Post by peltseeker on Jan 19, 2015 19:56:56 GMT -5
The trapping star was shining on me today ...!!! I have been driving over an hour round trip every day since the season opened and although for my first season i have done better than i expected its been a lot of gas and wear and tear for very small rewards ..... Always hoping i could find somewhere close to home to lay some traps in fertile ground .... Well today i finally saw the owner of a piece of very posted property five minutes from my house out on his tractor .... he has a very beautiful looking stream running through his property with plenty of hedge rows and fields that look like they could hold many critters ..... so i stopped tooted my horn and waved him down ... He saw me and shut down his machine to see what i wanted ..... After introducing myself i proceeded to ask him about trapping and to my surprise he pleasantly said "how soon can you start """""" i almost fell over .........he wants me to trap the rats and mink out of his creek and also the beavers that come from the swamp next door and of course all the land fur bearers that i can muster ..... coyotes are the top of his list but he is an avid hunter and anything raiding his small game and turkeys are wanted gone too ... Then he pulled out his pad and wrote down his neighbors number who owns the huge swamp next door ..... told me to call and tell the neighbor who i was and and that i would be trapping the property next door .... Bam i got permission for that property too !!!!!! In less than an hour i went from being stuck to one property twenty five minutes away to two huge properties right in my neighborhood ......I feel as excited as a kid at Christmas or a teenager on his first date ...... AWESOME !!!!!!!!