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For you frozen trappers..... #7185350
02/16/21 07:18 PM
02/16/21 07:18 PM
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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Covid eased up on me a little. Seemed like I had about 95% of my energy today. Pay predator job I had lined up mid-state is a no-go. So, set a few more beaver traps today....neighbors property. But, otters are everywhere. As much otter sign as beaver sign.

I took a few pics for those of you that are frozen/snowed in. Ill try to update pics for next few day.

Otter toilet. Eating crayfish makes it red.
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This big male otter in a 330 this morning (have been running 6 traps daily.
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Ottery-locations..
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Set several snares at crossovers for beavers. More 330s in channels. Footholds at castor mounds and breaks.

23 sets total. 4 snares. 7 footholds. Twelve 330s... scattered across 750 acres of river swamp.

Until tommorrow.....



Last edited by Swamp Wolf; 02/16/21 08:35 PM.

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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185359
02/16/21 07:28 PM
02/16/21 07:28 PM
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Good to hear you’re getting along better. Amazing the differences in temps, terrain, etc. that are found throughout the US. Good luck! Enjoy tagging along.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185361
02/16/21 07:28 PM
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Curious if some of those areas had water before the 3.5” we got this weekend?
I went today and put out a couple of traps in front of a buddies camera he’s been getting some coyotes and cats on. Just hoping all this water hasn’t changed their travel patterns.

Last edited by Wanna Be; 02/16/21 07:29 PM.
Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Wanna Be] #7185377
02/16/21 07:34 PM
02/16/21 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Curious if some of those areas had water before the 3.5” we got this weekend?
I went today and put out a couple of traps in front of a buddies camera he’s been getting some coyotes and cats on. Just hoping all this water hasn’t changed their travel patterns.

Yes..this water was similar level before that deludge yesterday. Nearly every stream and channel on my property and the neighbor's is controlled by beavers. Water is pouring over some dams and there is some standing water in the logging roads, but its not a total flood. But the Alapaha River is forecast to spill its banks in about 6 days. I'll have to pull out of there b4 that. Except for a few snares at a fish pond, all these traps are in the floodplain of the river.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185381
02/16/21 07:38 PM
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The river here cuts thru limestone rock. River has steep banks. It seems like this river siphons water rapidly from the feeder streams after heavy rains. But when the river level rises to the mouths of the feeder streams it backs up quickly, filling the sloughs quickly.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185585
02/16/21 09:45 PM
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So that's what open water looks like...

Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185627
02/16/21 10:08 PM
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Great pics. Thanks


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185639
02/16/21 10:16 PM
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A couple streams here are spring-fed....never go dry and constant flow. Bubbles out the ground and is very cold water. That eel grass in the last pic...likes colder water. See a lot of that aquatic plant in north and central Florida springs. Im right on the northern edge of the large Florida limestone karst region that has numerous springs and occasional sinkholes over the Floridan aquifer.

This is the closes large Florida spring to me...about 25 miles SW of me....in the same watershed
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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185642
02/16/21 10:19 PM
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Great pictures

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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185649
02/16/21 10:23 PM
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Nice catch and pictures.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7185657
02/16/21 10:25 PM
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Those limestone spring rivers are amazingly clear. Kind of shocking compared to the dirt colored water of the piedmont.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: warrior] #7185665
02/16/21 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by warrior
Those limestone spring rivers are amazingly clear. Kind of shocking compared to the dirt colored water of the piedmont.

Some of the most beautiful places on Earth 4 sure. Everyone of these blue hole springs were found full of Native American artifacts and fossils....and I can see why. Its where I would've built my camp, too.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186453
02/17/21 02:54 PM
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A western pale from south Ga...
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A couple easterns...lol...
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No-brainer snare location....
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Coon in a Belisle 330 with Expand-a-Pan.....at a crossover.
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Another otter, too..
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Set a 330, 3 footholds and a snare here today...
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...and the river is rising.....likely gonna spill over banks in a few more days. Will have to pull these traps b4 that happens..
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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186468
02/17/21 03:05 PM
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Makes me miss FL, brought a tear to my eye thinking of childhood memories on creeks and rivers down there.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186489
02/17/21 03:32 PM
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Nice Swampy. Thanks for the ride-along. You have green there! Far sight from the black and white world here! Love to check out that area again sometime.

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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186512
02/17/21 03:54 PM
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We have the mild winters 4 sure, but pay the price with our hot, humid summers that starts in May and lasts into October sometimes. Also, will have to start dodging poisonous snakes soon.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186688
02/17/21 06:05 PM
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Nice pictures Swamp wolf ... thank you

Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186741
02/17/21 06:43 PM
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That 'western' colored beaver looks more the color of a nutria, sure it isn't a mutant? lol.

I had ONE beaver pelt grade western at NAFA and that sucker sat there for years while the other's sold, finally got 10 bucks for it.
Never wanted to catch another one after that, lol.


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Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186762
02/17/21 06:57 PM
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Learn something almost everytime on here. That snap-clip on the top of the 330 support is a great idea. I always had a piece of wire there, cant tell you how many times I have got cut with it.

Re: For you frozen trappers..... [Re: Swamp Wolf] #7186768
02/17/21 07:02 PM
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Nice! Was told today we have land on the "otherside"
Maybe there are critters beside deer and we can meet up?


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