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10 rats in one trap #6668912
11/18/19 10:33 AM 11/18/19 10:33 AM
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wantage n.j.
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eric space Offline OP
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Our season started Friday November 15. I took my grandsons out and we set 8 rat traps. There have not been many rats around here for years, but the mink died out from distemper a few years ago and the rats have made a slight comeback. Saturday we checked the traps and this was the first one. Took the picture after we pulled the trap out of the culvert pipe. Got a total of 24 out of the 8 traps. That's more than I have caught in one day in a long time. Eric
[Linked Image]
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668915
11/18/19 10:35 AM 11/18/19 10:35 AM
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Saltlake city utah
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That's not a trap. That's a sardine can! Nice catch sir

You may think before you act. The question is did you listen to your own council?
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668922
11/18/19 10:47 AM 11/18/19 10:47 AM
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MN
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Holy smokes!

I have nothing clever to put here.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668934
11/18/19 11:07 AM 11/18/19 11:07 AM
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Wyoming
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Wyoming
Sweet run on rats. This is what I think every colony trap is going to look like when i set them and up to the point in which i check them. Then of course I am brought back to reality with one or zero lol.

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Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668935
11/18/19 11:08 AM 11/18/19 11:08 AM
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Manitoba
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Gota keep those knives sharp at that rate of catch.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668944
11/18/19 11:19 AM 11/18/19 11:19 AM
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Chambers, NE
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Chambers, NE
Holy buckets!
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668947
11/18/19 11:21 AM 11/18/19 11:21 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 13,101
Central Pennsylvania
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Is that a record? Can anyone top 10 rats in one trap?

I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668971
11/18/19 11:55 AM 11/18/19 11:55 AM
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WI
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Took 18 out of one trap....took a month tho. Lol

Pretty awesome, that would never happen in WI.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6668975
11/18/19 12:00 PM 11/18/19 12:00 PM
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wantage n.j.
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eric space Offline OP
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wantage n.j.
I have caught 16 in one of these traps but it was a summertime nuisance job and most of the muskrats were like small house rats. Here is a picture of a catch from the same location in 2013. [Linked Image]
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669007
11/18/19 12:42 PM 11/18/19 12:42 PM
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Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.
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Eric,

How long have colony traps been allowed for Muskrat trapping in New Jersey ?

w

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Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters

I Support Non-Resident Trapping
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669011
11/18/19 12:51 PM 11/18/19 12:51 PM
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Wisconsin
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I caught 12 In 8x8x30 colony trap ( ND)

The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669012
11/18/19 12:57 PM 11/18/19 12:57 PM
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wantage n.j.
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eric space Offline OP
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Walleyed, We have always been able to use them, at least since I started trapping 60+ years ago. Mink rancher named Charlie Lanza showed me how to make them back in the 50's. I just made them longer and put one or more doors in the middle to give a kill chamber effect to keep the main entrance door from plugging with dead rats. Because of that, otter or small beaver cannot blow out enough doors to escape before they expire. If I do not have an otter/beaver permit (it's a lottery here) then the back door is fastened with a breakaway that will hold mink or rats but not the bigger animals so they can escape.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669024
11/18/19 01:25 PM 11/18/19 01:25 PM
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NNY
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walleyed. Soon they will be legal in NY. When Jane Fonda becomes POTUS.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669108
11/18/19 03:35 PM 11/18/19 03:35 PM
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Williamsport, Pa.
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Mr. Space when are you going to give another Demo? And where?.......jk

Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: jk] #6669120
11/18/19 03:46 PM 11/18/19 03:46 PM
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Mich
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Nice job Eric and with the grand kids!!!
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669126
11/18/19 03:49 PM 11/18/19 03:49 PM
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Good population of rats there.

Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669215
11/18/19 06:05 PM 11/18/19 06:05 PM
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central arkansas
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Cool!

the just shall live by faith

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1776 - the year we told a tyrant we weren't to be under a dictator
Caveat ater macula
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669256
11/18/19 06:44 PM 11/18/19 06:44 PM
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East-Central Wisconsin
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Wow a season's worth in one trap!! The most I have ever caught in one was Two!

Bryce
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: eric space] #6669266
11/18/19 06:58 PM 11/18/19 06:58 PM
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Michigan
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great day on the line for sure ,thanks for sharing
Re: 10 rats in one trap [Re: 080808] #6669273
11/18/19 07:04 PM 11/18/19 07:04 PM
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Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.
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Originally Posted by 080808
walleyed. Soon they will be legal in NY. When Jane Fonda becomes POTUS.



This seems unlikely unless trump makes her his vice president during his THIRD term !! laugh

w

"Provisional/Interim" member of NYS Trappers Association
Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters

I Support Non-Resident Trapping
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