Tidal Muskrats

When the tide comes in well after dark do you think they wait and travel in shallow runs that start to fill or will they come out and walk around the high ground as soon as it gets dark?

Tides don't seem to have much effect on the muskrats here.

Not sure I understand what your asking.
Muskrats Dont like to expost them selfs ,Day or night.
Muskrats stay in the bottom of the leeds.Water or not.
To catch'n up top. You nead extream high water.
When I here of a Nor-Easter comming. I set All leeds that go to the wood line.

Have much success Hobbie!

Good luck

Won’t really know until tomorrow but it froze here last night so there’ll probably be a lot of tripped but empty traps.

let me ask you a question

When you have a blow out tide, sometime for days on end.
Do you think a muskrat is just gona sit in its house ?

When you say “blow out tide” are you meaning no water or extremely high water?

No water "blow OUT"

great thread..waiting to hear more

Can't wait to see some of those black muskrats.

Me too

I got popcorn.

Do you put popcorn on your 110 triggers?

Cheetos

I notice if we have a wind and no tide (water is gone) muskrats do not move. If it freezes without water, they seem to stay in the home for some time. Last winter we had 2 weeks of wind, no high tide, and everything froze. Didn't catch a thing, once the water was back, I caught a few.
But with extremely low tides I am able to walk the main channels and trap some deep water entrances that I would never be able to find with normal tides.

But with extremely low tides I am able to walk the main channels and trap some deep water entrances that I would never be able to find with normal tides. [/quote]

There you go!
Set traps where the animal tells you where he wants Kilt