i swear they have about cleaned up our smallmouth population here.that man is in for a rude awakening.between coon prices and otter,i haven't dug a pocket in 5 yrs..my mink line was always 75 percent foothold to 25 percent coni's.now its probably 80 percent or higher coni's..

Otters in the oswayo? Gotta to be a relatively recent development right? Thought they were pretty much unheard-of when I lived there.

caught my first here behind the shinglehouse legion in 93'

I live on the Susquehanna in York County and there is way more otter than people realize for sure. I have seen them at Long Level and also down at Holtwood on the Susquehanna. Also saw one in the swamp in McKean County last year while duck hunting. They're awesome creatures, definitely a dream catch one day.

They are pretty easy to release from a 330.

Set a few traps Saturday reckon I'd scratch the itch got five coon an a grey so far all the coon are xl or bigger

Had a Coyote rifle shot in the shoulder, yesterday. Still in trap. Gapping hole.
Coyote had half a tail. Healed over or born thataway. Very dark color for this area.

Not sure what or how it happened. Farmer didn't have answers for me and had no clue either.
He did say a guy ask to predator hunt. Another couple of guys small game hunt, off and on.

Not pointing finger at anyone. Always run into a few mysteries on the trapline.
Just a bump in the road and moving on...

What's happening on your line?

Had a red dead in a trap this weekend that was a bit of mystery. Not tore up bad, but talon or teeth marks in the back end. Not the work of a coyote from my past experiences, guessing a dog, but think I would have nabbed him also if so. Got a grey the same day with half a tail. What was left over was well healed over but crooked as heck. That one had some shotgun BBs in its back end, so I'm guessing it got shot in the back end last year and that's why its tail was jacked.

Line has been possum-hot the past couple days.

I hear you Farmdog. I had seven opossums yesterday. Must have been a dramatic opossum movement for whatever reason. Got twenty coon and twenty seven opossums so far. My opossum total is usually never more than my coon total but this year its ridiculous.

Anyone setting up a water line? Muskrats? Mink?

I am probably going to get a small water line out

I'm setting rat swamp here once this rain slows down trucks loaded ready to go probably over loaded but oh well haha

I got a short water line out, along with my swamped land sets. Should have a couple rats tomorrow.

Well I got 26 sets in the swamp today poured down rain the whole time and it was pretty tough going water was up a good 4 foot and and the color of chocolate milk I came back through and had a kit in a stoploss back leg was snapped off just holding by the skin but he was doa I will say with the water so high all the bank dens are flooded out saw a lot of rats just swimming around today so we shall see what tmrw brings

Did a bit better than I expected. Not counting mink sets, it was something like 17 from 22 sets.

Ended up with 5 today not what I was expecting I had 26 sets out minus the mink an coon sets 18 were for rats all but one were nice big rats even caught a white tipped tail one I caught one in the same swamp last year as well don't really know how common they are I know I don't catch many what about you guys ?

Nice catches.That one muskrat almost made it thru that conibear.

I rarely miss one but I have caught a few by the tail in Duke 160s. Actually pretty rare, maybe one in fifty. Trigger tension is pretty tight in the middle notch on new traps. Those springs are very strong.

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