Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/27/20 12:11 PM
05/27/20 12:11 PM
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Pawbracelets7
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I use Google earth and street view the night before I go to a clients house to acclimate myself to the surroundings, especially in unfamiliar neighborhoods, and try to find possible travel routes into folks yards, roofs, etc. Works great on finding the house, occasionally on travel routes, but enough to make it worth the effort.
Darkness flees in the presence of light. Jesus Christ, lighting the way for over 2000 years.
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: trap-alaska]
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05/27/20 05:00 PM
05/27/20 05:00 PM
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Law Dog
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Tom Miranda was famous for scouting and running the line in a plane and had it in his book. Gas was cheap and fur was valuable back then. Them river breaks made for a rough ride some days with uneven currents, the lake I live on now was covered with cattails so thick you could not see the water most of the time, even caught on fire from lightening strikes. The deer trails going all different ways looked like a map from the air. Tom flew out to White SD to visit me once even.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/27/20 05:20 PM
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Boco
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Flying a trapline is about the only accurate way for a trapper on a new line to count his live beaver houses and set a maximum/minimum sustainable harvest quota.With the price of beaver being low,and most trappers knowing their traplines well it is not done very often anymore.Usually when a guy buys a line he will fly it. Here is a map of an aerial survey on a trapline from years back with the live houses marked.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/27/20 06:23 PM
05/27/20 06:23 PM
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ebsurveyor
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Who’s been around long enough to remember back when the pros rented planes and did flyover scouting? Couldn’t have imagined Google Earth sitting in your living room back then. Can't remember if it was 2010 or 2011 when two guys hired a plane to scout for beavers near me in Northern Maine.
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/28/20 11:05 PM
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Willy Firewood
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I used to rely on USGS topo maps and go to the county map office and buy aerial photos. $3 per 8x10. Then I started flying my own trapping and hunting locations.
FRAC LIVES MATTER
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/29/20 12:00 AM
05/29/20 12:00 AM
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Oh Snap
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Oh Snap
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Half the fun beaver trapping is scouting in the winter off of a snow machine!
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Re: Flyover scouting
[Re: kytrapper]
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05/29/20 12:48 AM
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Posts: 45,271 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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james bay frontierOnt.
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Its not too costly to fly a line here.We have a couple trappers in our council with planes that will fly you on your line.Our council also uses some of the revenue from the nuisance beaver program to subsidize any member that wants to fly their line.They pay 50%. So the cost to fly depending on the distance involved to get to the line,will be between 200 and 300 dollars,with half of that coming out of the trappers pocket. If you have a good experienced spotter with you you wont miss any live houses. Many times when you fly a line for the first time after trapping it for several years you will find several colonys you have been passing right by on the ground and never knew they were there. Just the time alone not to mention the gas saved in planning out the harvest using an aerial survey map will more than pay for the cost of flying the line. Back in the hayday guys would fly their lines about every 3rd year so the cost per yr is pretty low.
Last edited by Boco; 05/29/20 12:53 AM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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