Keep it coming.. Really enjoy watching Jerry's adventures thru your posts.. Thanks!

When I add in all the extras on a blanket beaver I figure it comes out north of $10 per beaver (for the extras ie skull. castor. oil sacs. baculum, etc)

Its finished beaver.

Jerry works for a farmer during the summer and in between trapping trips. He tokd thelem up front ill work for you 7 days a week until trapping seasin comes in..when it cimes in im goung trapping trapping when i want.
They work with him..cause hes a good worker.
This december when he went to arkansas yote trapping they actually paid him the days he was gone. So he made money on the yotes..got paid his regular pay while he was gone,work he got a christmas bonus..he came out smellin like a rose.lol

I used on work as a CNA for years, i worked for Canon for 5 years in va. Now i occaisionally work for an old man..on a saturdays but only when im not selling ramps, peaches or apples.

I make alot of money seling roosters i collect for free and hens and pullets i buy for cheap at rural king and feed out till they start laying.

Without being too nosey, after all expenses paid, what is the net of each trapping trip? Marten, coyote, beaver? That's a lot of travelling. Has he looked at any high dollar bobcat trips?

I think that is awesome

Keep doing your thing

Hes still catching stuff


This was a day or 2 ago..im.behind.lol

Dealing with butthole buck sheep..ewes lambing and baby chicks.lol

Never a dull moment.

If we didnt have all these animals wed be rich..but then what would.i do with all the t!ime id have on my hands??

That is a great one days catch for sure....Don't you over do your self and get on the injured list. we need both of you healthy......jk

Cathryn, how many otter sets does Jerry run to continuously catch those numbers? Understood, he’s got to be in a higher populated area ( which is why he’s there obviously), but that’s impressive. We have a good population here but seems like they still run a big range. Set their toilets , crossovers and slides, and wait sometimes 7 days for them to circle back around.

He runs 50 sets in about a 30 miles radius. He figures a week to 10 days for them to come through toi but thenotther population is just so high where he is that theres always some coming through.
He has 68 beaver and 43 otter right bow.
Hes found ifnhe runs more traps than that skinning brecomes a problem. He skins every night so he has a coyple hrss in the fur shed after hes put in a full day trapping.
He pickrd up some new territory today and said they have huge otter issue.

Hes trapping private pernission..lots of grain farmers and some old catfish pond areas..

"Ifnhe"
I love it Cathryn

Dang..my redneck roots are showin..lol

Would not want it any other way!!!! It would take me days to skin what he does in one evening.......jk

A great beaver/otter ratio. In NY our ratio is approx.10/1.

100/1 where I live in NY. And we have no season.

Cathryn, is he trying to focus more on otter than beaver?

I would say that's obvious and sensible.

Thanks for sharing his adventures.

Mac