Spring Trapping winding down
Well, I can sadly see the light at the end of the tunnel. Another Trapping season is quickly coming to a close. Rats are done, they really turned up the fighting last week, and I pulled my remaining sets. Exceeded my goal of 200 rats by quite a bit ending up with 243 when the smoke cleared. Next year with some more traps, and luck I hope to skin over 400 of the fiesty little critters. I really have an appreciation for the numbers guys like Brian put up now....I can catch them, but I could never find the time to skin and stretch 1000 rats...not yet anyways, need more experiance. Still beaver trapping hard, purging the sloughs and creeks I usually trap. Just waiting for the big water to open up so I can make the final push. Hoping to get over 60 beavers this spring. Here are a couple pictures, a nice pull of giant rats, and one of the bigger beavers I have ever skinned.
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