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Dec 14, 2012 13:26:53 GMT -5
Post by walleyed on Dec 14, 2012 13:26:53 GMT -5
................More. Picked up another 9 Muskrats today at the New stretch I set yesterday. The spot where I caught five yesterday produced a Goose egg, although I spotted a big Mink galloping along the bank in the vicinity of my traps. I'll pull all those two day old sets tomorrow, when I check my nearby Beaver sets. A couple snap shots from this morning: I would have taken more photos today but the wind catching the Canoe was making the Retrieval of the caught rats, and resetting the traps, somewhat difficult. To Paraphrase Joel and Grampa Von Strahan, ("A SLOW STEADY DRIP FILLS THE RAT STRETCHERS") Stay Tuned. walleyed
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Dec 14, 2012 13:35:40 GMT -5
Post by mikespring on Dec 14, 2012 13:35:40 GMT -5
Very nice....That one there looks to be quite plump!!
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Dec 14, 2012 14:06:29 GMT -5
Post by walleyed on Dec 14, 2012 14:06:29 GMT -5
Very nice....That one there looks to be quite plump!! His Bladder is swollen with High Quality Red Fox Lure !!! LOL walleyed
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Dec 14, 2012 14:14:30 GMT -5
Post by mikespring on Dec 14, 2012 14:14:30 GMT -5
LMAO...
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Dec 14, 2012 15:11:52 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 15:11:52 GMT -5
I'll give you $20.00 for the urine, and that's american dollars.
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Dec 14, 2012 16:16:25 GMT -5
Post by Mayn22 on Dec 14, 2012 16:16:25 GMT -5
Nice prime late season rats.Keep it going,Bob.---Mayn22
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Dec 14, 2012 17:14:12 GMT -5
Post by traphead2 on Dec 14, 2012 17:14:12 GMT -5
id prefer my slow and steady drip of 2 a day to be more like a trickle of like 8 or 10 like you but hay at least im not getting skunked!!!! now all i gotta do is figure out how to collect there urine !
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Dec 14, 2012 19:58:34 GMT -5
Post by herm on Dec 14, 2012 19:58:34 GMT -5
I would not say a catch of 9 rats is slow.Good job thow,they are not that easy to locate around here anymore.
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Dec 14, 2012 20:48:17 GMT -5
Post by austinp on Dec 14, 2012 20:48:17 GMT -5
I bet that one second from left goes at least 18" if not 19" on the wire All we have anywhere around me are pockets of rats like that. Two days ago I explored the Honeoye Lake inlet, wild rice and tag alders usually good for a decent number of rats and plenty of beaver, too. I saw absolutey no sign of either rodent... not one rat clipping or beaver chewing. Nothing. The Atlanta slough where I took my final 40 rats last winter was dried out, drained and plowed under this summer. It'll be growing corn instead of muskrats next year. If I dug really, really hard from all the little pockets of rats in parts of four counties around me, could probably string together another 100 total. It'd take many days and a lot of gas to make that happen. So I hung up my #160s and parked the canoe for this season, unless by miracle's chance I blunder into a solid population of surviving rats somewhere local. Meanwhile, the fox line is being deployed and I'm living vicariously thru walleyed and his wetland adventures
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Dec 14, 2012 21:06:03 GMT -5
Post by walleyed on Dec 14, 2012 21:06:03 GMT -5
I hope you hung those #160's in your trap VAULT so they don't walk off again and locked your Canoe up too so the creeps don't pay you another visit to shop.
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Dec 14, 2012 21:12:05 GMT -5
Post by austinp on Dec 14, 2012 21:12:05 GMT -5
all traps are now stored in my basement. if the returning culprits are found there uninvited, they won't be leaving the premises upright
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Dec 14, 2012 21:28:44 GMT -5
Post by walleyed on Dec 14, 2012 21:28:44 GMT -5
I bet that one second from left goes at least 18" if not 19" on the wire I wish. The biggest one clothes pinned down on wire went an even 17"inches. To be fair, I didn't really pull down too hard before pinning the clothes pins on the wire frame, so I probably could have got it up to an 18"incher. But doing that would have thinned the leather and the GRADE NAZI'S at NAFA would have downgraded it from a "Good" winter pelt to an "ordinary" winter so I'd have lost out. On my Wood Stretcher Boards it would have taped out at 18 1/2"inches easy.
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Dec 14, 2012 21:39:08 GMT -5
Post by austinp on Dec 14, 2012 21:39:08 GMT -5
I've got a few at 19" so far.. all came from locations I trapped year after year, but these are old females that somehow ran the gauntlet. One had to go on wood because it bottomed past the keepers on wire. That one might be the only 20" rat this season for me. Some day, I'm gonna have one of those 5lb rats mounted with a big old, round toothed, pot-bellied male mink. Some day
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Dec 14, 2012 21:52:15 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 21:52:15 GMT -5
I think they are the same rats that he keeps moving around everyday and taking pictures of....lol
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Dec 14, 2012 22:17:32 GMT -5
Post by walleyed on Dec 14, 2012 22:17:32 GMT -5
I think they are the same rats that he keeps moving around everyday and taking pictures of....lol Run yourself out of Muskrats, Marshrat ?? or have all your traps finally been stolen ?? LOL walleyed
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Dec 14, 2012 22:35:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2012 22:35:00 GMT -5
I lucked out, only 2 stolen traps, one stomped into the ground. I got 108 rats, 4 mink. Have to take some time off for the holidays. I will be out in a few weeks, saved the good places till the rats are in full prime...I figure another 150-200 before end of season and I just got permission to trap a 20 acre swamp that is not visible from the road and hasn't ever been trapped.
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