With 24 hr check law here in Ga.....never had one chewed on by turtles.

I do. Started about 47 years ago. Took a couple years off due to work schedule but been at it most of those 47.
I still enjoy it. Its still a thrill so I'll keep on till I can't ant longer.
just

I sure have had them chew on my beavers here in NC with a 24 hour check. Our turtles must be hungrier than those GA beavers - lol.

TRAP? And oh yes we all have differing opinions on what qualifies one as a trapper or in the words of several "a real trapper" Years at it, sets per year, numbers caught in a season or lifetime, species caught, do you you just trap or do you put up fur etc. etc. Each year in WI we graduate from 1,000 to 2,000 persons through our trapper ed program the majority of those will trap very little to none but they have all been in a hands on class setting getting a better understanding of what trapping is all about. Many of those thousands over the last 30 years may never have set a trap other than the class but may well support our heiritage as well or better then many who are always arguing about what constitiutes being able to call oneself a trapper.

Bryce

Been trapping every year for the past 10 or so. Mainly coyotes and bobcats

They will be if you can't get to them quick.

Or catch the turtles first.

Still do every year. Not as much as I used to but now with grandkids getting old enough looking forward to getting them started.

I do , beaver, yokes, skunk,coon ,otter Fisher etc. Since 86

Fixing to go set some coyote traps right now. LoL !

TOG

Take an
Old
Guy

My 12 year old caught a possums and one of out cats this week. The cat was released the opossum went to the train station.

I was able to get out this year and get a few.

sweet corn eaters moles barn rats dam diggers on and on lot of trappers in my area fur trappers very few and a lot that sell their fur wonder why they even bothered

I do trap pretty much year around, just pulled a Beaver job yesterday before it flood's out.

Not really, by my standards.

Yes, Martin, bobcat coyote badger coon fox. My father was thoughtful enough to buy me a lifetime license in Minnesota so I would leave Kansas and go trap with my brother and dad for Martin up at Ely then finish them and ship via Nafa here in Kansas lol ole Les would look at me like where did you get those lol. A blast form the past helped me with my passion though cats! K Miller helped me a lot here in central Kansas I couldn’t catch a cold with Connie boxes like up north….

Started in 1968. Trapped as much as I could through school and when I went to work out of high school. By the mid 1970s until 1989 I typically
ran fairly long vacation lines, and worked hard at it. In 89 I got hurt and could not trap for a year or so. Still worked in construction a couple years after getting hurt,
working in the office, learning to do estimating, writing contracts, tracking jobs, billing, some drawing, working with vendor and customers etc.

Started teaching school in 1994 and trapped what I could before and after school for 23 years. Retired from education. Worked for myself some then went into code enforcement. Still trap as much as time allows. And as much as it pains me to admit it, as much as my old body will allow. When I think back to how
hard I used to run for several weeks, then running around the dark after work for years, I have to shake my head. I could not do it today, even if I had the time.

I do a bit of ADC work on beaver in the summer. Missed doing much a couple years when I lost kennel help in the late fall. Working about full time doing code work and then taking care of the kennel after work was all I could handle. Last year my kennel ,manager had shoulder surgery so I never set a trap until Thanksgiving, then I trapped a few beaver.

I used to figure I would trap for beaver that I could walk or snow shoe to in a half hour. Now I figure if I cannot read the license plate on my truck, or at least make out part of the truck, I probably went too far.

Mac

I laid my first line in 1947 at the age of 6 for muskrats... caught 32 rats and 1 coon that year. Although, there were several years that I only got to trap for a few days or a week, but I have set and run traps ever since 1947. I have trapped and caught everything in Ohio, (where I lived most of my life) except Otter and I have never set for them. There are few in a small part of my county and the area that I used to trap, there are very few.

There very few rats left in my area, but I manage to get a few each year. I no longer am able to go after beaver, because can't find and area that they are close to where I can park and can't walk much distance like is needed. I really enjoy trapping beaver and next to muskrats they are probably the easiest thing to catch, for me. Now my trapping is several golf courses that let me use a cart, but there aren't many rats left there. Several of the course managers keep telling me the reason there isn't many rats is, that I have trapped them all out. Be as it may be I still enjoy it.

My advice to new young trappers is... don't get excited about trapping 50 mink or any other animal, when you read online or from a book where some one has trapped a good number of any animal. Why? Because if they aren't there, you can't catch them. Catch what you can catch within your ability and area, and be satisfied that you have done well.

Here's tight chains to you.

Garry-

Started in 1958, trapping muskrats in NJ. Smartened up in 1973 and moved to Alaska. Still trapping every season now, although I'm back to spending most of winter in NJ.

I'm a founding member, Lifetime Member and Past President of the Alaska Trappers Assc. I have very little left to "prove!"

Pete

Excellent Pete-you should haul that Newt fella up to Alaska for a winter in the bush.