Hard to believe that Nov. 1 is on Sunday! Will give it a couple more weeks to get a bit more snow, then start hitting it! Here's to full traps to everyone!

Can't wait got the last of the marten boxes done last weekend been building snares every night after work got the snowmachine tuned up ready to hit it hard, about got the wife drove nuts with my nonstop pacing and trapping supplies all over the cabin, hope every one has a good season

I here ya guys been chompin at the bit,now just trying to decide where to go with these weather conditions.cause there's no getting to where we want to trap till freeze and snow. But I'm gonna snap somethings toes some where on the 10th

I am SOOO ready to get with it. All I have left to do is sharpen my skinning knife.

shoot, I still have to wait till december.....I will be ready though!

Northway, I have been waiting for this Sunday for months. I WILL get my first cat and hopefully wolf this year. Sign everywhere I go. Good luck Northway, I hope your traps stay full all year! I'm so excited I'm giggling like when I trapped my first muskrat in Oregon when I was 8.

DHAHN, Same to you! Sounds like your way more prepared than me. Now I'm a little nervous. I have a lot to do, crap, I forgot about........ and ...... oh man...

BUMMER, still got tons to do!

Bamm Bamm Im sure when I load the truck and head out I will forget somthing knowing my luck it would be the food box gas cans or the wood stove for the tent, it seems murpheys law gets me all the time

I know all about Murphy. I would like to meet him someday. We have a few things to discuss. I'm packing a lunch and bringing back up just in case he's REALLY big! That guy has a lot of fun with me!

I have a trapping shed I am borrowing from a guide a few miles from site. All kinds of old traps and gadgets. Two weeks of beaver trapping and setting 330's by hand SEVERAL times a day and I finally realized, those two steal flat bars in the shed with a notch on the ends and acted like giant pliers, YA, they work very well on 330 springs. Son of a.............. My hands hurt a lot less this week. I can actually hold and write with a pen today!!!!!

I know all about Murphy. I would like to meet him someday. We have a few things to discuss. I'm packing a lunch and bringing back up just in case he's REALLY big! That guy has a lot of fun with me!

I have a trapping shed I am borrowing from a guide a few miles from site. All kinds of old traps and gadgets. Two weeks of beaver trapping and setting 330's by hand SEVERAL times a day and I finally realized, those two steal flat bars in the shed with a notch on the ends and acted like giant pliers, YA, they work very well on 330 springs. Son of a.............. My hands hurt a lot less this week. I can actually hold and write with a pen today!!!!!

Don't ever hit the back arrow and resend. It made it the first try!

I hear ya there those 330s are a real pain by hand especially if you got a big beaver in the trap and it never fails loading and unloading the tongs end up in the fur shed when I am runin traps

I am ready just not sure where exactly I will be. Weather plays a huge part in my season opener. It will either be on foot chasing a few land critters or in a skiff chasing otter mink and a few more beaver.

I have NOTHING ready. Crap!

same here

I got everything set for the muskrat and ermine long line when you get here...

Bait is ready, snowmachines are ready, lures should be here this week BUT my area lakes are still wide OPEN and I can't get to my traps at my cabin. Thank god Kusko helped me out by selling me some traps! Looks like I will be back to road trapping for the first 3 weeks of season. Wonder if my old cubby where I caught 4 cats is still there......

I have a beaver lodge that I can trap and i DId see some mink sign, but until everything freezes im SOL.

Mike,

I can't get up to Anderson until next weekend due to kids hockey, and ballet. Family first! I won't start getting serious until right after Thanksgiving anyway. I hope you have a productive season, and hope to see you at the Trappers Fling!

Ted

Can't freaking wait!!! ...this place kinda looks like what DHahn described - trapping stuff in nearly every room, me pacing all around it...wife going crazy...

Not enough snow yet to go get the machines, so to start it will just be fox and marten - and that elusive first Ermine...

Have enough ready to get started on Sunday, Took Monday off Going to just set up on marten this weekend hopefully I can get enough sets out to catch the cream off the easy acess areas until we get alittle more snow and the cat season starts