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Beautiful night to set some traps #6774326
02/17/20 11:36 PM
02/17/20 11:36 PM
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Bonner County, Idaho
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Couldn't help but admire the sunset tonight. I had a coon come down my muskrat line and clean me out on 4 muskrat catches. The coon was nice enough to leave me the guts and bloody ruined remains of the muskrats. Luckily I secure all my traps very well or I could have been out 3 Bridger 150s and a Bridger 1.5 coil. So tonight I set some coon traps to protect the muskrat line. Had to stop and admire the painted sky and reflections off the water. I'm a sucker for a good sunset or sunrise.

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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774327
02/17/20 11:39 PM
02/17/20 11:39 PM
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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774335
02/17/20 11:43 PM
02/17/20 11:43 PM
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Minnesota
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Thats an Amazing view!


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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774336
02/17/20 11:44 PM
02/17/20 11:44 PM
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Wow that's an incredible

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774348
02/17/20 11:57 PM
02/17/20 11:57 PM
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That is absolutely gorgeous!

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774380
02/18/20 12:20 AM
02/18/20 12:20 AM
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Sandhills, NE
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I'm right there with ya man...they get me every time. Too many of us take things like this for granted and dont stop to take it in. Views like these are limited in a lifetime! Took this one at sunset last summer at the lake camping.


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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774384
02/18/20 12:25 AM
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Ok wait! Great pic first of all!
But shouldn’t the water be frozen this time of year there? I would have though Idaho was cold and frozen similar to Manitoba. Maybe not as cold but still frozen.


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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774387
02/18/20 12:34 AM
02/18/20 12:34 AM
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Bonner County, Idaho
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JP, we've been unseasonably warm this winter and this is the biggest lake in Idaho and in my 3 winters here I've only seen it totally freeze over twice. Really too bad as some good ice would make trapping a few beaver colonies easily accessible. Supposed to be in the teens at night the next few nights so it will be froze again. I was actually waiting for you to chime in and say that you don't ever set traps at sunset because after sunset comes dark and you don't want to be out with the critters in the pitch black.

Colter that's one heckuva sunset! Love the colors.

Last edited by Wild_Idaho; 02/18/20 12:35 AM.

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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774401
02/18/20 12:57 AM
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LOL!!! Actually I’ve been trapping till about half hour to an hour after dark the last few weeks cause my line is quite larger than normal this year. Scary as heck, but talking out loud to myself at some sets seems to help!

Last Saturday was an awesome full moon and a clear sky and I actually drove really slow at some spots to stare at the moon and take it in. Got an uneasy feeling at a bait pile as the sun went down too.

Today I was out till after dark again and decided not to check my last 3 traps. I don’t mind driving the sled in the dark, it’s walking through the bush a couple hundred yards that gets me!


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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774555
02/18/20 02:40 AM
02/18/20 02:40 AM
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Wasilla AK
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That is pretty!

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774557
02/18/20 02:54 AM
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Old timer once told me “ A real trapper never sees his camp in the daylight “. Kinda hard by mid March

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774573
02/18/20 06:46 AM
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that is a good pic. smile

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774708
02/18/20 10:00 AM
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Nice pictures everyone , 3 fingers I resembled that remark for many year's when I was younger ha ha


Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6774783
02/18/20 10:55 AM
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Minnesota
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Colter And Wild Idaho

Those need to be put on photo canvas!!!


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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: 330-Trapper] #6774982
02/18/20 02:25 PM
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Sandhills, NE
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I did put this one on canvas last year I think. Taken with smartphone at sunset out of my tree stand during the rut!

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Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6775032
02/18/20 03:01 PM
02/18/20 03:01 PM
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Montana ,Rocky Mtns.
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Originally Posted by Wild_Idaho
JP, we've been unseasonably warm this winter and this is the biggest lake in Idaho and in my 3 winters here I've only seen it totally freeze over twice. Really too bad as some good ice would make trapping a few beaver colonies easily accessible. Supposed to be in the teens at night the next few nights so it will be froze again. I was actually waiting for you to chime in and say that you don't ever set traps at sunset because after sunset comes dark and you don't want to be out with the critters in the pitch black.

Colter that's one heckuva sunset! Love the colors.



I well know Lake Pend Oreille...being the huge coast line that it is, and especially the fifth deepest lake in the nation, there have been few times it has frozen over completely...even in the most frigid of winters. The only lake the Navy tests its subs in...amazing. The base next to the lake is something to see.

In very very cold winters, with enough weeks below 0 , it will freeze over along bays , inlets into open water , but theres always places where undercurrents keep areas of open water , or in the coldest of times, very thin ice in center. Its been a while since Ive seen it frozen over almost completely.

Lovely shot of it...not often that lake surface is seen that calm.

Re: Beautiful night to set some traps [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6775676
02/18/20 11:00 PM
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Bonner County, Idaho
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It froze over completely last year with sub zero temps in February and several days of wind chills at -15 to -20. But within 2 days or so was open again. My first winter here it froze over all around the Long Bridge but I don't think it did over on the east side of the lake.


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