Post by oakhilltrappin on Feb 24, 2013 17:14:15 GMT -5
Wasnt quite the shot we were lookin for but just as our season went, Mother Nature had different plans is all !! With the threat of rain and the wind blowin yesterday we decided to move our End of Season shot to the makings of our new barn....
It wasnt quite as impressive as we were shooting for this year but here they are 7 Coyotes and 9 Red Fox....worked D@mn hard for every one of these doggies, but had a Blast doin it !! It was a year of many first for us at Oakhill Trappin...our hardest being our first official pull outs..yeah we had snapped traps before but these were no doubt about it full blown slap in the face catch circle I had the d@mn doggies !! Add those two to the total and we were more on track and closer to our ultimate goal of being able to hit 35 to 40 dogs in a season....Mother Nature was a real pain in the @ss the whole way to boot !! But right along with those many first were some of our Brightest moments as trappers thus far..........
Our first Bobcat ;D Though we had talked about it and dreamed about it, we truly never thought it would come this soon....the majority of the lures we use are all Night Owl, so as a change up we got some Bobcat gland this year....caught this big boy at a projection set with it and had great success with it at other sets, that will for sure be one of our go to lures next season, specially once we get our season ..It was a shame to let him go !!
Our first Fisher ;D ..again a shame to let him go but off of my own property, heck practically in my own backyard !! Which made it even better..got to enjoy that one with the whole family, as much as my boy enjoys trappin I still think he will be a fair weather Trapper..once the thermoo hits below 65 he aint up for the ride no more !! So was very cool to be able to share that with him and my wife especially !!.........add to both of those incidentals not only our first but our second to boot coyote off of our own property...another that up until this season we had never done........So even though we never did hit those numbers, as we brushed and fondled Fur for the last week we all agreed that with these many shining moments they surely out weighed all of our goals and expectations set for the season !!!!
......And so begins the day I love........and the day I hate the most !!....we took our Team shot and we headed to Stropes in Addison to meet up with Mr. Boardman...after 114 days and then another week of fondling fur and remembering every catch all over again..Im always sad to see the Furs go, to come home and the Fur Shed just seems so empty..... But its always a blast....and today Mr Boardman would be a half hour late thanks to who else................but Mother Nature how fitting...but again what a blast, a chance for all the trappers to mingle, see some old faces and meet some new...Enjoy meeting fellow Forum members even more, so it was great to have met you Matt "Schuylertrapper".........and as always it was a pleasure dealing with you Mr Boardman, I always enjoy our conversations and picking your brain !!
So here he was...hard to imagine..our "Top Dog" ..no we didnt fetch 70-80 dollars like Zagger and some you guys did up North but we did get $50 for him, hard to imagine when we walked up to this muddy mess on Day number 113 that he would be one of our highest payin doggies of the season ?!! Though we had 3 out of our 9 fox fetch the same $50 it was still amazing to see a Stink Dog fetch $50..a sight I never would have thought I would see 4 years ago when I started this "little" Addiction I call trappin.....
.......And so here we are....all the time in the world to look through the photos and pick out your favorites...Funny how most of mine consist of the kids smilin faces and Fur !!! ;D ;D I find myself with waaaaaay more time now funny how that works....Taxes are done though and the chores are catchin right up, as I sloooowly ween myself off of all things Trapping related............well almost.....there is still Beaver ;D ....but so it begins.. Tic Toc Tic Toc.......242 more days to go when I wake up tomorrow !!!