A.M. March 12, 2012

Daylight Saving Time has me in a fog this morning.  Last nights sleep was nearly non-existent and today will be a fun day.

Setting traps on Club 41 is the priority of all priorities.  I picked up the key to the clubs main gate on Saturday (Thanks Matt).

Bob has chosen to sleep in today and only check his road line.  He will enter Club 41 tomorrow.

Today my goal is to set as many traps as I can and still check the Big Spring line.  I plan on pulling the top half of the Big Spring line today as well.  And then tomorrow, set more traps on 41 and pull the rest of Big Spring.

A hefty goal for today…it’s 8:30 and I better get a move on!

Later folks!

Bears Butt

P.M.

Who’s butt is kicked is mine!  Bob’s too.

I managed to set 44 traps on Club 41 and then move over to Big Spring and pull 43 traps.  I checked the line from the far end to the near end and pulled the near end traps.  Tomorrow I hope to get the far end pulled and then we will be completely out of Petes place.

Bob is a happy guy today, having kicked my rat catch by double!  He caught 14, I caught 7.

The thing about my line was I also caught two more kit rats, two field mice, a bird and had 5 other traps set off with nothing in them.  Including these:

Little Pond, one set off trap and one rat!  Big Pond, nothing.  Stein pond, one trap set off, no rats.

All three set ponds have been pulled for this year.

With daylight saving time, my day ended at 7:10 tonight.  We put up 48 rats after trapping all day.  I lost weight today for sure.

Bob is excited to finally get to set some iron on Club 41.  I showed him on a Google map I produced where my traps are set and he will begin his sets at the other end of the club and work toward the middle.  We will have a better strategy tomorrow, but my plan right now is to cover all the peripheral areas and let him cover the ones close to the main road through the middle of the club.  He will have plenty of areas to put traps and I will zip back and forth across the road and cover the outer edges and some places I have always wanted to explorer but never had the time.

Plus there is Doris’ pond and Steve Petersons springs to trap as well.

The season will wrap up quite nicely.

Notes I took today about Club 41:

It is pretty much the same scene out there as where we have been trapping so far.  Not as much water as usual and the rat sign is WAY DOWN.  If Bob and I collectively catch 100 rats on Club 41 it will be a successful year.

Second note:  There are raccoons  scouting all over the club.  This is not a good sign for us as they find a rat caught in a trap and if they cannot pull the stake and take off with the rat and the trap, they eat the rat right there.  I hope all my stakes are firmly placed.

I’m ready for a few cold brews, a good rub down, a soak in a hot tub, supper and bed.  Am I getting old?  Answer:  Yes!

Bears Butt