nice winter mink

Nice catch Walt.

Good work Walt. I'm going back out after it warms up a bit.

This is the fourth rat caught this week going into this tile which drains a small springfed pond behind and above it.
Upper end of tile is enclosed with wire mesh. It drains into a much bigger pond which is frozen over for the most part. I think the rats have chewed through the drain tile and tunneled through bank to access upper pond which has alot of water cress and doesn't freeze. It's also 6 to 8 feet deep with steep banks. I'll see how many midwinter rats it will produce.

Had a couple BE sets for rats and mink under the shelf ice. An otter exited the water and ran on ice above them.
One set caught this rat which luckily was out of the otters sight. I'm hoping to catch up to the otter in the future with a proper size trap.

Nice rats Walt! Way to go!

Turok

thanks for sharing, nice rat

Walt,

I've had otters do that several times. I end up adding a BE edge set up or downstream from there, and blending them in a bit more. Sometimes I think otter see that square shape of a BG and don't want to go through it. Other ties they see it as a target.