Author Topic: UP Michigan Rondy (Read 901 times)

RdFx · « **on:** July 22, 2006, 05:52:00 PM »

Just got back from Mi rondy. Lots of trappers, triple from last year attending and trappers were buying traps by dozens . There was a steady stream of lure and trapping supplies going out the door. The UP trappers put on nice rondy . Very dry up in that country and saw lots of dry beaver ponds and muskrats killed on road traveling looking for water. Hope for rain shortly , an all day slow one so it soaks in.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2006, 03:42:54 AM »

Glad to hear the rondy was a good one! :)Hope the rondy is held at Escanaba or Marquette next year. Ironwood is just too far for me to make in one day. Ace

RdFx · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2006, 03:49:47 AM »

Asa rondy will be held in Escanaba next year. Good place and lots of trappers there i like to meet again.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2006, 04:30:22 AM »

Great news RdFx!

I think Escanaba is the best located place for the UP convention. Ace

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2006, 05:52:51 AM »

So Asa, does this mean you won't make Hutchinson next week?

Bogmaster · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2006, 08:55:01 AM »

ASA won't be the only one, not making Hutchinson.
Kansas in August,------- to much heat potential ,for me.
Tom

trappnman · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2006, 03:22:14 PM »

I echo what Lee said. A different crowd both days, and a steady one. Didn't win the canoe, but won the "#6" knife that I wanted and a couple of traps. Weather nice but hot, and I look forward ot coming back next year.

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #7 on:** July 25, 2006, 02:16:57 AM »

Quote from: Bogmaster on July 23, 2006, 08:55:01 AM

ASA won't be the only one, not making Hutchinson.
Kansas in August,------- to much heat potential ,for me.
Tom

So now just where am I suppose toget my push pins, free pepsi and visit?

? The place is completely air conditioned and Chat was coming with an extra tarp in case it rained.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #8 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:39:53 AM »

While the place may be air conditioned,my sleeping quarters are not.I cannot fathom,spending 5 nights in a sauana,trying to get some shut eye.
The price of that air conditioning,is a minimum $100.00 a table.I will use that money, to sponsor this site for another year.
I will miss not seeing you ,but economics plays into this years NTA convention.I hope I am wrong,but I think there will be more dealers than trappers attending.
There are only a hand full of states,where NTA attendance is good,and I have a gut feeling---kansas aint one of them.
Tom

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #9 on:** July 25, 2006, 07:43:13 AM »

Geesh! and all I was sayin was that I'd miss ya

I don't disagree with your other comments but I do hope you miss out on on hell of a show, for the NTA's sake that is. This type of thing happens when emotion takes place of reasoned choice making. We'll just make the best of it and hope the western and far mi-western trappers show up to suppot the cause. This $3 plus gasoline won't help any either.

now back to the other point...you're gettin soft...needing air conditioning to sleep!

Bogmaster · « **Reply #10 on:** July 25, 2006, 08:13:27 AM »

Nope, not getting soft.Just trying to avoid Hell ,in this life and the next.
Tom

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #11 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:20:00 PM »

I still think you're gettin soft!

RdFx · « **Reply #12 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:26:07 AM »

I thinky Boggy has gotten brain fart syndrome from all the heat driving to all these summer rondys and finally said ENOUGH! The man wants to stay home and actually work on some muskrat and beaver traps and put on 100 cup coffee maker and STAY HOME...for awhile that is....

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #13 on:** July 28, 2006, 02:19:28 AM »

I remember the 1981 NTA Convention at Marshalltown Iowa. I've never been so overheated in my life, every moment was miserable for an Upper Michigan native. Even when I got into the air conditioned motel room it would take a half hour to stop sweating. After that, I don't leave the U.P. of Michigan in the Summer after that experience. Ace

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #14 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:31:23 AM »

Soft, I say! The whole lot of ya are just gettin old and soft.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2006, 04:50:48 AM »

Hey Wacky, try trapping cats and canines at -30 degrees with snowshoes in 4' of snow and a pack basket full of traps and gear and a good day's harvest to haul out. Then we'll talk about "soft trappers!" Hot places are where old retirees go to sit out their time and trap some 'dillos! LOL

Ace

Bogmaster · « **Reply #16 on:** July 28, 2006, 05:47:12 AM »

Nothing more miserable, than trapping in the heat.Except loading and unloading over a ton of trapping supplies.I do that 20 times a summer,and of course it always turns hot.I do this by myself--no lackies to help this boy.Then there is at least 8 hours for setting up.
Now if I thought Kansas was going to attract thousands of trappers to the convention, I would be there.But ,Dorothy,Toto and Wacky ,seem to be about the only ones that are gonna go--and Dorothy never buys squat for trapping supplies.And Toto always lifts his leg on my coolers.
On a serious note,I hope the NTA does well with this convention.But ,trappers were complaining about the heat in southern Indiana at FTA convention in june--my guess is they will stay home,instead of heading to Kansas in August.
Tom

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #17 on:** July 28, 2006, 06:28:14 AM »

Quote from: Bogmaster on July 28, 2006, 05:47:12 AM

,Dorothy,Toto and Wacky ,seem to be about the only ones that are gonna go--and Dorothy never buys squat for trapping supplies.And Toto always lifts his leg on my coolers.

Wacky always buys a box or two of push pins! Mostly cause he feels guilty for bumming a pepsi

And as for you Asa, when I was a kid back in the mountians of PA I had to walk three miles to school, in deep snow up hill both ways!

Soft old trappers ...can't take the heat!

RdFx · « **Reply #18 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:17:55 PM »

Ha Wacky didnt walk home from school, he rolled down the hills in snow becuase he was late for the toboggan going home... Why everyone knows that Wacky offers trapping seminars on dillo trapping , no waxing traps, no dyeing them, set em barehanded with a dried up chunk of burro for bait..... Course Wackys eyes gleam with the thought of one day, just one day in future he will get one of those sly yotes and he can say: Just like Asa, yeppers i can trap yotes with the best of ..........................whoops sorry must have been the heat as i got carried away extrapilating Wackys' dreams... twas 101 here today, with heat index of 110..pant-pant- going to take a run down to the river and play muskrat in rapids with a deep cool-cool water hole below it.. few leeches but no bother....

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #19 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:00:22 PM »

Can sure tell RdFx knows little or nothing of Burros...they ain't got no fat.

RdFx · « **Reply #20 on:** July 28, 2006, 05:17:30 PM »

{Ha Wacky didnt walk home from school, he rolled down the hills in snow becuase he was late for the toboggan going home... Why everyone knows that Wacky offers trapping seminars on dillo trapping , no waxing traps, no dyeing them, set em barehanded with a dried up chunk of burro for bait..... Course Wackys eyes gleam with the thought of one day, just one day in future he will get one of those sly yotes and he can say: Just like Asa, yeppers i can trap yotes with the best of ..........................whoops sorry must have been the heat as i got carried away extrapilating Wackys' dreams... twas 101 here today, with heat index of 110..pant-pant- going to take a run down to the river and play muskrat in rapids with a deep cool-cool water hole below it.. few leeches but no bother.... } Anyone see the word FAT in my past post?

Tink ol Wacky is sippen sometink! LOL