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Hope you didn't get any Gusto on your clothe. It is ripe stuffs---ha ha

Stonean2006, Well tell us your secret set? lure? trap? anchor? no secrets here.....jk

Hay PAP don't laugh at NY they might get HILLARY for mayor of NYC. That is just what they don't need. I saw that somewhere in the news, not sure how official that is....jk

Trappi9ng is constantly learning, and don't forget the more you trap one spot, they are learning you. Your beaver put up will speed up and the quality will improve too. Keep at it and do coon too they will help you learn. If you stop learning you loose in this game.....jk

SA2006. Hope you staked that beaver meat down solid so they can't get a free lunch. Make them take a few extra step tugging and pulling on the meat so they have more of a chance to get caught. Two traps at each set, one close as normal and a second back some. And save the hind quarters and back straps for your self, excellent meat, very much like beef......jk

's post of Dec 3rd is right on'Zackblain's post of Dec 3rd is right on. Don't worry about them, just go fishing and have fun yourself.....jk

GRANDMA lures weighted to just barely float, I also make some sink. fish slow erratic. Add rubber twisters and small tubes, pieces of night crawlers one the hooks also, make them totally different from regular lures If one shows but does not hit, I switch to bass assassins rigged with two smallish trebles and I get occasionally a nice walleye on these two lures......jk

The piece of meat below the Y bones is bigger and easy to take off. If you fry fish you don't even have to worry about the Y bones on big fish (in the 30's) as the meat shrinks a little while being cooked the bones stick out and can be used as tooth picks to hold while taking the meat off with your teeth,,,,jk

7 pound pickerel, that is big. good job......jk

Sort of old fashioned here. When we lite at nite, we make sure there are no branches over head or wires or anything that will reflect the lite or show motion to them. The main beam always stays in the sky, we never beam them or anything they can see. Move the lite very slowly with just the edge of the dull lite (penumbra) slowly touching the ground. Have not used colored lites. s seems to work for us.....jk

At todays fur prices the average northeast coyote is not worth much. One out of ten are decent with white bellys and clear backs. The pups of this year are the nicest but of course they are smaller, but not beat up in fighting the brush and each other. Scared, damaged, rubbed pelts are at best $5 right now, the best maybe $25. Not much money for skinning those smelly things and definitely not enough money once they are frozen. To me skinning a frozen coyote is miserable and I like skinning and putting up fur. Someone correct me if you think my prices are wrong. Bad year for fur prices.....jk

The poor little coyotes=shoot um.....jk

If you can hit um with it, it is. Or what ever you hit them with is a good yote round. Unless you want the pelt......jk

To the fella using the calf for bait, let us know how it works out for you. Ten years ago we had a still born and that did not draw them in, we put road kills next to it and they ate that but not the calf??? Smell of the meds the calf had? they don't like Beef? I don;t know.....jk

Nice catch-great. I am jealous.....jk

That is a nice offer, what season is best for what kind of fish? Do you troll? or bottom fish? Lures? Bait? That is what this site is all about, Season best to you and everyone else on here helping all of us....jk

Hay "skinny420" does have point and a right to run his dogs. I am a died in the wool trapper and usually get licenses in three states. I put up fur for other people and hear all sorts of stories. You have to respect his opinion and trap and "CABLE RELEASE" with proper care and respect for everyone out there.....jk

Pequod1 thank you. Probably not interested in the New Hampshire area unless a gang goes....jk

Several years ago four of use got fisher in widely different areas of our county on the same day. Next year My buddy and I got 4 before the season, 3 within sight of each other and had to release them, you guessed it. We did not get another fisher that year. In fact that might be the last fisher that we got in Pa, several in NY.....jk

OK it is CRs from now on. They are slick, and work in much worse conditions that a lot of traps do. If you only have a few traps out you can keep up with conditions but to maintain a real good producing line you need a big area covered and you have to keep getting on new critters. But in weather like we have now that is a loosing proposition with regular leg hold trap, CRs shine in this weather....jk Ps this is a long post. Oh how do you post photos here, I can do it easy on T-man but do not know how to here?

Trapper here, they are another tool in the war chest. They have a few limits. but basically are snares that are not supposed to kill. A good tool. ots of info on the internet....jk

Blue Marlin from lake Seneca I see Good tasting fish you have there. Caught many in the '70s.....jk

Where is Eastman?

I live south of you guys, in Pa about two hours away. I would be interested if someone from this area wanted to go. Would be interested to go even if I had to drive up to your area. I used to live in NJ ad worked in some of the boat yards in the northern shore area, years ago.....jk

Yes that is me, I do get stuck in the mud doing things the same way and not adapting to different technics.....jk