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Post by longbeard2372 on Jun 10, 2020 5:00:39 GMT -5
Loved trapping and skinning and putting up this critter. Easy to catch and a great start critter for up and coming trappers. Not having many around is probably one of the reasons we don't see many kids get into trapping like I did in 1980. This article is a good read... www.pennlive.com/life/2020/06/what-happened-to-the-muskrat.html |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2020 7:06:47 GMT -5
I would love to trap but time doesn't allow me to.
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Post by fleroo on Jun 10, 2020 8:52:04 GMT -5
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Post by timberdoodle on Jun 10, 2020 10:42:26 GMT -5
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Post by davet on Jun 10, 2020 15:08:04 GMT -5
The "Tennille" chick was a major female dog. I recall watching an interview with those two and the reporter would as him a question....he was a person who gave a thoughtful response.....he wasn't "quick" enough so she would just ride roughshod over any attempt by him to answer.
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Post by buzz on Jun 10, 2020 15:58:06 GMT -5
I built 2 carpenter/bore bee traps last week. Been running a very successful trap line for past 5 or 6 days.....
But I have to admit, I keep screwing up on the skinning part of it...........
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Post by Dutch on Jun 10, 2020 16:04:02 GMT -5
Saw one on Pine Creek while fishing the other week. Never very numerous, but much worse now.
I remember one pond my brother trapped in the 70s. He set 25 conibears one evening. We went back about 10 pm. He had 24 rats. Reset all those traps, and next morning had 19. He pulled out so he wouldn't over harvest.
I don't buy the herbicide, chemical argument. They are gone even in the most pristine locations
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Post by Dutch on Jun 10, 2020 16:04:49 GMT -5
I built 2 carpenter/bore bee traps last week. Been running a very successful trap line for past 5 or 6 days..... But I have to admit, I keep screwing up on the skinning part of it........... Are you properly licensed? |
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Post by buzz on Jun 10, 2020 16:27:15 GMT -5
I built 2 carpenter/bore bee traps last week. Been running a very successful trap line for past 5 or 6 days..... But I have to admit, I keep screwing up on the skinning part of it........... Are you properly licensed? Yes, I am not |
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Post by dennyf on Jun 10, 2020 18:13:29 GMT -5
30 years ago we had some 'skrats at our club pond. I have seen one near there in the past five years.
Farmer not far from camp, has a big pond for his beef cattle. Would reckon it's about an acre?
People once trapped there, but had quit many years ago. So he begged me to shoot a few if I saw any, when I was over there for woodchucks. They were once so numerous around there, that the pond level dropped two feet one summer from their bank tunneling efforts. My huntin' bud has been gone 19 years this summer, so that would've been a few years before he was gone?
That pond still sees lots of Canada Geese and ducks each fall and spring. People still fish in it, so doubt it's a water quaiity issue?
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Post by CoureurDeBois on Jun 10, 2020 18:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by Dutch on Jun 10, 2020 21:40:35 GMT -5
It was darned good money for us kids back then |
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Post by davet on Jun 11, 2020 4:16:47 GMT -5
Are you properly licensed? Yes, I am not You're using the wrong knife.......  |
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Post by fleroo on Jun 11, 2020 12:42:01 GMT -5
"Loose Marbles".... fitting for a thimbledoinker post.  |
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Post by bushmaster on Jun 11, 2020 15:43:58 GMT -5
I see them out at my hunt club in Washington County. Just a few though. Beaver though are out of control.
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Post by Dutch on Jun 11, 2020 18:00:06 GMT -5
I see them out at my hunt club in Washington County. Just a few though. Beaver though are out of control. I was gonna say something, but might be better left unsaid....... |
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Post by davet on Jun 12, 2020 7:21:21 GMT -5
Beaver though are out of control. I've never known that to be a negative. Then.....I never claim to know everything.....except maybe in photography.  |
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