Picked up a nice yote tonight.

Pretty coyote.

I'll be moving traps tomorrow to a new property. With the warm coming, pretty sure it'll be a slow few days.

Went down to the Kickapoo Vally Reserve to join Don owner of Wild Things Fur for his annual trappers Ed class. He always puts on a great class. Today we had a couple young boys who are going to be the future of trappers and were absolutely focused on the skinning part of the class, crawling as close as they could get to the action lol. Also had a great coyote demo from Don's friend Tim. Great way to spend a day! I might even get a trap set myself this coming week lol

Nice work, Trap Setter.

I relocated a bunch of my traps today to fresh ground. Also added a few coyote sets. Figured I'd let them cool a bit while we have a couple more warm days..

Nice day in the Marsh with my younger daughter! We had a good time. Saw a few more trappers out and about. I'll check 2 more times in these locations and shuffle traps or move to new spots depending on time and weather. A few pics from the check.

Nice catch Deerfly! Now one needs to sharpen the knives! I had 43 sets out and got 1 large male coon I will skin to see how they look and 16 rats. Meetings tomorrow so don't want too many to check and won't set more til later..

Bryce

Set a small coyote line this week. Pulled it today. I just wanted to take some out of my deer hunting area. Caught 8.

Congrats

Nice work Lance.

Thanks Ken. I could catch a lot more but I hate skinning them.

Set the first rat traps of the year yesterday. Caught 25 which was less than I expected with the amount of sign but it was a nice weekend to start the season off around here. Good job on the coyotes Lance, but I don't like skinning them either lol.

What kind of boat do you got there?

It's just a 14ft Jon Boat. The way the pic turned out is why it looks like a weird shape to it. Photography is not my strong suit. Lol

Nice rig and nice catch Walt!

Moosetrot

nice job guys, keep them post coming,

I came on here this morning purposefully looking for this thread. I need to set some muskrat traps this weekend here in the southern zone so I can take a 16-year-old boy out checking them, he is excited about the idea. I would like to kill a buck more than catch 2 dollar rats but can maybe do both.

Tried to setup one of my small sloughs this AM. Too low due to no rain for several months. Wiil try after freeze up. Madea quick check on my 41 trap line. first check yesterday was 16 today was 10. The big male coon yesterday still needs some time. I thought the older males may be further along now. Good color our our area.

Bryce

Another 23 rats today. Picked up traps from last 2nights and set 15 along another shoreline. Hope this pic is better than yesterday's. If you look close at the side of my boat you can see the homemade sponsons or floatation strips I attached to my narrow Jon Boat. They work great and by mounting them low they add a lot more side to side stability when climbing in and out all day.

Dang, that's nice, Walt!

Moosetrot

Got a 33 lb coon today, sorry no pics.