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Ever trap where you first did? #7389197
10/27/21 01:59 AM
10/27/21 01:59 AM
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Oregon
beaverpeeler Offline OP
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I drive by a slough nearly every day which is where I caught the first beaver (actually two -same night) ever in 1973. It is all private access now and probably off limits to me. More houses too.

You ever trap the same spot you first ever laid steel? I kind of dream about it as a cool bucket list kind of thing now.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389201
10/27/21 02:48 AM
10/27/21 02:48 AM
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williamsburg ks
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Illegal for me.


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Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389214
10/27/21 04:54 AM
10/27/21 04:54 AM
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yes , there are a few places , that i trap as a kid that i still do ,

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389222
10/27/21 05:39 AM
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yes, i still trap the place where i caught my first coon.
I was 13 i am 66 now few years back.

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: Len Dunham] #7389225
10/27/21 05:43 AM
10/27/21 05:43 AM
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Iowa
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trapdog1 Online content
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Originally Posted by Len Dunham
yes, i still trap the place where i caught my first coon.
I was 13 i am 66 now few years back.

Pretty cool. Any idea how many coons you've caught there over the years?

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389249
10/27/21 06:37 AM
10/27/21 06:37 AM
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W NY
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Going to trap a ditch this year that me and my buddy trapped when we were kids on bicycles. Major route and now there's a gas station where swamp land used to be.


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Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389269
10/27/21 07:24 AM
10/27/21 07:24 AM
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east central Minnesota
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I would love to but afraid I would get arrested. The traps were set in 1961 and the area is a strip mall now.


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Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389271
10/27/21 07:25 AM
10/27/21 07:25 AM
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South metro, MN
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There's an airport runway over the slough I started trapping rats on in 1976.

I did ride a bicycle trail last summer that used to be a rail road track I used to catch my first foxes' along when I was a kid.

Always good memories. They get better (and more valuable) as we get older.

I think back on the motivation I had then. Wish I had half that now.

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389272
10/27/21 07:26 AM
10/27/21 07:26 AM
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La Crosse, WI
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Not even possible for land traps all full of buildings business. Is large clinic built over spot I caught first red fox. Not sure about first water sets? Honestly don't recall where caught first muskrat. Might be condos now??

Mac


"Never Forget Which Way Is Up"

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389283
10/27/21 07:30 AM
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There is a bridge that crosses a small creek about a mile from where I grew up. My brother and I got into a colony of muskrats there when we were nine and 10 years old. We would ride our bikes down there to check our traps. I drive by there once in a while and sometimes I even stop and look down into the creek.

There haven’t been any muskrats there for decades. If I ever saw sign I would love to trap there again.


Eh...wot?

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389288
10/27/21 07:34 AM
10/27/21 07:34 AM
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Kansas
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Every year. Same creeks and hills I trapped as a kid.


Everything the left touches it destroys
Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389305
10/27/21 07:47 AM
10/27/21 07:47 AM
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Frazee, MN
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I trap every year in the area I first trapped as a kid. Many years ago.

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389307
10/27/21 07:49 AM
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S.E. Ohio
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I still do, out my back door.

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: danny clifton] #7389311
10/27/21 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by danny clifton
Illegal for me.

Thats classic though


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Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389316
10/27/21 07:57 AM
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MN
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I still trap a portion of the line my Dad did when he was a young man.


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389324
10/27/21 08:04 AM
10/27/21 08:04 AM
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Minnesota
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I caught 3 otter last season where I first set with a License for Beaver.

There were Rabbits and squirrels in cages before that as a young kid.


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Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389325
10/27/21 08:04 AM
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It'd be possible but it's built up now.

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389362
10/27/21 08:36 AM
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north central Iowa
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My first everything come from a mile stretch of a creek my folks own. I set my grandads traps on it when I was 12. I'm 49 now and still make a point every year to catch something in one of his traps

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389422
10/27/21 09:38 AM
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Illinois
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Yes! The creek behind my house. Folks built it in 1963 and I bought it from them in 1990. Still has some muskrats in it!

Re: Ever trap where you first did? [Re: beaverpeeler] #7389429
10/27/21 09:42 AM
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On Georgian Bay, Ontario Canad...
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Setting traps there in a few weeks.

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