger

Cat daddy? More like rat daddy.
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Post by: 3nails on March 03, 2013, 09:14:41 PM: Beaver- 20
Mink- 21
Muskrat- 154
Skunk- 1
Otter- 1
Raccoon- 2
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Post by: Humptulips on March 03, 2013, 09:24:03 PM: Beaver- 15
Otter- 11
Bobcat- 9
Mink- 2
Raccoon- 2
Muskrat- 9
Civets- 31
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Post by: 3nails on March 17, 2013, 09:24:50 PM: Beaver- 26
Mink- 26
Muskrat- 171
Skunk- 1
Otter- 1
Raccoon- 2
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Post by: hardkorrhunter on March 18, 2013, 10:22:06 AM: Beaver- 1
muskrat-1
haha
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Post by: hardkorrhunter on March 24, 2013, 09:49:16 PM: 1-beaver
2-muskrats
I almost feel like a trapper, almost :chuckle:
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Post by: Humptulips on March 24, 2013, 11:46:44 PM: Beaver- 18
Otter- 11
Bobcat- 14
Mink- 3
Raccoon- 5
Muskrat- 10
Civets- 38
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Post by: 3nails on March 25, 2013, 09:44:55 PM: Beaver- 28
Mink- 26
Muskrat- 171
Skunk- 1
Otter- 3
Raccoon- 2

Final count for me for this season.