Good to see some cage pics on here Musty! Today’s check was a good one.

Very cool. I've only used a cage trap once (for about a week) I was waiting for my trapping gear to get a ride out to me from a different island, and I had a marten problem. My neighbor let me borrow a cage trap he had, and it worked really well. I just threw egg shells, bacon grease, and bones from whatever I ate in the back of it and it caught a marten or two a day the whole time I used it

Good job TEpnw! That otter looks like a real nice one

Nice catch TEpnw!

Yeah Musty I'll be headed to Glenn's Ferry in January. Hopefully I'll have something to bring....just put out some traps today. Water is waaaay too low but river is supposed to raise 3-4 ft day after tomorrow so I'll have to pull after two checks.

Day 1 of my trapping season. Caught 8 beaver and 1 nute from 15 sets today. One of them was held by one toe in a Belisle (of course). The fact that it twirled around and wrapped the cable around it's tail helped hold it ....or it would have been gone.

Great first check BP! Looks like some dandies.

Picked up another 4 today and pulled. River rising fast.

Stack em up BP
Looks like a strong current in the river.

That's the Willamette river. First trapped by white men from Astor's Pacific fur company in 1812. Boco, can you imagine trapping that river in cottonwood dugouts with 6' of chain on those traps? I can't...or barely can, but first winter they managed to take 17 packs of beaver caught by 6-7 trappers.

I often think of stuff like that when trapping on the Abitibi,and Mattagami rivers on my traplines.Both are major tributaries of the Moose river where the HBC set up the first Trading post (and Ruperts house on the east side of the bay)at the mouth in 1670 and the rivers were the main trade routes until the rail line reached Moosonee in 1933.Fur brigades ran the routes between Montreal and Moose factory right up untill the early 1900s
Lots of fur trade history around James and Hudsons Bay.No change in the landscape since then either the area was never settled and once you get north of Abitibi Canyon the country is the same as it always was except for the single rail line from Cochrane to Moosonee.

Pretty amazing beaverpeeler

Hope we're not kidnapping the thread with our history lessons, but I sure enjoy hearing about the fur trade in your area too Boco.

Nice mixed bag check.

Those look like some very decent sized rats! Nice catch. (Doncha hate it when bobcats plug up you beaver sets)?

Yeah some good rats for sure. Cats are a byproduct of beaver trapping lol.

Nice pics everyone keep em coming.

It's an all-inclusive thread. Nice catches TE!

Not a beav, but got a little pond close by with several 'rats. Whoever says they're easy to catch is lying! Lol, not a rat guy, and even though they give me fits, I like catching the little buggers.

I love catching rats. Not that many of them around here since nutria took over.

No pics today but I did get back out on the river. 7 beaver and a nutria from 13 traps.

Love trapping muskrats.Caught 70 this year