Easier to find on the ground then in 2 feet of water.Put my revolver in my pocket last year checking a couple traps.Get back in my truck no gun.Backtracked.Ended up finding it in the middle of the crick.

have forgot the gun at the house before made for a bad mood and a couple gallons of wasted diesel

I sure feel like I'm a pretty good trapper in the off season. Now that the season is here, and I have a couple of empty checks under my belt. I am returning to the reality of my mediocrity.

Setting from canoe this year lost rubber gauntlet looked all over couln't find but next day fount it floating in pond while checking sets. Last year lost trap setter took magnet to try to find but no luck oh well i can blame it on old age lol.

last year i just bought an new iowa disposabal driver i made about six or seven sets in the pond and laid the driver down in the water. couldnt find it to cry my eyes out i used a magnet as well to maybe find it. Couldnt find it at all. Caught a few critter deciedes to pull the sets about a week later and on last set where i lost it go to grab the trap and came up with driver trap and all here i laid the driver under the trap i had bedded what a dumb@@@2 i felt like . But also relieved. it is painted orange now .

Yes! That's what I do now with all my water drivers, T-Bars, coni-stabilizers, etc. is that I paint the bottom half orange!

OK....Now do you know there is no word in the dictionary that rhimes with orange?

: This educational fact has been brought to you by: LT GREY who has lost way to many things in the water and who does know some words that do rythm.... but are probably not indictionary as well!

How many times have you had a trap snap off in your face just after you bedded it? Every trapper has eat dirt at least once!

Then when that happens, Without thinking you automatically start spitting the dirt out of your mouth. So much for scent control at that set! lol

Dropped the cap off a bottle of lure right after cracking it open, felt around in the water for couple of minutes, then decided to put a clump of mud in the boat and shove the bottle in the mud clump.

Ditto a couple years ago, except that it was a bucket set for coon in a cocklebur patch. That was the awfullest mess I ever got into - more than an hour of picking burrs. The worst part was that I could have moved the set ten feet and been completely away from the cockleburrs.

I had a picture of a 'coon on here ( Ugliest Furbearer Post) with so many cockleburs, the buzzards would'nt even eat it!