Went to set up this new permission spot.
Forgot my stupid Bemac gauntlets, but I still got two feed sets in, more later with all my gear.



More to come...

How thick is the ice...?

What did you set, footholds? Opened four sets this morning. Nothing. Snares tomorrow.

The Ice there was 3" the bottom was 5'

I'm going back later


Posco, I'm using some 14's Victor's. Popple sticks above

Usually I use suspended 330'

When I first came across the word "popple" for a tree, I had to ask someone who had spent time in the northern CONUS forests what people were referring to as in common species. So what besides your species of aspen do northern Minnesotans place into the "popple" tree group...?

Nice set up.

Here in Alaska I call all aspen (green bark) BEAVER CANDY...LOL

Beaver sure love fresh Aspen around here

Swinging free or on a pole? I usually run a pole through the eyes and wire them off. The beaver on this pond are trap shy, same as last year.

Any tree in the Populus genus. Cottonwood, Quacking aspen, Big toothed aspen and Balm of Gilead(Stink poplar, very bitter, not preferred by beaver) are four common native Poplars in MN. Silver(white) poplar are import from Europe/asia mostly ornamental.

Ice too thin for a 330 between the lodge and the feed bed?

Dad it is good name for it!

No just every now and then I feel like risking my expensive nostalgic fourteens and I put him on Pole sets with Popple above them I just wanted to set up to have fun for a couple nights in a switchover maybe I just hope they don't get stolen

Looks like a chiseled hole. I can see where the sweat melted the ice.

Hahaha its 3" there

It's about eight inches here. I hope you connect with a 14, I've got one soaking, too.

Its Thicker ice away from that travel way.

Tomorrow we shall See!!!

Tight chains