I would hope we could do better than that, but it is a start.

I miss those days too...




I probably won't ever run up numbers like this again...

….you’re the man Uncle Swamp … probably saved some good ol boys a little money by running traps instead of writing tickets… a win win situation lol

Nice catches

Looking back...I wish I still had the drive to get'em as I did back then. I was working a full time job and still was able to pile up numbers. I guess those better prices some years seemed to make it "easier" and kept me going at it. I sure do love it!
Trapping is ingrained in me...never will leave.

Agreed Patrick.
I’ll never not trap, but the financial incentive has to be there to pile them up.
Nuisance trapping is good money, but it just ain’t the same….
Afraid we’ll ever see a good coon market again.

Lol...

I'd check traps well b4 day....come home...swap clothes....put on the gray shirt/green britches, and gun belt and be standing at the duck baiter's vehicles when they fired the first shots at that group of baited woodies.

Then, that night, I'd be sitting hidden on the edge of a clearcut or dug peanut field watching for Bubba and 'dem to work a Q-beam until about 2 or 3 AM....

lol… everbody knows you don’t bait woodies… you roost em with lead # 4’s

I'm heading to look at the winter's first beaver job tommorrow with others to follow next week for timber company.

There isn't much "fire" in me to do it, but I know it'll feel good once I'm out there standing knee deep making a set.

Bubba and dem bait em and roost shoot em over this way.

Amazing how many ducks a little corn and molasses will draw in after a few days and the local ducks are followed back by many others to that sweetness on their feathers.

Not until some marketing guru can offer a product sensible to a mass audience .

… even the the market was good my coyote was worthless… figure the same for uncle Swamp .. other than live market if legal I guess

Same here. But, I grew tired of dealing with those old houndsmen that operated the training enclosures. Took the "fun" outta trapping for me to have to feed, water, medicate, transport coyotes weekly.

Haven't sold a live coyote or fox in a decade...with no plans to ever do it again. But, I did sell hundreds of each since I was 18 years old. Made a few $$ live marketing. It carried me thru the lean fur market years and would do so now if I had the drive and patience to do it again.

My son’s trapping coyote for the live market. Before work and weekend line. First year he’s done the live market thing. He’s caught dern near 40 the last 20 days or so.

Our coyotes are miserable poor quality as a whole as well Savell.
Coon are the bread and butter in this farm country. Lots of other stuff to trap, but you’ll make the most money trapping coon if there’s a market.

Those yotes are dead!,.if anything one would surmise ,..good job!

A few pics from my past. My best is yet to come!

I like that attitude BP!!!

It's definitely encouraging!

That is a LOT of butt sniffers!

Back when you could harvest a few....in 31 days of December

Great pics and catches.