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Post by trappnman on Oct 4, 2015 15:05:41 GMT -6
click em   finished gophers today, picked up this farm for gophers and glad I did- added it to my coyote line and it looks promising. I know where I'd set, curious as to others thoughts and comments |
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Post by braveheart on Oct 5, 2015 3:54:17 GMT -6
You should not set that area but let me!!
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Post by RdFx on Oct 5, 2015 10:21:56 GMT -6
braveheart, Steve would probably let you set a few but i dont think Lori would........LOL..
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Post by trappnman on Oct 6, 2015 7:56:19 GMT -6
lol-
Monday got the big work done- I only have small sheds, so my bike shed becomes the fur shed, meaning the bikes need to be stored in another one, and got that done plus bringing out all the fur stuff and putting away all the summer stuff. Today will take truck in for pre season checkout, and adding cables and nametags to traps that need it. still got oil to change, winterize both trucks, etc to do, need to get order in to make sure I don't run out of Marty's stuff, 1 more afternoon talking to farmers, then load truck and hit the road!
No one has any thoughts on how to set up above location? I have little success on dikes over the past, but this location begs to have a couple on the dike.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 16:17:23 GMT -6
lol- No one has any thoughts on how to set up above location? I have little success on dikes over the past, but this location begs to have a couple on the dike. Well look at the up-side Steve, you haven't been accused of over-thinking it yet!   |
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Post by trappnman on Oct 7, 2015 16:12:51 GMT -6
at least not here....lol
got truck back today- I had a rear leaf spring with the center spring broke, so my guy took it off, cut a piece of spring off of an old one he had, and rebuilt it. I also had new stabilizer pins put in the front- total cost ? $50 labor and $31 in parts. A real advantage of small town living for sure. Brought it home and changed oil, greased, fluids, general inspection and had my guy look it over for anything potentially a problem down the road and all looked good. so that's done!
so all traps now have new cables, new nametags as needed, truck has 1st packing done of jack, come a long, shovel, etc as first and hopefully never needed layer, with more to come. shed is organized, bulbs dug and lawn art put away- all left to do is put on skinner, give inside a quick cleaning after gophers & pack lure buckets.
Tomorrow last day to talk to farmers-
tick- tock
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Post by braveheart on Oct 8, 2015 2:55:00 GMT -6
I got some more land from a beaver job.The farmer said the coyotes he has seen all look good.The beaver calls are getting out of hand.I am getting some money out of them as well as trapping rights.
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Post by trappnman on Oct 9, 2015 11:21:35 GMT -6
you can put long range forecasts in that category of wishful thinking more times than not- but the next 6 weeks here look above average, no freezing weather to the last week, minor sprinkles a day or two but otherwise lots of clouds...and dry.
I so wish that to be true!
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Post by blackhammer on Oct 11, 2015 14:36:45 GMT -6
you can put long range forecasts in that category of wishful thinking more times than not- but the next 6 weeks here look above average, no freezing weather to the last week, minor sprinkles a day or two but otherwise lots of clouds...and dry. I so wish that to be true! We need rain bad down here. Houston County is in drought according to the US drought moniter. Be very hard digging and pounding stakes in here. Corn is going out as fast as I ever remember. A few ditches have dried up on me and many farm ponds are dry. The way trapping and the market has been going the last year probably rain five inched around opening days. |
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Post by trappnman on Oct 12, 2015 7:17:41 GMT -6
I'm shocked Houston county is still in drought- its been dry here last few weeks, but all summer have had too much rain- farm ponds are full for most part. Winds yesterday and today could bode well for movement next few days, esp with the drop from 85 yesterday, to 50s today
I'm out the door.
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Post by trappnman on Oct 12, 2015 19:44:01 GMT -6
day one- windy, windy, windy- you would think I was back in Kansas- winds steady 25-30, gust in the 40s...and then it stared to rain.....
so about 330 said enough..... after all, its my schedule...we said enough, got in 24 sets at 12 locations...called it a day.
tomorrow is a new day........
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Oct 20, 2015 18:42:20 GMT -6
So how is the coyote take going? Knocking them out? Haven't heard any updates, are they looking better than a week ago?
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Post by trappnman on Oct 20, 2015 19:17:13 GMT -6
what I am getting, are looking good- but this weather is killing me- hot, dry, dry and hot- with strong winds most nights. I'll give a full report in a couple of days- pulled some today, left some, will be setting out new next 2 days
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Post by bblwi on Oct 21, 2015 14:47:21 GMT -6
Prospected my largest marsh at home today. Won't trap it for a week as I am going up to paddle some sloughs in the north and grouse hunt. Coon season has been open since Saturday and have not set a trap yet. My marsh is down about 1 foot or a bit more since last year. The rat sign is okay to good but the water level is lower and some areas will be too shallow to trap and too deep of mud to wade. Two other sloughs are too low to paddle and too deep of mud to wade as well. There will be some opportunity for through the ice later but rat sign in the sloughs is low. When your not trying to set one sees the coon trails all over the place. I plan to start coons on November 10th after coming home from DC for a week. We will see how they look and how many they are. Will do a multi species line this year, like I did 25 years ago. Not so much fur but was enjoyable.
Bryce
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Post by RdFx on Oct 22, 2015 8:02:51 GMT -6
Ditto on what Bryce mentioned, will do a multi species PRIME fur line, one doesnt know how long one is on this earth, enjoy the time now !
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