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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: possumcatcher]
#6053427
11/13/17 02:24 PM
11/13/17 02:24 PM
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Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 207 Alaska Mat-Su Valley
Plum Billy
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Nice! Had five rats yesterday, I was expecting more, but some of the huts froze because I didn't seal them well enough. Taught a friend how to put up rats though.
Life is hard; but it is harder if you are stupid.
John Wayne
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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: possumcatcher]
#6054145
11/14/17 10:26 AM
11/14/17 10:26 AM
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Joined: May 2016
Posts: 179 Pa
Alexia
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Keep these wonderful pictures coming. I enjoy seeing them. I was planning to set a few traps myself but I have been busy with other projects that take up most of my time. I am ready and waiting for the opening of muskrat season.
You have a friend in Jesus.
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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: possumcatcher]
#6056967
11/17/17 11:58 AM
11/17/17 11:58 AM
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Alexia
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I'll be setting muskrat traps Saturday morning. I brought the cart down and loaded my stakes, stabilizing sticks, wire, wire cutter and traps. All I have to do yet is run up to the garden and pull out a few turnips for bait. In the morning I'll hook the cart to the John Deere and I'll be off.
You have a friend in Jesus.
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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: possumcatcher]
#6058284
11/18/17 09:38 PM
11/18/17 09:38 PM
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Joined: May 2016
Posts: 179 Pa
Alexia
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It rained all day in my part of Pennsylvania. I was out there most of the day getting my line out. I came home late in the afternoon soaked all the way through to the skin. Dad said I looked like a drowned muskrat. I am now recovered and dry. I am waiting for morning to see what is waiting for me.
You have a friend in Jesus.
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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: possumcatcher]
#6058444
11/19/17 12:38 AM
11/19/17 12:38 AM
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Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 207 Alaska Mat-Su Valley
Plum Billy
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Alaska Mat-Su Valley
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Sounds like you had fun! For the better part of last season I checked traps in tennis shoes, and the ice wasn't thick enough to walk on, so I would walk through the marsh. Crash! Crash! Thankfully I avoided frostbite that season, but now I have learned my lesson. Christmas I got some waterproof boots.
Pulled my line today. My total so far for 'rats is 19, and unless I get an incidental while trying for some other animal that is my season total.
Life is hard; but it is harder if you are stupid.
John Wayne
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Re: 2017-2018 season
[Re: Alexia]
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11/19/17 07:49 AM
11/19/17 07:49 AM
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Joined: Feb 2017
Posts: 375 Pennsylvania
PA_K-9_Trapper
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It rained all day in my part of Pennsylvania. I was out there most of the day getting my line out. I came home late in the afternoon soaked all the way through to the skin. Dad said I looked like a drowned muskrat. I am now recovered and dry. I am waiting for morning to see what is waiting for me. It rained all day where I was too, I was lucky though because I was wearing waders and arm length gloves so I wasn't soaked to terrible. It poured last night so I am hoping my sets aren't to flooded.
Last edited by PA_K-9_Trapper; 11/19/17 07:50 AM.
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