Second video. 5 minutes in and ive learned something. Should be a good couple hours.

Never heard of the guy.

I think his Wife is the Trapper

I wish i had roads running along all my trappin spots-would t even need 4 wheel drive

Don't know about her being the trapper but I'm sure she's the one who makes the lures that work so well.

^^^^^^^ Cute.
She the bottler and labeler and boss.
I'm the grunt who formulates

Blessings,
Mark

Kind of like every trap line I run. 5 minutes in and I'm learning something

Same here Mark, now if I could just remember till next year! Yeah, good luck!

That's exactly right.....and don't forget it.....like I would, Marion!

Hi Brad!

Mark

Mark, from your earlier videos, are there any major changes in your trapping practices or philosophy. I believe one is that you did change to the MB550 trap.

Grunt

Grandpa,

In answer to your Q about whether there are changes in my methods versus my first DVDs: Sure. I learn more every year. I call it "tightening up." I just ratchet down, a notch at a time, ways to harvest quicker. I suspect we all do this. Or should be.

It helps because we trap a lot. Seminary has curbed this a great deal of course, but we were trapping October - July for quite a few years and the different seasons call for very different methods, and it taught me much. Using different methods = you have to trap more than a few weeks. A person who has traps in the ground 200 days has 10X the experience as the trapper who traps 20 days.

Plus, the scientist in me likes to try new ways.
And at this point in the game, it's small things that really tighten down in productive ways.

I've been asked about making another DVD and at this point I have a few solid ideas floating in my noggin but it'll have to wait a couple years to attempt it as it'd take me trapping 6-8 states to show it.

Blessings,
Mark

Awesome videos.