Finnally get out!

[oldyote]

Well my big day has arrived! I get to go and mke some sets today. Things at work has kept me hoping till now so I will only get to leave them out till the begining of Jan. I have a few a few beaver houses to snare out and two plases my broyher in law has been pre baiting for yotes. I am going to put out a few of my recycled weasel boxes also. Going to try sardines until we catch a beaver. Just like an early christmas!

[salty]

Canned sardines is good, the oily kind, i stab holes in the can wire it in the box, excelent for marten too!

[white316]

Go get-em oldyote.

[fuzz269]

Best of luck to you and the boys Oldyote, remember we love pix lol

[sneakysnake]

Wishing you Great Success Oldyote

[oldyote]

Well got 4 bever houses set up with wth 6 snare poles, 4 weasel boxes out ( lots of weasel sign ) one mink box and 13 rams srt between two coyote baits. Now the wait till first check! And there is nothing I would like better than to post pics but as some of you know I am still challenged with photo bucket! I will tske lots so I can try again.

[fuzz269]

Thats all we can ask Oldyote lol

[white316]

Good luck,

[dufus]

good luck!!

[oldyote]

Well the first check was a pretty good one ! We caught nothing at the first beaver house out of three snare poles they wern't touched . I am sure they are still home, good frost chimney and lots of chewed sticks frozen in the ice . Then next spot we caught the first weasel in about 20 years in me and the boys "recycled" weasel boxes {the ones made out of the welding rod tins} . It is a small long tail that didn't even miss a step heading into the tin! Plus at that house we caught the only beaver of the day. It is a grizzled,battle scared vet who's tail has several chunks taken out of it. I should be a chalenge to clean skin for the first of the year! LoL The other coyote bait was a big succes with 4 yotes, 1 the mice shaved the fur off his back. Aother has the wet cow sh!!! dicease. I don't know what it is called but they look wet and they smell like cow manure. We had it bad around my place when I moved out here but a couple years of hitting them hard realy cleaned the population up of it. The other two are rely nice winter yotes and i cant wait to thaw everything out and start skinning! But that will have to wait till the christmas festivities are over. Merry Christmas to all!!!!

[white316]

Thanks for the up-date,,,happy holidays oldyote.

[fuzz269]

Congrats on the critters Oldyote, dont be scared skin the weasel befor christmas right on the kitchen table, come on you can doit lol. SOunds like you and the boys are off to a great start to the season.

[dufus]

way to go on the critters

[oldyote]

I forgot to mention the other big catch, me! The 1 and only mink box I have is from my high school trapping days and it was a little tight for my Bdrand new ldl 120's . They also only had one slot in the roof for a single spring.[ I don't know were I got that idea from , it was 20 years ago}anyways, whwen we set it I modified it the way a welder modifies wood structures ,with my chainsaw on the side of the road. It still wasn't right but I pushed the trap in it anyways and put everything into the cculvert. Well the whole time till this first check I was worried that I checked to see if the trap would fire. Well on this check I was messing with it to take it out of the box and o it fired alright! Perfect catch right below the second knucle on my left thumb! I am thankful they are the standard traps and have a space between the jaws. I still have a swollen ,blue thumb to put together all the toys with!

[sneakysnake]

Nice Catches. Sorry to hear about the thumb. Have fun with the toys