Best spring out rat country
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Where is the best spring out/breakup rat country up there ?
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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02/18/18 03:50 PM
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Breakup rats tend to be shredded messes. Best rats are now til breakup trapping pushups.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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02/18/18 06:44 PM
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Where is the best spring out/breakup rat country up there ? Folks here used to camp all spring and hunt rats by the thousands. Its pretty much a big swamp.No closed season on rats and beaver here.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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02/20/18 07:53 AM
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Kobuk River delta has hundreds of miles of river, lakes, sloughsand a high Muskrat population right now.
Now untill break up in May is good for Muskrats by the pound or by the ton. hung up and dried 2 days and then roasted untill the tail is crunchy....yep....
They were a form of currency around here, back in the old days.
When the Break up flood go's down and some pretty violent love making ruins 'em...LOL!
Last edited by Caribou; 02/20/18 07:54 AM.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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02/20/18 11:35 PM
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Interesting ! Thanks to all
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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02/21/18 12:58 AM
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Mackenzie river delta. Over 40,000 lakes.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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I've talked to friends who used to shoot spring 'rats out of Fork Yukon back in the late 70's, it sounds like a lot of fun. Would that still be possible to do today? Are there still the number of 'rats they talk about?
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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Thanks for the replies. I wondered if anybody put up a few at ice out . It hadn't occurred to hang, dry, and cook and eat the carcasses. But I can see it .
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Mackenzie river delta. Over 40,000 lakes. When I did work there in the 70s the numbers were incredible 5 rats per acre of water on the ice at on time The air sun drying is befor the fly season
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Mackenzie river delta. Over 40,000 lakes. When I did work there in the 70s the numbers were incredible 5 rats per acre of water on the ice at on time The air sun drying is befor the fly season I love rat hunting. Its not uncommon to get a good lake with 100 rats or more. Baxk in the day a good lake could give you 500 rats.
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Mackenzie river delta. Over 40,000 lakes. When I did work there in the 70s the numbers were incredible 5 rats per acre of water on the ice at on time The air sun drying is befor the fly season Flys are the best flashers in the business. Leave your rats out in the Flys in the afternoon and they are meat free by evening. No fleshing required.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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Kobuk River delta has hundreds of miles of river, lakes, sloughsand a high Muskrat population right now.
Now untill break up in May is good for Muskrats by the pound or by the ton. hung up and dried 2 days and then roasted untill the tail is crunchy....yep....
They were a form of currency around here, back in the old days.
When the Break up flood go's down and some pretty violent love making ruins 'em...LOL! Sounds like an interesting place to be for spring rats. Rats are good here for a week or so after open water, in late April, but not legal to keep. If I up there, and that was the thing to do at the time, I'd do it.
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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03/13/18 11:13 PM
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Me too ! That's a nice pile of rats right there .
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Re: Best spring out rat country
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03/20/18 07:04 PM
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Don know if it would work in your area,but you could try the colored puck set(baited trigger) that was shown in the nafa magazine last year.
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