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Post by 160andup on Mar 25, 2015 14:29:57 GMT -5
Is anyone still running a line? I just threw in 3 quick beaver sets on a small colony in preparation for a few warm nights with rain.
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wcs
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Post by wcs on Mar 25, 2015 16:55:32 GMT -5
Trying to run a rat line but still too much ice to do it for real.
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Post by tmc on Mar 25, 2015 17:02:44 GMT -5
To get to the one stream I can trap? - nah. It's all, all of it, still under about 4' or more of ice and snow. I can walk the entire length of it without sinking in an inch.
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Post by REDNECK on Mar 25, 2015 19:33:02 GMT -5
Yall be safe out there wish we had a spring run
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Post by mole on Mar 25, 2015 19:41:22 GMT -5
Have a couple sets out. couple beaver. Had a hungry bobcat following my snowshoe trail. left it a small beaver carcass to see it along. might be a female looking for denning sight.
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Post by slyfox74 on Mar 25, 2015 20:53:30 GMT -5
I got sick of waiting for the spring run, 2 days ago I put in a baited pole set, and a spillway set. Today we finally got some thawing temperatures and I pulled the pole set and managed to tough through the rain and put in about a dozen rat sets. There's just so much snow and ice still everywhere, and the clock is running out.
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Post by silverfox on Mar 26, 2015 3:38:31 GMT -5
Newfox1 and I are running some sets to keep the itch scratched till ice out for rats...conditions are tough but managed to pull 4 beaver, 1 rat, 1 mink yesterday (cant get pics too attach, says forum has exceeded its attachment limit regardless of how small i re-size them, may be my lack of puter savvy)
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Mar 26, 2015 4:29:59 GMT -5
I don't see where ice out for rats or beaver is going to happen. Forecast here in the south today & tomorrow is wet snow accumulation, high temps near 20F Saturday. Lows in the teens and 20s next week. Everything that remains locked up in ice right now ain't gonna thaw.
All my traps, floats and equipment have been neatly stacked and ready to deploy for weeks now. Sadly, that's not going to happen this year at all. We control very little when it comes to trapping, and weather is certainly one of those wildcards.
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Post by newfox1 on Mar 26, 2015 17:50:49 GMT -5
ya man,silverfox and I are still working at it.we started Monday, around 0 degrees,tuesday cold, Wednesday cold am ,nice in pm, today not to bad, cant wait for tomorrows check.
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Post by k9goodtimes on Mar 26, 2015 18:19:12 GMT -5
Love the dedication guys. Keep at it, and post pictures.
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Post by silverfox on Mar 27, 2015 5:00:09 GMT -5
I don't see where ice out for rats or beaver is going to happen. Forecast here in the south today & tomorrow is wet snow accumulation, high temps near 20F Saturday. Lows in the teens and 20s next week. Everything that remains locked up in ice right now ain't gonna thaw. All my traps, floats and equipment have been neatly stacked and ready to deploy for weeks now. Sadly, that's not going to happen this year at all. We control very little when it comes to trapping, and weather is certainly one of those wildcards. i like to remain optomistic!!! (as well as realistic) we only had 6 days last season (river broke free on 9 April) but we still did pretty well, theres still 20 days till season closes and there is some open water patches on the river, although the next few days are going to be cool, there are warmer days ahead, we are getting the spring beaver itch scratched now so if its not till after the 7th then the focus will be 100% rats, at any rate i am of the "it aint over till its over" crowd and will watch the conditions diligently every day tried posting pics K9 but keeps telling me "forum has exceed its attachment space" (even when pic are much smaller than 1MB)
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Post by whistlerwhittler on Mar 27, 2015 6:44:06 GMT -5
I've been keeping an eye on some of the smaller stream beaver spots and I think they are mostly open after yesterday's rain. Although now they have high water. I'm hoping that all the runoff we are experiencing now will offset the colder night's we are supposed to have the next few days. I don't think that they'll lock up solid again. I plan to start setting some of these spots on Sunday.
The big ponds will take at least another week before they start opening up around the edges. Hopefully I'll get a few nights to trap them.
