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Post by cooncrazy on Feb 17, 2009 13:20:59 GMT -5
This weekend my buddy and I decided we were going to head to Hyde County and do a little trapping, being in high school you have to put in every long weekend you can get to do good. We set 15- 1.5 leg traps and about 20- #220 Bodygripper traps saturday morning, we caught 4 coons an otter, a fox, 2 possums and 13 nutrea, we set a few more traps sunday and caught a fox, 3 possums, and 11 nutrea monday morning. Not bad for 2 kids with a 3 day trapline huh?
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Post by rye on Feb 17, 2009 13:54:45 GMT -5
Not bad at all and I am certain the farmer was happy about you cleaning the nutria out of his ditches for him!
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Post by cooncrazy on Feb 17, 2009 14:50:25 GMT -5
He sure was, I up the roads never realized how bad they messed and the dikes around those impalments
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Post by scottbryant on Feb 18, 2009 11:37:23 GMT -5
Good job. I am a little ignorant on Nutria. What kind of damage do they cause? A friend of mine was duck hunting back in January and his lab went after a downed bird over in some brush in the edge of the water and the dog disappeared. They went over there and the dog went up in a hollow log and growling and snarling. Dog came out one end of the log and a nutria came out the other. The nutria gave the dog a pretty decent whooping. Ended up having to get stitches. Must be pretty mean rascals.
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Post by cooncrazy on Feb 18, 2009 12:03:45 GMT -5
They dig tunnels and holes in the bank just like muskrat but bigger, they have huge orange teeth, pretty ugly animals!!!
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Post by waterpossum on Feb 24, 2009 13:02:11 GMT -5
Waterpossums? We don't cause any trouble....and who you calling ugly, Coon crazy?
Seriously though - they are some ill tempered, destructive rodents. resemble a cross between a muskrat and a beaver (fur/ face loosely resembles that of beaver and they have a muskrat-like tail). Get to be about the size of a small beaver.
WP
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