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Offline Bogmaster

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Water trappers ,Unite
« on: December 16, 2006, 11:55:58 AM »
 Just curious to see how many of you are getting your feet wet this season?
 With the increasing prices on rats ,mink and beaver---it seems everyone is in the water--or on the ice.
 Have you switched from trapping flea busses? To trapping God's favored critters?
 Tom
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2006, 12:44:33 PM »
I'm still in the water, i've still have 2 farms i aint touched yet. ;D
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2006, 01:55:30 PM »
Tom,

 I have been a water trapper for 30 years. I never have cared for "land trapping". Something about getting into extremely cold frigid water, getting wet, complaining about it just attracts me for some reason. For 30 years I have worried my Mother that I will drown this year. Now she tells my wife story after story about how many times I got wet or went through the ice as a kid trapping in the "backyard" on about 5,000 acres of the best rat trapping marsh around.
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2006, 12:58:19 PM »
the warm weather has been helpful still running alot of water traps
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2007, 07:43:27 AM »
i do both and still call critters to
i run 100 to 150 water traps and 50 or so land traps and call every time i get the chance.......
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2007, 12:59:07 PM »
Rather be on the water than in a truck. By on the water I mean IN A BOAT     ----not ice---
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2007, 02:40:30 AM »
been walking the creeks for 5 weeks now, have another 4-6 to go.

I don't like boats...they sink.....  :-\
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2007, 10:32:25 AM »
Been more of a  water trapper all of my 26 years of trapping than a canine trapper. I am learning more about land trapping coons, but this year I did a 5 day in a canoe muskrat trapping excersion on some federal waters before running a dry land coon line for a week and then 2 weeks of streams before our deer season. I like all trapping but will have to admit that walking, paddling and wading marshes, streams and rivers is emotionally the upper for me. I just feel like a trapper doing that. For others it could be yotes, cats, wolves whatever but that is a good thing that we all have different rushes even on a trap line.

Bryce
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2007, 04:32:18 AM »
i am off to check on a beaver lead i got from some grouse hunters in just a bit, dang crazy weather is hurting trapping for any critters here now.
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2007, 10:05:59 AM »
I have always been a water trapper first and foremost with mink being my favorite. But I do sometimes trap cats and fox. Back in Dec. I spent a week riding my whitewater kiyak down the French Broad River trapping rats. Riding that old river sometimes through rough rocky places with the wind and snow about blowing my cigarrette out of my mouth was a blast. I will get there a little earlier in the season next time.
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Re: Water trappers ,Unite
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2007, 01:30:39 PM »
Been trapping beaver under ice since christmas with some borrowed 330s and snares have caught 8 beaver, 1 coon, & 1 rat.  Ice is now over 20" thick and I only have a 16" chainsaw. Dr said get some exterise so I started chopping holes in ice after I split all the firewood for the winter. Not a bad start after 25 years without touching a trap.
Ray
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