I went out today on a little "scouting" mission and brought along 50 floats and a few colony traps. Ended up running my whole loop that I plan to run for at least the first week or so of the season. I found some other trapper's floats and equipment as I was putting mine in and driving through, so good to know that there are some other people out. I'm going out again tomorrow to check my floats and also bringing out another pickup box full of floats to set out. I built another 69 floats for this spring and bought another 2 dozen 159's to put to use as baited conibears since I'm doing some testing with them during the spring. I have 186 floats total this year and plan to keep setting them as more of the ice goes away. Hoping to have at least 25 rats tomorrow, but figured I'd throw an update out to let all of you folks know that I'm trapping again.

I follow all your threads TYT, get at em' I love your drive and enthusiasm

Good job! keep after the rats.

I started Monday on my ADC job Got 25 rats today and one beaver. noticed where my willow stakes were stripped clean of bark. So, I took my fiberglass poles with my Hagzs brackets and zip tied a section of willow on the stake. Will see what happens on Wed. I did put some popular bud oil on the willow.

Good luck in SD.

Great idea Beav, let us know the results!

Got another 50 floats set today and a couple of colonies. I caught 30 rats today, so a little over 50% catch rate, which is something that I'm okay with, especially when I'm not seeing a whole lot of sign where I'm setting. I did set some really good looking spots today with lots of sign, so hoping that tomorrow is way better than today was. Got the rats all put up tonight, as the wind had dried them by the time I got home. I have been using up some random lures that are partially full, but after these are used up, I'm switching back to my High Water by Mark Steck.

Nice looking pile.