How is the muskrat population in your area?

There hasn't been more than a few in my area for decades.

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I see a little sign in the river, but I'd probably have better luck winning the lottery then finding many rats in the small creeks

800,000 rats caught in 1980, 79,000 in 2022
I don't look at the numbers anymore, it makes me sad

Ain't no muskrats in Pennsylvania...

slim to none here.
suspect this year is even worse with the drought we are still dealing with.

I saw a few places while Trout fishing this spring that had a few, but you're gonna have them caught in a night or two.

They are building huts here right now.......jk

Short of a few large farm ponds, only the rivers have a good enough population to trap them these days. I still get a few every year in my bottom edge mink sets

They're around, just not like I hear from back in the day. I don't trap them when I see pockets of them. My uncle lives about 20 mins from me and puts up 125-150 a year for the last 10ish years

What’s a muskrat??