That interesting to hear about the color of them around here they are a reddish color also and some are called a silver dollar because they stretch around 60" and are very silver colored. Back in the day they brought as much sometimes more than a well cured xml blanket beaver. I hope you catch a bunch I'd enjoy seeing what they end up being turned into as a finished product.
Allan

Once in a while we get a beaver with rich red guard hair,like a dark cherry red fox,but with black underfur.I really like the looks of those beaver.Most of our beaver are dk brown to dk.

Trapping season starts tonight at midnight. Its been cold for well over two weeks so I'll be setting a couple fox traps. The foxes I've been seeing are looking good despite the low snow we have. Its going to be another 2 weeks before I even start thinking about getting out to my main line so its town trapping for the next little while.

Toby, Kevin and Lloyd got to be smiling to hear the good news!

Cold has nothing to do with good fur. That said, good luck. We here have another month to go for most critters.

It must be a bit different where you are AV. If we had warm weather all fall the foxes would still be very thin but the ones I have been seeing are nice and bushy. Better already than most places will get all winter. As Bushman once said "Ryan's is about the last stop before Santa's place!"
Besides, this is town fox removal which I have had permission to do from the wildlife department (They even gave me traps some years back)and the town office for 5-6 years now since a little girl got bit by a fox outside the school here. I'll be out to the delta trapline later on to target other, primer furs but these town foxes are pests, nuisance animals that need to be thinned out during November while I'm mostly around town. I took out 37 last November and there seems to be more this year. I also found another beaver house that I wish I knew about when the ice was thinner, I'll probably still set it even though the ice is thick enough to support a truck.

I hear you, on the nuisance critters. I occasionally get permitted for beaver removal, and that generally occurs in the summer. Hate tossing those pelts, and on occasion, I've sent one or two to Moyles for the land owner. They didn't care about prime. Just thought having a pelt was cool. And I score easy bait.

Town fox give me a chance to get in the groove for the main season on the line. I used to set traps around midnight-2am in heavily populated areas of town then check and pull them around 7am before work and before traffic picks up. 5 fox was my best morning. Usually by December a good part of the population is either trapped or dispersed into the delta away from town.

my son Bobby is going to be a big brother!

Congrats Ryan.

The King of the Swamp is a fertile sovereign.

A Blessing for sure,Congrats

my guess is that it will be another boy.

Congratulations.

How about posting a few pics of your trapper helpers. Us old codgers enjoy seeing the young ones.

Home from the fish harvest. Was up to the Big Fish River Fish Hole in the mountains for a few days of tent camping. We only had to do one sweep with the seine so it was an easy harvest with about 600 caught and 150 kept for distribution to the community of Aklavik.
Only wildlife seen was 2 moose, a fox and some muskox plus Ravens, whiskey jacks, mice, ptarmigan and snow shoe hare. I had some traps out but snapped them all before leaving town. It's been slow, not a single fox yet. 2 Lynx were caught in fox sets though so I'm started okay but it seems the animals prefer a warm bunny yet over bait. I have a trip to Edmonton tomorrow for some chiropractor appointment so full speed trapping has to wait even longer before I get going. I do have some snares to check later on though...

Coffee is on then I'm off to the main line until tomorrow evening to get my line started. Hoping for the best.

I had a good weekend of setting up the trapline. Didn't sink my machine and got about 45 sets out. Seems to be a good number of fur bearers running around in my country so it should be a good year. Few wolves around, one set of wolverine tracks and plenty of everything else.

Same wolverine you could not catch last year? Any marten?

Smaller wolverine so not the one from last year. There's a few marten, still have to make my trails through Pokiak Lakes behind my Grandpa's though because those creeks stay thin for a long time.