Wow it was 85 degrees here yesterday.

You got a short fur growing season up that way,lol.

Had to do a bit of chizelin to get this yoke out.

lol you earned that one.

Lucky I got a good ice chizel,lol.
I'm not a fan of the low water winters.

I would recommend waiting a day or two before skinning that one. LOL

I can chip off some ice for the rye while I am waiting.

Rye with a lil hint of Castor!!

Absolutely Graham.

Before our bones wash out to sea I would love to tilt a bottle back with you some day Boco! Castor or none.

Same here BP.
Maybe we can meet up at an NTA or FHA convention in the future.

Think I'd up for a couple rounds for that sit down just to be fly on the wall and listen. Fella might pick up some finer points on the trade.

Dang problem for me is the conventions happen during my busy farming season....but who knows some day maybe. At some point I'll be too old to farm.

..and added incentive if crosspatch is buying!

Dang I hate that! But some spots it’s unavoidable. No more chainsaw for me…lol. Bought one of those ice saws, actually works pretty slick. If you push hard it cuts a bit faster, but easier to just push & pull lightly and let the blade do its thing. Still have to get two 2” holes through though. And if there’s one frozen to the ice, it’s careful chipping, then trying to lift it out with blocks of ice on it. The shoulder length gauntlets work good for getting right in there.

Bob did you sent your bobcat to the sale? If so just wondering how much you got for it

No Dan I sent it to the tannery,it is the only Bobcat I ever caught.
Maybe in a few years when I get tired of looking at it hanging on the wall I will sell it.

Hahaha! That’s what I told the wife 25 years ago. Now our living rooms all dark with fur all over. The polar bear will lighten things up though. Haven’t told her that legally, I can’t really sell it here. We’ll have to do a cheap renovation and make our living room a vaulted ceiling to fit it, but that will create more space for caribou & moose mounts. This trapping excursion I got myself into isn’t making us any money……lol

Alchohol and trappers? Id imagine a fight would break out at some point.

Oddly enough never seen a fight all the years trappers got drunk in Fast Eddies lounge at the FHA convention,lol.
If a fight ever did break out at Fast Eddies it would have to resemble the scene in the movie "Gangs of New York" with everyone sporting 4 or 5 skinning knives.LOL.

I can see it now: "Clean skinner eh? Draw your knife!"