A.M. March 7, 2012

I lost a day this week.  Winemaker informed me this morning that today is Wednesday!  It is also Windy’s birthday.  Where did yesterday go?  When did it arrive and what did I do?

The weather yesterday must have affected my pea brain.  Oh Well!

Today the weather is starting off somewhat OK…Well…A whole lot better than yesterday afternoon…I hope my flags are still upright in the swamp.

A warming trend is starting which should make for some great trapping the next few days.

Today, since it is Wednesday, I will begin to pull traps from the Goose Club line.  I’ll pick up the top end today and the rest tomorrow and Friday or Saturday.  I have a possible snow goose hunt in the wind right now and also a cousin passed away and so there is a funeral on Friday.

Expectations for a good catch today is not very high.  Maybe 7 to 10.  As I set traps yesterday in that high wind, my thoughts were not so much on trap placement, but rather, put the trap in a run and let’s get outahere.  I will find out how well that thought produces rats.

Later folks!

Bears Butt

P.M. Report

Boy, the older I get the harder it is to do stuff.  My rear end is kicked right now.

Driving out to the lines, the road west of Corrine all the way to the point of Little Mountain was so slick and the north wind was blowing very hard.  I thought several times I was going to get blown across the highway and into the barrow pit.  20 mph was as fast as I wanted to drive that stretch of road.  When I came back I saw where there must have been a very big accident as I saw lots of painted stuff on the road.  People driving too fast for the conditions is my guess.

I managed to pull the top end of the Goose Club line and check all the other traps.  The wind blew all day long and it was cold.  Not nearly so like yesterday, but cold none the less.

Little Pond had one of the two traps set off with nothing in it.  The other trap un-touched.  Big Pond…no activity.  Stein pond the same..nothing.  I will leave those traps until Saturday and then pull them for the ride out to Club 41.

Todays catch…12 (not counting a baby one).  6 other traps set off with nothing in them.  I wish I could figure out how to get that to stop happening.  Any suggestions?

I was able to set two colony traps and 4 conibears at the end of the Big Spring line.  That completes that line for this season.

Butt