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Post by 4fur on Jan 19, 2012 8:53:54 GMT -6
Had to make an unscheduled pit stop at home to grab a few supplies and to WARM UP.  Wow it is cold!  Cold temps like these present bait, lure and energy drink (left in the cab over night) management problems for me but the fur is cooperating so far...  And no skunk or possum (yet).  |
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Post by TexA on Jan 19, 2012 10:01:09 GMT -6
-7 up here this morning and only seen one coyote track....
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr YES !
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Post by x-demoman on Jan 19, 2012 13:47:03 GMT -6
No fur in my buckets, they are drifted full of snow. Think I will give them a short break and regroup.
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Post by skunkboy on Jan 19, 2012 14:02:16 GMT -6
Wayne...your fur all looks dry. I thought you said you were a water trapper. I guess the water is probably pretty hard with 2 degree air over it...eh.
Looks like you're still going strong. Your forecast calling for snow tonight/tomorrow? Ours says 6-8" over the next 24-30 hours and bitterly cold. Sure am glad I will be indoors in a pool tournament all weekend. Gives me more incentive to keep winning...keeps me in-out of the eliments.
L8R...Ken
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Post by 4fur on Jan 19, 2012 15:56:35 GMT -6
Water is just about all locked up here now. Did have one in a pocket set today...  But had a few more like this one where I gave up fighting the ice and pulled...  Hate to pull because I know that trap will never catch anything in the back of my truck.  Water caught coon are a real pain to deal with when it is this cold, too. This coon had a 5# iceberg on his back and the rest of him was frozen too much by the time I had remade the set to squeegee much water from the fur before it completely froze. I put these coon in a 6 gallon bucket which keeps them from sticking to equipment and the bed of my truck. Bucket then goes to the basement to thaw and dry the coon. I had one coon in a cage today and the rest were 220ed. BTW, cold weather makes you cringe seeing this...  Did the coon run early and is now a cement block? Did they come running out of the creek and now their wet corpse is frozen to the ground? I had one coon run across the road in front of me at 5 a.m. when it was 2* and shined a bridge shortly after to see a big ring tail bounding right past my two empty traps. A coon caught after I run my line is going to be a cement block by tomorrow when I'll run my line later in the day! Never have I seen coon run so late at night as this season! Anyone else notice this? |
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Post by BigT on Jan 19, 2012 17:10:06 GMT -6
Looks like the start of another pick up load for me!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by steven49er on Jan 19, 2012 18:41:56 GMT -6
Minus twenty here today 4fur
I dont think it got above zero.
Good day to put up fur.
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Post by 4fur on Jan 20, 2012 6:56:05 GMT -6
Good day yesterday with 10 coon including 1 badly rubbed and a pretty small one. Not going to get skunked today either as I had a coon at each of my first stops and a coyote bouncing around right down the road...  This boar has absolutely no tail, freshly docked...  Looks like the snow is going to miss us again! |
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Post by LLLTrapper on Jan 20, 2012 9:59:33 GMT -6
Looks like I know the direction to head for the last of the season. On my southern areas there are 2-3" of snow. LLL |
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Post by braveheart on Jan 20, 2012 19:17:16 GMT -6
The coyotes are on the move but with 3 mangy ones to one good one not worth my time anymore.Feels good to have cold days. Attachments:
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Post by 4fur on Jan 21, 2012 19:44:16 GMT -6
Looks like the start of another pick up load for me!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't be hooking onto the tailer, Lil G!  But in the three days since you were here I have carpeted some of the drive way, including 6 today. I don't think the temps have even gotten out of the teens!...  |
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Post by 4fur on Jan 21, 2012 19:56:40 GMT -6
The coyotes are on the move but with 3 mangy ones to one good one not worth my time anymore. The Great Flood chased all the coyotes off the bottom into the hills, I think. They spread the mange and killed all the fox. This will be the first in many years that I have not caught one fox! Maybe Kyle can pleat the tail on this one to make in look bushier like his mink ;D...  |
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Post by kyle on Jan 21, 2012 20:35:35 GMT -6
Hmm..maybe just let T do that one! I think it would look better on wire.
