Yes BP.Actually marten prime up fairly early.
End of the season for them is end of feb,the late trapped ones are starting to fade a bit,more noticeable on the darker ones,still should fetch a good price at the auction when intersorted with same grade skins.

Went for a ride on the camp trail today and pulled my 8 marten sets.
Season closes end of feb.wound up with 54 marten this year with about 25 sets out.
Was nice out there today,only minus 5c and snowing.hardly no snow this winter.

Nice black and whites. THANKS FOR TAKING US ALONG THIS SEASON.

LOL,it looks like black and white pics but they are colour.
Thats the colour of the bush in winter.
Time to catch a few under ice beaver now that land fur is done.
Conditions are good.Fired up the chain saw for cutting ice yesterday.

Good looking wolf boco! Looks line you had a awesome season! You plan on hitting it hard next year for the marten?

Had a pretty good year for the small amount of sets I had out.Also some surprising catches-canary marten,bobcat,Coon and a coyote.I will see how the next couple auctions go HFT,I will be trapping for sure,how hard I dont know yet,lol.
I got quite a few lines I could set up,some I havent trapped for s few years.Probably just rotate lines instead of setting them all up though.

Thanks, Boco, can you trap the other lines out of your camp?

Yes mike,there is a couple lines on the closer ground that I can trap from the camp,I can also trap some from home.
On the northern ground there are some lines I havent trapped for a while.I have a camp there that I can trap out of.I havent used that camp in winter for a couple years
I plan to go down river from town to that camp this spring when the water is high to check on it and maybe do some fishing if time permits.I normally go into that camp by bush trail. A buddy of mine who hunts and has a trapline half way down river has a good boat and knows all the rapids and channells pretty good.He offered to take me down there.There is a couple tricky rapids to run but he is a youger fella so we should be good.

Gonna be holed up for a couple days here at home.
Blizzard raging right now with temps dropping to the minus 30s with the wind chill.Hiway is closed.
Time to do some frostscraping.

Is that marten/lynx country also?

Yea,all the same type of country.

Awesome

Got the last of the good wolves boarded,3 I did earlier and shipped out to the tannery.
These two will go to the tannery soon.




The 5 at the tannery will be sold before they come back from the tanner,one is already spoken for.
Good market for tanned wolves.

I got 3 more that were partially eaten I will tan myself this spring.There is enough fur for two pair of mitts two hats and quite a bit of trim.

Last week I seen where this beaver had been chewing out from under the ice early-ran out of feed.


I set a snarepole for him a few days ago and nailed him today.
Where he was coming out there was no water,but further down the creek there was some water so that is where I dropped in the set.
I figured he would be cruising under the ice looking for roots to eat.

I have never snared a beaver. Good job man!

Gonna target a few more under the ice.
Its fun checking the sets and seeing the big air bubbles in the ice-you know you got some action.

Went for a scouting run on Sherriff creek today.
Have a few more creeks to run on the close line to scout if the weather gets cold again.
It went to plus 6c today and they are calling for plus 10 Monday,
Too warm for trapping the houses high risk of taking a swim or sinking the machine when jumping dams.
Majority of beaver here are only acessible by skidoo in winter.

Odd catch today,an otter in a beaver snarepole.
He must have been attracted to the open hole and got caught.
Good thing I put Ice blocks on the safety crosser or he would have gotten up on the ice.

Boco, do you trap alone? Bad ice would give me the willys by myself.

Yes I trap alone.
I can read bad ice pretty good.If Im not 100% sure I check as I go with the spud.
That spot has a good solid 8 inches of ice.