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Mar 27, 2015 6:56:17 GMT -5
well don't know about where you guys live, but the forecast I see for western NY is high temps of low 20s Saturday, followed by several nights with lows in the teens and 20s. Those temps will most certainly lock-up slow moving water AND keep already frozen flows from thawing much at all.
Next Thursday & Friday are forecast to hit 50s highs. The long-range forecast is continued cold thru middle of month, and potential for dramatic warmup second half of month. In other words, from below avg temps to above average like a light switch flipped. We'll see.
Until most of those still water flows thaw, there won't be a distribution of traveler rats and beaver. If you live in the local area and some small flows open up, you can chicken-pick a few resident animals on location. Other than that, once the big waters break up and clear the ice-flow jams, the real spring shuffle will commence. After all seasons are closed, it appears at this time.
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Post by newfox1 on Mar 28, 2015 16:53:54 GMT -5
Couple photos from up North, while we wait for the water to open up for "Rat Dynasty".
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austinp
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the next fur season is never far from our minds :)
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Post by austinp on Mar 28, 2015 17:53:57 GMT -5
Fresh fur!!! <grin> many of us won't have a spring season trapline this year... but we're rooting for our brothers who do. Hopefully you'll get 7 - 10 days open enough to make things happen. The rest of us here locked out of the action surely want to see your catch pics, early & often
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Post by k9goodtimes on Mar 28, 2015 18:14:12 GMT -5
Nice haul Gentlemen!! That mink is a brute!! Thanks for the uplifting photos when we southern zone misfits are only dreaming of being on the line. Keep after em!!
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Post by 160andup on Mar 28, 2015 19:57:33 GMT -5
Nice work guys. Here are a few southern zone, $10 beavs from this morning.
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Post by k9goodtimes on Mar 28, 2015 20:22:09 GMT -5
Well done! If you want to sell those beaver for $10, im your man. Been wanting to make a seat cover for the rear bench in my Titan...
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Post by silverfox on Mar 29, 2015 5:54:03 GMT -5
we hear you on the $10.00 beaver,,,,,they are worth more to us thrown in a pickle and tanned than to "give em away" on the current market, they will become birthday and Xmas presents for family and friends instead, today we make the big haul (i hope) during checks!!!! its more about getting out there tag teaming the potential sets, building trapper comrade re, and gotta love those mid day lunches on the trap line when the spring weather is TRYING to prevail!!
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Post by newfox1 on Mar 29, 2015 6:11:41 GMT -5
huntfishtrap23,nice beaver, don't look like they put the brakes on quick enough.
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austinp
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Post by austinp on Mar 29, 2015 6:47:07 GMT -5
16F here this morning and reported to be 10F on the Italy hill tops where I'm cutting firewood this weekend. Some of the drifts up there are several feet deep... at this rate we'll be tracking spring gobblers in the snow
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Post by k9goodtimes on Mar 29, 2015 7:15:30 GMT -5
I believe tanned fur is the best gift you can give. I gift fur to land owners, family, and friends. Usually once they have one, they love getting more. One farmer has a wall about covered with coyote and Fox from years past, figured he'd want the same this year until I stopped by with a pair of mink in the truck. He said they were pretty critters. He got that male and female pair two weeks ago.
Another farmers wife passed this winter, his wife kept chickens, she loved them enough to keep me trapping their160 acres for the last couple years. The morning of her funeral, 55lb blond male coyote cuffed behind the chicken barns. He has that coyote tanned on his wall. His appreciation and emotion about brought me to tears.
Like silverfox said, trapping is as much about comradere as anything. Building and nurturing those friendships is worth more than a fur check to me.
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Post by newfox1 on Mar 30, 2015 13:16:24 GMT -5
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Post by k9goodtimes on Mar 30, 2015 14:00:40 GMT -5
More than 2 weeks to go and you boys are sprinting to the finish!! That's the kind of spirit the sport needs. All go, all season. Like the great Eagles Randy Meissner sang, Take it to the Limit.
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Post by 160andup on Mar 30, 2015 16:55:23 GMT -5
Awesome! Had to pull my beaver sets the other day due to some exams I have tomorrow, but tomorrow afternoon I'll be getting a few more sets out. Keep it up!
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