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Re: Annual WI Trapping Thread 2025 [Re: Green Bay] #8518922
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I see a lot of weasel tracks in our cattail marshes where there are still a lot of mice. We have so much land here in corn silage and then several thousand gallons of liquid manure and that needs to be worked in so a lot of fields have little cover or food. The turkeys, deer and mice concentrate on the fields where the stalks are chopped back on the field and there is minimal tillage or none.

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Re: Annual WI Trapping Thread 2025 [Re: bblwi] #8519152
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Originally Posted by bblwi
Where I live we got 10 inches. A lot of wet and heavy stuff early. Shoveling and scraping are tedioud and hard. My December land line is now a dream only. With all the heavy wet snow on about 1/2 to an inch of ice on the ponds, and sloughs we may not get walkable ice until it rains off and we start over. With all the other factors impacting my trapping season it is probably a good thing to let this season slide by. Started boarding my rats. Where we trapped the sign or numbers seemed average or average minus according to norms. My river line was surprisingly low in population with all the sloughs dry for many months. Size is better probably due to lower repro. I am wondering if and when we get dry summers and falls if there are fewer late litters and thus fewer mediums and kits.

Bryce


This seems to be shaping up as a year where Mother Nature wants to flex. Low water all summer has imo, hindered water critters populations while reducing habitat. Early, heavy snow coupled with unseasonably cold impacts productivity on the December trap line, historically is one of my best months. We skipped over the early ice conditions and are settling into midwinter dull drums before Christmas. It is what it is but will effect harvest. Sometimes Mother Nature gives and other times not. This time she started early. Firms my belief on who really has the last word.

Good luck out there

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