I would like to see the seasons, regulations, and cost the same in all states for resident/non-resident.
I am busy enough with trapping that I have sets out most months of the year and I would count only about 3 weeks as recreational. Most of my activity is focused on helping landowners with critter issues.

If you're like me you'll be finding stuff a year from now you didn't know it did![/quote.
I don’t doubt that one bit. I am getting a pretty decent idea of what it will do, but it is still going to be a learning experience for sure!

I am way too old and fat. That is a young mans game. The only role I could fill there anymore is as a CNP1.



(That is fire talk for "Type 1 Curious Nonproducer").

Don't get spoiled. I am not nearly this nice in person.

Let them have this

Ive messed with both and the advantages and disadvantages are listed above. Went with waxed sand one year and really liked the way it coated with much less wax. But I work out of 5 gallon buckets and quickly tired of lifting them around. Then I learned a trick from a fellow at Coyote Days, mixing half waxed sand and half buckwheat huls. Really lightened up the buckets, and thought I had it all figured out. Turns out 5 gallon buckets jostling around in the back of a pickup quickly seperate with heavy sand to the bottom and huls to the top. All the huls got used up first and you are left with a 1/2 bucket of pure sand.
I'm back to dirt.

I've fed Eagles on 2 occasions. Fishing a inland lake in Ohio with my sons. We were catching lots of Crappie when i notice an eagle perched in a tree. Caught a smaller one and pithed it with the stringer spike and released it. Eagle swooped down and grabbed it and took it to its nest. A few minutes later it returned. We fed it several more. Time 2 was on a fly in lake out of Anchorage. Same scenario but Northern Pike.

Always enjoy visiting with you tom. It’s been a few years now. Remember the storm at the NTA convention that blew your canopy down. I think it was in Minnesota or maybe in lima. It is always something with the weather! Take care!

12 for sale and good shape $5 a piece or $50 for all 12 plus shipping. Traps are missing chain rings.

Yes sir, I’ve been using a little mink gland lure at some of my photo sets for years as a change up. If the location is good, like a weedy fencerow leading to a pond or creek, I can’t tell you how many mink I’ve caught at dirtholes at those locations. And then the remake is a coyote magnate.
Jim

Pipe works fine in flat picked bean fields here for coyotes. I used larger diameter pipe than the gray electrical stuff. A smear of bait in the pipe and it works well in late winter here. I pained some of my pipes black and some red to help them stick out a little more especially after a fresh snow.
I know Zag always said the set was never about the pipe but I never used his bedding technique at all I just use waxed dirt, so for me it was all about the pipe. I needed a little eye appeal in certain locations.
I always carry some short lengths of pipe in my predator buckets in winter setting. Dirtholes fill with snow. Pipes seem to help me keep the bait up a bit and give me eye appeal.
Jim

Coyotes with pipes in bean fields late season.




Dryland coon with footholds in late season.

Can't stand the waiting to post game.
Takes too long to even get in.
I'll come back when it's fixed.

Oh and he is not a trapper, not a hunter and has only fished very little.......jk