Does anyone here trap? This is my first year doing it and love it. I plan on trapping next year after archery is over. Put my first trap out 3 weeks ago. Just a simple flat set. if you do trap, hows your season going? Pics?
Ive been trapping for about 6 years here in PA. I absolutely love it!!!! Its a great way to enjoy the outdoors and test your skills. (those dang fox are getting pretty smart). The fur check at the end of the year also helps out. You will also get to see some awesome scenery. My grandpa got my dad and i hooked on it and im super glad he did. He trapped his whole life and was the only income he got to support his family( My Mom) Thanks Gramps!!!
This year we were down on muskrats. We ended up with 24 muskrats, 11 coon, several opossums and 3 mink. No fox this year yet
I live trap rabbits for my beagle club and running pen...Other then that i have trapped a few yotes, fox, mink, martin...and even ran couple fisher lines in maine.
His wealth of knowledge begans and ends at " only " the trapping of feral dogs but is much more knowledgeable of the idiots who own them and let them run anyways. Tim
Thanks for that........nothing makes me laugh more........someone throwing out a gem like that when trying to insult someone else's intelligence. Priceless.
Greg traps. I did as a kid all through highschool. I bought my first gun(well all my child hood guns), my first bicycle and all my ammo for hunting with trapping money. My brother Arnie and I used to get up and start to run the trap line in the dark every morning in the spring. I was in 7th grade when I started following big brother every day. When we got off the bus in the afternoon.... we ran the trapline again. Mostly muskrats and an occasional mink. A typical year for us was 50-60 rats and a couple mink but we did have better years. There were no beavers around here then... now they're everywhere. I didn't do it my senior year because rat prices had dropped to a couple bucks...down from prime years of $4.50-5.00. No idea what they get now for them. Probably less than we got in the 50s. We ran upstream and downstream on the creek in front of the house. Most would call it a river I guess. there were also 4 horseshoe ponds in off the creek in the stretch we trapped. Rat trapping was easy then with drown sets and the such. We were the only ones doing it. We had to hustle our butts off to get the run made before the school bus came at 7:00. I know there were days we boarded the bus smelling slightly of muskrat. Here's the creek in front of the homestead. Taken from front lawn.
I used to do it a bit. Haven't in awhile (other than some nuisance critters here and there). I keep thinking I'm going to dust off the steel and then I come up with 10,000 other things I need/want to do instead.
I enjoy it thoroughly. Just finished my 3rd season. I married into a family that traps and was sold after the first tag along.
