You get all the good gigs, Beav.

Manitoba changed it's season when the prices were high '12 or so. it was because some overzellious fellows went and set and pulled and left hundreds of open huts in the dead of winter -40c/f. They would not even stop and cover a house, one pull and go. In a marsh 1000A and out in two days. A marsh that size should have had 4000 maybe 300 were pulled the rest froze out.
So they closed the season 1 Dec to 15 March....the province has re-twigged the dates several times since, southern zone closes 31 April now.
Once open water starts and the rats are out and about the fat reserves are used up fast and the leather goes yellow opaque in a week and sheeding pdq then.

Aren’t you the one preaching trappers know when to quit? Lol

When the pay checks stop coming then I'll quit. But until then rats are averaging $10.00 so It's wader time. LOL

Seems like a knee jerk reaction to a situation that could have been handled far more appropriately.

Sound familiar WI? Zone jumping? Common opener?

MN? NR issue?

Emotions lead to dumb decisions???

Agreed, Nimzy.

Nimzy the NR issue is strategic. It has a lot to do with limiting competition. It is a question of ownership of the resource and if NR have any rights to another State's citizens resource .Especially when considering limited opportunity animals. For example: draws or seasonal limits. It can also have conservation and economic issues.

You can make it emotional like the reciprocity regulations.

As far as Minnesota the only dumb decision IMO was to take it to court.

What was so dumb about it?

Just because I'm bored and I haven't been paying attention.

Nimzy, did you guys ever get a decent change in your rat season?

There won't be any rats coming out of the Sandhill potholes this year. Drier than a popcorn fart.

Western Iowa streams look like shallow dribbles of hog confinment sewage. A rat in his right mind would'nt and could'nt live in these once productive rat streams. As scarce as rats are should bring $10. But FFG says there is a lot of rat carry over from past seasons.

We have the 3 zone season this fall with the extended spring seasons as well. We too in my area are very dry and many places with fair to good rat numbers the last 3 years have been dry since June. Rivers are down about a foot as well, maybe more.
I testified in favor or restating the multipe zone seasons 3 different times. I believe we started in 2016- or 2017 so 5-6 years to make that change.
Bryce