Byu popular demand, I will re-post my trapping pictures from the 194-887 seasons.
I hope this works, I did this earlier but it crashed when I tried to preview it. Gotta remember to copy my text before posting big posts!
Here I am posing with a coon I caught during the 1984-85 season. He was a little pissed and would not turn towards the camera. I used 1.5 coils short chained & swivels with notched triggers for all my dry land sets. For lure & scents I used Wildlife Scents by M. Stechnicki (sp?) out of Latrobe PA. He non-meat bait was deadly for coons!
Notice my proper Mountain Man hair & attire!
Here are my furs for the 84-85 season. Prices that year were $25-35 for coons, ~$7-12 for 'rats and ~$7 for grinners (possums). Most coons I caught in PA were 20-25 pounds, the big one in the pic was 35!
Here I am with my first fox I caught during the 1985-86 season, my senior year of high school. The night before I had caught a snowshoe hare in trap and something had eaten most of it. I shoved the hares foot, which is quite big, down the dirt hole & re-set. Mr. fox came back to finish his meal and that was his undoing.
Here I am making a beaver set in Dec. 85. The beaver were coming out at this spring to cut trees in the snow. I made a slide set with a #3 jump on a drowning slide. The burlap bags you see were to hold rocks in at the deep end of the slide wire. I used a little castor to hold their attention when they came up. Caught one the first night at this set. I also used under ice pole sets for beaver this year with good luck. Pole sets work good but cutting a tree, building the shelf for the trap and cutting a 3' hole in the ice is a lot of work.
Here are my furs for the 85-86 season. Not bad for running the line before school in Moms car. Coons, 'rats & grinnners. I had also caught two mink, a female and a huge black male. Prices were good for the mink, $25 & $35 respectively. However, other prices had fallen. Coons & grey fox were down to $20-25, 'rats $7 and possum $5.
I will post more in a follow-up.
I hope this works, I did this earlier but it crashed when I tried to preview it. Gotta remember to copy my text before posting big posts!
Here I am posing with a coon I caught during the 1984-85 season. He was a little pissed and would not turn towards the camera. I used 1.5 coils short chained & swivels with notched triggers for all my dry land sets. For lure & scents I used Wildlife Scents by M. Stechnicki (sp?) out of Latrobe PA. He non-meat bait was deadly for coons!
Notice my proper Mountain Man hair & attire!
Here are my furs for the 84-85 season. Prices that year were $25-35 for coons, ~$7-12 for 'rats and ~$7 for grinners (possums). Most coons I caught in PA were 20-25 pounds, the big one in the pic was 35!
Here I am with my first fox I caught during the 1985-86 season, my senior year of high school. The night before I had caught a snowshoe hare in trap and something had eaten most of it. I shoved the hares foot, which is quite big, down the dirt hole & re-set. Mr. fox came back to finish his meal and that was his undoing.
Here I am making a beaver set in Dec. 85. The beaver were coming out at this spring to cut trees in the snow. I made a slide set with a #3 jump on a drowning slide. The burlap bags you see were to hold rocks in at the deep end of the slide wire. I used a little castor to hold their attention when they came up. Caught one the first night at this set. I also used under ice pole sets for beaver this year with good luck. Pole sets work good but cutting a tree, building the shelf for the trap and cutting a 3' hole in the ice is a lot of work.
Here are my furs for the 85-86 season. Not bad for running the line before school in Moms car. Coons, 'rats & grinnners. I had also caught two mink, a female and a huge black male. Prices were good for the mink, $25 & $35 respectively. However, other prices had fallen. Coons & grey fox were down to $20-25, 'rats $7 and possum $5.
I will post more in a follow-up.