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Post by BigT on Jan 21, 2012 21:48:04 GMT -6
I have faith Wayne!! Pick up load or bust!! You have 10 days left, I see 100 in my future!!
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Post by 4fur on Jan 22, 2012 14:03:06 GMT -6
I have faith Wayne!! Pick up load or bust!! You have 10 days left, I see 100 in my future!! You better be counting possum and anything else dumb enough to step in a trap I have set, Lil' G. Had a mixed bag today including one I had to go get Bailey for some help...  |
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Post by blackhammer on Jan 22, 2012 14:31:45 GMT -6
That is cool!
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Post by kyle on Jan 22, 2012 14:32:13 GMT -6
Alright, thats it. I gotta come down and trap one of those. That is awesome!
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Post by TRAPPERTOM on Jan 22, 2012 14:54:02 GMT -6
Alright Wayne, I kept seeing you Coon pics, so I set one trap last night, and had a coon in it this morning, 1 trap, one catch, that is 100% catch rate. I just had to set one ;D
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Post by BigT on Jan 22, 2012 15:16:02 GMT -6
I see some ring tails in there!! I hope you caught at least 7 to keep up with your average!!
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Post by braveheart on Jan 22, 2012 16:18:34 GMT -6
Hey 4fur was that a western Iowa pale silky coyote or was the light bad?
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Post by skunked on Jan 22, 2012 22:16:31 GMT -6
Better blow that one up and frame it for Bailey. That is a very cool pic.
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Post by arcman on Jan 23, 2012 8:58:15 GMT -6
Wow! Nice cat. Looks like you caught him out on the bottom-land.  |
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Post by Eric Rector on Jan 23, 2012 9:09:36 GMT -6
I have faith Wayne!! Pick up load or bust!! You have 10 days left, I see 100 in my future!! I see a future trappers wife for some lucky young man....far in the future of course. She must have the title of "coolest" kid in the class with pics like that. Not to mention "Coolest Dad" in the class for taking her with |
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Post by skunkboy on Jan 23, 2012 9:11:47 GMT -6
I agree with skunked...that's a great pic of Bailey and that cat. That's one to remember...one to show at her wedding...that'll let her 'man' know what he's really getting into. Of course, he'll probably be a trapper anyway.
I really appreiciate all the pic's...gets the blood boiling here.
Thanks...Ken
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Post by Coydog on Jan 23, 2012 11:15:44 GMT -6
Thats a nice looking bobcat Wayne.
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Post by 4fur on Jan 24, 2012 15:21:27 GMT -6
It is a very good picture considering I have broke my new camera already and the view finder screen resembles a a cross between a lava lamp and a Picasso abstract. We finally had some snow here, the first since December 8th. I only had one coon two nights ago. He ran after the snow and sported a freshly docked tail and had about 8" of rectum or gut dragging from his behind...  One nice thing about snow is even I can read sign! Here is today's group shot...  I had 3 degrees on my truck thermometer this morning. |
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Post by Eric Rector on Jan 25, 2012 15:06:15 GMT -6
It is a very good picture considering I have broke my new camera already and the view finder screen resembles a a cross between a lava lamp and a Picasso abstract. Imagine that....you broke a camera |
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Post by badfeather on Jan 25, 2012 17:21:34 GMT -6
I am moving to Johnson County late this next summer after being overseas. Reading this forum is getting me super-excited to get out some steel again next season! Thanks.
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Post by iowatrapper2011 on Jan 25, 2012 18:10:52 GMT -6
Managed to catch 2 of these in the past 2 weeks, coyotes seem to be escaping me. I had 2 break the stop locks off of my snares.   |
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Post by 4fur on Jan 25, 2012 21:21:54 GMT -6
Nice fox IT! I sucked today and am not very hopeful about tomorrow despite some fantastic coon trapping weather and the moon. F&T screwed up my order last week and sent me a gallon of what i think is bobcat pee in a salmon oil jug! I notified them and the replacement jug arrived today...  Anyone else have any problems with F&T. |
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Wow it is cold!
But in the three days since you were here I have carpeted some of the drive way, including 6 today. I don't think the temps have even gotten out of the teens!...
