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Too much water.. even for beaver trapping #6169015
02/24/18 08:06 PM
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Trapping on a buddies land. Yesterday ditches were full but not overflowing. My brother and my buddy put out 5 sets. I went with them today to set more and yesterdays sets that where at the water line yesterday were now 5 feet from the bank.
The Honda pioneers had a half inch of water in the floor board crossing to get to them.
Well we aint the brightest crayons in the box but we decided to pull till the water recedes.
On a positive note we did manage one small beaver.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169022
02/24/18 08:12 PM
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Know where your coming from. Have six sets that would take scuba gear to check. Rain has stopped so maybe I can check those sets and put in more in a few days.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: J Staton] #6169027
02/24/18 08:17 PM
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This bottom land rises fast and falls fast. We are just trapping weekends so should be down by friday.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169034
02/24/18 08:27 PM
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Rodney,Ohio
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My season is done for beaver. I cant even drive to any of my spots I have left to trap beaver due to flooding.

Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: SNIPERBBB] #6169050
02/24/18 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted By: SNIPERBBB
My season is done for beaver. I cant even drive to any of my spots I have left to trap beaver due to flooding.


I hear ya, we need an argo and scuba gear.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169074
02/24/18 09:02 PM
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Alabama (Bama for short) 108 y...
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Been rugged the past month, before that was frozen over, reminds me of when is started trapping in the late 70's. Pulling up and heading for dryer ground hopefully next week.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Jtrapper] #6169096
02/24/18 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted By: Jtrapper
Been rugged the past month, before that was frozen over, reminds me of when is started trapping in the late 70's. Pulling up and heading for dryer ground hopefully next week.


Been raining almost 2 weeks solid here. Stops long enough for the water to recede a bit and then starts again. Problem is there isnt any where for thr water to recede to now.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169128
02/24/18 10:05 PM
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We too have been getting a few pickle showers, got 6 1/2 inches in a day & a half.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169154
02/24/18 10:24 PM
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We had too much rain, ice out and snow melt in a day and a half last week. Some smaller ditches can be possibly looked at next week barring no more precipitation.

Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169420
02/25/18 08:07 AM
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still all ice up here

Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169433
02/25/18 08:38 AM
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raining here now,looks like things will open up this week.

Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169468
02/25/18 09:24 AM
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you boys wanna borrow my submarine?????

Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169480
02/25/18 09:32 AM
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Come to West Texas...

We are still dry...


Good Luck and God Bless you and yours,

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Even sheep are smart enough to shade up when it gets over 100....
Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169491
02/25/18 09:40 AM
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Got a good flooding last night, now it's moved on past but suppose to stall out and back over us again tonight, get a double dose of it ,lol


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169504
02/25/18 09:51 AM
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Dang near a foot of rain here in the past week.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169511
02/25/18 09:56 AM
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By July we'll be begging for rain, lol.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169565
02/25/18 10:34 AM
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We've got 10 inches of new snow the last two days.


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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6169616
02/25/18 11:04 AM
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I am not sure how much it rained yesterday but it was a lot. I live 6 blocks from main street and I had to drive about 20 blocks to get to it because of all the flooded streets.

Nice and sunny today though.

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Re: Too much water.. even for beaver trapping [Re: Chuckles84] #6170592
02/26/18 12:41 AM
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I poured out 9.5 inches from the rain gauge last night before the next round hit, it's sitting ant just over 6 inches currently, it's like Hurricane Harvey was awakened and returned for round two. been raining the past month. A 20 mph wind would be catastrophic

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