Get em Uncle Swamp ! … hope your knees feel better soon

Swamp, you don't think that the meds you are taking for the knee are causing the vertigo do you?

Health problems and beaver trapping don't go together lol. I been hinting at getting old the past few years myself and like you never gave it a thought id not be able to fall around in the woods one day in the future. I guess we can go to wal mart and run into people with those little rascal scooters when it is time to call it quits.

Swamp you need to get you a kid apprentice to relieve the work load. Good luck on the beaver.

We could go to the same Walmart and play bumper cars!!!

Id rather do jousting tater rakes in the plant section, haha

Swamp, I get reoccurring vertigo too. Usually starts in bed with me, roll over and twist my head. I haven’t had the bad nausea in a while, but when I get an episode of spinning, I’ll have a low grade headache for a while. I found that sleeping on my right side often causes problems. In 2023, I got vertigo the night before my first day of moose hunting. That morning was horrible. Shook it off the evening. Best of luck to you.

Any chance someone could have slipped you some drug in one of your drinks?When I was working as a DSP in Bangor taking care of the handicap people I had another worker slip me something that caused me to have vertigo for a few months.

Not unless it was my wife. I'll ask her...lol

I don't go to restaurants or bars. I drink bottled water, a little sweet tea, and 2% milk. No soft drinks, no alcoholic beverages.

Not unless it was my wife. I'll ask her...lol

I don't go to restaurants or bars. I drink bottled water, a little sweet tea, and 2% milk. No soft drinks, no alcoholic beverages.

1st check today after setting 10 traps (six 330s in channels, 1 snare, & three dam breaks with footholds) on a nuisance job yesterday.

Been slow getting back going since b4 Christmas...

Have had fluid drawn off both knees & steroids shots in both starting b4 Christmas. Been on-going knee problems for a couple years or longer. Doc finally decided to test the synovial fluid last week for evidence of gout. Positive confirmation for gout. Started some meds couple days ago. A little better today but still annoying pain with unsteadyness when walking....especially in mud and muck.

And to top the knee problems, I had about 6 episodes of vertigo from last Friday thru last Monday. I'm not talking about just a little dizziness....these were full blown world spinning so fast around me I came close to passing out. Didn't know which way was up or down for a minute or two. Only got vomiting sick once, so that's a blessing.


Anyway....it sux to get old and these issues pop up and put the brakes on the fun stuff. But, I always try to be positive. Many, many people have way more serious problems that me. I'm just glad I'm blessed with a great wife and sons that help ol hubby & dad out a little...lol. Never thought anything would slow me down getting in the woods.....hah...not true. Sorta sad when I realized this..

Stay tuned for a few more pics of my returning beaver work...

Keep At it when you can! A Retired Game Warden like You Deserves a Great Retirement

Prayers Swamp from Minnesnowta

Savell,
I should get drunk. After I sober...it might be fixed.

BruceT,
You must have me confused with someone else. Last boat I was on was a state of Georgia jon boat by myself patrolling for fish traps on a local river....about 4 years ago...lol

… that’s W’Dawg Bruce lol

Mr. Swamp, yer a retired GAGW, a professional trapper, and a Southern beaver trapper.
When I saw that Wal Mart tater rake, I got vertigo.
You have a reputation, get yerself a RAZORBACK tater rake and look like the pro.you are.
VS
PS, getting old aint fer sissys

Swamp if you’re like most of us it’s a pain to go see a doc.It could be a myriad of different things. Make an appointment with an established ENT doctor. Trust me a good one is worth every penny it might cost .

You faked the out. They thought you were finished for the year. When do your beavers start biting their mates?

Never knew we had so many medical professionals on here. lol

Plus as an added bonus we learn there's as many grades of tater rakes as there are coon hide grades at the Canadian casino that went out of business for betting the house on mink hides.

Thats not a boat your working on with the young guy who drinks so many energy drinks?

I feel you Swamp, Got a cortisone shot in my right knee this morning. Trying to avoid surgery for a while. That swamp work is hard on the old knees.

Looks like some turtle chewing on that Otters rear leg.

That a railroad in the background in one picture?

In addition to the tray on top, I’d have a submerged 330 with a dive stick waiting at the bottom….deadly sets!

They don’t have dentists in Georgia

[/quote]How do you mix up a retired white game warden with a 20s-something black barge worker? LOL

I miss killin' coyotes and bcats. Keep gettin'em Savell! Maybe my knees will moderate b4 next December and I can get back to catching predators.

I barely made it today. Had to quit about 2pm. Set 3 new nuisance locations in a couple more counties. Only 3 or 4 traps at each location. Needed to get to 2 more locations, but knees said..NO!!!

Will start fresh and get those set tommorrow.

Gonna have to pull traps a few at a time.....not sure I can pull em all in one day...lol

9 beavers in three days off this one job....6 males/3 females.

Is Groeny gonna run a buying route your way this year?

Not sure how your beaver trapping in that mess on rotten knee's. More power to you, my spot in my back lets me know every time i step wrong, figure that will only worsen with age.

From looks of weather you'll have a few days off, flooding in your neck of the woods tomorrow.

Love seeing green and flowing water....nothing but cold, frozen ground and wind here at the moment and supposed to get colder. Nice work Swamp!
Coyote season is done here so traps are pulled up. Just beaver/otter left. Gotta a pile of equipment to go through get cleaned up and sorted. Swamp
you said something Jackie and I talked about....I can't sit around the house....agreed. I need to be somewhere in the woods for part of the day scouting,
hunting or trapping. Wife thinks I am nuts but.... we trappers gotta trap....lol

Swamp is it still cool enough there for the moccasins to stay holed up.

Blue skies and not flooded out, you must of not got what we got for rain. 27 degree's tonight and snowing by wednesday so doubt i have to worry about snakes this week, lol. Was 82 last week, crazy!

Nice,,,, you can use it to clean your finger nails…
It is hard to pretend your a doctor on a plane with hand like that…..
I don’t eat with my toes…….lol

If you ever go back in the wooly swamp…well, you better not go at night.

I thought I have seen those fingers before.

Almost as good as my toes’……



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