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Offline coyotero

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Muskrat marketing question
« on: November 13, 2012, 08:36:32 AM »
Is a trapper better off waiting until say December and taking the rats through the ice,in huts and feedbeds.Or start in open water and catch all you can before it freezes up.I'm not concerned about the numbers.I'm wondering if the price difference for winter rats is that much  better than early season open water caught rats.Thanks Bill
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Re: Muskrat marketing question
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2012, 11:06:42 AM »
 I have found that taking what you can in the open water, far out weighs any small increase (price wise) received for winter rats. Less work,more rats in open water. Though pulling a boat through the woods makes me think--ice rats may have been less wrok.LOL
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Re: Muskrat marketing question
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2012, 04:57:31 PM »
Ditto on what Boggy said.    Under ice rats are nicer fur BUT you get less of them and more work.... if any are left .
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