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2014 Summer Catch Thread
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05/27/14 05:40 PM
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This may not be nearly as fun as the winter trapping but we're off and running anyway! I put my first sets out today on an ADC job and will be putting out more tomorrow.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/28/14 01:33 AM
05/28/14 01:33 AM
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Nothing this morning! We pulled up and had a beaver just casually swimming around the pond but they hadn't repaired the dam break yet so he may have just found it.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/28/14 12:39 PM
05/28/14 12:39 PM
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As hot as it is getting, scent is going to be a major factor.
God Bless, David B.
Premium member #8925 Team Rack Addicts 2016 Aldeer Deer Champions
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/28/14 01:33 PM
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Yea Boff, I know land trapping is gonna be tough for sure but my water line shouldn't be too bad. I've still got 2 weeks before I even set a land line and it's only getting hotter. My plans are to start setting as soon as it's light enough to see and only make sets until 8 or 9 so it may take 2 or 3 mornings to set a property but at least my sets will be clean.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/29/14 03:44 AM
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I'm convinced this pond I'm trapping now has bad juju! Lol! 1 1/2" of rain yesterday and last night washed all 3 of my sets out. I managed to get one of them reset this morning before another storm hit.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/30/14 01:36 AM
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These damn beavers have pissed me off! The water is so shallow where my traps are that when they pushed mud in to repair the dam break last night they pushed my traps in with it.
I'm going to dig out a trench and fence it in with limbs. I'll have a conibear guarding the ditch and steel traps guarding both ends of my fencing.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
[Re: North40R]
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05/30/14 08:52 AM
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Shooter I made a half moon fence around the dam break and left 2 openings in the fence guarded with 330's. The water is only about 8"s deep so I dug just enough of a channel at both sets to completely submerge the traps and put dive sticks over both of them. I've also got 2 snares about 10 yards from the dam in a funnel point and I lured both of them with backbreaker.
This should've been a 1 or 2 night job and even with it just 2 miles from home it's already cost me too much time for there to be any profit made. It's all about catching this last one strictly for pride now! I start days on Monday so only 2 nights left and it is flooding here now.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
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05/30/14 01:24 PM
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Oh there isn't any give up in me! Lol!
I did pick up another job today that looks like it has great potential. It's within a mile of my house and is a railroad ditch that they've damned up for probably a mile or more on both sides. I counted 17 dams there this morning and at least that many crossover trails going from one side to the other. I should be able to set the trails with snares and conis and knock a dent in them pretty quick. I'll be setting it up the Sunday after Yekrut's bash and can run it for 2 weeks. Gonna have to get a shotgun guard to watch my back while I set it though, I saw signs of some big lizards there today also!
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
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05/31/14 01:02 PM
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Thanks Shooter!
Too much water today. My dive sticks were several inches underwater this morning. Guess I'll pull them tomorrow and wait for a drought to finish that job. I'm about ready to go break the dam and just sit on it with my shotgun.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
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06/18/14 03:33 PM
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Thanks Cole! I've been working OT on the real job and just got to set yesterday. Working 2 separate lakes down in Mobile Co. this week so hopefully a couple more days will see these whipped out.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: 2014 Summer Catch Thread
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06/21/14 03:16 AM
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Caught 3 yesterday and Ms. Amanda and Dev caught another one this morning. That's 5 beaver in the past 4 nights. Hopefully these 2 ponds will be cleaned out pretty soon.
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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