I would and could long line a mix bag of mink, coyote, fox, coon, bobcat, and fisher but I would have to quit my farm job.

So I'm wondering if I was to long line ALL season would it keep up to my job? I get like $40 a day for 4 days.


How much would I get a day? Doing this mixed bag? If it's even $5 less a day il do it.

This job causes me to not do lots of thing I want, like trapping super hard for example. Or tonight there is a barn yard games to chase pigs for money and I have to work. And I can't take off.

If it worth it il quit and do it. Il find something to do over the summer for money. Or maybe they will let me work during the summer.

Thanks.

Stick to your day job

Walk before you run, Keep the job.

I want to but it seems like I can't have a nice child hood. And you only live once.

The great thing about water trapping is its a lot easier to run a line before or after work/school because you dont have to deal with live animals generally. Use drowning rigs or bodygrips and run the traps when you get off work/school or before it.

How are you going to longline? Your 13 and don't drive yet, and you haven't caught anything yet except a few coons, do you realize how little they're worth? You still have no idea.

Quit your job, or don't, why are you asking others what to do?

So at 13 years how are you going to long line. My idea of long line is a minimum of 8 hours a day 6 days a week.
What form of transportation do you intend on using to run your long line?

I mean I walk miles I MEAN MILES, but we have a four wheeler here...

I was gonna buy my own but I will just use my dad's. It needs a new battery and battery wires

Be hard to pay bills and longline expenses with most furs at rock bottom prices

Just ask for a raise at your current job.

A butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker. And now a longliner too.

How long before you think of becoming a rodeo clown?

Complain about the adults who have you working a good job.

If you really want advice from a long liner, ask white17 what you need to do. He will surely tell you, with no coddling.

Keep running with that trap drag.

I played bull poker once,,,,, did not go well.....except someone said it was on the pbr website......

Only one fisher and cat in PA. Coon/$4, rats/$3, Fox/$10, coyotes/8$ Do the math, don't quit you day job. Hard time making $40/day on a walking line with your limited experience. The work does not stop when you get home, skinning, fleshing, stretching and other work.

Yah I know. But I love trapping I don't look at it as a job!



Thanks sharon

Surely we have someone with access to the main account that can see who this really is, lol. Compare IP’s pr something. This has about run its course.

With your experience your not going to be effective or efficient at trapping. You won't make more money than you spend in today's world. Even with established skills and already having the equipment it can be hard to break even trapping. As far as being a kid and only living once, a well established work habit and skills will affect the quality of your life way more than play time. Got to have your priorities straight or life doesn't work well.

I thought ( could be wrong though) Paul has mailed some stuff to help him out or yes I'd feel pretty confident we were being trolled too. Don't think Paul is in on this do u???? Maybe him and The Exocutioner are getting bored now that we don't have the politics

I don't know why I'm bothering writing this, as I doubt you'll listen. This is what I would do, and wish I would have done when I was your age.

Keep your job and save every penny. Use what trapping supplies you already have, don't buy more. This winter run a small line as your time permits and focus on becoming a better trapper.

If you live in an area close to a town, or if your parents would be willing to drive you to town a few days a week next summer, start a lawn care business. Use some of the money from your job to buy a weedwhacker, and a good push mower. Look for clearance deals for those items this fall and winter at stores like Lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, etc. Then next summer, work TWO jobs... keep your milking job, and hang up flyers advertising your mowing business all over town. Mow every lawn you can all summer, and save all that money too. By the time you're old enough to drive, you should have enough money saved to buy a truck. Once you have your truck, you can expand your lawn care business to other towns and make even more money. Possibly consider buying a used plow for your truck and plow driveways before school and on weekends (by then, if you're managing your business right you should be able to quit the milking job).

Stay in school, and keep saving as much of your money as you can. Trap on school vacations and before or after school. Then, once you graduate from school, take a gap year. A gap year is a year in between graduating high school and starting college (if you're going to college). If you're careful with earning and saving your money between now and then, and your parents will allow you to live with them still, you should have no problem spending the entire trapping season trapping from dawn until dark. Maybe even consider an out of state trapping trip to a southern state once your season starts winding down up north.

I know you probably won't take this advice, but if you do, that year will most likely be the best year of your life.

Honestly I was leaning towards my neighbors to the West of me, like Texas. They like to play jokes!!
But, you do bring up an excellent thought, those two have access to everything!