I drive past these occasionally and always enjoy it. Been there for several years.

I'd have a hay day in there. Does it freeze over.

I would love to trap rats like that just once!

It will freeze over but rats are worthless far as I know

Based off that picture, how many muskrats would you expect to catch in that spot?

Cool pic. I have caught quite a few rats over the years but have never seen a hut

Trapping rats can be a lot of fun, it is a nice change of pace if they aren't your normal target. Back around 1998 I lived in southeast ND, we had a rat boom at the time. Caught a few hundred of them one Winter. I think I averaged between $3-$5 if memory serves me right. We always just set heavy and when the catch started to drop off after a couple of trap checks we would pull the equipment and move on down the road to the next permission.

Makes my eyes red ...just looking at that.

Yet to see a rat house heading to Sioux Falls I’ll see if there’s any there yet this weekend.

I always estimate 3/rats per hut.

I would expect these to be overpopulated and stunted

great pic, thanks for posting, around here back in the boom days 6-7 per hut

Very eastern Nebraska is the only place I ever saw musk rats squashed on the road like bugs on a windshield. The road was covered with them it seemed.

bet alot of bite up rats

In 79-80 there were no huts here. All bank denners. Now they are everywhere. They may know something we dont about this coming winter. Very mild so far but...

Likely not enough water to build in the weeds. That country dry?

Not at all. This whole area is close to a river and swampy. This last summer we got good rainfall. Right here there are no banks for denning.

Man I trapped a lot of rats from places like that back in the day, late 70's early 80's. When the huts are that thick you'll have more bite marks and more kits. You usually get more kits when you get the larger ones trapped out. I would usually figure about 3.5-4 per hunt and then I'd start having a higher percentage of kits so I would quit. So cool to see them coming back like that. Man that picture takes me back to a time when I could really work like a maniac. Thanks for sharing.

Nice picture