Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6041800
11/01/17 08:04 AM
11/01/17 08:04 AM
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NonPCfed
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CableAble-
I hope you're getting a least a little rest running that many traps. Take care.
P.S. What are you using to post your pictures (maybe you've already said and I missed it)??
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6042341
11/01/17 07:29 PM
11/01/17 07:29 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 2,188 chelsea,wi
keets
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awesome job guys!!.. all my little ponds are hard now, and looks like it til spring...tough going
2021 goals....make time to trap PROUD MEMBER WTA NTA FTA GOA SPORTSMANS ALLIANCE
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6042353
11/01/17 07:39 PM
11/01/17 07:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 6,330 Wisconsin
RdFx
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Nah keets have faith, end of week warmer plus warm rains, yr little ponds will open up..... trap springs or running water, put that steel out.
RdFx
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6042367
11/01/17 07:48 PM
11/01/17 07:48 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 2,188 chelsea,wi
keets
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haha.... colony traps producing under ice yet!...bubbles showing you where to put em.lol...well, til I get 1-4" tonight anyways
2021 goals....make time to trap PROUD MEMBER WTA NTA FTA GOA SPORTSMANS ALLIANCE
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: keets]
#6042663
11/01/17 10:49 PM
11/01/17 10:49 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,399 East-Central Wisconsin
bblwi
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Pulled my sloughs yesterday. Got 80 rats a mink and 3 coons. That was a lot of work for me this year. I wanted to get to my rivers I can wade to see what happened with all our big storms this year. I set a 1/mile section yesterday and sign was good. I set 31 traps and got 18 rats. I got into another section of that river today about a mile away. I set about 3/4 of a mile, half has great sign and the other half was almost void of rats. Lots of reshaping of the river bed and brush clogs with all the big rains this year. The rats have moved a bit but are still there in areas. The area with the few rats have the flatter banks or not steep slope and maybe 1 2 or 3 or 4 of those 3-5 inches may have caught them when they were vulnerable.
Bryce
Last edited by bblwi; 11/02/17 12:08 AM.
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
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11/02/17 12:05 AM
11/02/17 12:05 AM
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 566 WI.
canine louie
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I have not set yet looking to do so this weekend, was in Bayfield county last weekend but to cold and snowy also ice was forming.
WTA-D2 Director, MTA
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6044446
11/03/17 10:53 PM
11/03/17 10:53 PM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 431 central wisconsin
deerfly
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Nice catches Cable,Bryce, and others going. Beaver and otter up tomorrow. Good luck to those with a tag to fill.
Last edited by deerfly; 11/03/17 10:54 PM.
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Re: WI Trapping OPENER
[Re: Green Bay]
#6044465
11/03/17 11:01 PM
11/03/17 11:01 PM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 293 Barron Couny, WI
John Deere Steve
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Opener was pretty cold here. Put 130 rat sets out Saturday. Caught 63 rats Sunday despite having a couple dozen traps froze in. Set another 50 traps Sunday. Monday I caught 73 rats and one mink. Most of the small ponds here froze enough they have stayed frozen even though we had some days in the upper 30's this past week. Looks like lows in the teens and highs barely above freezing for the next week. Been trying to set moving water the last several days but just can't get high numbers of rats there like in the ponds and marshes. Picked up a few really nice coon the last couple days. And I think 18 mink so far this week. Let a couple otter go. (Them darn things are everywhere)! And caught about a dozen beaver on some damage jobs. Really wish we could have another week of warmer weather. Had big plans that I can't capitalize on now. I'll keep plugging away as time allows but only have one more week off of work. Might have to switch gears and go after the fox and yotes this coming week since everything is freezing up.
Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine!
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