In Alaska you could catch 1 25th the number of animals and make the same money.ie: 2500 $4 rats or 100 $100 dollar marten.
Its a no brainer beav.Plus way easier to harvest.Ride up to the tree on your ski doo and pluck the marten off the tree like an apple or wade thru stnking swamp mud with chest waders all day,lol.

Boco you don't have a clue when It comes to rat trapping In ND. If you have rats It's no problem catching 100 or so a day. I've done as many as 200 a day In the spring. But were checking twice a day.
In most cases It's about 10' from the hard road to the traps. Set 4 stools about 4 feet apart and move on to the next location.. Never wore waders yet.

Your going to be putting a lot more time and money catching those 100 marten then I will catching those 2,500 rats. And as far as I can see there aren't any $100.00 marten In this fur market.

Remember I spent 7 weeks trapping marten and Lynx and beaver In Ontario and I know what It takes to catch a 100 marten. In 7 weeks we took 58 marten off of 2 trap lines.

Buddy of mine picked up 71 in his first run on one of his long lines last year.I think a 2 week soak.
And no he wasn't sitting at home for those 2 weeks.
I think you don't have a clue beav,lol.

I have been in most of the 48 continuous states and like Ohio best. I have no desire to live anywhere else.

Keith

71 rats In 2 weeks? I'd give up rat trapping with those numbers.

Probably so White. I/m only going by what a resident uttered.

Am I wrong about the competitive trapping? Can you run along, or on top of someone elses line? I heard need to be 5 miles away...Or is that just an old tale years past?

Western Dakotas or eastern Montana, Wyoming

Calvin, running on another guy's trapline trail and setting traps doesn't make sense.

The only guy I ever knew that did something like that had mental problems..

That's marten beav,lol.

The State You Are Living In Now, Robert.

NEW YORK STATE !!!!

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You soak marten?

Montana or maybe Wyoming. Would need to be in the foot hills or right up next to the mountains. Alaska would be good also.

There is no law or regulation like that. Hasn't been for at least the 45 yers I've been here.

If I break out a trail it is perfectly legal for you to run it and set right beside me. BUT...that would indicate poor judgement on your part

If I had it to do over I would pick north west Maine. I love Alaska, but don't think I would like the dark winters. Maine does have some whacky trapping rules, as does New York.

I don't think I have ever checked traps in the dark