College has kept me busy, but now with Christmas break I have time to trap again. Today I put out one hay set in the same area where I got my two Grey Foxes last year. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get
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Trapping And The Weather
After the weeks of snow and cold the fox have been out for the past few days. Yesterday, I found an abundance of fox tracks near a hay set that I had removed the traps from back when the weather ha
3rd Fox Of The Season — A Red Fox!
The hay set is a really great set! This is my 3rd fox of this trapping season which breaks my record of two in one season which I set last year. This fox weighed in at 6 pounds, a little on the lig
Second Fox Of The Season — A Grey Fox
Now that deer season is over, I am starting to put out more sets and “freshen” up the existing sets that I ran during deer season. Last Friday, after it stopped raining, I went out and
Finally A Fox
After many days of walking my trap line (1.14 miles + every day) I have finally caught a fox. I caught him in the same hay set I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. The set has been there since b
Cable Restraint Course
I took my cable restraint course yesterday. They gave me one cable restrain (we used them to make some sets out in the field for the instructors to look at to see how well we set them up), a manual