Author Topic: Just call me "Rainman" (Read 425 times)

coyotero · « **on:** November 26, 2004, 01:11:46 PM »

I hope you are all having a better season weatherwise than I am.I fought the rain and mud all season so far,it just got dried out.I started a coyote line through some real rough country with smokin' fresh coyote sign.I just got it in and it rained,froze and snowed,I mean a real mess.I'm out of dry dirt and will accept donations :lol: Just ship the dry dirt donations,post paid of course.Sunday night the big game season closes so I'll be out in the country by myself.It looks like it is staying cold enough to run snares now.Good luck.Anybody need a highly opinionated skinner?Just kidding.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2004, 03:30:46 PM »

:grin: What is it about this game that keeps us plugging at it through rain, mud, ice, snow, sleet, wind, theives and broken trucks? :-D Ace

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2004, 05:33:35 PM »

SPOTS! :wink:

RdFx · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2004, 05:54:33 PM »

I know what it is Ace, Its salt of the earth , salt of the earth that keeps us going! :wink: I remember John Ehns' stories of tracking down female wolves up yr way in spring to get the pups and the female for nary a penny or two that might buy some salt to cure the venison you shot.

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2004, 03:30:47 AM »

...and another thing Coyotero don't forget to wipe your feet your wife's tired of doin the floors.

coyotero · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2004, 11:27:53 AM »

Wacky the boots come off outside! I know who wears the pants in this outfit,he also wears an apron sometimes.
ASA I know what your saying,the happiest I've been all season was laying iron in.The urine bottle was freezing up,my fingers were numb,I had a goofy smile on my face and was thinking "now that will definitely connect"

steven49er · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2004, 04:13:19 PM »

Been a battle here as well. Second weekend of water trapping we got six inches of rain over night. The river was higher than it was from the spring runoff. Never seen anything like it. Had five beaver sets on the opposite of the river with the nearest bridge a mile and a half from the last set. Caught three beaver and the furthest set had one that went 57 pounds.

I havent decided if I am dumb or just a glutton for punishment. Oh well what else would I have to do on a Saturday afternoon..

jim-NE · « **Reply #7 on:** November 29, 2004, 08:12:42 AM »

weather hasn't been much fun for me here either. I just started making sets day after Thanksgiving, and first check following saturday had a fox, a coon, and 12 rats. And, of course, a ton of snapped traps too. I was in such a hurry to get some sets out that I must have got sloppy in my bedding.
I reset everything with dry dirt...then it rained about an inch Saturday night and froze hard over night. Some of those sets I had to literally stomp on to get to fire. I reset everything in dry dirt again...then it snowed most of Sunday. Haven't had chance to check yet today but hopefully tonight. The #110s in the rat runs are performing real well...but its a lot of fun breaking ice and slogging through mucky backwater silt to get to the active huts on the upper end of the two lakes I'm hitting. My butt is sooooo sore from using muscles I'd forgot I had. Then to top it off, I think I'm getting a doozy of a sinus infection, too.
Oh yes, the new truck has now officially lost that new truck smell too. The Mrs. even "lit a candle" in the garage after I had pulled in after my first check. I thought it smelled like fox and rats...she thought it stunk like something else. Oh well.
Jim-NE

coyotero · « **Reply #8 on:** November 29, 2004, 05:08:35 PM »

I'm not much of a mink trapper.I have a riffle that's open on the way to my coyote line.I have 3 pockets sets in the riffle.Got a double on bucks yesterday.All my coyote sets were froze down,I had coyotes on the frozen down pan in 2 out of every 3 sets.I found some dry dirt this morning so I remade one line.Saturday I'm going to start snaring in a big way.