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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by BirkyDucks[/i] [br]Now I am in the final days of the trapping season . I might say that I am glad to see the end coming . This was a lousy year to be trapping especialy for fox . The season stated ok as I was catching a fox or coon every coupel of nights for a total of 7 fox 1 mangy . Around the end of november I returned back to my trailer up in Centre county for deer but the roads up in the forest were a sheet of ice so I started stringing steel down on peens creek for water critters primarily Muskrats wich have been in decline over the years to the point of being nonexistant in some streams that I used to trap back in the 70's . Although there was goood sign on Penns creek I managed to catch like 5 for the week as well as my 1st 2 Mink afew coon 1 was over 20lb and a few possums at the campground dump . When I returned home I started in on the fox again and had to deal with frozen soil then the snows came in early January and this put me out of comission . Itried some snow trapping to no avail on one of my new propertys A BIG ESTATE I got friendly with the caretaker . He had atrap set on a deer carcase and caught 10 fox with a rusty old #2 doubel long spring trap go figure I set the place with normal tactics and all I got was dug up traps 3 nights in a row a fox dug up my trap and flipped upside down without firing the trap . To add salt to the wound it took a huge dump down the dirthole I set a second trap right near this trap and thats when the first deep snow came so that was the end of the fox trapping for me as far as catching anymore . We had a good warm spell in the middel of JAN . and I laid into the coon pretty good and got 7 for this warm spell all nice ones . I did set the last weekend for 1 more shot at the fox and coon I used the hayset were you make a small pile of hay and hide 2 traps i there and lure a mound inbetween the 2 traps I did have a pull out at one set and had a nice coon the last day that I caught in a dogproof trap behind a dumpster that puts me close to 30 coons for the year . I am now in beaver mode but this recent cold snap has frozen all my spots again so I pulled on Sat. and took a swim in the process . I want to get at them again when ever this weather stabilizes and the creeks open up again . I took a ride on sunday and started over at Morisville and checked out a spot I could not find it so I went on up rt 32 all along the big d and it was wide open but there were iceburgs all along the banks . I also checked out Lake Warren frozen , Lake Nockamixon frozen , The gamelands 139 back muskrat rd frozen it appears all the still waters are frozen and I cant see them thawing out by the end of the beaver season . Last year was diffrent you had lots of open water and more beaver on the Pennypack any way this year there does not seem to be any I guess I trapped them all out . I was thinking of going up the poho and try that I have seen beaver up there and the po stays open due to the tailwater . [/quote]    Insert an Image File Check here to include your profile signature.