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Post by seldom on Feb 15, 2012 13:00:52 GMT -6
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Post by mustelameister on Feb 15, 2012 15:44:20 GMT -6
I like that!
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Post by thebeav2 on Feb 15, 2012 17:23:51 GMT -6
I'm going to try that glow tape on my rat stools this spring. Sure does have some eye appeal, a little rat lure and you should be good to go.
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Post by seldom on Feb 15, 2012 17:39:21 GMT -6
I have to say that the tape really does glow in the tannin stained water! I was concern that maybe it was too much but nothing ventured, nothing gained and I'm glad I did so I'll continue using it on my rats and beaver! I became a believer with using it on beaver when I saw that it had taken a second bite out of just the tape!!!!
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Post by Rally Hess on Feb 16, 2012 7:07:17 GMT -6
Any Northern Pike in your ponds? I've got a couple where I dip my Spikes in brown paint to keep the Northerns from hitting the shiny stops on the snares. May get lunch with your beaver too. LOL
How much ice you got there. I had 2 out of 7 ponds I cound't get through with a 20" bar on my saw yesterday. Put my 28" bar on last night. No snow makes for alot of walking.
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Post by seldom on Feb 16, 2012 7:44:21 GMT -6
Any Northern Pike in your ponds? I've got a couple where I dip my Spikes in brown paint to keep the Northerns from hitting the shiny stops on the snares. May get lunch with your beaver too. LOL How much ice you got there. I had 2 out of 7 ponds I cound't get through with a 20" bar on my saw yesterday. Put my 28" bar on last night. No snow makes for alot of walking. Rally, I want to thank you for publishing and sharing story through the article you wrote for the 2005 International Trapper Special Edition magazine, it turned the lightbulb on for me!!! Yup, there are pike in this swamp but nothing shines on my spikes but who knows with that bright tape! We've terrible ice all winter, if you can call it winter. This is an expansive and quite open swamp with the best ice I've found being about 5". So you know what I've got over the runs, dang little and no snow so I never go on these swamps without having my waders pulled up as high as I can buckle them!!! If there is an upside to my conditions is that there are visual indicators that slap you along side the head even with milky ice. Pretty typical of an active lodge. The clear ice is about 2"-3" except over the entrance.   At the "Y"  |
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Post by Rally Hess on Feb 16, 2012 20:20:15 GMT -6
You might consider investing in a wetsuit. Nothing like a February swim a couple miles from the truck. Have fun.
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Post by Rally Hess on Feb 17, 2012 22:10:06 GMT -6
How do you get pictures on here?
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Post by seldom on Feb 17, 2012 22:31:38 GMT -6
How do you get pictures on here? Go to photobucket .com Rally and make and account. It's very easy to do, there you'll be able to upload photos from your PC to your new Photobucket album. Once you upload the ones you want, you just copy & paste the IMG code of the photos you want to post on a forum. It's very easy and doesn't take a rocket scientist to do it. I look forward to seeing your photos! BTW. As I was lifting the first pole to check the snares this morning the ice where I was standing started to sag! Time to go ASAP, so I pulled everything out and luckily didn't take a dunking doing it! The 10-day forecast isn't showing me anything that'll tighten much up either. |
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Post by Rally Hess on Feb 18, 2012 19:59:51 GMT -6
I have posted here before but forgot the sequence. Thanks. I'll have to try a few.
You can have some of my ice. I am having to chop the blocks of ice up in the holes because there isn't enough water under the ice to just push them under the ice. Found a house yesterday the 28" bar wouldn't go through!!
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Post by freepop on Feb 19, 2012 15:26:00 GMT -6
Seldom, is that just sruveyor's tape or is it the glow tape like they use on fishing spoons?
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Post by seldom on Feb 19, 2012 17:10:34 GMT -6
Seldom, is that just sruveyor's tape or is it the glow tape like they use on fishing spoons? Just surveyor's tape but it seems to glow in the stained water. I think it was called Glow Lime Green. |
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Post by freepop on Feb 19, 2012 18:03:03 GMT -6
Thank you sir.
I told this story on MS, don't think I shared it here:
I was on a pond trying to get some rats through the ice. I was doing poor on carrots and the darned things kept splitting, stolen, etc. I just happened to buy a package of cheap sponges from The Dollar Store and there were some yellow ones in there so I thought I'd give them a try. I cut the sponge into 1.5 inch squares and put on the triggers and they worked darn good. Several of the rats had them in their mouth and they lasted much better than the carrots. No corn anywhere near this pond either.
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