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Title: trapping courses
Post by: big wood on November 18, 2011, 07:22:27 PM
is there another trapping course offered this year in the hunting off season
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Machias on November 18, 2011, 09:39:45 PM
I think you can do it online now as well.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Feanix on November 18, 2011, 09:42:45 PM
As far as i know you can still challenge the course. Just have to make an appt with your regional office to take the test. That's what i did last year since i missed fhe rondezvous.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Humptulips on November 18, 2011, 10:14:10 PM
As far as i know you can still challenge the course. Just have to make an appt with your regional office to take the test. That's what i did last year since i missed fhe rondezvous.

Nope, WSTA is the only way to take the course. WDFW washed their hands of it.
Let me know of your location and I will put you in touch with the  nearest instructor.

You cannot do it on-line.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Feanix on November 18, 2011, 10:17:49 PM
Thats what i thought i had heard @ the ronde this year, but their link is still up and functional. Figures, i guess...thanks for the clarification.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Humptulips on November 18, 2011, 10:26:30 PM
Thats what i thought i had heard @ the ronde this year, but their link is still up and functional. Figures, i guess...thanks for the clarification.

All WDFW does now is give you the number of George Brady and they are not real reliable about doing that.

Working on a Trapper Training page for watrappers .com Hope to get WDFW to link to it.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Feanix on November 18, 2011, 10:37:42 PM
nice, i would like to help out with trappee education, but i dont feel comfortable seeing as how i havent actually trapped anything yet. :chuckle: i would like to help out if i can, though.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Machias on November 19, 2011, 09:51:31 AM
 :tup:   Thanks for setting me straight Bruce!
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: big wood on November 19, 2011, 01:02:23 PM
thanks for thge info. I used to trap around rainier (vail)  25 years ago and just want my kids to experienc it. I live in graham.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: dayn on December 17, 2011, 07:44:47 PM
I had a trapping license back in 87, am I still required to take the test to get a license?
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: JJB11B on December 17, 2011, 08:41:05 PM
I would like to get into trapping. We have alot of good spots for trapping but I have no Idea on how to get into it at all. If anybody has any solid info on getting licensed could you PM it to me?
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Humptulips on December 17, 2011, 10:28:07 PM
Interested in getting a trapping license. You have to pass Trapper Training first. Go to http://watrappers.com/ All the information is on the home page on how to get your license.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Humptulips on December 17, 2011, 10:29:42 PM
Dayn,
You should be good to go. Let me know if you have problems.
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: dayn on December 17, 2011, 11:45:38 PM
Thanks Bruce, I might have asked you this before when we talked via the trapperman forums a couple years back, but I cant remember for sure(Ive got sometimers, sometimes :yike:), do you remember Ed Meridith who sold supplies and bought fur in tumwater back around the late 70s and 80s? Fond memories there... :)

At any rate, I just wanna do some hobby muskrat and mink hobby trapping via the colony trap route after Jan 1, 5 or 50 I dont care, I just wanna get back out on the water, I wont quit my day job though.... :chuckle:

Thanks again and I will stay in touch, expect a payment for membership by the 1st of the year.

Dayn  (The outlaw Mole Trapper)
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: Humptulips on December 18, 2011, 12:18:00 AM
Thanks Bruce, I might have asked you this before when we talked via the trapperman forums a couple years back, but I cant remember for sure(Ive got sometimers, sometimes :yike:), do you remember Ed Meridith who sold supplies and bought fur in tumwater back around the late 70s and 80s? Fond memories there... :)

At any rate, I just wanna do some hobby muskrat and mink hobby trapping via the colony trap route after Jan 1, 5 or 50 I dont care, I just wanna get back out on the water, I wont quit my day job though.... :chuckle:

I met Ed but I can't say I knew him well. Stopped at his house and talked to him  for a while in the 80s sometime.

Keep that outlaw mole trapper business under your hat. There is a guy just got convicted and is awaiting sentencing. Thinking it could be $1000 per infraction.

Thanks again and I will stay in touch, expect a payment for membership by the 1st of the year.

Dayn  (The outlaw Mole Trapper)
Title: Re: trapping courses
Post by: dayn on December 18, 2011, 01:54:10 AM
The Outlaw Mole Trapper Moniker is more of a joke than anything, I feel our state government has been a joke for longer than I can remember, not only the trapping thing, taxation on businesses and on and on and on.

I realize Greg Wire wasnt Gov when the trapping thing came in, but she is one of those rare females that I characterize as Cant Understand Normal Things (read between the lines)

Thanks for the heads up though, I definately dont want to be a poster child in the mole wars, cause yes they can make your life miserable ..............
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