(The website was experiencing problems this morning, so I wrote this in Microsoft Word and pasted it here today)

Wapiti and I had a good day yesterday but Bob had a better day, he brought in 24 rats and combine those with our 18, we had a 42 rat day!  Super Good!

Brek came a bit on the late side and skinned like crazy to get the job done.  In the meantime, Bob, Weasel and I put up the rats we had dried from the day before.  The shed is so full of rats at this time it will soon be time to put them in burlap sacks for storage.  That my friends is a good problem to have as a trapper.

Today is a day to pull more traps.  Wapiti and I have decided to pull the Pollock line today.  I made up a bunch more carrot bait and laced it heavily with anise oil for the “last night of the trapping season 2013”.  We will bait the sets with this extra powerful attractant in hopes of catching one or two extra rats tonight.  If it works it just might set the precedents for future rat trapping using bait.

I gave Wapiti the option of sleeping in today, but he chose to continue to leave home at 8 a.m. and then we will get back home earlier and he can get some much needed “home duties” done this afternoon.  Sounds good to me…I too can get some much needed things done, but still need to be available for “shed duty” when Bob gets in with his catch.  There is always something that needs to be done, whether it be sprucing up around the shed, in the shed or on top of the shed.  I checked the security cameras and trail cameras yesterday and everything with them is working properly, which is a very comforting to know.

So, what to expect today:

A strong storm came through last night, lots of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and today it’s expected to snow.  A typical spring time storm…comes through with a high power force and is gone quickly…rats don’t like it…what rats we will have in our traps will have come from them moving before the storm and just after the powerful front passed.  A spring time snow does not negatively affect their movements.

As the water levels are dropping all across our Club 41 lines, the Channel line should produce 5 rats, Pollock Line 1, Floats and old new sets 5, Newest sets 3….14 rats for today.

Lunch will be a half sandwich of processed ham, chips and lots of water.

Bears Butt

March 21, 2013