Anyone watch the show? I'd really like to meet Tom i bet you could learn a lot from him.
He's really the main reason I watch it.

I haven’t for years and years. Gave it up after they said a small beaver Tom caught would sell for over a hundred dollars. I think Marty is the only legit one.

Got to talk to Tom and his wife a few years ago when they stopped at my booth at the FTA convention.
The reason he gets the prices he does for fur,is not from the fur prices,but what he makes out of those furs.
While I would trap beaver differently than he does,I still would rather watch a show where people trap.So I have enjoyed the show.
Tom

I love watching it and it was one of the main reasons I got into trapping. Tom will most likely make more than the average guy off a beaver because he does make things out of them. Marty was legit for sure and it sucks not having him on the show. They dramatize it a lot but it's television so not much you can do there. I would love to meet Tom one of these days and hopefully, I will one day.

It's not that hard to sell tanned beaver for $100. I'll bet he gets over $300 for his deer skins too. Braintanned of course.

Got to meet Marty at the trapping convention in Iowa last year. Awesome dude

A lot of the value on Tom’s pelts is the fact his name is on the item usually his signature. Like an autograph. He is a celebrity.

When they run a mountain lion up a tree with hounds & then walk away saying they scared it away from a ranchers live stock........ c'mon man!!!

I like the show its entertaining, I've talk with tom and nancy a few time over the phone, they sound just like on tv real nice people , trying to get them to come to escanaba next year

Hope they can make it

Marty is the only one that's legit on the show.

I’ve met Tom, salt of the earth.

Yeah they are all paid actors don’t you remember seeing Marty on the original James Bond 007.

Well said

Have a neighbor whose daughter was the cook one year for Eustis on Turtle Island, in NC.

The winter she was there they completely ran our of meat, so she trapped and cooked rats.

I want one of his bows

I met Tom and his wife Nancy way back in the late 70's when I lived
in northwest Montana. Ran into them at the FTA in Wisconsin a couple years
back and they are the same gracious, down to earth couple that they were
40 years ago. They were from pretty humble beginnings then in the 70's.
Lived in a much smaller cabin than you see on TV. They made wild crafting
items back then and struggled to get by. I remember Nancy telling me Tom
had got a new job, planting trees for the USFS or something and now they
could afford luxuries', like toothpaste.

Zim