Jeez, I was thinking of sending some more work your way. With all the rain I'm two days plus behind.
Dave

Dave send all the work my you want I will find time I work in the rain haha. How ya been havent heard from you in a while? Staying busy I hope!

hello-
i just joined the forum. this is not trapping related but it is an odd wildlife experience. years ago i i was fishing st john's creek just north of beaufort, mo. a beaver dam created a good fishing hole. i was in a lawn chair watching my poles & i saw something moving on the bank. below & to the right of me sits a bullfrog & he's just staring at me. what possessed me i don't know but i slowly bent over & picked up my worm can which sat at my right foot. i take out a worm & toss it to the frog who promptly ate it. that frog sat there for & let me feed it worms til someone walked by me & spooked it. pretty odd considering that most of the time the only thing you see is the ripple in the water after the frog jumps in.

thanks for sharin'... welcome to the ADC forum.

Along those same lines here's my fish story.

I was sitting flat of my butt on a creek bank fishing. I heard some crows up in the hayfield behind me raising cain at something. I perked up and listened to the ruckus. Not long after I heard an animal coming down out of the hayfield moving towards me. I froze waiting to see what popped up. A small bobcat stepped out onto the trail headed my way. I remained motionless and knew the wind was in my favor so I would see just how close it would come. Well at fifteen feet it slammed on the brakes and eyeballed me real hard. Well wasn't this cool my first up close and personal experience with a bobcat. That is until the look in it's eyes changed and it crouched and the tail started twitching. I swear that kitty had just read the menu and liked the special of the day!
That's a real bad feeling to be looked at like your lunch. So bad that I jumped to my feet and let out a holler (It was probably just a little on the shrill side too). If I had had a stretcher ready I could've hung that cat up to dry as it near about turned itself inside out when it swapped ends.

lol the scare/intimidation tactic works well i hear... the flickin of his tail means he was looking to play, all you would have to done was get in a crouched crawling mode and start moving towards him...

Great stories! Here's my contribution. When beaver first moved into my area I was hired to remove a group that was damming a lake outlet. I found a secondary dam not far from the road and was in the water leaning on it when I saw this small beaver swimming upstream toward me.
Not having much beaver experience, I froze to see what he would do. My hand was obviously resting on the crossover because he stepped on it with both his front and back feet as he was going over the dam. I guess you can't get much closer than that.

That's when you missed your chance to grab him by the tail and hold on.... not easy to body slam a beaver, even a small one.

I drove to Homedepo to get some skinning glove forgetting that I hAD loaded yesterday skun catch on the tail gate...lol....I must be a careful driver as it was still all there.......

Home Depot?


Bet you got some looks on that trip!
I'm suprised people weren't calling your phone with your phone number plastered all over your truck.