Highs near 60!  Wonderful Spring day ahead.

Today is only a half day on the trap line…gotta do some ditch cleaning first.

Goal:  Pull the remaining traps on the Goose Club line and check the traps on Big Spring.  Those two events will take about 4 hours to accomplish.  One neat thing about it is I have 10 or 12 of my new ideas out on the Goose Club line that I will be testing during the “pulling”.  I’ll let you know how that goes later.

I did not go trapping yesterday and so my catch should be pretty good today.  Yesterdays weather was great as was the night before and then last night.  Rats should have been running all around the swamp.  Expected catch today 20.

Now, you are all saying, “that’s what you said the other day and only caught 6, what gives”?  Well, remember the locals said the wind blew all night the other night.  So to catch 6, plus 2 kits, a bird, a field mouse and have 3 other traps set off is pretty good for a windy night…that could have been 13 big rats.  I’m sticking to 20 for today.

Then the excitement builds for our Club 41 lines coming this week.

Trapping season is just about over for this year.  Rats are beginning to show some signs of fur slippage so to be hitting the club now is perfect.

More to come later.  Check back after 6 p.m.

Bears Butt

Holy smokes!  My mail box is full of complaints!  I did not post up a P.M. report last night.  My excuse?  Tired, rear end kicked from a morning of ditch cleaning and an afternoon of pulling traps and checking traps.  Sorry folks!

A.M. report of the P.M. report

It was a very beautiful day out in the swamp.  T-shirt weather.  Lots of birds singing and chirping.  Ducks paired up and jumping from the swamp around me.  Geese, swans, Sandhill cranes, crows…lots of wildlife to see.

Little pond captured no rats.  Big pond surprised me with one rat!  And Stein pond had nothing.  It’s time to move on!

The rest of the line ended with 8 rats that count, three kit rats and 5 set off traps.  What gives with the set off traps and nothing in them?  Oh, ya, a duck was caught but only by the breast and it flew away when I released it.

I met up with the President of the Club 41 and got the key to the gate.  Monday Bob and I will begin to set traps in there.

Speaking of Bob, he was very happy to announce to me that he caught 12 rats!  That is 3 days this season he has kicked my butt on total rats caught in a day.  Good on you Bob!  Keep it up.

I now only have 61 traps out and plan on setting a whole bunch tomorrow on Club 41.  Today (Sunday) I will mentally plan my route and tonight will dream about setting rat catching sets…it is the final days of the season and time to make the big move on catching those pesky little fur bearers.

Bears Butt