Looks great, hope you do well at the sale!!

NF, looks like all that fun and hard work is ready for auction action. Nice job

That's awesome helping the kids out and them helping you in return. As we get older I believe it's up to us to pass it on.

There nothing makes me happier than having kids that want to learn hanging out in the shop. Well a mink tail swaying back and forth in the current makes me almost as happy lol

Looking good NF. Kudos to you for getting everything ready that far in advance. I was drying castor by hanging it from an onion sack from my glove box when I drove to Idaho last week.

That made me laugh! Probably make my truck smell a whole lot better!!

BP. Ya gotta pick up a hitch hiker. lol

Keeping on keeping on. Conditions were tough for a bit but looks to be a better stretch coming on.

Nice catch Mud!!

Nice looking stack of fur newfox. Hope you do good at your sale next weekend.

Great job mud. Those are nice looking beaver and a fat otter!

Great catch!

Man, I gotta get me a white tarp for when i start catching beaver again. Nice catch Mud.

You guys are absolutely killing it! We had extreme cold/snow followed by above freezing temps. Waiting for the ground to carry enough to get to the water. Hopefully a couple more days. Got some property that should produce some otters, so we wait. Keep after em gents!

They sure do show up nice on that ;
With a name like Mud they sure look mighty clean!

Yesterday I got my first beaver line out since Jan 6th. The weather has been terrible for getting anything done. For a first check I like to see about a 60-65% catch rate. But today got a subpar less than 50% catch first check. Nine out of twenty traps. Would have been one more but the set screws that hold the attachment on a rebar backed off and I lost rebar, trap and beaver.

They was bigguns though. For fun I weighed them all up. Biggest was 67 lbs and smallest 28. They averaged 54.33 lbs.

And sometimes you catch them like this in those Belisles:

I think they grab things (in this case trigger wires) to help pull themselves out of the water on steep banks. I often have sprung traps with nothing in these steep trail sets. But from time to time a front foot. In this case both.

Got my check and official results from the ITA sale;

Nice work beaverpeeler those are some fat ones.
Its always a good day when the fur check shows up!

BP, that’ll buy some more boat gas.

Nice day on my river.

BP nice catches, glad to see your back on the water

Wish I had places like that to trap. Around here it's mostly puddle jumping for me. Small ponds created by dams in cricks you can jump across. Now it's rotten ice you can't walk on. Our ever increasing warmer winters have made freeze/thaw conditions all winter now. No more ice trapping beaver, snowmobiling or ice fishing in my neck of the woods anymore. Even the ski resorts in the hills are starting to shut down and go bankrupt. Oh well maybe 5 years down the line it'll be thawed all winter and I can open water trap. Got to think positive and hope

Nice BP some hogs there in the truck ...nice to see ya back at it ...I'm in the same boat as you TD ..gna try an get some gear out next Monday run them for a week there after work weather permitting