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Post by trapperpaul on Dec 20, 2008 21:02:55 GMT -5
What to do?? Almost 2 ft of snow in the last nine days. Just got my cat buckets back in action. about 40 weasel boxes in ditches, probably buried by snow plows. wind chills in the 20-30 below range. Drifting snow. (pretty normal Minnesota) Not sure what to do. Weasel boxes would have to dug down some. A lot of work. Buckets and snares for cats, our location probably sucks with the deeper snow. And all of them buried. Got some time left in the cat season and would like to keep going. Any suggestions on alternative locations for cats in the deep snow. HELP
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Post by wheelers on Dec 21, 2008 10:13:17 GMT -5
Moved some into the pines along the edges yesterday. Only a couple inches of snow there.
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Post by huckleberry on Dec 21, 2008 12:59:58 GMT -5
4-5 years ago i went to southern IL. for a 10-14 day trappin trip. It was thanksgiving day, nice weather for three days...then all he-ll broke loose. Woke one morning and it was cold........I mean COLD. I knew something was about to happen. Started snowing later that day and forgot how to quit. Got over 16" before it stopped. I had sets out that I didn't get back to for weeks. (I did run them to make sure nothing was caught) I couldn't even get the camper out till six weeks later.
I did stay a few more days to run beaver traps under the ice and made some sets in a few pine and sawbriar thickets I could get to. I did well on the yotes and mink. Caught more under ice beaver then than I ever have. Caught enough to know that under ice beaverin aint my game. That is HARD WORK. LOL
Anytime it snows here I hit the creeks, ditches, and canals lookin for mink and weasel.
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