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Post by coongetter on Jan 3, 2010 22:31:20 GMT -5
This is the only thing I can praise mother nature for due to this cold weather. I thought this was pretty cool. I was trapping a farm pond for beaver and muskrat today that was totally frozen over. This is a picture I took at a den entrance, it is air bubbles from the critters which shows there runs. Cant get much easier than this!!!  |
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Post by northof50 on Jan 4, 2010 6:32:21 GMT -5
So we are going to see follow up pics tommorrow. That's a 5 rat run hole if there ever was one.
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Post by kennydean on Jan 4, 2010 15:59:54 GMT -5
I am glad mother nature is giving you some help!!! All I have received is a bunch of frozen ground. I stopped today on a sand hill to get some extra dirt and I couldn't budge one bit out of the ground. Went and bought some top soil, never used it before but at least it's not froze!!!! YET. lol
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Post by coongetter on Jan 4, 2010 20:52:08 GMT -5
Don't you worry I had to chisel all of my land traps out the other day and antifreeze them all. That was a lot of work.
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Post by kennydean on Jan 4, 2010 21:27:16 GMT -5
I just learned that i will have to chisel all of mine up tommorrow. The farmer i had permission has a brother that had already gave permission to some rabitt hunters. Beagles and #3's don't work to good together. So I guess i will have to start hunting a new place, got plenty of small farms, but those big ones sure are nice! Oh well.
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Post by Bottomline on Jan 5, 2010 10:17:48 GMT -5
Happens all the time Kenny. You could just trip the trap and cover it up till they are gone. Keep you from having to pull them and set them again.
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Post by kennydean on Jan 5, 2010 21:10:18 GMT -5
Your right but you never know when they will show up. It's so hard to find a big area with no pressure anymore. My pal has Open Grounds ( 50,000 acres ) with plenty of yotes. I am glad it's just a hobby because if i was trying to make a living i would have been broke along time ago. I have the fox pen booked everyweek until May so I guess I won't be to bored. My only goal now is to meet Rye since he's back in town.
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Post by rye on Jan 6, 2010 7:30:29 GMT -5
I've got a couple for that pen of yours Kenny... I'll call ya today.
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Post by madisontrapper on Jan 10, 2010 17:06:06 GMT -5
Its been a rough year but good experence with the weather changes.the dirt went from soup to concrete in one day here.
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