Well. As stated before. I became obsessed with trapping at age 12 & stopped around age 15. I caught a few possums & one raccoon. My goal was always a fox. I lived life & moved around in my trade. Made it back home & got a line out this year. Finally got a fox. Surprisingly not a red, but a gray. The 12 year old inside me is alive & well this evening. Got him skinned, but he’s going to the tannery.

Congrats that’s how the addiction begins. LOL

Awesome! congrats!!

Nice !

Well done! It took me years to catch my first. Once I figured it out, I caught 8-10 that year. Sadly, the spot I caught most of them has 6-8 house on it now.

Congratulations! I well remember my first red, and my first grey. Plenty more to come now that you got something figured out.

Congratulations on both the fox and the re-awakening!

Congrats!!!

Moosetrot

Same here and boy were they a long time coming! I believe I caught both the same year.... after several years of no success. I was on top of the world when I saw that first one (the red) bouncing around. Felt like I was finally a "real" trapper.

Congrats on your first. Now go find a red one!

Right on, fox and mink are my two favorites to see in a set to this day. Congratulations

Congratulations.

My first fox was a gray, I got it mounted, paid for it with fur money.

Congratulations on your fox, my first was a grey also when I was 15. I was riding my bicycle to my cousins farm about 2 miles away daily to check traps.

Better late then never congrats

We should all strive to keep some of the 12 year old inside each of us alive.

Awesome! Congrats!!
I had that same feeling with mine.
Like FINALLY

Congrats!

Congrats. Details on set and trap would be cool.

Join your local trappin district and see us at the next convention. Where about in Pa are you?......jk

Good for you Hope you remade the set

My wife thinks I am still 12 most of the time. Keeps life fun.

Congratulations.

WTG, Congratulations!

Now you can be poor like the rest of us with a whole lot of gear in the shed!!!! Congrats!!

Just wait until you walk up to a set that has a coyote in it. I've caught a ton of them, but to this day, I turn into a full blown 12 year old, puberty voice and all.

I have large trails on the farm bulldozed maybe 50 years ago. This trail goes across a creek before a pond, right at the bottom of a mountain. I set a walk through dirt hole right before the creek on the trail. Logs in the back, two bottlenecks with minimal step over twigs but enough to guide them. He stepped in one with his front foot and when fleeing caught his back toe in the second. Puta Rhea feather in a small sapling above for visual effect, then lure & urine. If I can figure out how to upload a picture I can actually post a picture of it.

Man I believe you. I gotta find them & get into them.

Yessir, I plan on it. I’m in northeast/central PA. WMU 4E. Columbia/montour county.

Thank you all so much. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures from my iPhone, I will

Same here. Mine secretly loves it. I just can’t prove it when I need to hahaha

Pull up the picture on your phone, take a screen shot of it, crop it if there's anything in the screen shot besides the picture, Then post that screenshot. Use the button that looks like this above the reply box ... and follow the instructions. Iphones take pictures of too large of a file size to post here, the screen shot lowers that file size.

Congratulations

My friend, you are the man

Love stories like this, thanks for sharing.

Big grey ,good job. Better lose that "Guys" word or you're going to be ostracized buy the women on here. They can be hateful at times.

Great job! I remember my first Grey well. The pelt is still hanging on the wall.
Thanks for that picture tutorial ADC.

… that’s a very large gray … good deal

Stunning looking grey and great and happy photo of you. Good presentation holding it up