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Post by trappnman on Mar 25, 2007 12:18:36 GMT -6
by this, I mean stuff you KNOW is true, stuff that you do even though you know that if you were smart, you wouldn't do...
stuff you need to work at...
for me, its trapping coyotes that aren't there.
it used to be leaving in a rusty trap- but no more, no how here...
I've been taught that lesson too many times....
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Post by johnthomas on Mar 25, 2007 12:27:53 GMT -6
to often i give in to the temtation of going back for more fur on a place i already rocked hard, almost always its because im out of ground and i want some of those wandering cats, i catch, but its never worth it.
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Post by billkasten on Mar 25, 2007 12:52:06 GMT -6
(Contains genuine Tonqin Musk) now there's one you can ignore .
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Post by BK on Mar 25, 2007 13:08:17 GMT -6
Spending too much time trapping places that are convienent,...places you know well,..........and places you know you are welcome.
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Post by woodie on Mar 25, 2007 15:06:27 GMT -6
"Now son,I buy fur for a living,You can trust me"
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Post by robertw on Mar 25, 2007 15:21:52 GMT -6
"Now son,I buy fur for a living,You can trust me"
Good one!
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Post by mountainman on Mar 25, 2007 15:34:25 GMT -6
Thats kind of a hard one for me to immediately answer, but a very good question Steve. I have had to work in so many unorthodox ways for so long with the regs we have had in NC. I just got word that some important proposed changes to the regs have been approved. I guess the best advice I have ignored is to have kept working for too long on safe pieces of real estate for smaller numbers of remaining fur instead of moving lines quickly or going to other parts of the state where in the past I have seen well over a 300% increase in profits on a weekly basis. I enjoy seeing new places so much that profit is for sure not the only reason for me to set up new areas. When I was younger I set a pace that even the best partners I had complained about it after a while. I guess its more like the story about the old bull and the young bull now.
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Post by SteveCraig on Mar 25, 2007 19:44:27 GMT -6
"you cant do that!"
And the second is like it. "you cant do it that way"
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Post by romans117 on Mar 25, 2007 20:43:34 GMT -6
Cats are never hungry.
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Post by mostinterestingmanintheworld on Mar 25, 2007 22:25:23 GMT -6
I walk to much. I get to wandering down a wash or up a canyon and before I know it the truck is a bit smaller in the distance.
Joel
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Post by mountainman on Mar 25, 2007 23:34:42 GMT -6
I guess coon hunting in swamps with people who dont believe in compasses would be pretty high on the list. They dont even have to get too drunk to find the truck that way. Chasing a long running dog to circle a large area all night to get behind about 5-6 miles of fallen timber in water for one coon isnt my idea of how to spend the night after working 4 beaver swamps during the day. I did all that with a foot injury from stepping on a large nail that went all the way through my foot and wader where some idiots left large timbers full of spikes laying in a creek. I have never been so glad to find the truck in my life. My share for that week was half of around $5000.00 with not all that many traps out but it was hard earned. More money could have been made there. A lot more.
I have trapped 26 counties in this state and made a lot of things work that were pretty tough to work with including running longlines still pissing blood from kidney stone surgeries. Ive totalled two vehicles on the line and wore out a number of other good ones. Ive been hit in the chest by a sweep on the big river that nearly pushed the whole johnboat underwater. I have slipped and fell into 10 ft. of wild roses and cut my way to the ground with side cutters trying not to pass out from going into shock from so many cuts at once. And so on and so forth...I reckon I know what can or cant be done here or which way. I hear things are getting tougher out in the southwest with so many regulation changes.
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Post by frenchman on Mar 26, 2007 7:00:30 GMT -6
Don't bother trapping this place - it has been trapped out
Don't go into this area - too many trappers there
My experience tells me there are a lot more "trappers" than "catchers"...
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Post by 17HMR on Mar 26, 2007 8:17:54 GMT -6
"dont try to catch that last one, move on." Just cant seem to do this.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 26, 2007 9:11:15 GMT -6
another one I heard- and do adhere to it now more or less
"the hardest thing a coyote trapper can do, is drive by a spot he knows he can catch one coyote..."
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Post by Mike Barcaskey on Mar 27, 2007 5:17:24 GMT -6
staying in one place too long
get to liking the scenery and being too lazy to move every couple of days
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Post by bobm on Mar 27, 2007 9:56:40 GMT -6
There ain't no money in trapping!
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Post by possumblaster on Mar 28, 2007 20:08:42 GMT -6
with gas prices getting so high,I don't think you should buy any more traps-
HA!
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