Thanks for the update. Those coons look pretty fully furred which is good when you are catching several.

Bryce

Just starting to get a small road line out. Six rats yesterday, ten today. Suppose to rain for three days in a row so not in a hurry to get more creek sets out yet. Keep piling those coon up guys.

Checked sets today. Should have added an accelerator to yesterday's loads. The 40 sets yielded a good check. The first time trapper had a good time too! A few firsts with true doubles there other than one time taking two rats in a mb750. I put in a few beaver sets today in hopes of showing him a few things. We'll know more tomorrow.
Nice catches to those sharing! As always enjoy your time out there!

Checked the same sets again today! Another good check. I'll pull tomorrow. The 3 beaver sets took one beaver. The new trapper I took is hooked I believe! Fun to share the outdoor adventures with someone new! Rain for a few days again. I'll take a break for a bit and get some work done. Have fun out there!

Yup, good trapping is hard to beat when it comes to the outdoors action and excitement
Good job deerfly!

Thanks Nimzy
Checked and pulled the 40 sets today! Kids were off school so my wife and younger 2 joined me. Fun for all. See if I can hold off the addiction for a few days as I plan my next adventure. I have a crate of 150's ready to go and a Ken Smyth bottom edge VHS I might watch for the hundreth time, brings me back to the first time I watched it everytime. Love it. Keep crackin to all those out trapping, life only happens once!
A few pics from the check




Back to skinning!

On the board finally.

Nice pic's Deerfly. Congrats on your pipe dream coyote K.Snow. Used it myself with some success when I was trapping coyotes. Went over the 100 mark on rats today. Waiting for creeks to stabilize before adding more sets.Might have to trap a beaver to add to my fisher bait along with muskrat.

Great family pics Deerfly. I miss the days when my boys came along on the line.

Congrat KSnow on the pipedream coyote. I use that style of bedding on all my coyote sets, dirtholes and flats. Really stablizes he traps.

Great rat numbers already Walt.

I noticed the creeks rising on my coon line but I'm only setting dry land at this time so it hasn't affected me. What has been troubling is that I've had the flu since early Saturday morning and its really put a damper on setting more traps. My wife had to go with me Sunday and check the traps while I sat in the truck. She's a trooper, lol. With all the rain I haven't been able to travel back into a lot of my locations because I don't want to tear up the fields.

I forgot to add that I caught my fisher on Sunday when my wife ran the line with me. It was a nice large male and I put it on a coyote board since I don't have a designated fisher board.

Nice fisher Lance! Get healthy and back at those pesky coons!

I tried to rush back into the trapping too soon (according to my wife) and as usual, she was right. I hit it hard yesterday, rebaiting all my traps, and caught 6 coon today but really feel like garbage. Hopefully I'm closer to 100% healthy in the next couple days. I really hate being sick during trapping season.

Got a decent size boar coon today. Leather looked nice and white.

Great catches Lance. Get better soon.

Found a path into a slough I usually setup. With lower water, more dragging and lugging canoe and gear. Did not trap this place last year. Interesting situation. There are probably 15-20 structures in about 4-5 acres, but not many feed beds. I set a couple dozen sets. Will bring a few more tomorrow. Some good sign and some older sign.

Bryce

Finally put some traps out here in the southern muskrat zone, Bryce, you stronger than me or does your back also hurt dragging that canoe in?

Picked up another nice boar coon and the first mink of the season.

Caught 6 coon today and 9 possum. 9 possum in a day is a record for me. I've never seen this many in all the years I've trapped. They must have wintered well. This can't be good for all the ground nesting birds.

I have another place much worse that I have had to enter the very hard way for about 10 years. I am 76 and the last 2-3 years I have noticed a decline in leg strength and endurance when having to carry or drag heavy loads.
Yes I notice parts of my body now I did not even know I had before! I am looking to find an easier way to enter the really tough area or maybe let it go. Another thing is paddling and setting up a big marsh in strong wind!!! We had 3 days of that this season and that really puts the upper back and shoulders through the mill. Coon trapping for me us much easier than rat trapping but they are harder to handle and put up.

Bryce

Have seen more road killed possum this fall than ever before. Last winters mild temperatures really allowed them to explode. A hard winter will knock them back again.
Hang in their Fishdog! The muskrats are waiting for you!
Got the 1st mink of the season today,along with a few rats also K.Snow. Got some more sets out today. Felt good to not be rained on all day.

How do the mink look?