Pretty nice, possum!

thank you LT, likewise!

Thanks to all you for the ride alongs. Sure do enjoy them, thanks again to all of you.

Good One!

Nice Post Possum Skinner!

Are PS and I the only one who can tell about a day out trapping?

Gotta say, I'm disappointed that more didn't add to Paul's post!

LT, I think some don't have the technology down for doing the picture thing. I know dnew is that way and I would probably be in the same boat if it weren't for me having to learn when I got this place.

I'm working on it! RO2 called Me today and thinks His wife or 4 yr old grandaughter can do it! I'm going to get off dial-up next week! If I can figure this out, I'm gonna have some good catch pics and some good drainage pics! Wonder what Jtrapper would cost as a photographer! lol

Thanks PSkinny, Pretty Cool....

dnew, just do a week of your normal work. You don't have to go to past work for this....

Nice runs P skinny and LT!


Lt did you catch all those yotes in Ohio??? And nice dodge truck lol!!!

Wonder what Jtrapper would cost as a photographer!

Im sure we can work something out with ribeyes and sausage, momma always said id end up having to hold up a sign: Work For Food, lol.

Last sausage of the year is going on now




Last sausage of the year is going on now! Looked good today! We might work something out! Food is what I work for!lol

Thought you worked to afford them big light bills at that Al Gore compound you live in? lol.

Don't want to talk about light bills! All I need is one switch! Turn them all on, or turn them all off!lol

Boss this week is staying in head of the loggers and roadbuilders, again!lol

Being in ADC full time, I often get PM’s from trappers across the country wanting to know how to “break into the biz,” so to speak. Many fur trappers have thought, at least once, they would like to do control work full time and have wondered what that would be like on a daily basis. I confess, growing up, I wanted to be a full time coyote and/or beaver trapper like so many of the “western trappers” I had read about . . . then I learned it didn’t pay as much as I wanted to make, although an ideal life style, no doubt for many. Today I run an ADC business covering five counties for larger animals such as sqirrels, raccoons, coyotes, beaver, muskrats, skunks, groundhogs, bats etc. and up to nine counties on moles.
Each year I take on a number of students to train them fully in the ADC business. Some of them have fur trapping experience, and some have never even set a trap. Many however, want to make the progression from fur trapping to ADC work.

This year I celebrated 10 years of training, by heading first, up to central Minnesota. I was met by Scott Balts of Pine City, Mn. who was of course my student. Over the next two weeks we went over everything from mice to moles and ground squirrels to bat exclusion, snaring beaver, making lures and snares.
Scott I found out, was a fairly good beaver trapper in his own right with a 330-kill trap. He also had been working, prior to my arrival on the trap designs I had sent him and had made some six or seven dozen cage traps, some of the best ones I have ever seen.
His traps were so good, I ordered several dozen of each, despite the cost of shipping. He also makes a fine cage trap “divider” and the best 660 I have ever seen.

The weather was not on our side, as it rained more days than not. Even one day it ended up snowing. Odd I thought for may, but this was Minnesota.
In Minnesota, they have lots of mosquitoes and I mean BIG mosquitoes and they’ve got lots of friends. They also have way too many ticks and they have lots of friends too . . . All in all it was an enjoyable experience. I got to meet and spend an afternoon with Merlin Ladd, who I understand is a bit of a legend in those parts and had dinner with a trapper ( who goes by Lundy on T-Man) . . . never laughed so hard in my life.
Scott passed my course with flying colors, of course and I look forward to hearing good things from him in the future.

I have long left Minnesota of course and returned back to work here in Ohio.

Below are ( but a few) pictures from my time with Scott. I will try to post more of them in the next few days.
All animals trapped by Scott . . . of course!

Nice Post LT.... As one of your students I have to say you have a great talent for teaching...

Thanks For Sharing!!

Good Luck with the new biz Scott...

BATS IN MINNESOTA SURE LOOK DIFFERENT THAN IN OHIO!