The weather is absolutely perfect for the start of the 2014 trapping season!  I’m not really sure if I have remembered everything and this just reminds me that I need to make a check list for next year.

This morning I made sure the trapping shed was pretty much ready for the beginning of the season and the only thing that doesn’t seem to work real well right now is the heater, but we will figure something out with that.  Maybe we will have to purchase another one….Anyone have a small electric heater with a fan and a thermostat they want to sell me for cheap?

I was going to cover the outside of the shed with rolled roofing today, but I didn’t have enough to even do one side, so I bagged that idea and just got the Tyvek back up.

So, now the only thing left to do is head out and set some traps.  My goal is to set Pete’s pond and if that is all I get done, so be it, at least I’ll have a dozen or so traps out.

So, let’s see what the rig looks like inside:

80 conibear traps and 20 leg holds.  My home made floating colony trap, two fold up colony traps, 4 snares, two pairs of hip boots, hydration pack, two rain coats, two pairs of gauntlet gloves, an empty cooler to carry rats, a whacking stick, 22 pistol and box of shells, camera….what else?

Carrots for bait, flagging clips….I think I’m ready.

The toy is loaded and I’ve checked to make sure I have plenty of map making papers to draft where my traps are located.  The rigs are topped off with fuel…let’s go!

It’s now 10:45 and I’ll make myself a sandwich and head on out!

Time for trapping folks!  Check back in each day to see what is going on.  I’ll be posting twice each day (If I can), once in the morning to let you know what I expect to happen that day, and again in the evening to let you know what actually happened.

So, here goes Bears Butt off into the 2014 trapping season…

Bears Butt

February 10, 2014