The bubble trails show where the rat swam under you float at night.
We are still frozen tight up here, 4.5 feet of ice on Lake Winnipeg

Bryce, yeah we’re moving them alright, last two checks we have had a lot of beached boards, high wires, tipped over floats, you gotta love a good struggle, we have lost about 8 feet of water, the water was over the top of the ramp when we started, hope it came up a little last night .

Water came up a little, we even caught one on the way back down river, caught 8 today, they are smelling good now, going to pull tomorrow, unfortunately I have to go back to work.

Nice catch

work ugh
spring fresh air augh

You got to hand it to those little furry rodents. They can survive huge rises and drops in water levels and continue to thrive. Sure some weather issues hurt their numbers greatly but when you think about all the creatures including man that wants to harvest or eat them and all the weather changes and conditions they stick around. I have had 75 plus sets out on 4 miles of river a few times when we got 2-5 inches in a day or two and that really is something to deal with, but never saw an8 foot drop. We have lived about 10 miles from Lake Michigan for about 47 years now and we have seen all time highs and lows over those decades. Just in the last 5 years we have seen levels fall 3 feet. When you think of the lower 4 Great Lakes linked together man that is a whole lot of water!

Bryce

Bryce, our river is the black river and it is a big watershed, we get the winter snow from some of the Adirondacks and some of tug hills famous snowfalls, it can get crazy, I agree the animals that we trap sure are tough.

What a beautiful day to be alive, caught 3 rats today and an otter in a channel set put in yesterday.

Another nice otter and catch on it.

Nice work and enjoyed the thread. I mess with floats every spring. Higher water the better and over head cover seems to help. Under or in the fire willow depending on depth are great places. As the water recedes and banks are unthawing ,fake crawl outs will trump all.

Gerry and I have our floats all picked up along with our beaver sets. We finished with:
52 rats
2 otter
1. mink
5 beaver
Thanks for riding along, hope we can do it again next year.

Nice going.

When does your otter season close? Ours up here in MN has been closed for a couple months already.

Way to go.Congrats and thanks for sharing.

Trapperman222, our otter and beaver season ends April 7th, muskrat and mink close April 15th.

Thanks for taking the time to post pictures of your adventure, I really enjoyed the ride along. Gary

Nothing better than a spring Beaver/'Rat trapline (fall Fox line comes close). Everything is waking up and coming alive and each day has the potential to have better weather than the day before. Its worth the effort. ....... the mike

Thanks for the trip!

Ya great ride along!

Thanks for the ride along newfox.