Weather won't make up it's mind so instead of hitting the creek I'm building bank line stages and a new trotline . Whats everyone elese up to ?

Man that looks like a hoot! Would love to run a trot line. Officially cleaned out the truck of all things trapping related and replaced with surf fishing gear! It will live in the truck till next trapping season!

Here the weather made up its mind and decided on high winds close to 70 in the gusts, rain and t storms so life was a bit sporty on board today. No time for fun stuff and certainly could not make my way over to shore in the little boat in this weather to get to my trailer / workshop.

Went out looking to make some beaver set but no fresh sign anywhere to be found. Will check back in a few days to see if there's been any activity. Meanwhile the weather has warmed up enough for me to set some gopher traps. Still a bit early but the spring ones are dumb. Caught my first 6 for the year!

Cool.
I've been plastering my bathroom.

Getting ready to hit the streets, but looking forward to having the weekend off. Should be wrapping up a few adc beaver jobs this weekend along with bidding on a couple. The kids want to do a little trout fishing, so that will be on the agenda of things to do as well. Rest assure I will attempt to decline all OT shifts and details!

Post some catch pics when you get that line out there.

Just got off the sprayer. Getting corn ground ready. Stopped for a hour and went to Good Friday service. Long day I’m shot

About 6'4"

Spent the day cutting pieces of 3/16" round stock for jaw laminations. Good old fashioned way - hacksaw, vice, and a flat file to smooth up the ends.
It was a sweltering 78 degrees with no shade clouds in sight.

Just finished scrubbing and power washing our transfer tanks for our 7800 gallons of sap. All lines, tubes, buckets, lids etc. are now stashed for next year. Should be getting our syrup any day now. Hoping for lots of darker thins year.
Got a guy who wants to buy two of my last June's Hereford steers and another who wants the shorthorn-Hereford cross heifer. Probably will sell the 3 bred cows too as we are not setup well for handling 6-8 head over winter.
Bought potato seed today and onion sets, the raspberries, asparagus, rubarb and strawberries arrived today but we are weeks from planting in our heavy soils. Looks like big sections of my strawberry beds had a rough winter.
Been slow to move the last month. I really pulled or strained something in my hip area and finally scheduled an appointment to see what the next "steps" are.
Turkey blind goes out Sunday for my season next week.
Been a busy spring and we are wet so things are moving slow.
Bought s roll of wire. Friend and I will make colony traps this summer.
Bryce

Did a big office carpet 1 HR 45 minutes away, made 120$ an hour, remodeling my son's kitchen

6' 5"

Fishing,putting out my game cams and getting brooder house ready for this years chicks. It has been a cold,wet spring so far.

I'm not an experienced trotline guy, so I'm just trying to learn. Wolfie it looks like your circle hooks are tied in a "snelled" fashion. Why is that?

Are snelled hooks better for a trotline? If so, why is that.

I'm a Big fan of circle hooks when bait fishing, but I tie everything with a polmar knot. I guess now that I mentioned it, I tie everything with a polmar knot. Just curious if I could be doing something better.

Not our man Wolfie, but the line he is using wouldn't hold very well with a Palomar knot, and the way he has them tied is super strong, besides having the line coming out of the eye on the point side, better facilitates a positive hook set.


He may very well have a different set of reasons, but that is my take on the subject.




Charlie

put this up

^^^^^^ that’s very nice!!

Watching the backwater rise. Prepping limb lines and stump hooks for the flathead spawn. Get a few built every night. Still building woven wire fence. Got my pastures fertilized. Doing a little turkey hunting when it isn't coming a flooding rain on the weekend. And last but not least my job lol which I am "supposed" to be doing now, but the Marshall vs. La Tech game is on the radio and Tech has runners in scoring position lol.

Getting the ground in the garden ready for planting spending a fortune. lol