Boiled a dozen new traps to get oil off. Making a list of new baits and lures that I want to try out this year.

Beaver Tail

Took advantage of the hot weather and made about 20 gallons of waxed dirt.

Power washed my traps from last season, boiled, dyed, and waxed them.

Power washed my traps and picked up a couple things from Lowe’s

I've got 20 gallon of dirt sifted and drying. I put 3 or 4 dozen traps through the dishwasher and they're hanging in the basement. I washed all buckets and totes with baking soda and they're drying. Maybe tomorrow, or at least sometime this week, I'm going to dip the traps that I have ready.

Time to relax and let the sun do it's work. I need a bag of sand to get dry and wax. Then I can make waxed dirt.

I took this week off so I should be able to get it all done including my Honey Do list

That's a cool vid,reminds me of growing up and tramping around in the bush as a kid.When I was a kid there was a lot of porcupines in the maple bush in the part of Ontario I grew up.
Used to see the odd one with a baby in late april just after the snow would leave.Many times you could locate their den from their smell.They liked to live in a rock crevice and there would be a mountain of "pellets"outside the den.

In winter you could easily see them up in the bare trees from quite a distance,then they would have a well beaten trail in the snow from the tree to the rock den.

This is kinda something in the World of Trapping, a trap modification...

I like it! almost threw dipping 100 MB -550s black in Formula 1 .

Working with some fur.

Put my own chain set up on some used MB 550s I bought and started soaking some trap dip off of them. Started going through an accumulation of odds and ends stuff that's taking up space.

Picked up two more nuisance beaver to bring my total for the year to 50. Got my first snared beaver of the summer. Just trying to use all the tools.

Spent all morning at the nta convention. Pulled around a big yellow wagon and filled it with more gear for this season! What a great show. Spent a little more money than I planned but got some great deals and got some great equipment.

Bought a few dozen more traps and some modification parts.

Made a couple dozen T-stakes.

Bought a pint of sodium benzoate and 2oz of castor to make Lazuras’ bacon bait tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to putting out a dirt hole with a camera on it just for fun since there’s nothing else to do.

I made the Bacon bait by Lazarus today. I didn’t read the recipe right and ended up adding 2 cups of honey instead of one. So I added about 2 bags of pork rinds to the mixture to thicken it up.

It’s now in the fridge aging and melding.

Took the pans off of three dozen 1.5 victors getting them ready for some wild river mink pans. Also made some more Wolf fang earth anchors up with 18 inches of eighth inch cable.

Got about 13 dozen new traps soaking in some degreasing solution this afternoon. And organized some other new equipment and put things away. Getting really amped up for season now!

Ground all the glands I got at the Escanaba Show. One of the best trapping conventions I ever went to. Met a lot of really neat folks.

Making some duckbill chain stakes