Re: WI 2019 to 2020
[Re: CableAble]
#6657381
11/04/19 08:11 PM
11/04/19 08:11 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 1,688 Wisconsin
Green Bay
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Posts: 1,688
Wisconsin
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I usually trap farm ponds for rats. The two ponds I have set have no rats in them. Last year I took 18 rats one night from one pond. I speculate they drowned out sometime this fall as there were rats there this summer.
Strange weather indeed.
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: WI 2019 to 2020
[Re: CableAble]
#6657429
11/04/19 08:43 PM
11/04/19 08:43 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 623 Wisconsin
Lance Squires
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I set coon traps out last Thursday and have 38 so far. I've caught some real big ones but the young of the year seem smaller than normal. Maybe breeding season was delayed because of all the snow last winter. I've also caught more skunks than I normally ever catch. LOL. Must be a great year for them. I've been injecting them and saved the essence from 3 today. Close to 2 ounces. I did have one spray yesterday while I was putting the needle in. I've never had that happen before. Didn't bother saving the hide.
57 years trapping. It's who I am. Every day is still as exciting as it was when I was a kid but a little more work.
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Re: WI 2019 to 2020
[Re: CableAble]
#6657449
11/04/19 08:54 PM
11/04/19 08:54 PM
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Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 4,208 Eau Claire Wi
Trap Setter
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Eau Claire Wi
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I noticed that too Green Bay got three 'rats and a mink on one farm I caught 23 on last year all man made ponds. Not much sign on them either. But the swamp I trap on another has a bunch of new huts this year so should even out hopefully.
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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Re: WI 2019 to 2020
[Re: CableAble]
#6658075
11/05/19 05:13 PM
11/05/19 05:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,873 Wisconsin
The Beav
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Set some DPs 160s and foot holds and some colony traps for rats yesterday. Today we had warden school and took 20 rats 1 super huge coon and a grinner In the DPs. Tomorrow we pull do to our early freeze up. Actually we pulled some today.
The 20 rats brought me $10.00 each
The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
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Re: WI 2019 to 2020
[Re: CableAble]
#6658644
11/06/19 11:08 AM
11/06/19 11:08 AM
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 3,191 Green Bay, Wisconsin
tlguy
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CableAble, here are the mink/muskrat season openers dating back to 2011. For time's sake, I didn't include any of the Mississippi or Winnebago zone dates.
2019 - 10/26 2018 - 10/27 2017 - 10/28 2016 - 10/22 2015 - 10/24 2014 - 10/25 (this was the first year of the single statewide zone) 2013 - North 10/19, South 10/26 2012 - North 10/20, South 10/27 2011 - North 10/15, South 10/29
Now if I remember right, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but rats and mink were worth a lot more in 2011 than they have been the last few years. In that same breath, I could see why guys in the northern zone would fear line jumpers crossing Hwy 64 to get 2 extra weeks of rat trapping before the season opened in the southern zone. I'm not exactly sure what triggers the start date, though I bet it's listed in statute somewhere. But it sure seems like the seasons have trended towards a later start date since the "simplification" of the season structure, effectively chipping away at the beginning of the season for guys in the north.
Makes me wonder if the northern guys that pushed for a single season so they wouldn't get line jumpers are happy now that they lost 2 weeks of open water trapping in the fall.
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