Post by rockintheocean on Feb 12, 2012 16:32:38 GMT -5
Hi all,
Woke up this morning sick .Can't turn the plumbing off ...lol Went out to check k-9 traps set in a location that I was hoping to give up a couple fox.The place where I set is a 2 1/2 mile walk in at the main parking area.Gotta say one of the few places you can get lost in left here on the island.
The plan .There is a handy cap access rd. that runs about down the middle. The road would take off about a mile walking . Brought wife along to drop me off there ,then meet me back in an hour. The entrance has a gate with combo lock .
As I was being dropped off a car pulls up to gate , guy gets out opens gate .I yell to him are you handy capped, reply no ,belong to a club . have a permit to use the area for dog training . Dog training I said ,Where ?not in the field by the old parking lot at the end of the road. Yeah he said .
Mind you all . I wake up early 3 am during the week , 4 am on weekends.All users of state land here on the island need permits.I get there late today ,almost put off checking traps till later even still.Whine and cry as I prepare to get out . It just so happens to be one of the coldest days this winter ... and now i find out not just one but a club is training dogs in a place that I have traps set.
I yell back I'm a trapper and have traps set about the place in there.You do is his reply,yeah any one else here already I say ? Yeah the gate was already opened. Well I said I have a mile 1/2 walk back there so let them all know.I'll spring my traps and leave them like that so no ones dog gets caught.
As I proceed to walk ,my wife decides to just stay there at the gate hoping to warn others as they enter.Another truck comes up as I walk , and rolls down window. With a grumpy attitude he says ,How far down are you going?I say all the way .Seems his wife had talked to mine so they knew...HE speeds off.... Now a couple more pass me up before I get there.
There they all are in the middle of the parking lot .The grumpy man has cell phone in hand.I say to them any one running their dogs yet? The reply no not yet.Great I say give me a couple of Min's. and I'll have my traps all sprung.
In a reply the grump...lol.. we have a permit for this you know ... Yeah so do I I say. The younger gentleman comes up and says thank you we know you have a right to trap as well ,As far as we all are concerned you are doing us a favor By trapping those foxes . They eat up all the quail and pheasant here . Sorry he says for the inconvenience.
At that point the grump decides to say then its the DECs fault. Wanting to blame some one . Thank the lord than he was the only one bothered. All the rest were very nice and full of questions.
I talk for a min. or two ...Then rush off to check traps..... at the end ..nothing . of course I think to myself .. they dine on free quail that the club releases to train the dogs with..
Only set for 4 days there ,I find out that last weekend ,this weekend , and next is when they will be there.
He we have a lot of restrictions as I have said in the past to trap state land .I wait till the last half of the season to trap this place figuring I have it all to myself. Yeah right...
On a high note before I left I reentered the group to get the low down on the clubs future plan ,I'm thanked Again and given info on where else they have problems with the fox..
Hearing stories of fox as big as ones spaniels,I asked if they had a card or website I can visit to find out in the future .the grump tells me the site, and claims he will update it tonight.
Wanted to ask them to go on the DEC website and send the letters to them about the bobcat management plan ,but being sick and all it slipped my mind.
Get back to the car my wife tells me that a couple of them had a problem when they pulled up and saw her there. Telling her she can't be there . She says oh yeah I can ,and points to the permit in on the dash .I know one thing is for sure , she would have tore them apart little did they know...lol. i know i gotta live with her...lol
Going on their web site now to leave a message about the bob cat plan ... maybe a couple at least will send .
Ohhh crap gotta go check the rat traps too. Why can't we have it like they do up there . once every 48... Whhhaaaaa,whaaaaa,whaaaaaa.
Woke up this morning sick .Can't turn the plumbing off ...lol Went out to check k-9 traps set in a location that I was hoping to give up a couple fox.The place where I set is a 2 1/2 mile walk in at the main parking area.Gotta say one of the few places you can get lost in left here on the island.
The plan .There is a handy cap access rd. that runs about down the middle. The road would take off about a mile walking . Brought wife along to drop me off there ,then meet me back in an hour. The entrance has a gate with combo lock .
As I was being dropped off a car pulls up to gate , guy gets out opens gate .I yell to him are you handy capped, reply no ,belong to a club . have a permit to use the area for dog training . Dog training I said ,Where ?not in the field by the old parking lot at the end of the road. Yeah he said .
Mind you all . I wake up early 3 am during the week , 4 am on weekends.All users of state land here on the island need permits.I get there late today ,almost put off checking traps till later even still.Whine and cry as I prepare to get out . It just so happens to be one of the coldest days this winter ... and now i find out not just one but a club is training dogs in a place that I have traps set.
I yell back I'm a trapper and have traps set about the place in there.You do is his reply,yeah any one else here already I say ? Yeah the gate was already opened. Well I said I have a mile 1/2 walk back there so let them all know.I'll spring my traps and leave them like that so no ones dog gets caught.
As I proceed to walk ,my wife decides to just stay there at the gate hoping to warn others as they enter.Another truck comes up as I walk , and rolls down window. With a grumpy attitude he says ,How far down are you going?I say all the way .Seems his wife had talked to mine so they knew...HE speeds off.... Now a couple more pass me up before I get there.
There they all are in the middle of the parking lot .The grumpy man has cell phone in hand.I say to them any one running their dogs yet? The reply no not yet.Great I say give me a couple of Min's. and I'll have my traps all sprung.
In a reply the grump...lol.. we have a permit for this you know ... Yeah so do I I say. The younger gentleman comes up and says thank you we know you have a right to trap as well ,As far as we all are concerned you are doing us a favor By trapping those foxes . They eat up all the quail and pheasant here . Sorry he says for the inconvenience.
At that point the grump decides to say then its the DECs fault. Wanting to blame some one . Thank the lord than he was the only one bothered. All the rest were very nice and full of questions.
I talk for a min. or two ...Then rush off to check traps..... at the end ..nothing . of course I think to myself .. they dine on free quail that the club releases to train the dogs with..
Only set for 4 days there ,I find out that last weekend ,this weekend , and next is when they will be there.
He we have a lot of restrictions as I have said in the past to trap state land .I wait till the last half of the season to trap this place figuring I have it all to myself. Yeah right...
On a high note before I left I reentered the group to get the low down on the clubs future plan ,I'm thanked Again and given info on where else they have problems with the fox..
Hearing stories of fox as big as ones spaniels,I asked if they had a card or website I can visit to find out in the future .the grump tells me the site, and claims he will update it tonight.
Wanted to ask them to go on the DEC website and send the letters to them about the bobcat management plan ,but being sick and all it slipped my mind.
Get back to the car my wife tells me that a couple of them had a problem when they pulled up and saw her there. Telling her she can't be there . She says oh yeah I can ,and points to the permit in on the dash .I know one thing is for sure , she would have tore them apart little did they know...lol. i know i gotta live with her...lol
Going on their web site now to leave a message about the bob cat plan ... maybe a couple at least will send .
Ohhh crap gotta go check the rat traps too. Why can't we have it like they do up there . once every 48... Whhhaaaaa,whaaaaa,whaaaaaa.