Re: helfrich trapping supply
[Re: west river rogue]
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05/20/19 08:55 PM
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Helfrich's Route.1 C.R. 15 Fredricktown, OH 43019 That should work,thx......hope its still standing...could be farmground now Welcome, Building might be gone, but one thing you can do is go to the county courthouse, pull up his name in the grantee or grantor deed records, and run the property address up to present day. Just follow the money....(property tax money) Lol. Seems like Helfrich got in trouble when he got a lot of irons in the fire.... Started making traps in addition to his lures and books, then opened up his western office in Texas to distribute to the western states...Maybe tried to get to big, to fast? ...Who knows. He was a hero to many a up and coming trapper in the late 70's and early 80's...Tom Miranda seemed to for a lack of better words, take on Helfrich's role as idol to the young trapper crowd back in '83 to '87 or so, then Mark June came on just a little later...I really like them all, a trio of good trappers to model your trapping after ...Your mileage may vary on the history of those years, just my observations of that time.
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 09:44 PM
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I was digging through a box of junk a few weeks ago and ran across his old catalogs id saved, my what memory's those brought back. Met in Tn. in '84, yep I thought he walked on water. Know the background story and can't say id vouch for the guy, sure he has his reason's BUT skipping town and ripping everyone off isn't a way to do things! Not if you care about keeping your good name!
Not my circus, not my clowns.
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 09:47 PM
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west river rogue
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I was digging through a box of junk a few weeks ago and ran across his old catalogs id saved, my what memory's those brought back. Met in Tn. in '84, yep I thought he walked on water. Know the background story and can't say id vouch for the guy, sure he has his reason's BUT skipping town and ripping everyone off isn't a way to do things! Not if you care about keeping your good name! nope its not...i know the story too.....seems to run in the family
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 09:56 PM
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I was digging through a box of junk a few weeks ago and ran across his old catalogs id saved, my what memory's those brought back. Met in Tn. in '84 I thought I met Helfrich in Union City, Tn at the 1982 FTA?....Maybe it was in 84? Cookeville?
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 10:50 PM
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I sure liked him , Traps were ahead of his time and lures were good as any back then ,Boda , Helfritch ,Bishop ,Carrol ,Milligan just a few trappin fools.
Never Confuse Stupid With Crazy
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 11:39 PM
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Thats right I do remeber at least one other building too like you said. I wish I could have visited while he was still there and while the times were booming.I bet that would have been something.Did you live right in the area while Jim was still there ? I beleive one of the rivers that he and Carroll both trapped was called the mohican I beleive.I know Carroll had it split up into a cpl sections with the total of the two being over 20 miles.Some cold long days ! No warm pick up truck to jump into.And no thinsulate insulated neoprene waders back then Only the all rubber kind of waders with not hardly much insulation at all.They just had to make sure they had several layers of clothes and socks I would think.
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/20/19 11:55 PM
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Buck (Zandra)
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I sure liked him , Traps were ahead of his time and lures were good as any back then ,Boda , Helfritch ,Bishop ,Carrol ,Milligan just a few trappin fools. I second that.I remember back in the early '80's when we had a lot of fox around some of the guys around here really liked his "Spotted Death"'cat lure for fox.At that time lure bottles often came with eye droppers,that bottle was so full of glands the dropper was a joke.Alot of fox went on stretchers around here due to that lure.And I definitely think he didn't get the credit he deserved on trap mechanics.Maybe some of these ideas were floating around before he came along,but he brought them out to the general trapping public along with his own insights in the numerous articles he wrote on the subject.I remember an article in FFG that he wrote about using 11/2 coils for coyotes,that had to be a first!Talk about blasphemy!He used the exact opposite approach to trap sizes than what was and is preached today.Instead of the largest trap,he set the smallest trap modified to catch the big critters.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/21/19 06:43 AM
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Thats right I do remeber at least one other building too like you said. I wish I could have visited while he was still there and while the times were booming.I bet that would have been something.Did you live right in the area while Jim was still there ? I beleive one of the rivers that he and Carroll both trapped was called the mohican I beleive.I know Carroll had it split up into a cpl sections with the total of the two being over 20 miles.Some cold long days ! No warm pick up truck to jump into.And no thinsulate insulated neoprene waders back then Only the all rubber kind of waders with not hardly much insulation at all.They just had to make sure they had several layers of clothes and socks I would think. I live 60 miles from there,I was there during the boom many times because I trapped down that way and I would buy lure there or if I needed something. I used fox lures and masked death. A chubby kid worked in the concrete bldg.....I never ran into other guys there. Then the steel bldg was added .......i had stopped going there.(at that time Coon were bringing 40 on carcass for triples,ab,color,reds 70 or so if memory serves me right.
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Re: helfrich trapping supply
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05/21/19 09:33 AM
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Jim Helfrich was a big part of my trapping success, his articles and books were written to help you. He is one of the only big-time trappers I ever sent a letter to, and I was in heaven when he replied back with a hand drawn diagram also. His methods really helped me catch raccoons. "Nothing like a greased up pocket set to catch their attention" or something like that he told me. I'm sure there are a lot of guys on this forum who have been through several marriages, bad business decisions or had a house foreclosed on. No point in beating those dead horses as you move on and start over. If Jim is somewhere here in Montana he would be more than welcome to come to our house for a T-bone dinner.
"I've reached nearly fifty four years of age with my system."
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