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Post by mikespring on Mar 29, 2013 16:36:47 GMT -5
I`m not by any means a water trapper.....I see now what you`re talking about.
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Post by austinp on Mar 29, 2013 16:43:07 GMT -5
it's that awkward in between period that should happen first part of March up north. This year is several weeks behind schedule across the country, and even the midwest and northern states out there are going to miss spring seasons too
beaver and rats might be in short supply headed into next season... nationwide spring harvest will be fractional at best
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2013 16:46:12 GMT -5
I wish we had a spring season down this way........ Everything is wide open here
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Post by austinp on Mar 29, 2013 16:58:42 GMT -5
open here too, was last week all the way east to Syracuse and north to Watertown. But east and north of Watertown was locked-up tight
we still have two - three inches of snow on the hills all around me, waiting to melt tomorrow and Sunday. Naples creek is low, clear and packed full of big trout right now. Come monday morning, it'll be high and coffee colored to greet the masses for trout derby day
when all that snow melts up north, waters will rise quickly. Spring is going to come in like gangbusters again this year, all at once. We'll be mowing lawns and sunburnt in three weeks.
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Post by minkman1 on Mar 29, 2013 20:07:08 GMT -5
Hell, high water, thin ice, man eating beaver, im ready. My partner made this call, I wanted to to it under the ice and even offered to teach him under ice trapping, so we could both do it efficiently, but nooo!. Thanks for your concern guys. Theres plenty of sets I can use if there is rotten ice, it will just be a pain in the but because of the nature of the flow. Hopefully it will be mostly gone though. Worst case senerio, I have to work hard. I just finished running my spring line in the foothills and the past couple weeks the water opened up and I planned on doing another under ice line with one of my other partners. I forgot the ice was thicker up north and I held off. I should have just gone in, but o-well. To late now, trails are technically closed. Austin are you still trapping? I told my other partner to trap beaver with me under ice one week and you know what his ascuse was. His GIRLFREIND and HES THE MUSKRAT MAN. Austin if you werent trapping I would say we should take the last week of rat season, considering I dont have school that week, and kill a few hundred rats, maybe three if the numbers are on location and the ice is out. Probably wouldnt happen though unless one of use scouted a new spot up north. I am just about out of rats and beaver except for the ones we are going to get up north and a few nuisance jobs I have to finish towards the west.
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Mar 29, 2013 20:20:51 GMT -5
Austin if you werent trapping I would say we should take the last week of rat season, considering I dont have school that week, and kill a few hundred rats, maybe three if the numbers are on location. With advanced notice I'd have taken you up on that in a heartbeat... but now I have fixed plans that can't be changed. I had the entire month of March open to work up north, have a place to stay on Black Lake so pretty much a 90-minute drive any direction away from there was in my plans. I had hoped for two - three weeks of receding ice up there for beaver and rats. Last year it was open all month... this year, iced in all month go figure
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Post by gimtilly on Mar 29, 2013 21:04:08 GMT -5
WE got 7 or 8 more lodges to hit plus the bank dens and lodges we hit last year. WOW! That's great. Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.
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Post by minkman1 on Mar 30, 2013 7:57:29 GMT -5
THats fine austin, just throwing the idea out there. so you didnt get any sets in austin? This rotten ice does suck though. I wish I knew it was that solid up north 2 weeks ago, I would have been doing more under ice trapping. GLad you guys like the pictures. I wish someone on the trip took pictures of the giant dam and all the sign. The pictures here dont do it any justice. THe castor mounds are huge there as well.
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Post by minkman1 on Mar 31, 2013 15:17:08 GMT -5
GOt all my traps ready for the trip. I went through and sorted through about 120-130 today. I am missing a newly laminated mb-750. I told myself I would never loose any of these as my beaver traps are some of my most prized possessions. I am pretty sure its about 2 miles into the woods, on a random beaver pond in the middle of nowhere, that I trapped under the ice in january. O well, will have to suck it up. I set out a small mixed line this weekend, so hopefully I will have some stuff before my trip up north. Tommarrow I shall be terribly ill and go brook trout fishing deep in the far north. If it rains I will not go as deep or as far north. THen I will check traps.
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Mar 31, 2013 19:17:11 GMT -5
THats fine austin, just throwing the idea out there. so you didnt get any sets in austin? This rotten ice does suck though. I wish I knew it was that solid up north 2 weeks ago, I would have been doing more under ice trapping. I'm way too old for walking on late-season ice... leaving that to younger men who don't mind ice-bath swims Hard ice at this time of year means hard enough to walk on except near feed piles, lodges and sink holes over springs. I went up north to trap dispersal rats and beaver... under-ice work on such a long trip from home is not productive enough for the effort. Here's hoping you hit open water and dispersal critters. It is just now happening in our area down here.
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