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Post by Mars on Dec 19, 2004 15:43:21 GMT 12.75
Snowing here as well Griz. Turning everything even more into a soupy mess. It'll freeze up tommorrow and all the fields will be frozen solid with a couple inches of ice from all this water.
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Post by greatwhitebuffalo on Dec 20, 2004 3:55:59 GMT 12.75
All we have here is a dusting.You must be in a better part of the State mars .
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Post by Mars on Dec 20, 2004 6:17:28 GMT 12.75
That's all we got as well. They were calling for 3"-5".
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Post by DaGriz on Dec 20, 2004 6:45:29 GMT 12.75
Got over 48 inches on the ground. Got about 11 inches last night. I'm sinking 18' down with my snow shoes on. Went out this am to look setting for coyotes but to much powder snow. Tough to set snares of traps now. Have to wait until snow settles a bit.
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Post by Mars on Dec 20, 2004 16:05:59 GMT 12.75
So about May there Griz? ;D
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Post by DaGriz on Dec 21, 2004 11:08:17 GMT 12.75
Got windy last night and helped pack the snow a bit. Now the cold is going to set in. Be ripe for setting at bait piles by the weekend. Made some trails today and will check tomorrow to see what's using them. I will put bait under big spruce trees with a packed trail around the tree, 'yotes will cross trail to get to food, ALways cross in same spot so will set traps once they start using trail.
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Post by Mars on Jan 15, 2005 16:04:16 GMT 12.75
So how you doing so far with the critters Griz?
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Post by DaGriz on Feb 26, 2005 12:36:17 GMT 12.75
Hey Bro Been so fricking busy That I haven't got here . Been a decent season so far. Did well on 'yotes, bobbies and coon. Didn't do much mink or rat trapping. Will give them hell this fall! Beaver and otter is going well , Got my limit of otter. We are only allowed three. Lots of hard work, though. 4-6 miles a day on snowshoes, then several hundred yards in chest waders , at times. Ice on the ponds is 12" plus thick on most areas. Only went thru the ice once so far, Freaking spring fed ponds are tough Never know where the thin ice is. My goal is 150 beaver before break up, and they are rubbing off. How goes life with you? ??
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Post by Mars on Feb 28, 2005 14:19:23 GMT 12.75
Hey Griz. Watch that ice. It only takes one time falling through at the right time and all your outdoor days are done. Be careful! Lifes good down here in the lil ole south. Haven't had a chance to get out in the woods or rivers yet though. Gonna have to look up some of the people that let me hunt and trap when I lived here before and try and get some areas to hunt and trap on. Though with about one million acres of public land I will have a place to go.
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Post by Mars on Mar 20, 2005 14:26:02 GMT 12.75
Read in FFG that the muskrat catch was way down, mainly because of the price on the fur. Nobody really trapping for them I guess. There saying that there may not be enough fur to meet demand. Should make for better prices next year for those that sell early.
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Post by Mars on Jun 5, 2005 7:58:55 GMT 12.75
Anybody else out there trap or thinking about it? I'd hate to think I'm the only one left. ;D
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Post by threedogs on Jun 10, 2005 2:36:23 GMT 12.75
All I did was trap a few problem varmints this year. Plan on doing more next year if job and hunting trips don't interfer too much. Mostly call yotes and shoot them tho.
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Post by Mars on Jan 15, 2006 8:08:23 GMT 12.75
Fur prices have peaked for the year and are dropping fast as orders get filled. The only one staying with it is muskrat. Good ole rats seem to always come through rough times. ;D
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 15, 2006 9:20:41 GMT 12.75
I love trapping, but the prices we get down here are rediculous. It's not cold enough to get a really prime pelt and most coon brings is about a buck a piece.
I do some ADC work, but that's always in the summer when the rains start heavy. Mostly 'possums, coons, and wild hogs.
I'm planning on giving them 'yotes a run for their money as soon as deer season ends next week, but usually about four to six bucks is all I get for the pelt and that's for a big one.
Best money I ever made was living in Tampa. I'd coonhunt three or four nights a week and sell the meat for ten bucks a piece to the colored folks. They loved them and would take all I could bring. I'd sell the hides, penis, and meat and more than covered my feed bill for the hounds and had enough left over for gas in the truck and extra's.
They don't let us set steel anymore, just snares and box sets. I might put out a few sets for coon, but 'yotes are my target. There's a good population down here this year and the deer herd'll be suffering from it.
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Post by Mars on Jan 15, 2006 14:25:48 GMT 12.75
From what I've been hearing if you get anything for a coon now your doing good. All the orders from the buyers have been filled. Fortunately I don't trap for the money but just for fun. Running a trapline is like christmas every day, you never know what you will get. The money does help offset the cost of trapping though.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 15, 2006 20:11:11 GMT 12.75
I don't do it for the money either, rather I do it in spite of the rediculously low prices. It just makes me feel better knowing I didn't waste the critter.
You ever froze prime fur green to sell at the following years auctions? Can they tell?
Markets are all full, like you say. By the time I get in fur worth taking, there's no demand, but my 'yotes are coming prime now. Any thoughts on that?
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Post by Mars on Jan 16, 2006 1:39:09 GMT 12.75
I've frozen them a time or two and nobody said a thing if they noticed. Unless they get freezer burn they probaly can't tell and I doubt it would make any difference as far as price. When I was living in Indiana though you can't do that as all fur must be sold soon after the season ends. You might get a little better price for coyote as it seems the western and southern types do better then the northern. The only thing I figure is the later priming makes for a more durable hide. The anti's like to think that stopping trapping will help the animals but it just hurts them worse then any trap. Irregardless of demand or price these animals must be controlled or they will over run the habitat and destroy everything. The anti's seem to "forget" that most furbearers are predators and have no enemy besides man to kill them so they can overpopulate quickly and destroy the prey species then starve when the food runs out leaving both predator and prey populations to waste.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 16, 2006 8:42:56 GMT 12.75
According to the biologists in my area, the coyote population swells in five year cycles. It seems every five years they die off from fleas and mange.
Funny how that hasn't happened since my buddies and I declared war on the 'yote population around here.
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Post by Mars on Jan 17, 2006 6:50:27 GMT 12.75
Yep, a little animal population control has the effect of keeping the "cyclic" ups and downs from occuring, just like it's supposed to.
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Post by Mars on Jul 30, 2006 2:58:11 GMT 12.75
$8. Muskrats possible this year. Good thing I like trapping 'rats. ;D
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